IT
What is Offshore Outsourcing?
It is simply development of IT solutions at another location. The offshore location is connected with the client's location using high-speed data communication links to allow engineers and managers to communicate continuously. Clients on the other side of the globe can monitor developments and project milestones on an up-to-the-minute basis, ensuring both quality and progress.
Offshore Outsourcing has proved to be a differentiating factor for companies, offering cost, time and quality advantages. Today, it is common practice to look to distant shores for:
- Expertise in latest technology
- Rapid deployment
- Lowered Costs
- Easy availability of knowledgeable manpower
It is a high-gain - high-risk proposition, powerful and perilous. The elusive key to a successful offshore venture resides in a twelve-letter word - relationship. It is as much about technical skills and quality as it is about a relationship based on compatibility, trust and mutual respect. We at Bravens are committed to make relationships stronger and successful.
IT projects are inherently complex, risky and require careful planning. Planning software development projects includes stages like estimates, staged development, requirements capture, and risk and change management control procedures, business case studies, user interface prototypes and overall project control.
Proper planning ensures that the project doesn't move away from its targeted goals while the customer gets a clear definition of the project and is in the know of the project status and has ready access to project deliverables at any point of time.
How we implement the entire process?
To ensure the timely and quality delivery for 100% client satisfaction we implement the following:
Prototypes & Staged Deliveries
- Projects that define deliverables in terms of prototype, phases or stages identify risks and constraints early on and are able to plan and implement counter measures with greater success.
- Customers who receive small releases regularly during the project gain trust more easily than those who are in the 'dark' and are awaiting the end of the project for a whole set of deliverables that may be delivered in whatsoever form.
- The functionality is developed and delivered in stages thus ensuring that the most important function is delivered at the earliest.
- Reduces the possibility of estimation errors
- Project visibility to customers and upper management increases
Weekly Status Reports
After the end of every week, we send a Status Report to our clients telling them about:
- The activities originally planned for the last week
- The activities actually performed in the last week
- The activities planned for the coming week
- Issues, if any
- Changes to Stage Schedule, and reasons for the same
- Overall Project Status
Comprehensive Bug Management
Bugs are part of every product development process. How do you track the bugs you find during product development and after? Bugs that are found but not properly tracked might slip away. Bravens uses the leading bug and defect-tracking tools for bug management, which leads to:
- Streamlined software development and maintenance
- Clear, updated information about the status of each bug or defect
- Full control over the work flow
- History of work done on each bug, defect or enhancement being always a click away
- A fully integrated solution that enables users to input and track new bugs, defects, and problems in general
Knowledge Management System
Bravens understands the power of Knowledge Management, and has in place a KMS in all the technical departments to ensure that we solve a problem just once. This drastically reduces the time of solving some of the most common, but difficult problems.
Quality Assurance
We address the quality assurance needs at every phase of the development cycle. Our QA team has developed a focused quality control checklist which ensures that every solution delivered by us measures up to the highest possible standards.
Strong Support & Maintenance
Our company is well equipped with teleconferencing equipments, a relevant technical knowledge base, and detailed information for every project on support. Our support staff responds instantaneously to any technical problems.
Bravens has all the essential ingredients of a successful software out-sourcing partner.
Near to the ground cost
Our company tries to help its clients reduce the overall IT project (solution) costs. Doing that we also take care not only of cutting custom software development expenditures, but also the ones associated with technical support and maintenance.
Skills
Our team has several years of expertise developing customized, fully integrated systems in a variety of Industrial standards. We've had experience with a variety of solutions using up-to-the-minute technologies available.
Development Infrastructure
We have a sound software development infrastructure for Offshore Software Development and has the facilities of a good working environment
Communication
Client interaction is of utmost importance for the success of an Offshore software development project. Information transfer from the Client to Offshore team (and vice-versa) is done using e-mail, chat, FTP and conference calls. In addition, clients are also sent weekly status reports of their projects keeping them abreast of all the latest developments.
Technical Expertise
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Architectures:
Microsoft. NET, J2EE, J2ME, WAP -
Application Servers / Middleware:
BEA Web logic, Microsoft Transaction Server and Message Queuing, IBM Web Sphere, JRun, JBoss, Tomcat, Zope -
Web Servers:
Microsoft IIS, Netscape Enterprise, Apache server -
Server Languages:
Active Server Pages (ASP), Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), CGI/Perl, and PHP -
Programming Languages:
C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, And Visual C++ -
Markup Languages:
HTML/DHTML, XML/XSL, WML -
Scripting Languages:
JavaScript, VB Script -
Distributed Object Technologies:
COM/DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) -
Communications:
SOAP, JMS, Java Mail, RMI, and SSL -
Databases:
Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL -
Front end Design Tools:
Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop, GIF Animator, 3D MAX, Adobe Premier, Macromedia Dream weaver
Bravens is a very dependable, reliable and significant partner in growth. I am happy to recognize Bravens’s incredible and fast-paced success rates, having clinched our Merit Award for being a significant and successful vendor. Bravens has a rich repertoire of talent pool which comprises resources of diverse skill sets, spanning different industries and projects.
I have been working with Bravens for a little over a year now. Bravens was contracted to design and code an Inventory/Project system for one of my warehouses. This project was done offshore and for a very reasonable cost. At first, I was worried about offshore work as well as project control issues.
Bravens performed very well. Bravens's offshore philosophy is somewhat different from most I have previewed. They maintained good project control with shared communications and avoided delays in response by staffing appropriately. Additionally, Bravens carries various areas of expertise, which they can pull from when needed.




