| Informatics’ offshore development facility in India offers application development, support and outsourcing services through a flexible delivery model by smartly combining the offshore-offsite-onsite approach. |
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| The Process |
| The ODC is process driven and operates on a 24×7, round-the-clock basis, facilitating next business day turn-around of work units to clients. The highest quality services and a proven cost reduction of up to 50-70% and a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership to clients are among the many benefits provided by the ODC. At Informatic, every stage of the project lifecycle is subjected to stringent quality management processes. |
The ODC also offers scalability of resources through a smart staffing approach, that further ensures rapid deployment of applications while considerably minimizing the Time-to-market, of its clients.
The company also offers a unique no-obligation-attached Pilot Programme to enable clients to assess the value proposition behind this approach.
Today every organization is looking out for a dedicated IT delivery team. A team that understands their business and technology, which can be quickly changed in size without the administrative overhead of recruiting, managing and enabling the team with the infrastructure required. And of course, one that delivers high quality cost effective solutions.
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| India Advantage |
| Informatics is positioned to provide this for you. We partner with our clients in replicating their IT environments, training our teams, setting up communication & security systems and integrating our development processes with theirs to ensure that the offshore team is an efficient and seamless extension of the client’s development facilities. We also invest in creating a pool of additional resources which can be used to augment the team at any time. |
| Add to this a system that optimizes employee productivity and charges Clients attractive long-term rates and you can realize what we offer to our clients on a long term basis. |
| In India, Informatics can establish and manage your dedicated offshore development center to develop IT solutions, maintain legacy systems and provide 24*7 support. |
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- On time on budget deliveries
- Shortened lead times for project start-up
- Significant cost advantage
- Leverage strong project management expertise
- Leverage high quality standards
- Access to diversified pool of skilled professionals
- Shortened development cycles due to 12 hr time difference.
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| Technologies |
| Informatics is primarily into web based technologies and follows a 3-tier architecture and MVC (model code view) architecture in development. |
- Java, J2EE, Servelets, IBM Websphere, Tomcat, JavaScript
- Dot Net framework, ASP, C#, VB Script, Jscript, Visual Interdev
- HTML, DHTML, Active Scripts, Flash
- Visual Source Safe (VSS), Microsoft Project, Boroland IDE.
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| Development Process |
| We follow a process oriented development methodology designed to minimize project risks and development time. We focus on business solutions that fulfill business goals, instead of merely providing technical solutions. All our applications are built on the basis of this philosophy. |
| The approach that we adopt is the spiral iterative methodology, where the project goes through one or more iterations of all project stages. |
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| We have defined processes for requirements gathering, design, development and testing. |
| Methodology |
| Informatics follows process-oriented development & delivery methodologies, whereby it ensures quality deliverables within budgeted cost & stipulated timelines. |
| The various steps involved in a full/ partial SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) project are: |
- Formulating Project Team, involving deputation of suitable techno-functional consultants from client, for project co-ordination
- Detailed Requirement Analysis
- Preparation of Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) Document
- Client’ approval of SRS
- High-level Design (HLD)
- Client’ approval of HLD
- Coding
- Testing
- Documentation
- Delivery
- Post-implementation Support
- Enhancements, if required.
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| The scope of the project is finalized during the SRS stage, and any change in scope of the project after the SRS stage & their commercial implications are discussed with the client and are dealt under the ‘Change Management Process’. |
| Informatics delivers documented source code and detailed implementation & user manuals along with the final delivery of applications. |
| The engagement in an offshore development center would be carried out in a three way process: |
- Step 1: Steering Group Formation
- Step 2: Knowledge Transfer & Transition phase
- Step 3: Software development take over Phase.
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| Informatics believes that security is of utmost importance to running a successful offshore development center. We ensure the following level of network, data and physical security: |
- Firewalls to protect all servers
- Virus protection – MacAfee, Norton
- Physical security – No floppy drives or USB ports
- Isolated network – restricted messaging system, restrictions on mail attachments.
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| Informatics believes that an offshore development center can be run successfully if there is: |
- Joint Project Management
- Requirements are clear and agreements are in place
- Common, shareable configuration management system
- Effective communication and continuous feedback
- Rotating the resources for high productivity
- Proven capabilities in people, processes and technology.
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| Remote Access Control |
| At Informatics we use different remote access tools to Install, Implement and Support the software on client’s server systems: |
- Pc AnyWhere by Semantic
- Windows remote desktop
- Reach Out.
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| These tools can be used over the internet connection as well as over a dedicated telephone connection. We are also open to use any specific tool or process the client is comfortable with. |
| Infrastructure |
| We use licensed software for development and have dedicated servers for individual projects. We own complete suites of licensed development environments including Microsoft products branded servers & client machines and associated equipments. The software/hardware environment is secured by a firewall and all the possible measures are taken to prevent unauthorized access. We have an in-house team of network administrators, who ensure consistent network availability and system up time. The data back up is performed at regular intervals. The Network connectivity, which is one of the key to a successful offshore development center supported by: |
- Branded Servers
- 100 Mbps Switched Network
- Firewall Protected
- Dedicated 512MB Internet bandwidth which can be escalated depending upon project requirements
- External data back up system
- Servers: Minimum Intel Pentium IV 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB Hard Disk Drive, etc
- Client Machines: Minimum Intel Pentium IV 2 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Disk Drive, etc
- 24 X 7 Power Connectivity
- Voice over IP Facility.
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