Outsourcing

Offshore Outsourcing

Allzone IT Solutions offers a competency center model to our clients in which a software development team that is dedicated to a single client uses technology, tools, processes and methodologies unique to that client.

The dedicated Offshore Outsourcing facility in India is to facilitate offshore software development. Once the project priorities are established by the client, Allzone IT Solutions, in conjunction with the client’s IT department, manages the execution of the project. By focusing on a single client over an extended time frame, the Competency Center team gains a deeper understanding of the client’s business and technology and can begin to function as a virtual extension of the client’s software team.

Outsourcing to India

Success in new economy era heavily depends on the Business’ ability to adapt to market pressures with speed and timeliness. These often demand changes to business processes and their support systems. One of the proven strategies is for the business to spend their scarce internal resources in developing sustainable competitive advantage, leaving non-core areas to be outsourced. This has led to the usage of alternative sourcing options especially in system development initiatives, including independent contractors, application service providers (ASPs), external integrators and remote programming resources.

Why Outsource to India?

Increasingly, outsourcing to offshore contracting, especially to India has become a very attractive option. In the early days of outsourcing, a number of IT organizations have used offshore providers for legacy and maintenance work because of the relatively low risk associated with these projects. However, in recent years this model has dramatically changed.

Employing offshore contractors with a strong the US presence, or indirectly through domestic integrators, can extend offshore contractors’ range of tasks beyond the more mundane projects to e-business application development projects utilizing the latest technologies, while at the same time minimizing risk, reducing overhead and speeding up time to market.

India has become the leader in offshore software development because of -

• Its highly trained workforce
• Appreciation for software development disciplines
• High Quality — Indian firms have shown themselves capable of providing extremely high level of software development

Offshore Development Center

If you are looking to minimize costs without compromising on the quality of services then Offshore Outsourcing is the best option for you. Offshore Software Development will help you cut application development and maintenance costs and deal effectively with the fluctuations in software demands.

You can outsource your entire Software related services from design through development to test or get a part of the system developed in case you do not have the technical know-how for it. Besides the cost savings, the other advantages offered by offshore software development are the use of skilled and highly qualified IT professionals to develop applications. Outsourcing to countries like India gives you access to outsourcing facilities that excel in applications like E-commerce, Business Process re-engineering, System Migration, Maintaining Legacy system, System integration.

Quality is one of the most important factors to be considered while considering Offshore Software Development. The Indian companies involved in IT outsourcing in India provides high quality work, meeting international standards and complying with the ISO & SEI-CMM standards.

Customer support and communication is provided so that any issues are communicated immediately. Also the fact that the outsourcing facilities are located in different time zones ensures that your work progresses without interruption. Excellent telecom, ISP, and cellular networks ensure that you can be in touch with the vendors without any connection hurdles.

We are an offshore outsourcing Company. We follow an on-site /off-site delivery model that allows you to take advantage of the lower costs of our offshore development center capability without sacrificing the advantages of working with a local firm. You get the high level of customer service and attention that you deserve, while your costs are reduced by over 50 percent compared to a traditional approach using the US-based operations.

Process and Methodology

Software projects are inherently complex, risky and require careful planning. Planning software includes development, estimates, staged development, requirements capture and risk & change management control procedures, business case studies, user interface prototypes and overall project control.

Proper planning ensures that the project does not move away from its targeted goals while the customer gets a clear definition of the project and is in the know of the project status and has ready access to project deliverables at any point of time.

To ensure the timely and quality delivery for 100 percent client satisfaction Allzone IT Solutions implements the following:

Prototypes and Staged Deliveries

• Projects that define deliverables in terms of prototype, phases or stages identify risks and constraints early on and are able to plan and implement counter measures with greater success.
• The functionality is developed and delivered in stages thus ensuring that the most important function is delivered at the earliest.
• Reduces the possibility of estimation errors
• Projects visibility to customers and upper management increases

Comprehensive Bug Management

Bugs are part of every product development process. How do you track the bugs you find during product development and after? Bugs that are found but not properly tracked might slip away. Allzone IT Solutions uses the leading bug and defect-tracking tool for bug management, which leads to:

• Streamlined software development and maintenance
• Clear, updated information about the status of each bug or defect
• Full control over the work flow
• History of work done on each bug, defect or enhancement being always a click away
• A fully integrated solution that enables users to input and track new bugs, defects, and problems in general

Methodologies and Tools

Our Allzone IT Solutions team adopts project methodologies based on the client’s project specifications and requirements. Allzone IT Solutions extensive expertise on the following methodologies:

Waterfall Model

This life-cycle model demands a systematic, sequential approach to software development that begins at the Customer’s software requirements and progresses through analysis, design, coding, testing and post development warranty and is considered an ideal choice when the user’s software requirements are clearly stated at the inception of the project.

Object Oriented Model

This methodology is used to define the activities and work products for each phase and in projects where the development tasks arrive as work packets. The phases of execution, the associated work products, verification and validation criteria for each of the relevant phases shall be at par with this methodology.

Prototyping Model

This methodology defines a mechanism to handle concept building and/or prototyping projects and is used by Allzone IT Solutions in complex projects in order to understand requirements better, to reduce design risks and to share the user interface with the Customer. Concept building projects are typically of an R&D type, where the goal is to arrive at an optimal solution based on a short description of requirements by the Customer.

Incremental Model

The Incremental model of development is an evolutionary model that combines the elements of the linear sequential model (Waterfall model) and the iterative philosophy of Prototyping and is considered ideal for a project that is complex by nature having large business components and interfaces with third party business applications, requiring high availability, and tight security. It also helps in managing the technology risks by spreading the risk across successive increments. This unique methodology has the distinct advantage of getting developed, quality assured and demonstrable functionality at the end of iteration, which can be improved upon with successive iterations to get the desired functionality. In the Project lifecycle, we use tools which facilitate or effectively document the following activities,:

• Project Management & Planning (PMP)
• Configuration Management (CM) & Version Controlling
• System Architecture Design
• Automated Testing
• Bug Management

Quality Assurance

Allzone IT Solutions recognizes that, to fulfill our goal of self-evident quality, we need constantly to improve our deliverables to match the increasing expectations of our customers.

Allzone IT Solutions implements the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) process that addresses the quality assurance needs at every phase of the development cycle. Our QA team has developed a focused quality control checklist. In addition, we also have a comprehensive Quality Testing Checklist, which ensures that every solution delivered by Allzone IT Solutions measures up to the highest possible international standards.

The QA Division and Testing Laboratory include:

• Test Planning
• Test Cases & Test Scripts creation
• Automated & Manual Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Test Results Reporting
• Performance Testing
• Bottlenecks Analysis