Solution Lifecycle Management (SLM^SM)

Any Network Equipment product manager will tell you that there are good days and bad days. Product plans fall perfectly into place; requirements and market research match the products in your portfolio; engineering releases are on time; sales teams are informed about availability and pricing; manufacturing service levels are green; version 2 prototypes have record performance. Life is good. Why?

The product lifecycle is humming along. Requirements feed design, design leads to manufacturing, manufacturing ships sales, sales sells customers, customers use products, products get old, customers have new needs and guess what, the new requirements feed design.

Then, why are the storm clouds looming? Customers have discovered that products working together, as a solution, are providing critical capabilities. They are interested in engaging vendors who can provide end-to-end solutions, not just products. Since vendors and channels are still rewarded for selling and shipping products, they continue to operate in product silos and find it increasingly difficult to respond as a solutions provider.

Yagna iQ believes that companies that organize and use their product knowledge as a portfolio of solutions will be most successful in the marketplace.

While not rocket science, we firmly believe in the solution lifecycle and offer our own solutions (Sales iQ and PM iQ) to help companies implement a Solution Lifecycle Management^SM (SLM^SM) framework to sales and product management.

Sales iQ focuses on helping sales engineers satisfy customer inquiries by intelligently designing a solution that best matches customer needs.

PM iQ, in addition to being a product manager’s daily work environment, helps package products into solution templates that match market requirements and trends.

Yagna iQ intends to leverage the SLM framework and the Yagna Knowledgebase to deliver future applications for managing solution deployment (Deployment iQ) and support activities (Support iQ).

For more details on SLM and how Yagna iQ’s products and services leverage this unique framework in providing game-changing software solutions, please download our whitepaper on Solutions Lifecycle Management.

Knowledge Navigation

Provides comprehensive searching and browsing capabilities for the rich store of product and solution knowledge contained in the Yagna Knowledgebase.

The search mechanism provides easy access to customer projects, deployed solutions, product portfolios and related data using basic and advanced criteria as defined by users.