Redgum's product development cycle.
Redgum devotes a large amount of time to research and development. This is focused on improving the end to end development of software solutions. We understand that our applications will go through the full product life cycle and the need for systems to respond and adapt to change. Our research is targeted at developing tools, techniques, design patterns, standards, componentry and supporting infrastructure to enable a product to move through the following phases.
- Concept. Minimising the upfront investment at initial concept stage while expanding the idea and possible range of products available. This enables products to be integrated together providing a very strong, cohesive offering that will maximise the products potential through the following phases
- Growth. As a product stabilises in its development and feature list and as it gains acceptance in the market place a new set of challenges start to emerge, new features, competition, integration with existing applications and many others. Redgum continually develop and improve the support, tracking and management tools to enable us respond to change quickly and allow us support our many new customers through this critical phase. We know that the higher the rate of growth the more take up a product has the longer it will last through the maturity phase. Our focus is to make this as rapid as possible while still being manageable.
- Maturity. Once a product has become established in the market place we now have the opportunity to capitalise on its strong position. Offering new complementary products and services such as extended reporting modules, add-on functionality, groupware enabling functionality. This has the two fold effect of providing new sales opportunities and extending the overall lifetime of the product in the market place.
- Decline. Every product has a life time, be it an individual version or an entire product line. We start by suppling support and rapidly extending new 'associated' technologies to hold off or extend the decline phase. But this will end eventually, which presents several opportunities to offer the replacement products to a well established and loyal customer base.
Results
We are proud of our achievements over the past few years, Redgum has evolved its tools and technologies and seen them have a big impact on both our own abilities to deliver and those of our clients to grow and service their client bases.
Developments: Past and Present. Provides a brief look at several key clients and the products that have successfully been through the Redgum product development cycle.
Case studies. Provides a good overview of a few of our developments, the technologies involved and the benefits these gave to the organisations who use them.
Research and Development. Details further the technologies that Redgum is developing that will enable its clients and business partners to take full advantage of Redgum's product development cycle
Technical Capacity. For those who are interested in the base tools and technologies we use to achieve all that we have.
