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Slide 1: Your Global IT Outsourcing Partner March 28, 2006 PRESENTATION
Slide 2: Contents Russia Advantages Voronezh Advantages SolovatSoft Advantages Corporate Structure Our Team Clients List Domain Expertise Summary
Slide 3: Why Russia? 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.
Slide 4: Corporate History 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 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 2002 1997 2000 1995 1996 1998 1999 2001 2003 2004 0 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
Slide 5: Corporate History 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.
Slide 6: 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, longterm 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.
Slide 7: R&D Comparsion Comparative Advantage: R&D Researchers Per Million Inhabitants 5000 4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 USA European Union Japan Russian Federation India Other N. America Source: Unesco Institute for Statistics, 2001
Slide 8: Technology Skills MS Win NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD Platforms: 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 Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Postgres Databases: Wireless Technologies: WAP, WML, J2ME Network Technologies: TCP/IP (Winsock/Internet Protocols), VOIP COM, ATL, CORBA, JavaBeans Component Technologies: C, C++, C#, MFC, J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, VB.NET, ASP. NET, Perl Languages/Tools: Object Oriented Design Methodologies/Tools: UML, Rational Rose Visual SourceSafe, CVS, ClearCase, TestTrack Pro Version Control/ Tracking Systems: SilkTest, JUnit, WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, Rational Test Studio QA Tools:
Slide 9: 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 )
Slide 10: 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
Slide 11: SOLOVATSOFT WORLDWIDE USA • • • • • Russia/CIS • • • • Menlo Park,CA(HQ) Newark, NJ Denver Atlanta (planned) Chicago (planned) Voronezh Moscow Izevsk Tula (planned)
Slide 12: Corporate Structure System Analysis Department System Development Application Development QA Department Professional Service Technical Support Department Project Management Design Studio QA Department Design Studio Application Development Project Management System Development Technical Support Department System Analysis Department Professional Service
Slide 13: 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
Slide 14: Development Methodologies Traditional RUP Agile Development (XP) RAD Microsoft Solutions Framework
Slide 15: 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);
Slide 16: Application Development Methodology Project Phases Discover Business Modeling Requirements Environment Analysis & Design Implement & Test Configuration & Change Deployment Design Develop Deploy
Slide 17: Clients      Sony Lucent Technologies Toshiba American Telephia Siemens
Slide 18: Offshore Application Development Framework Phase: Analysis/Requirements • • • •   Activities: Gather requirements Scope the project Describe the old architecture Identify critical issues • • • •   Deliverables: 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • • Test Plan Issue Tracking Log Code Walkthrough Review System Test Cases Test Plan Test Cases Test Log sheet Approved Change Requests Updated Design Document Sign Off on Acceptance List of QA bugs User Manuals Installation/Release Notes Development/Unit testing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Modules coding Unit Testing System in overall development Test case development Test cases running Bug Fixing Change request review Update test cases Update Design Document Verify Acceptance criteria Bug Fixing Change Request review User Training Development of User Manuals System testing Acceptance/Release to Production
Slide 19: Application Maintenance Process VALUE Major Enhancement Maintenance Knowledge Gathering Transition Major Enhancement Scope Definition TIME Quality Management System Documentation & Knowledge Base Management
Slide 20: Development Methodology Project Initialization User Requirement Documentation Design Specification Changes Software Development and Tasting Support and Enhancement Training Handover and Acceptance
Slide 21: EXPERTISE Business Domain Financial Services Manufacturing (Aviation) Technology Companies Health Organizations Services Data Warehousing Wireless Development J2EE, .NET, C/ C++ SCM Enterprise Portals Embedded Development Technology EAI / Middleware (MQ Series, WebMethods) Databases (MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Terradata, embedded databases) (WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Apache,Tomcat, MS Server Suite) Application Servers Platforms (J2EE, .NET, Open Source) OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) SOA (SOAP, XML, WSDL, UDDI)
Slide 22: 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.