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P RESENTATION March 28, 2006 Your Global IT Outsourcing Partner
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Contents Russia Advantages Voronezh Advantages SolovatSoft Advantages Corporate Structure Our Team Clients List Domain Expertise Summary
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Excellent Technical and programming skills European/Western Culture Good Educational System Low Labor Costs Russian engineers are highly skilled in software development. Russian universities won five of the top ten places (including first place!) in the 2004, 2003 and 2005 International Intercollegiate Programming Contests. They beat MIT, Harvard, and Cal Poly. Why Russia?
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SolovatSoft enables companies to deliver better applications, by providing products and process that manage reliable software evolution. Established 15 years ago, with corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, CA and Voronezh, Russia Sales offices across the world 2 sales offices in the USA (Denver and Menlo Park) Project Management Office in Moscow European distributors Development centers in: Voronezh, Russia – System and Enterprise Development Izevsk, Russia – Wireless application development Customers across the Fortune 2000 300+ in the United States 50+ across Europe Corporate History
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1995 - SolovatSoft started as a software development company focusing on delivering high quality software services for clients worldwide. 1995 – database product line started (embedded, wireless, enterprise versions, development IDE and tools) 1995-2004 - SolovatSoft client base grows from one to 300+. 1998 - First Fortune 500 client, Lucent Technologies 1998 -present - SolovatSoft has been an exclusive software development partner of ADIC for development of data storage product line. 2000 - SolovatSoft opens an office in San Francisco and Denver. 2004 - SolovatSoft grows up to 180 employees. Corporate History
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Benefits of ODC Constant Team – The continuity of the same people helps to quick start projects, protection of investment, long-term relationship, mutual rapport building and a lower learning curve. Adherence to standards – The team of professionals being aware of the client’s standards and procedures ensures adherence to standards. The overall business knowledge of the client helps in understanding of client applications. No Long-term investments – Being actually a branch of your business in Russia, DDC does not require any long-term commitments or up-front investments. But it saves you from a continuous headache about incorporation issues, legal fees, payroll, and legal compliance, long- term office leases. Full Operation Control – You manage your DDC as if it were your local IT division. You have your development schedules and deliverables, which your DDC team adheres to. Reasonable Expenses – You pay only for what you need and use – there are no hidden wasteful expenses. You are not paying for any overheads or administrative costs associated with establishing a DDC. Flexible Pricing and Financing – DDC offers a very custom - friendly pricing practice with no hidden costs. You can choose among a variety of pricing models to suit your needs best. Infrastructure – Companies often face the space crunch during the expansion process due the non-availability and cost of the same. The advent of Internet has made distance a non-issue especially in a low cost country like Russia.
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R&D Comparsion Comparative Advantage: R&D Researchers Per Million Inhabitants Source: Unesco Institute for Statistics, 2001
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Technology Skills Platforms: MS Win NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD Application Servers: MTS, MS Commerce Server, Weblogic, Websphere, jBoss Distributed & Enterprise Technologies: DCOM, RMI, JINI, J2EE (EJB. JMS) XML-based Technologies: DOM/SAX Parsers, XML, XSLT, SOAP Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Postgres Wireless Technologies: WAP, WML, J2ME Network Technologies: TCP/IP (Winsock/Internet Protocols), VOIP Component Technologies: COM, ATL, CORBA, JavaBeans Languages/Tools: C, C++, C#, MFC, J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, VB.NET, ASP. NET, Perl Object Oriented Design Methodologies/Tools: UML, Rational Rose Version Control/ Tracking Systems: Visual SourceSafe, CVS, ClearCase, TestTrack Pro QA Tools: SilkTest, JUnit, WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, Rational Test Studio
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Why Our Dev Center? 40 minutes south from Moscow Project Management Office in Moscow Highly Professional Staff (All employees hold University degrees in applied mathematics or computer science and have 3 to 20 years of experience). Low Employee Turnover (3-4%) Large Technical Labor Pool Commitment to Quality Reasonable Price (Software development starts at only $22 per hour )
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Why Outsource to SolovatSoft ? Most Engineers have worked in our company for more than 6 years 85% of employees have MS or PhD Degrees Local US Project Management Established Engineering Processes: ISO 9001:2000 Certified Strong Connections to local Universities Scalable IT labor resources picture
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SOLOVATSOFT WORLDWIDE USA Menlo Park,CA(HQ) Newark, NJ Denver Atlanta (planned) Chicago (planned) Russia/CIS Voronezh Moscow Izevsk Tula (planned)
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Corporate Structure System Analysis Department System Development Application Development QA Department Professional Service Technical Support Department Project Management Design Studio System Analysis Department System Development Application Development QA Department Professional Service Technical Support Department Project Management Design Studio
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Professional Staff 85% have Master/PHD Degrees English Required 5.6 years Avg. programming exp 5% Attrition Rate Dedicated QA Team US Based Project Management Office
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Development Methodologies Traditional RUP Agile Development (XP) RAD Microsoft Solutions Framework
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Russian Clients ◊ The Russian Defense; ◊ The Russian Federal Security; ◊ The Russian Internal Affairs; ◊ Radio Equipment Research Institute (air traffic management system development); ◊ Voronezh State University; ◊ Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” (nuclear reactor control systems);
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Project Phases Application Development Methodology Discover Business Modeling DesignDevelop Deploy Requirements Environment Analysis & Design Implement & Test Configuration & Change Deployment
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Clients Sony Lucent Technologies Toshiba American Telephia Siemens
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Offshore Application Development Framework Phase: Activities: Deliverables: Analysis/Requirements Gather requirements Scope the project Describe the old architecture Identify critical issues Project Proposal Requirements Document Project Plan System Architecture Design Documents creation Develop System Design Schema Create detailed project plan Design Document Hardware and system architecture QA Plan Development/Unit testing Modules coding Unit Testing System in overall development Test case development Test Plan Issue Tracking Log Code Walkthrough Review System Test Cases System testing Test cases running Bug Fixing Change request review Update test cases Update Design Document Test Plan Test Cases Test Log sheet Approved Change Requests Updated Design Document Acceptance/Release to Production Verify Acceptance criteria Bug Fixing Change Request review User Training Development of User Manuals Sign Off on Acceptance List of QA bugs User Manuals Installation/Release Notes
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Application Maintenance Process T I M E V A L U E Knowledge Gathering Scope Definition Transition Maintenance Major Enhancement Major Enhancement Quality Management System Documentation & Knowledge Base Management
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Development Methodology ProjectInitialization UserRequirement Documentation Documentation DesignSpecification Changes Support and EnhancementTraining Handover and Acceptance SoftwareDevelopment and Tasting
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EXPERTISE Business Domain Services EAI / Middleware (MQ Series, WebMethods) Application Servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Apache,Tomcat, MS Server Suite) Databases (MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Terradata, embedded databases) SOA (SOAP, XML, WSDL, UDDI) OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) Wireless Development Platforms (J2EE,.NET, Open Source) J2EE,.NET, C/C++ Data Warehousing Enterprise Portals Embedded Development SCM Technology Financial Services Manufacturing (Aviation) Health Organizations Technology Companies
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SERVICES Application Development and Maintenance; Architecture Consulting; Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing; Database Consulting; e-Business; CRM/ERP Integration; Quality Consulting; Enterprise Application Integration; Technology Infrastructure Services; Global Support Teams Web Services.
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