Product and Service Design

EC Wise will work with you and your team to identify product and service opportunities, define products and services that meet those opportunities, and precisely target those offerings to key market segments.

We can address product design challenges like:

• Identifying feature sets that optimize your product's appeal;
• Defining user interfaces that optimize the combination of appeal, user effectiveness, and learnability
• Implementing logically complete and coherent task flows
• Managing critical exceptions cleanly within the natural flow of the product

For product design efforts, we bring a unique mix of capabilities to the table:

• Award-winning design experience: Our team members have designed products for on-line commerce, financial management, and information management
• Broad technology platform experience: We've designed for multiple technology platforms and delivery models, e.g. desktop, on-line, SaaS.
• Analytical leverage: We use advanced market analytics to validate product and service design options
• Synergistic teams: We place experts in key roles that enable a highly efficient design process

Software Product Development

Over the years, EC Wise has undertaken outsourced development projects for a wide variety of shrink-wrapped and SaaS products. Developing robust products requires overcoming challenges that include requirements for

• Extensive configurability, so that customers can tailor their user experience to their specific needs
• High Reliability, 24 x 7 x 365 availability of services to customers
• Security and compliance with a variety of security regulations
• Rapid deployment and implementation of client and market segment specific capabilities 
• Ongoing platform evolution

We address these challenges with values that include:

• Deep understanding of how to design and build highly configurable products
• Broad business domain experience
• Extensive Business, Process, and Data Integration skillls
• Expertise in multiple development stacks, including Java, .NET, and multiple RDBMS platforms

Jump-start your projects with our design skills and creativity

Sometimes you need help with the first step: Imagination. In a moment of inspiration, coming up with an idea for a new or expanded product or service seems like an easy thing, but in many cases, it can be very difficult. Fleshing out the initial concept with a set of specific features that resonate with the planned audience can be a major challenge.

EC Wise has vast experience identifying product opportunities; imagining product solutions; and specifying the features that will make the product successful. As a team, we offer an ideal blend of the skills required to conceive and specify products: creative design; market segmentation and validation; business and user analysis; information architecture; object oriented design; requirements management; and more.