Infogain’s New Joint Application Development Services Offer Lower Cost, Higher Speed Dual-Shore Software Development

Los Gatos, California, September 8th, 2005 - Infogain, a leader in software development, IT consulting, integration, and customer knowledge solutions, today announced a new joint application development service for global 2000 organizations and independent software vendors (ISVs). Comprehensive details including process reference sheets and white papers can be found at http://www.Infogain.com/consulting/joint-application-development.jsp

Infogain’s new joint application development services enable software development organizations to leverage their most expensive resource: time. Through a set of proven processes, procedures, and project management frameworks, Infogain’s joint application development services define a new, more productive, and lower cost application development model which re-allocates time-consuming low-level tasks offshore, freeing high-value software engineers to focus on gathering user requirements and developing core functionality at a more rapid rate.

Much has been written in the academic community about the conceptual benefits of a true joint application development model where front-line developers meet front-line users face-to-face to jointly design software applications. Studies indicate significant satisfaction and cost-saving benefits for all parties: the organization, the user, and the developer. However, putting this academic idea into practice has proven difficult primarily due to the difficulty of designing and implementing a total systems approach that works in the real world.

“Infogain’s accreditation as an SEI CMM Level 5 certified partner demonstrates that we understand and have mastered the complexities of the total software development process,” said Glenn Gramling, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Infogain. “The essence of our new joint application development service is to apply this total systems knowledge out-of-the-box for our clients- to get them up and running quickly with a proven system they can trust, and implement immediately.”

Infogain's joint application development services help organizations and ISVs quickly set up a dual-shore engineering team to design, develop, and implement appropriate application development tasks cost effectively. Infogain helps clients choose the applications and application projects best suited to this joint application development approach, sets the requirements, and dedicates engineers skilled in client application development technologies. This is a mature, and proven joint application development process including all necessary infrastructure and even a dedicated software development center that is a mirror, or an extension of the in-house team.

As software development organizations 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 outsourced model gives software development organizations access to the right skill-set at the right time without having to maintain expensive specialists on-staff.

“By outsourcing appropriate pieces of application development, application management, sustaining engineering, software testing, release management and ongoing support to a CMM Level 5 certified partner, ISVs and enterprise software development organizations can focus their limited expert programming resources on defining and expanding functionality that better serves the user and the business,” said Rakesh Goel, Infogain’s vice president of Software Vertical.

Infogain Dual-Shore Software Development- A Suite of Services

Infogain’s joint application development service 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 software application development team's collective experience, Infogain has developed a set of software development solutions that result in better quality products, shorter time to market, higher customer satisfaction, and lower cost. The Software Development Suite provides a low-cost yet highly effective strategy, which is proven with the Global 2000 and ISVs. Infogain’s Software Development Services Suite includes:

• 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 joint application development services please visit http://www.infogain.com/consulting/joint-application-development.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 Dual-Shore Software Development, CRM, ERP, integration, and business intelligence services to the Global 2000 and ISVs, 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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