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About Permeative

What all do you do in iPhone app development?

We build iPhone apps for our clients. We have built apps in almost all product categories that exist in the app store. The most popular ones are auction engines, e-commerce apps, navigation apps and iPhone apps for entertainment. We also port applications such as games designed for other platforms, onto the iPhone back to top

What technologies do you work on?

Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Mac OSx, iPhone, CrossPlatform, OpenGL, Unity 3D, CoreAnimation and more. We have expertise in video and audio streaming, image processing, location based services (using Google maps and more). back to top

How long have Permeative and ideas2iPhone been around?

Permeative started in early 2008. The initiative where we convert your ideas of building great and popular iPhone apps into a reality is called ideas2iPhone. back to top

How large is Permeative?

We are a team of close to a hundred people passionate about building apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch. We are based out of the US and Bangalore,India. back to top

Tell me something about the most successful iPhone apps you have built for your clients.

A real estate auction engine to post properties, set base prices, browse through properties, quote prices, contact advertisers, view property locations
A comprehensive directory of all products and service across all cities of a European nation. The app includes route maps and driving directions.
A full service classified iPhone app allowing you to create classifieds under various categories, contact advertisers in their area, chat with them and more..
A complete television program guide: The app gives you a complete list of television programs for all stations and also shows the live progress of any program.
An iPhone app to compare products across parameters such as features, prices, stores, reviews and more. A popular application in South America.
A comprehensive restaurant guide to locate restaurants as per geography or food preference; browse through menus, book tables and manage orders

What does your client profile look like?

We work with a wide spectrum of clients. Our clients include large corporations that have established product and service lines and want to make us of the tremendous potential of the iPhone channel, small and medium enterprises, boutique design houses, groups of individuals and individuals who have great, creative and marketable ideas for iPhone apps. back to top

How many of your own apps do you have on the app store? How have they performed?

We have close to fifty of Permeative's own apps in the app store. Some of these are: Time-shift radio, Dutch Radio, DiaryPro, Typing Class and KiddyU. Our focus area has been apps for business, entertainment (music and games), education and navigation .Our apps have been popular and have received good reviews. back to top

About ideas2iPhone

What exactly is ideas2iPhone?

Ideas2iPhone is a service offering from Permeative Technologies. We build iPhone apps for our clients leveraging on our expertise in location based services, audio and video streaming, image processing, 2D and 3D gaming. Our clients include large corporations, boutique design firms and individuals. We help our clients conceive apps. We follow it up by architecting, designing, building and delivering the apps with quick turnaround times. back to top

What processes do you follow?

We assess your idea and develop it further in required
After signing non disclosure agreements (NDAs) , we assign the right team mix – designers, UI experts, subject matter experts, techies and managers
We follow the agile development paradigm and keep sharing documentation, prototypes and more project artifacts with you all along our quick, high quality iPhone app development cycle

What is the turnaround time? How fast do you deliver?

Our average turnaround time has been a month. We take a little longer to port existing applications. However, owing to our agile development cycle, you get to see what is going on at our end at every step. We also accommodate changes in the requirements and design. back to top

How do you begin work once we have talked about the assignment?

We sign an NDA, assign a manager and a team and immediately get busy with creating requirement docs and prototypes. We ensure smooth, transparent, frequent and regular communication. back to top

Do you also help in the ideation / idea generation process?

We sure do! We have built hundreds of iPhone apps and a large number of them have become very popular. We know the pulse of the market. This is a key ingredient in conceiving an iPhone app and we lend our expertise in this area to our clients. We thus act as iPhone app development consultants as well. back to top

Security of Ideas and Information

Is my idea safe with you?

It is. Before you share any form of documentation, we insist that we sign a non disclosure agreement. We have strict data security policies within the organization and all our employees sign confidentiality agreements when they join us. So rest assured ! back to top

Do you have a privacy policy?

Yes, we have one. We do not share your email IDs or any other information that you share with us during the course of your interaction, even if it is a brief visit to our website. back to top

Do you sign non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality agreements?

Signing a non disclosure agreement before commencement of any engagement with any of our client is an essential and mandatory step in our process. We can either work with a specific non disclosure agreement or confidentiality agreement that you have in mind or can go ahead with our own version. back to top

Development, Delivery and Support

What visibility do I have into the app development process?

We discuss the requirements with you. We send our understanding of the requirements across to you. We share the application architecture and design with you. Thereafter we build prototypes and send it to you for approval. You can share these prototypes with your team and customers of similar apps or of applications that are already running on other platforms and take their feedback. We then implement this feedback into the next iteration. This is the agile development process and it is founded on the principle of collaborative development where the customer has maximum visibility. back to top

Can I request for changes midway?

Of course! With changing market dynamics and fast-paced markets, it is very natural for requirements to change during the development process – even if it is as short as hours – one month. We know this and take it in our stride. This is the cornerstone of agile software development. In case the changes are really large, we come back to you with alternatives or a different pricing structure. back to top

How do you deliver?

We send the binaries across to you in compressed formats. We can mail them or place them in a secure staging area via the secure file transfer protocol. Our deliverables come with all associated app operation documentation, support documentation and installation guidelines. back to top

What kind of support can I expect after you have delivered my iPhone app?

We offer full life cycle support for your iPhone app. What does this mean? Every version of an app or the app itself has a lifespan. We support the entire version with enhancements and fixes. We also handle obsolescence planning where we plan and build newer versions of your app on the back of the success of earlier versions. We also handle development of your app for newer geographies and market segments. back to top

Team Composition

What resources would get assigned for the app development?

An assignment would normally have developers, user experience and user interface experts, multimedia experts, subject matter champs, translators, voice-over professionals and more. back to top

How do you ensure that the iPhone or iPhod touch app meets all of Apple's standards?

We adhere to all of Apple's guidelines such as the human computer interface guidelines and abide by Apple's specifications, frameworks and toolkits. back to top

Payment

What payment modes do you work with?

We work in both the fixed-fee and time and materials (hourly basis) mode as well as a mix and match of these two approaches so that you have better visibility of returns on your investments (ROI) at each stage of the project . back to top