Outsourced Development

Drawing on our expertise in application development, project management, and integration, we work with our clients to design and develop robust technology solutions - especially in the areas of sales automation, customer service, healthcare, financial, insurance, and data warehousing. By assisting clients in exploiting new technology and integrating it with existing software assets, we help them streamline their processes, leverage critical data, and capitalize on market opportunities. Given the current global economic climate, many companies are looking for ways to cut costs in their software development needs. CSOFT has excellent engineering resources in virtually all business areas throughout our development centers in China. CSOFT offers superior services in customized application development for a variety of industries.

• Substantial reduction of total project costs
• Flexibility of resource hiring for large projects
• Reduction of project development and implementation time
• Access to a large resource pool of highly skilled and experienced IT professionals
• Industry quality standards like CMM2
• Increased access to international markets
• Shortened time-to-market for global deployment (through CSOFT 's localization)

Although outsourcing brings many tangible benefits to an organization, it also can create challenges. Project management may require much more effort and may present risk if the vendor is located offshore. Despite the many benefits of outsourced development, effective project management is a key reason why many companies hesitate to outsource or to go offshore.

These concerns may include:

• Lack of clarity during development caused by poor communication between your organization and the outsourced or offshore vendor
• Fear of language difficulty if the the offshore team does not speak your organizations corporate language.
• Insufficient level of control over outsourced or offshore development team
• Poor quality and a lack of domestically accepted quality tests. Fear of supplying products with defects.
• Poor IT management and/or insufficient technical knowledge at the outsourced or offshore vendor's location.

At CSOFT, we understand these concerns. This is why we follow not just industry standards for QualityAssurance like CMM2 (and ISO9000) but also our own set of checklists and reviews that we have carefully created after years of experience in the industry. The Capability Maturity Model Level 2, or CMM2, allows CSOFT to refine our software development processes to adhere to the industry accepted principals of the Unified Process. This unified process allows CSOFT to conduct project tracking, oversight, verify progress and QA throughout the project development. For more informaiton on our methodology and our belief in Capability Maturity Model Level 2 (CMM2) please click here.

A typical software development project at CSOFT adheres to the following process:

• Start with a small pilot (test) project in order to provide a potential client with evidence of our qualification and technical experience
• Assign a project manager to lead a client specific team of engineers allowing the establishment of a formal communication channel with client
• Initial project requirement assessment and resource planning
• Project plan, scheduling, and general management
• Progress tracking and oversight
• Quality assurance regulation check
• Customer review and configuration

For more information about CSOFT Customized Application Development, please click here.