Product Engineering

It is a well known fact that even strong businesses will fade if they do not produce a steady stream of new products, or if they fail to commercialise on opportunities from existing products in timely fashion. However, taking a product from concept to market requires a blend of engineering capability, market savvy, sales skills, flawless tactical execution and a good deal of luck.

Prolancer has the engineering capability and discipline to create new, or transform existing, products so they can become, or remain, competitive in their market space.

By outsourcing the product engineering effort to Prolancer, you will minimise (or eliminate) the business costs and risks associated with:

establishing a short-term engineering capability for the purpose of product engineering;
destructing your business from its existing customer base as existing engineering resources are tied up with existing products; and
exposing your business to intellectual property claims such as patent and open-source license claims.

Prolancer, as your product engineering partner, will truly make it simpler for you to focus on your core business, strategic decisions and managing growth.

Prolancer specialises in real-time communication and network enabled enterprise and carrier grade server, desktop or embedded appliances and applications.

Service Overview

Prolancer’s Product Engineering service is a turnkey service that includes engineering activities that cover the full product engineering life cycle. The purpose of the service is to create products that are suitable for sale to a mass of end-users in an open and competitive market environment.

The service gives you access to experienced product engineering team that includes business analysts, product architects, software and hardware engineers, project managers, technical writers, and optionally access to engineering tools and all aspects of the Prolancer’s own product engineering methodology.

Prolancer’s engineers are experts in one or more engineering domains and systematically apply best engineering practices. In addition, all have the necessary experience to quickly grasp the big picture and then set out and perform the hands-on work required to get the job done.

Further, Prolancer’s own product engineering methodology draws from some of the best engineering methodologies that are currently in use by some of the largest R&D organisations.

Finally, Prolancer’s systematic and professional approach to engineering, streamlined processes and tools and strict adherence to project milestones ensure that you reap the benefits such as lower project costs, reduced engineering risks and shorter time to revenue or measurable business value.

For more information on Prolancer’s Product Engineering service, or if you wish to discuss your specific needs obligation free, please contact Prolancer.

Engineering Activities

Prolancer’s Product Engineering service includes the following engineering activities:

Technology Evaluation - to determine the strengths and the extent of intellectual property protection of available technologies that are suitable for your product.
Competitive Analysis - to determine the strength of your competitors in terms of technology and intellectual property.
Product Requirements Analysis - to create comprehensive requirements specification for your product.
Product Architecting - to create suitable architecture for your product.
Software Engineering - to create the software components that are an integral part of your product.
Hardware Engineering - to create the hardware components that are an integral part of your product.
Project Management - to plan and control the product engineering effort.
Technical Writing - to create manuals and guides for your product.
Intellectual Property Development - to create patent drafts that protect your product.
Prototyping - to produce a working prototype of your product.
Support Systems Engineering - to create systems that will support your product, your staff and your partners during the life of the product.

Delivery Approach

To best accommodate you needs, Prolancer delivers all services using an approach that is fully tailored to your needs.

Prolancer’s engineers can quickly adapt to and use your methodology, tools and business systems to perform their tasks. However, all engineers have access to all aspects of the Prolancer’s own engineering methodology and tools. As a result, they are able to supplement, if so required, your engineering capability with Prolancer’s resources at no additional cost to you.

While efficiency remains absolutely the top priority during engagement, Prolancer does not compromise on quality, systems approach to engineering and iterative approach to managing risk and complexity.