Software Consultants carry out the assessment of business process and their functionality and provide recommendations or feedbacks that help uplift the quality of software. The consultants are either self-employed or part of a main frame company. They are generally hired on a contract or project basis. They often have to integrate software into business processes within a certain deadline agreed between the parties as part of their contract.
According to statistics by industry expert Capers Jones, the industry loses billions of dollars only because of poor testing. Poor quality of software also hurts the reputation of the company. Hence prior assessment of software is of utmost importance. That is why consultants play a vital role in IT economy. The types of roles of software consultants include quality assessment, test assessment, jump starts, etc. A business environment needs consultants to create functional ideas and specifications through which clients can respond. The different types of testing like automated testing, white and black box testing, unit, integration, regression testing, etc. are employed on software and their quality is assessed. If benchmark qualities are not achieved, software consultants suggest the necessary changes.
Clients are the most important resource for such consultants and so marketing and approach towards the clients play a major role for software consultants. The reason software consultants are popular is because they provide an unbiased opinion about the choice of a solution for the development of software. This is because that is exactly why they are getting paid for. B est software consulting firms deliver high level of focus which is basically oriented on industry. For example, they may specialize in solutions for the Automobile industry or Service industry. Though the emerging of software consultants is a recent phenomenon, their expertise and competitive spirit is helping improve the quality of software products all over the world.
