Startup Consulting Services

A way to make your startup a success

Providing software startup consulting services since 2016, ScienceSoft helps business founders plan and design software products and establish a cost-efficient software development process.

Startup Consulting Services - ScienceSoft
Startup Consulting Services - ScienceSoft

A startup consultant is someone who gives advice on how to efficiently plan, build, and launch new software products. ScienceSoft’s consultants are ready to maximize your digital tech startup’s chances of success due to:

  • Detailed research of the target market, target customer and market needs.
  • Capabilities to address innovation-based opportunities.
  • Optimizing development and infrastructure costs.
  • Helping you overcome compliance challenges.
  • 34 years in IT.
  • 12 years in planning and developing SaaS solutions.
  • 10 years in DevOps consulting.
  • 12 years in IoT consulting.
  • 10 years in big data.
  • ISO 9001, 27001, 13485 certifications.
  • HIPAA, FDA, PCI DSS compliance.
  • 4.8 rating on Clutch.com.
  • For the second straight year, ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times.

What Our Customers Say

Meet Some of Our Experts

Peter Manko

Ecommerce Consultant

Ensures converting digital journeys for ecommerce apps. Contributed to the launch of an ecommerce solution with enhanced product and content management, and the integration of a CRM system with offline and online sales channels.

Alena Nikuliak

Healthcare IT Consultant

Helps companies bring innovative healthcare app concepts to life. Worked on 20+ projects, including the development of an all-in-one multi-module healthcare management product for an assisted living facility.

Mary Zayats

Banking IT Consultant

Participated in the development of online and mobile banking solutions for an Asian bank with 3+ million customers and an award-winning mobile banking app that led the lists of best Android Mobile Apps, Best Mobile Banking for iOS and Best Mobile Banking for Android.

Olga Vinichuk

Insurance IT Consultant

Helps digitally transform such processes as claims processing, policy management, regulatory compliance monitoring and underwriting. Contributed to 11+ major projects, including long-term SaaS product development to automate the work of insurance underwriters.

Technologies We Work With

Web

Back end

Microsoft .NET

Practice

19 years

Projects

200+

Workforce

60+

Our .NET developers can build sustainable and high-performing apps up to 2x faster due to outstanding .NET proficiency and high productivity.

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Java

Practice

25 years

Projects

110+

Workforce

40+

ScienceSoft's Java developers build secure, resilient and efficient cloud-native and cloud-only software of any complexity and successfully modernize legacy software solutions.

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Python

Practice

10 years

Projects

50+

Workforce

30

ScienceSoft's Python developers and data scientists excel at building general-purpose Python apps, big data and IoT platforms, AI and ML-based apps, and BI solutions.

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Node.js

Practice

10 years

Workforce

100

ScienceSoft delivers cloud-native, real-time web and mobile apps, web servers, and custom APIs ~1.5–2x faster than other software developers.

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PHP

Practice

16 years

Projects

170

Workforce

55

ScienceSoft's PHP developers helped to build Viber. Their recent projects: an IoT fleet management solution used by 2,000+ corporate clients and an award-winning remote patient monitoring solution.

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Golang

Practice

4 years

ScienceSoft's developers use Go to build robust cloud-native, microservices-based applications that leverage advanced techs — IoT, big data, AI, ML, blockchain.

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Front end

JavaScript

Practice

21 years

Projects

2,200+

Workforce

50+

ScienceSoft uses JavaScript’s versatile ecosystem of frameworks to create dynamic and interactive user experience in web and mobile apps.

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Angular JS

Practice

13 years

Workforce

100+

ScienceSoft leverages code reusability Angular is notable for to create large-scale apps. We chose Angular for a banking app with 3M+ users.

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React JS

Workforce

80+

ScienceSoft achieves 20–50% faster React development and 50–90% fewer front-end performance issues due to smart implementation of reusable components and strict adherence to coding best practices.

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MeteorJS

ScienceSoft uses Meteor for rapid full-stack development of web, mobile and desktop apps.

Vue.js

By using a lightweight Vue framework, ScienceSoft creates high-performant apps with real-time rendering.

Ember.js

When working with Ember.js, ScienceSoft creates reusable components to speed up development and avoid code redundancy.

Next.js

With Next.js, ScienceSoft creates SEO-friendly apps and achieves the fastest performance for apps with decoupled architecture.

Mobile

iOS

Practice

16 years

Projects

150+

Workforce

50+

ScienceSoft’s achieves 20–50% cost reduction for iOS projects due to excellent self-management and Agile skills of the team. The quality is never compromised — our iOS apps are highly rated.

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Android

Practice

14 years

Projects

200+

Workforce

50+

There are award-winning Android apps in ScienceSoft’s portfolio. Among the most prominent projects is the 5-year-long development of Viber, a messaging and VoIP app for 1.8B users.

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Xamarin

Practice

11 years

Projects

85+

Workforce

10+

ScienceSoft cuts the cost of mobile projects twice by building functional and user-friendly cross-platform apps with Xamarin.

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Apache Cordova

ScienceSoft uses Cordova to create cross-platform apps and avoid high project costs that may come with native mobile development.

Progressive Web Apps

ScienceSoft takes the best from native mobile and web apps and creates the ultimate user experience in PWA.

React Native

Practice

8 years

Projects

300+

ScienceSoft reduces up to 50% of project costs and time by creating cross-platform apps that run smoothly on web, Android and iOS.

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Flutter

ScienceSoft will save you from double or even triple expenses associated with platform-specific coding by creating cross-platform apps in Flutter.

Ionic

With Ionic, ScienceSoft creates a single app codebase for web and mobile platforms and thus expands the audience of created apps to billions of users at the best cost.

Desktop

C++

Practice

34 years

Workforce

40

ScienceSoft's C++ developers created the desktop version of Viber and an award-winning imaging application for a global leader in image processing.

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Qt

Practice

4 years

Workforce

40

We used Qt to deliver a cross-platform desktop app for a global leader in image processing, a desktop version of Viber, VoIP messenger with over 1 billion users, and an anti-procrastination app acknowledged by The Daily Telegraph and BBC.

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C#

Practice

19 years

Projects

200+

Workforce

60

Our C# developers created the world’s largest PLM software. Their recent projects: development of SaaS for vCIO services management and underwriting software for a global aviation insurer.

WPF

Practice

15 years

Workforce

~40

We have delivered WPF-based solutions for a leading market research company and a global leader in image processing.

Objective-C

We use Objective-C to implement native macOS features in desktop apps.

Python

Practice

10 years

Workforce

30

We use Python for rapid development of cross-platform desktop apps.

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Databases / data storages

SQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Our Microsoft SQL Server-based projects include a BI solution for 200 healthcare centers, the world’s largest PLM software, and an automated underwriting system for the global commercial insurance carrier.

MySQL

We’ve implemented MySQL for Viber, an instant messenger with 1B+ users, and an award-winning remote patient monitoring software.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is great for handling large volumes of data and varying database traffic: it easily scales up and down without any downtime or disruption to the applications. It also offers automatic backups and point-in-time recoveries to protect databases from accidental corruption or deletion.

Oracle

ScienceSoft's team has implemented Oracle for software products used by GSK and AstraZeneca. We’ve also delivered Oracle-based SCM platform for Auchan, a retail chain with 1,700 stores.

PostgreSQL

ScienceSoft has used PostgreSQL in an IoT fleet management solution that supports 2,000+ customers with 26,500+ IoT devices. We’ve also helped a fintech startup promptly launch a top-flight BNPL product based on PostgreSQL.

NoSQL

Apache Cassandra

Our Apache Cassandra consultants helped a leading Internet of Vehicles company enhance their big data solution that analyzes IoT data from 600,000 vehicles.

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Apache Hive

ScienceSoft has helped one of the top market research companies migrate its big data solution for advertising channel analysis to Apache Hive. Together with other improvements, this led to 100x faster data processing.

Apache HBase

We use HBase if your database should scale to billions of rows and millions of columns while maintaining constant write and read performance.

Apache NiFi

With ScienceSoft’s managed IT support for Apache NiFi, an American biotechnology corporation got 10x faster big data processing, and its software stability increased from 50% to 99%.

MongoDB

ScienceSoft used MongoDB-based warehouse for an IoT solution that processed 30K+ events/per second from 1M devices. We’ve also delivered MongoDB-based operations management software for a pharma manufacturer.

Cloud databases, warehouses and storage

AWS

Amazon Redshift

We use Amazon Redshift to build cost-effective data warehouses that easily handle complex queries and large amounts of data.

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Amazon DynamoDB

We use Amazon DynamoDB as a NoSQL database service for solutions that require low latency, high scalability and always available data.

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Azure

Azure Cosmos DB

We leverage Azure Cosmos DB to implement a multi-model, globally distributed, elastic NoSQL database on the cloud. Our team used Cosmos DB in a connected car solution for one of the world’s technology leaders.

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Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is great for handling large volumes of data and varying database traffic: it easily scales up and down without any downtime or disruption to the applications. It also offers automatic backups and point-in-time recoveries to protect databases from accidental corruption or deletion.

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Datastore

We use Google Cloud Datastore to set up a highly scalable and cost-effective solution for storing and managing NoSQL data structures. This database can be easily integrated with other Google Cloud services (BigQuery, Kubernetes, and many more).

DevOps

Containerization

Automation

CI/CD tools

Monitoring

Market entry consulting

Market entry consulting

Our consultants:

  • Research the target market, users, and competitors.
  • Defines a unique selling proposition of your product.
  • Assess tech and economic feasibility.
  • Analyze regulatory challenges.
  • Develop a digital marketing strategy (customer acquisition, conversion).
  • Develop a business case.

Idea productization consulting

Idea productization consulting

ScienceSoft’s team:

  • Craft your brand positioning statement.
  • Decides on "killer features".
  • Translates your product idea into features.
  • Conducts UX research.
  • Creates personas, user scenarios, UX wireframes.
  • Creates the concept of product's visual design. 
  • Roadmaps feature delivery for an MVP (optionally).
  • Calculates TCO and draws a cost optimization strategy.

Tech and software dev consulting

Tech and software dev consulting

ScienceSoft’s consultants:

  • Design a software architecture.
  • Choose the best-fit tech stack.
  • Plan a customization and integration approach.
  • Plan product security and compliance
  • (HIPAA, FDA, GLBA, PCI DSS, etc.).
  • Deliver a proof-of-concept.
  • Map out an MVP launch plan.

App deployment consulting

App deployment consulting

Our experts:

  • Plan a DevOps strategy and implementation roadmap.
  • Train your DevOps practitioners.
  • Debug and resolve software issues.
  • Plan (cloud) infrastructure security and compliance.
  • Optimize infrastructure costs.

Personalized service set

Personalized service set

Several or the entire set of the following services:

  • Market entry consulting.
  • Idea productization consulting.
  • Tech and software dev consulting.
  • App deployment consulting.

Check the Cost of Developing Your Software Product

ScienceSoft’s team is ready to provide a cost estimate for the development of a prototype, an MVP, and a final version of your brand-new solution.

Tangible Benefits from ScienceSoft's Startup Consulting

Professional and structured startup consulting means:

  • 100%

    clear vision of a product development roadmap from the start

  • 100%

    of your focus is on marketing and sales

  • Minimized

    process risks due to preventing errors in software design, dev, testing and management

Featured Software Product Projects

IoT PaaS Architecture Design for a European Provider of IT Consulting and Infrastructure Services

ScienceSoft’s team elicited the detailed requirements to IoT PaaS and designed the PaaS architecture that would enable users to quickly build IIoT applications.

Computer Vision Retail App Development

We planned and built an innovative image analysis solution for a retail-focused product company to allow their customers efficiently analyze consumers’ behavioral patterns.

Mobile Claim Wizard App Design & Development

We created an iOS application for residential roofing sales teams. The app evaluates exterior damage on the roofing with sketching tools and Google Maps shots, so sales teams can offer data-driven consultation on the services of their company.

SaaS Module Design & Development to Optimize Food Production and Sales

We created a new module for a SaaS ERP solution used by a US sports club management company. The new module helps optimize the production and sales of food and beverages offered to club visitors on-premises.

Design & Development of an iOS Traveling App for Cyclists

We created an application that allows users to view available cycling routes, getting information on the routes, and sharing information with other users.

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