Software Outsourcing / Software Development

Although most of customers found that productivity gains of outsourcing were better than expected including workgroup culture, documentation, expansion of skills and of course economics, managing off-shore software development projects was harder than envisioned especially for working habits, difference of process and methodology. The following is a standard software development process VXS Global uses:

Actually many clients usually have mature methodologies for managing a project. Their processes and methodologies sometimes differ from what is adapted in VXS Global. in this case, we will take Software-Capability Mature Model (SW-CMM) model as a common ground to communicate with customers to define and setup the required process. The basic key process areas are as follows:

* Project Process & Methodology Setup
* Project Planning
* Project Monitoring & Control
* Project Risk Management
* Configuration Management
* Quality Assurance

Our Management Tool

Engagement Management
Engagement contains not only the delivery phase of the whole project life cycle, but the activities with client from very beginning. The engagement management is critical to maintain a solid customer relationship, so we extracted the essential engagement activities and integrated into a software tool, which is included in our PSA (Professional Service Automation) system

Project Management
We have plenty of PMI certificated project manager who have a thorough knowledge of the project management theory. They are using Microsoft Project Server as their daily working tool for planning, tracking, time, resource and cost management. Our engineers also work with Project Server to report their task progress and get the recent update.

Knowledge Management
Knowledge is the second most important asset (next to the talent) for the company providing professional service like us. Knowledge management system can solidify the knowledge from everybody’s brain into a well-organized and retrievable document library so that this information can be retained and shared within the whole organization. Our knowledge management tool is integrated as a part of our PSA system.

Resource Management
Resource management is the crucial for us to keep a smooth business model and satisfy client’s need on time. So we use our PSA system to gather the information of the resource distribution and resource utilization periodically as a basis for our ensuing decision.

Configuration Management
Configuration management is the foundation of delivering a successful project and maintaining a valuable asset. We are managing three separate libraries for on-going projects, product asset and project baseline.

Our Skills

Skills would cover:

* Application Development and Maintenance
* Testing Services
* Globalization and Localization Services
* Infrastructure Maintenance

Also we have proven experience in enterprise services:

* Business Intelligence (BI)
* Content Management (CM)
* Enterprise Application Service (CRM, ERP, SCM )
* Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
* Knowledge Management and Online Collaboration (KM)
* e-Business

VXS's development team has both excellent skills and in-depth industry knowledge. Also, we know fully well how to integrate technologies with business practices. Technologies and skill set of our development team are as follows:

Tools

Application Development Technical Design Rational Rose, Visio, PowerDesigner
Data Modeling ERWin, Visio, PowerDesigner
J2EE Eclipse, IBM WSAD, Visual Café, JBuilder, Sun Java Studio, Net Object, Ants
.NET VisualStudio .Net
Others PowerBuilder, Delphi, C++ Builder
Application Servers Webshpere, WebLogic, Sun ONE, Tomcat, JBOSS
Database Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MySQL
Enterprise Service BI Cognos, SAS, TeraData
CM Interwoven, Documentum
ERP SAP, Oracle, MBS
EAI IBM WBI, WebMethod, Web Service, SUN Java Enterprise Systems, .Net Server 2003 Family, SAP XI, CA CleverPath
Testing Service Testing Rational Robot, MI WinRunner, MI LoadRunner, Test Director
Localization Localization Trados, PageMaker, FrameMaker
System Maintenance Maintenance Windows, AIX, AS400, Linux, Sun Solaris, HPUX