The success of our delivery is based upon the strong formulation of development partnerships with our clients and supporting resources. We have expertise in constructing and managing multiple-location international project teams with members consisting of client personnel from multiple locations, various vendor resources, client specified independent contractors, OutSourcingIT US resources, OutSourcingIT Australia resources and OutSourcingIT India resources. It is our ability to effectively communicate with our distributed team, and develop a synergistic capability across multiple companies that sets us apart from our competitors.

We also utilize our Core Product Development Process as a foundation for developing a customized development process to effectively and efficiently manage our projects. We have learned that failing to customize a development process often results in the execution of unnecessary or repeated activities, or sometimes results in activities being overlooked. We have the experience and deep knowledge of software development practices and leading methodologies that allow us to develop an efficient and thorough tailored development process for each of our clients.

Our Core Product Development Process begins from the business perspective and results in the rapid delivery of the desired solution.

The Core Process consists of seven high-level steps illustrated below:

1. "Product Definition and Planning" -

We begin our projects by ensuring a thorough understanding of our clients business driven needs from which we work closely with our clients to develop a comprehensive product development plan. The plan includes specific actions that will take place during the entire initial development process. Additionally, the plan may include a longer-term product development roadmap that identifies how the application and supporting infrastructure will evolve over time.

2. "Product Specification and Prototyping" -

Working closely with our client, we then identify the specifications surrounding the technical solution that needs to be built. We constantly remind ourselves of the business drivers and work with our clients to develop product specifications that will meet the business need at hand. During this phase a prototype may be developed which is often used by our clients as an effective mechanism for acquiring additional funding or for acting as a strong communication vehicle for explaining the solution and its benefits to key stakeholders or employees in a company's organization.

3. "Product Design" -

During this phase the project team works diligently to develop a complete set of blueprints for later building the product. These blueprints are developed to accommodate the near and long-term needs of the product. Blueprints are also developed for any required business changes that may be needed as a result of the product. These may include such things as organizational changes, business policy changes, or business process changes.

4. "Product Development" -

The Product Development phase is where the software is actually constructed. Included in this phase are software development, systems integration, hardware purchase, data conversion and population. This phase also addresses business aspects of the project such as development of detailed business processes and effective organization change management. We coordinate closely with our clients who usually assume these dependent business-driven aspects.

5. "Product Testing" -

The Product Testing phase includes rigorous testing of the product, including extensive unit, integration, system, performance, and load testing as appropriate for the application. A variety of testing frameworks and tools are used to support this extensive testing period.

6. "Product Deployment" -

After the product has been thoroughly tested and validated and received client approval, the product is then released for customer use. We work closely with our clients to properly deploy the product.

7. "Product Maintenance and Support" -

For some time after deployment we work with our clients to address unforeseen problems that may arise with the solution once in the production environment. We also help transition the product support and maintenance responsibility to our client's on-going software maintenance team.