UNITED STATES OUTSOURCING COMPANY

DESCRIPTION
Focal3, a US based company with state-of-the-art development center in India provides cost-effective world-class technology services in to clients worldwide in the following areas:

Software Solutions

Managed Services

The company works towards assisting customers in achieving and surpassing their business objectives. The mission of Focal3 is to provide top-class IT services with an emphasis on three core considerations.

1. Financial Advantage

2. Functional Efficency

3. Flexible Operation

These points of focus enable Focal3 to address the prime concerns of cost, quality and flexibility.

COST: Focal3 has designed its cost structure to provide maximum value for customers and thereby provide financial advantage.

QUALITY: Focal3 is committed to utilizing proven processes and methods to assure maximum functional efficiency.

FLEXIBILITY: Focal3 operates under the concept of business cells, and employs agile processes, which harness change for the customer's competitive advantage, which in turn implies flexible operation.

In order to maintain a position at the cutting edge of the IT sphere, Focal3 strives to continuously learn and regularly upgrade its skills and competencies. The company has devised a well-planned methodology for technology change management to keep every worker technically agile.

Focal3’s quality and service standards ensure that its solutions and services meet and exceed the customer’s expectations.

As Focal3’s foundation is based on excellent technical skills, the most modern management thought and wide exposure in the global IT scenario, we are capable of delivering utmost value to each client.

SKILLS
Building seamless e-business systems requires the leveraging of existing data and systems in a powerful way. Focal3’s solutions use proven technologies to integrate existing IT resources with new e-business solutions. Focal3 provides a variety of solutions to ensure that the integration is both smooth and speedy.

Languages:
ASP, .NET, Visual C++.NET, Visual C#, and Visual Basic .NET

Client Software:
Windows XP, Windows CE, and MS Office XP

Develpoment Tools:
MS Visual Studio .NET

Application Servers:
MS Windows 2000, MS SQL Server, and BizTalk Server

XML:
XML Schema, SOX, XSD, XHTML, XPATH, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SAX, DOM, JDOM, Xerces, Xalan, SAXON

Methodologies:
UML, Design Pattern, OOAD/OOP, XProgramming

Data Integration - Our Microsoft & Java technology expertise provides us tools to extract, transform and manipulate data for clients.

Component Integration - Includes integration at the business logic, transaction management and application services layers using component architecture of COM+/DCOM and SOAP/XML framework or the equivalent in the J2EE framework.

Application Integration - Includes building web services adapters on appropriate middleware. Content routing & event-based transactions and transformations are primary enablers in such integration.

Process Integration - Involves the process and workflow modeling approach to integration in combination with BEA and IBM technologies.

TERMS
We work both on hourly rate basis and fixed price mode as well.

We use the iterative and modified waterfall model for software development and do use Agile methods such as pair programming, xtreme programming and scrum according to situation.

Our quality process adheres to SEI CMM standards. For version control we use Visual Source Safe (VSS).

We communicate with customers either through Skype or instant messenger. We provide weekly updates of the project based on the milestones agreed upon.

We prefer on fixed price model for pilot project software development since this will benefit the customer against cost overruns.

Our process is as follows:

We provide a Requirement Understanding Document (RUD) after which we do a gap analysis and then freeze the System Requirement Specification (SRS) after customer approval. Based on this the design, development, coding, testing and delivery.

We would be glad if you could give us an opporunity to present our proposal based on your software requirement specification or design document.

LOCATION United States - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania EMPLOYEES 20-49 YEARS IN BUSINESS 11+ years CONTACT INFORMATION Register or Login to view the outsourcing service provider contact information.