Offshore Software Outsourcing and
Development
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Overview of our Services
Our Offer
In cooperation with our partners in Eastern Europe we process offshore software developments. We are your contracting party and take on project-responsibilty in all phases of a project.
Projectmanagement and –coordination is directly happening locally at the location of the project. Our partners have a great number of developers with know how in various IT-systems.
Enterprise Service Architecture (ESA) SAP Software Development (ABAP)
Web-based technologies (JAVA, XML) Development of interfaces
Development of reporting tools (SAP) SAP Netweaver
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Project Management
For the mangement of offshore software outsourcing and development projects, we take the following approach (Example: Development of an interface):
Pre-Study Functional Concept DV-Design Software Development Test & Correction Creation of a pre-study for the analysis of the relevant
systems.
Development of solution-approaches for the interface(s)
Implementation Functional- and DV- conceptualization Execution of the software development by our employees in the Republic of Belarus and support through our partners if necessary Execution of tests and corrections of the software Accomplishing the project-goal: Running the software
Procedure-Model No.1 -
Offshore-Model
The team of developers is located in the offshore-country. With this model, the customer accomplishes a cost-saving program development since the
development itself is executed in the development centers Lithuania, Russia or Republic of Belarus
To ensure the necessary
communication between the customer and the development centers, the newest means of communication are used 1. Offshore Model Offshore Development Location Customer Project Location Customer Project Manager Customer Project Team Offshore Project Manager Offshore Development Team
Procedure-Model No. 2 - On-Site /
Offshore-Model
The project managers work on-site, i.e. located at the customer. Possibly,
additional analysts are also working there. The rest of the development team stays in the offshore country. The develpment team on-site is working with the project management, customer needs
management and customer relationship management
A huge amount of the project-work, such as development, systemsupport, testing and support is processed in the offshore country. The offshore projectmanagers serve as multiplicators for the
development team in the offshore country and as a contact for the customer on-site
Offshore Development Location Customer Project Location Customer Project Manager Customer Project Team Offshore Project Manager Offshore Development Team
Procedure-Model No.3 - On-Site-Model
With this model, the development team is located on-site at the customer. This model receives the best communicaton between the customer project team and development team
Cost-savings are made possible through lower hourly wage rates for developers from the offshore locations. In opposition to the other models, costs arise due to the travelling of the development team to the customer
The model is used, once a permanent communication between the customer team and development team is necessary or if the strict security standards of the customer don‘t allow an offshore
development 3. On-site Model Customer Project Location Offshore Development Location Customer Project Manager Customer Project Team Offshore Project Manager Offshore Development Team
Procedure-Model No.4 - Customer
Project Manager Offshore
The offshore-development team stays in the offshore country completely. The project managers of the customer travel into the offshore country and coordinate the development work hand in hand with the offshore managers
Through this model, it is possible for the customer to process a lot of project work in the offshore country and parallely have control the project progress. High cost-savings are accomplished that way
The project managers have to have excellent knowledge about the project subject and be supported by the project team of the customer on-site
4. Customer Project Manager
Offshore Offshore Development Location Customer Project Location Customer Project Manager Customer Project Team Offshore Project Manager Offshore Development Team
Procedure-Model No. 5 – Key
Development
When managing a key-project, e.g. developing a complete software
application, this is the preferred model:
Developers or specialists of our development team and if necessary also the ones of our offshore partners directly support at the project location, e.g. basic support of a SAP system. The developers and specialists therefore travel to the location of the customer project
Savings for the customer result from the lower hourly wage rate and the limited, flexibly adjustable deployment of the offshore developers. The
customer decides the duration of the entire deployment
We do pilot projects for very affordable costs or case-specificly also for free, if
5. Project Support Customer Project Location Offshore Development Location Customer Project Manager Customer Project Team Offshore Project Manager Offshore Development Team
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Advantages of Offshore
Software-Outsourcing
With offshore software outsourcing a lot of advantages come into play. In following
paragraphs the most substantial ones are listed:
Cost-Savings
In times of increasing globalization, stagnating markets and ongoing consolidation in IT, the cost argument is very crucial. Cost-savings in personell are fundamental.
Reduction of fixed costs and increase of flexibility
Since personell resources can be reduced within a company through offshore software-outsourcing, also the fixed costs in the IT become reduced. Besides the cost-advantage from outsourcing to low-wage countries, a part of the fixed costs can be transferred into variable costs. Therefore the company can lower ist fixed costs and receives the necessary leeway in terms of flexibility, to adapt to rapid market changes and jurisdictional guidelines.
Focusing on Core-Competencies
With outsourcing of activities that are not part of the core business, the company can completely focus on the activities, really creating value, its core-competencies.
Time-to-Market and Quality
Time and quality aspects are major indicators for offshore outsourcing. The availablilty of highly qualified software experts for lower costs, a modern IT infrastructure and the guarantee of international quality
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References of our Offshore Partners
Our partners internationally succeed with projects for medium-sized and major
companies. Our partners have long-term project experience and an extensive know
how in all areas of information technology.
In the following we want to display some of the references of our partners:
Financial Services
• London Stock Exchange • Reuters
• Fitch Ratings NumeriX • World Bank Group • Deutsche Bank • Renaissance Capital
• The Central Bank of Russia • GMAC-RFC
• Banque Societe Generale • Visa International
• Misys
Telecommunications and HighTech
• Encorus • British Telecom • O2 • Verizon Communications • Vimpelcom • T-Mobile • KLA-Tencor* • Ricoh Europe* • Compaq*
Software and Technology
• Microsoft • SAP • BEA Systems • Hyperion Solutions • Reuters • Sun Microsystems • Intellicorp • LogicLibrary, Inc. • Misys • Click4Care • NumeriX • Datalex
Contact
For further information or for a presentation of further details about the subject of offshore development in your company, please contact:
Frank Bergmann
eMail: [email protected]
Tel.: 0173/6136614
alseda GmbH
Karlstr. 12
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon: +49 (69) 2648-4680
Fax: +49 (69) 2648-4679
eMail: [email protected]
