Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: Cost Arbitrage and Process Efficiency Tony: Anand, what you are doing is primarily outsourced product development – isn’t that unique to Persistent and a couple of other companies?

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Deep Customer Relationships Tony: Do you typically have ongoing relationships with your customers? For example, do they tell you: “We are going be building this product, and these are the overall definitions wand features we would offer if we could, and we’d like to work with you on this over

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Outsourced Product Development Anand: Let me fast forward to where we are today and what we do. We are positioned as leaders in the outsourced product development business. The way we define outsourced product development is, in our simplistic way, that we are the Flextronics of the software industry. What

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 1)

By guest author Tony Scott Company Introduction and History I recently interviewed Dr. Anand Deshpande, the founder and CEO of Persistent Systems. Persistent, based in Pune, India, has the tag line “Partners in Innovation.” Persistent believes that its outsourced software product development services allow its customers to minimize time-to-market, improve the quality of their products,

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Deal Radar 2009: uTest, Massachusetts

This blog has covered various aspects of outsourcing in some depth; today we turn to a business model that is at the crossroads of the older outsourcing model and the growing preference for on-demand and SaaS services. uTest uses crowdsourcing for its customers to test their Web, desktop, and mobile applications through a large community

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Deal Radar 2009: Coverity

One of the reviewers of EJ2: Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon wrote: “I don’t think it was appropriate to even mention venture capital or angel investors in this book.” My response was, “One of the nuggets that I have picked up from my experience navigating the entrepreneurial waters is that it is wise

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