Taazaa Inc

I love building things with great people. While completing my Ph.D. program in Computer Science, I was also advising multiple businesses regarding their software and technology needs. I considered the academic route but realized I was more energized by entrepreneurship and building software than I was with the idea of teaching. An entrepreneur gave me a shot to help him build a software product that turned out to be successful for him. The team that I assembled to do that help lay the foundation of Taazaa and I am so honored that the team is still with me today. I helped them build software for a mobile diagnostic lab, which turned out to be a four-year-long project. Then, from there, I worked with a few consultants. To bring quality and control to the software products, I brought the team in. Taazaa evolved from there. Taazaa means fresh. As you can see from the journey that incubating fresh ideas and technologically implementing those to make them alive is the reason or motive behind starting the organization.

All of our engineers are employees. We work with a few outside partners to help with a few key business functions, but otherwise, the team is all employees. We are headquartered in Cleveland and have around 150 employees located in Austin, Cincinnati, and Noida, India where we have a robust development center.

Clients often tell us we are easy to work with, good at making sense of things for them, and able to make projects seem less risky. In the end, our approach has proven to be far more cost-effective and achieved higher-quality solutions for them.

In healthcare, we’ve built dispatch software, an orthopedic rehabilitation application, pharmacy management software, telehealth, and remote patient monitoring systems. In other areas, we’ve also built property management software, IoT applications, eCommerce apps, to name a few. More than half of our clients bring repeat business to us. Technically, we’re industry agnostic.

In simple terms, the timeframe comes down to the availability of talent (manpower) and available capital given the complexity and scope of development. Having said that, building quality software takes time regardless of available manpower and capital. As Warren Buffet said, “you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” We use high-empathy design, iterative development, and frequent communication in order to optimize development speed and business fit for our clients.

We take a comprehensive, full-stack product perspective when developing software. On whole, a slight preponderance of time is spent on backend capability and integration. Kind of like more time is usually spent baking the cake than icing it.

We generally undergo the Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR) technique for arriving at the possible choice of framework and set of technologies for the software development process. Key factors include the lifespan of the technology and the market adoption size of the framework.

We use the below-listed frameworks and languages
•    Languages - C#, JavaScript, Python, Swift, PHP, HTML/CSS3
•    Dev Frameworks - .NET Core, MEAN
•    Front-end frameworks - Angular, React and Vue
•    Mobile development - IOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, and Xamirin.
•    Cloud - Public (AWS, Azure, GCP), Private (VMWare, OpenStack), Hybrid

A lack of vision and clarity regarding the software’s purpose is probably the largest cost factor when building custom software. That’s why we focus first on getting clear about business goals and user goals for the software before we build anything. Scope, functionality, hosting, support, ongoing maintenance, etc all factor into the cost as well. But it’s wise not to overlook the hidden but significant cost to productivity, employee satisfaction, and customer experience when you get poor quality software.

It really depends on the relationship and the project. We prefer win-win arrangements that optimize flexibility, predictable, and variable pricing options rather than fixed-cost, fixed-scope agreements. We don’t do long-term contracts so there is low-risk getting started with us.

We think about long-term value creation and relationships far more than budgets. So, while we have found that we’re a better fit for organizations that plan to initially invest at least $50k in building a solution (as a rule of thumb), we’ve taken on many smaller projects for the sake of impact and relationship building.

Project range in size from $25k to $1.5 million.