Get beyond the daily time-consuming discussions about capacity and methods. Reduce production costs, get a more lean organization, greater flexibility and gain economic freedom.

Moreover, you obtain a better delivery quality and delivery security. ISV-Extension is a software outsourcing concept developed especially to optimize your Microsoft ISV business.

Perhaps you recognize the situation in which a release fell behind schedule due to other pressing last minute or customer support issues. If you and your company did not have to reinvent how to run a ISV business, then you could probably produce more products with a higher competitiveness. Also, you would be able to focus more energy on sales, customer satisfaction and innovation. This is where ISV-Extension comes into the picture.

Purposeful outsourcing from TEO

ISV-Extension is software outsourcing targeted towards small and medium size Microsoft ISVs, taking on the challenges you have in quality, scalability and finances.

It is simply our goal to rationalize your IT business e.g. by elevating your core employees out of the daily struggle with capacity, priority and methods. They should instead spend time on sales support, customer satisfaction, control, and product management.

Five elements that speak your language

ISV-Extension consists of:

• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• SCRUM-based development model
• A dedicated .NET development team
• Methods and best practices for Global Software development
• Methods and best practices for Microsoft ISVs

With ISV-Extension, you therefore have every possible opportunity to achieve better quality in your deliveries, and to make release plans that live up to their promise. Add on top of this more flexibility, scalable growth and  saving money. All-in-one!

Rationalization and time-to-market

There is no problem in hiring more employees and expanding fixed costs when sales are going fine. With ISV-Extension, the growth can happen exactly when the need occurs; while  the variable costs of this model makes your organization  less vulnerable to turbulence, both  in the market and in the organization.  In other words, you will be better at retaining your key employees and will not have to compromise on either quality or delivery deadlines.

ISV Extension in practice

You can benefit from the ISV-Extension in assignments such as porting an application (from one underlying platform or technology to another), new development, re-engineering of old/ often undocumented systems and finally, to get to the bottom of a backlog (pending tools, product features etc).

Strong project management and reporting

With Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft has provided a strong tool to manage and report from software development projects. The combination of Microsoft TFS, SCRUM based development and PRINCE2 principles for project management yields a solid framework for enhanced quality, progress and productivity in your projects. Along with the prioritization from the sales organization, this is a profound platform for handling software product releases.

Sustain a dynamical organization

Perhaps only a few key employees are doing most of the jobs in your IT organization? This often means a very short dynamic process within the organization which is important to sustain. On the other hand, however, this also means that a few individuals have many roles and a large responsibility. At TEO we are accustomed to working closely with our customers and take responsibility in smaller organizations. We work as an extended team within the usual IT department structure, and have processes and practices to sustain flexibility while  combining it with better process control.