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24 X 5 Development Services
What is "offshore"
Development? Why do you do it?
The combination of resources
from the USA with resources from Russia is unbeatable!
The main benefit is better quality
software produced in less time and with lower costs. Since
Russia and the US are on opposite time zones - developers
code while customers sleep - and developers sleep while Q/A
reviews code. The combination reduces development time by
about 60%. The combination reduces cost by 400%. The combination
allows RelX to maintain 1 tester for every 2 developers!
But I only know companies
who set-up shop in India not Russia? Why didn't you?
Russian software development
has the sophistication and maturity that India lacks.
Indian developers are often
22-year old kids who learn programming and web technologies
while they go to school. It is true, India has a 5 Billion
dollar outsourced software business. Russia has less than
1 Billion dollars in outsourced software development. However
the quality of the engineers and the nature of the intact
teams is quite different. 90% of RelX engineers have been
together longer than 5 years and most longer than ten years.
The Russian developers are classic trained engineers from
the Nuclear industry, the Space industry, the Aviation Industry,
and the large scale manufacturing industry. Russian software
developers are especially valuable for database driven application
development where deep domain knowledge is required.
India has been popular because
most companies prefer to manage the development in English
and for English India is a more natural choice. But producing
software is not the same as producing English, the quality
of the software developer - the developer's mind, the work
ethic, and the domain knowledge should be of first importance.
How does RelX manage Software
Development?
We do all tasks only in one
place - the place best suited for the task:
- all architecture and design work is done in English in
the US.
- We do all project management, project correspondence,
and project acceptance in English, in the US or on-site
at customer location and in customer language.
- We do the software development in Russia at rates that
usually save our clients 400% to 500% on labor costs!
- We use India developers for Q/A and for User and Technical
documentation tasks where the combination of English and
developers is essential.
RelX has a close business ties
to a 200 person software documentation and business processing
facility in Mumbai, India. RelX does design in the US, development
in Russia, manual testing and documentation in India, and
load testing and integration testing in the US along with
project management and customer support
RelX has automated replication
and synchronization technology developed by RelX over the
past 15 years to keep our worldwide development environment
in sync at all times.
Is it really cheaper? What about
all the project miscommunication?
Yes. A lot cheaper. Give RelX
an opportunity to bid on your next outsourced development
effort - large or small- and you will see for yourself the
amazing economies of scale. We offer fixed price fixed timeframe
bids and are routinely 2X to 8X cheaper than traditional development.
As for project mangement that
will be in English with point-to-point communication or in
your native European or Japanese language. We work in German,
Japanese, French, Swedish, and English.
By the way, there is less miscommunication
- instructions in written format - in .cvs and UML exactly
how software development should be done but often isn't.
What expertise does RelX offer?
15 years of RDBMS database development
and porting across over 20 major operating systems has provided
our core team with very deep operating system, protocol, communication,
security, and scalability experience. This domain knowledge
is especially useful in database driven application development,
bluetooth, embedded Linux, driver development, XML, and replication
and synchronization technology.
What can I expect if you build
software with me?
Guaranteed lower costs. Guaranteed
faster delivery. Guaranteed Testing. Complete User and Technical
documentation, and very experienced project management.
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