In today's competitive market scenario, it becomes a must for ISVs to keep pace with changing market needs and evolving technologies. This requires new feature additions to existing products at quick intervals.

Aspire provides Product Advancement services for adding new features, improving existing features and adding components to increase the functionality of existing products. Typically, ISVs face challenges in allocating resources towards incorporating feature requests from existing customers and from their marketing and product management teams. Aspire helps ISVs in increasing the product value at reduced costs.

Aspire's advancement services include:

• Addition of new functionalities towards positioning the product differently
• Integrating an existing product with other software systems
• Adapting existing products to web services
• Enabling support for new platforms and hardware

Aspire's advancement methodology involve the following:

• Understanding of existing product architecture
• Assessment of needs: whether it is feature additions, enabling integration, platform specific support, requirement of device interfaces, changes in communication protocols etc.
• Development of identified needs at lower costs and faster development time

Aspire's engagement with ISVs has been as dedicated teams and as an extension of ISVs' R&D teams in different stages of the product development lifecycle.