Infogain’s New Enterprise Software Release Management Services Streamline Software Development For Global 2000

Los Gatos, California, August 18, 2005 - Infogain, a leader in IT consulting, software development, integration, and customer knowledge solutions today announced a new enterprise software release management service for global 2000 organizations. Comprehensive details including process reference sheets and white papers can be found at http://www.Infogain.com/consulting/enterprise-software-release-management.jsp

Infogain’s new enterprise software release management services enable large enterprises with hundreds or even thousands of internally developed software applications to improve their development process, make it more reliable and scalable, and automate the build, test, and release processes to reduce costs dramatically.

“The essence of our new enterprise software release management service is to outsource non-core application development activities to a lower-cost offshore center with highly automated and rigorous quality procedures,”
said Glenn Gramling, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing at Infogain. “By outsourcing the application development, management, maintenance, testing, and release management functions, large enterprises can focus their limited expert programming resources on defining and expanding functionality that better serves the user and the business, rather than wasting these expensive expert resources on what is essentially a low-level, exacting, and time-consuming process”.

As Global 2000 companies move legacy application access to the desktop and the internet, create and expand new applications on top of enterprise platforms like Oracle, SAP, BEA, and Tibco, and develop custom or web-centric composite applications, the skills inventory necessary to update and maintain those applications is daunting and cost prohibitive. Infogain’s dual-shore outsource model gives Global 2000 companies access to the right skill-set at the right time without having to maintain expensive specialists on-staff.

Infogain’s enterprise software release management services help large organizations maintain multiple enterprise software releases with ease, completely automate the enterprise software build process, and start regular builds early and often to reduce the number of build failures. This results in increased software developer efficiency due to continuous availability of cleaner and higher-quality integrated code-lines, increased quality of software releases due to effective merging of fixes into different code branches, increased productivity and software release build quality due to automation, and cost reduction of up to 50% with Infogain’s dual-shore model (four out of five software development engineers are based in India).

Enterprise Software Release Management- A Suite of Services

Infogain Enterprise Software Release Management is part of a suite of services for both in-house software organizations at large companies who develop unique applications for enterprise use, and commercial software organizations. Infogain has delivered software product development, testing, release management, and maintenance services to clients in Banking, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, etc. as well as software development organizations like BroadVision, Amdocs (previously Clarify), PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, and Informix. Based on the Enterprise Software Release Management team's collective experience, Infogain has developed a set of software engineering solutions that result in better quality products, shorter time to market, higher customer satisfaction, and lower cost. The Enterprise Software Release Management Suite provides a low-cost yet highly effective strategy, which is proven with the Global 2000. Infogain’s Enterprise Software Release Management Services include:

• Development and Design: Infogain’s development and design services set up a dual-shore engineering team to complete selected development tasks – cost-effectively. Infogain helps you choose the projects best suited to this approach, sets the requirements, and then dedicates engineers skilled in your technologies. Based on over 10-year’s experience with the Global 2000, Infogain already has the necessary infrastructure and mature processes in place.
• Release Management: Infogain's enterprise software release management team is highly skilled at source tree management and build process automation; they also perform builds more often to reduce the number of enterprise software build failures. Every engineer has at least five years of experience, so you get time-tested expertise to help you improve processes and conserve resources.
• Quality Assurance (QA): Infogain offers “ Continuous Regression ” solutions which reduces testing time by enabling testing in parallel to development and enhances test coverage by using a continuously maintained test suite.
• Sustaining Engineering: Infogain offers “ Just in time Patch ” and “ Scheduled Maintenance Releases ” solutions. These solutions increase customer satisfaction by reducing the cycle time to provide fixes top product defects.
• Technical Support: Infogain offers “ Knowledge Driven Technical Support ” solution. It helps customers to find immediate solutions to their problems and enabling them to receive help anytime and anywhere using the communication channel of their choice.

To learn more about Infogain’s Enterprise Software Release Management Services please visit http://www.infogain.com/consulting/enterprise-software-release-management.jsp

About Infogain

Infogain, The Customer Knowledge Company, develops and delivers Customer Asset Strategies to increase tactical and strategic decision-making capabilities across the enterprise. As a leading provider of CRM, ERP, integration, and business intelligence services to the Global 2000, Infogain turns customer data into strategic knowledge that positively affects the entire enterprise. Established in 1990 with international offices, Infogain has a long-standing commitment to global delivery and is uniquely qualified to deliver end-to-end solutions through valuable strategy consulting services, application management offerings, and highly skilled engineering execution. Strategic and technology partners include Actional, Amdocs/Clarify, BEA, BroadVision, Cisco, Cognos, IBM, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Netezza, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, and TIBCO.

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