Software as we know is a non-tangible product which comes
under intellectual property. Once the software is sold to the rights is transferred
with the copyrights. However as we know that software can corrupt, or the needs
of clients might change with time. In such situations clients can get their
software modified using Software maintenance services. There are variety of Software
Maintenance services that developing company provides to their clients. Here
are the lists of some software maintenance services that are in demand in
market.
Preventive Maintenance
Monitoring the software performance becomes essential.
Sometimes due to minor issues the work productivity can be hampered. Before
such a situation happen some company monitor the performance of the software
and stop the software issue immediately before it is encountered. This type of maintenance
works on software is called preventive maintenance services.
Corrective Maintenance
Identification of problems on the software is done through
alpha and beta testing. Once the problem is detected software developers are
deployed to sort the issues and restore performance.
Adaptive Maintenance
Sometimes we need to update certain features on the
software. These could be minor update or major update depending on the needs
and requirement of the business process. A maintained work on software where
one or more components or functionality of software is updated without
affecting the performance is called Adaptive Maintenance.
Perfective Maintenance
Software is something that employees use daily hence it
should be working perfectly all the time so that productivity of the company is
not hampered due to any bug, or issue on the software. For this purpose some
development company signs contract with the clients for perfective Maintenance
services.
Only few companies provide all these four types of software Maintenance
services. Technoligent is the most popular software development and software Maintenance
service provider that has many overseas clients.