Jun 04, 2024
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Completed
12 Innovative Software Products for a Global Leader in Image Processing
$100,000+
more 1 year
France
10+
Service categories
Service Lines
Software Development
Domain focus
Media & Entertainment
Technology
Programming language
C/C++
C#
Objective – C
Frameworks
.NET
Challenge
In 2011, the Customer aimed to create new functionality for one of their products – a standalone application to help users revamp photos by applying analog and vintage effects. After a series of failed outsourcing projects with Eastern European vendors, the Customer was still in need of a reliable development team ready to start right away. ScienceSoft reached out to the company to offer its 22 years of experience in cross-domain software development. The main challenge was to turn the outsourcing-averse customer into a long-term partner (76% of ScienceSoft’s revenue comes from the clients the company has been serving for more than 1 year).
In 2011, the Customer aimed to create new functionality for one of their products – a standalone application to help users revamp photos by applying analog and vintage effects. After a series of failed outsourcing projects with Eastern European vendors, the Customer was still in need of a reliable development team ready to start right away. ScienceSoft reached out to the company to offer its 22 years of experience in cross-domain software development. The main challenge was to turn the outsourcing-averse customer into a long-term partner (76% of ScienceSoft’s revenue comes from the clients the company has been serving for more than 1 year).
Solution
To cut the development costs by 40%, ScienceSoft suggested using the Qt framework to make the application run on both Windows and Mac by the effort of one team instead of two. Upon signing a strict NDA to protect the Customer’s intellectual property, ScienceSoft assigned 4 Qt Developers, 3 Testers and 1 Scrum Master to work under a T&M arrangement with only the Product Manager on the Customer’s side. The team provided a careful planning and architecture design and made some proposals to reduce the development costs and improve the product features. Though initially designed as a plugin, the product evolved into a standalone application that could be easily integrated with other image processing software like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and more.
To cut the development costs by 40%, ScienceSoft suggested using the Qt framework to make the application run on both Windows and Mac by the effort of one team instead of two. Upon signing a strict NDA to protect the Customer’s intellectual property, ScienceSoft assigned 4 Qt Developers, 3 Testers and 1 Scrum Master to work under a T&M arrangement with only the Product Manager on the Customer’s side. The team provided a careful planning and architecture design and made some proposals to reduce the development costs and improve the product features. Though initially designed as a plugin, the product evolved into a standalone application that could be easily integrated with other image processing software like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and more.
Results
The Customer has paved their way to business growth worldwide thanks to the flexibility and short time-to-market (3-4 months per product) they achieved while ramping up development capabilities together with ScienceSoft. In 4.5 years, the cooperation between the companies has grown from one team of 8 specialists to 7 teams totaling more than 30 people.
As a result, in collaboration with ScienceSoft the Customer has released 12 products (6 of them created entirely by ScienceSoft). One of the products has been awarded Best Imaging Application by a prestigious press photographers association. The company is now planning to increase the size of ScienceSoft teams and launch new projects.
The Customer has paved their way to business growth worldwide thanks to the flexibility and short time-to-market (3-4 months per product) they achieved while ramping up development capabilities together with ScienceSoft. In 4.5 years, the cooperation between the companies has grown from one team of 8 specialists to 7 teams totaling more than 30 people.
As a result, in collaboration with ScienceSoft the Customer has released 12 products (6 of them created entirely by ScienceSoft). One of the products has been awarded Best Imaging Application by a prestigious press photographers association. The company is now planning to increase the size of ScienceSoft teams and launch new projects.
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