Classic IT Outsourcing

The original Plan 9 was an IT outsourcing company headquartered in Seattle, WA during the early development of consumer desktops and the Internet in the late 80’s and 90’s. Originally building SCADA and MRP systems on terminal based UNIX system, Plan 9 moved to the consumer space in the mid-90’s which meant learning consumer behavior and platforms.

Plan 9 worked with both large companies, like Microsoft, and small companies over the years building early retail web sites, enterprise planning tools connected to SAP or Oracle, and even backend credit-card and mobile payment systems. We understand the different development processes and platforms needed when targeting consumers, businesses, social technology, or enterprise solutions.

Plan 9’s core competency is building technology from idea origination all the way to incremental releases and eventual sun setting the technology and we’ve been part of the market as it has changed from classic IT governance to today’s popular agile development processes.

Product Development

Telling the difference between an idea and good idea comes from solid product development. Everyone knows that doing a good job in product development will always save time, money, and reputation down the road but it is not as easy to as it sounds.

Knowing the actual steps in quantifying how your technology will save time, save money, or make your customers more powerful than their competition is a daunting task. Understanding the deference between the users of the system, purchasers of your technology, and the decision-maker is critical and often an over-looked process in developing your product roadmap.

Scoping a project to efficiently use your money, get early field feedback, and build a committed user base is the only way to develop software in today’s market and understanding what choices you have and don’t have is critical to success.

You as a technology builder have only 5 aspects of the project under your control; scope, time, effort, quality, and risk. Pushing on any one aspect affects the others and Plan 9 was over 25 years of experience in understand those affects and how to make the right trade-offs.

We are ready discuss your customers and the right technology footprint needed to make them happy, most of the time it only take a 15 minutes conversation to get a rough understanding and plan together.

Development and Testing

Know the right level of project and process management is hard to know in today’s market. Companies are declaring agile development processes are saving their company but the agile process looks like the same old waterfall development.

Plan 9 has successfully built and deployed applications in many market segments, each having different governance needs. We can help select the right amount of process and project management and help build the technology with our off-shore partners.

Maintenance

Supporting applications with a dwindling user based is expensive, particularly when the changes they demand are not economically feasible for your company. Plan 9 can transition these projects from your expensive, forward thinking development teams to a competent, less expensive team.

Your customer will feel they are still loved and you can use your expensive resources on projects more important to the future of your company.

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