The company has already acquired 7.5 acres of land for this purpose.

Integral to the Cordiant IT Research Park would be Cordiant Innovation Center (Incubation Space) for young entrepreneurs and also Turn-key lab space for industry peers.

Cordiant IT Research Park would also work closely with select educational institutions in the region to improve the overall industry-relevance of their study programmes.

The development of the Park would take place in phases, first of which is expected to be completed in 2012. Work on the project is expected to start after all the regulatory approvals have been obtained.

An integral part of the Cordiant IT Research Park would be industry-specific Finishing Schools set up in partnership with other companies and industry associations.

“In spite of an early start, the state of Kerala has lagged behind its southern neighbours in Information Technology investments. However, there are several factors which make the state a far better investment location for IT than at any other time in its history. We are committed to making a humble contribution towards making it all happen here”, said Dennis Paul, Founder, President and CEO of Cordiant Technologies.

“Our current thinking is to promote this Park as a non-profit. It is most likely that we will go that route”, he added.

Cordiant offers Adobe Flex and Air development services for applications which demand a rich user interface. We have a dedicated team of programmers with experience in Flex development for Consumer Internet Applications as well as for Enterprise Products. Our experience in Offshore Development Services and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) enables us to make productive use of Flex and AIR capabilities in building enhanced user experiences in both Web and Desktop applications.

Flex-based Programming and Development Services
Our services in custom software development using Flex include:

• Analysis, Consulting and specification development
• Flex / Flash Programming
• Server-side programming using PHP, Java or Microsoft .NET
• Client-side programming
• Remote Data Interchange using AMF
• Flash designing

Flex-based Programming and Development Services

• Rich user experience. No reloading and refreshing
• Increased developer productivity due to powerful coding tools and extensive visual component library.
• Solution scalability and reliability due to a powerful and elegant Flex programming model. Flex-based solutions are easily re-designed or enhanced whenever it is necessary.
• Easy integration into a server application due to a high-performance data synchronization engine between the client and server sides.
• Open source, standard-based framework. It can be integrated in the front end for CMS like joomla, drupal etc.
• In-context interactivity due to video, audio, streaming, and messaging components.

To know more about our Flex Development Services, contact mktg@cordiant.com

Cordiant Technologies, a leading India-based outsourced product development company, offers its second development unit, “Resource Lab for ISVs”, to exclusively service the large community of Independent Software Vendors worldwide.

(PRWEB) June 11, 2007 — Cordiant Technologies, a leading India-based outsourced product development company, offers its second development unit, “Resource Lab for ISVs”, to exclusively service the large community of Independent Software Vendors worldwide.

Located at the International Tech Park, which is along Chennai’s IT Corridor, Cordiant’s “Resource Lab for ISVs” is dedicated to providing a complete range of offshore services to ISVs.

The Lab is equipped with world-class hardware, software and communication infrastructure and is supported by facilities which include 3-tier power backup, ready pool of multiple Internet and telecommunication service providers and state-of-the-art security system.

“Over the past 4 years, Cordiant has been successfully providing high-quality offshore services to ISVs who own enterprise software products. Through our Resource Lab for ISVs, we cater to ISV offshore engagements that require dedicated India development teams, including on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model,” said Mr. Dennis Paul, President & CEO.

To know more about the services that Cordiant offers through its ‘Resource Lab for ISVs’, visit http://www.cordiant.com/ResourceLabforISVs.htm

About Cordiant Technologies

Founded in 1995, Cordiant Technologies builds globally aligned India teams for Independent Software Vendors worldwide. Cordiant has outsourced product development centers in Chennai and Kochi, Southern India; and a US subsidiary in Princeton, NJ.

For more information, call 609-375-2354 (US), +91-44-4266-6015 (India),
email: mktg@cordiant.com or visit http://www.cordiant.com

CONTACT: Manoj Gopalakrishnan of Cordiant Technologies, +91-994-019-6015 (India), manoj.g@cordiant.com

WEBSITE: www.cordiant.com

Independent Software Vendors from a wide range of domains like Corporate Compliance, Banking, Exploration and Production industry have found value in collaborating with Cordiant. The availability of best-in-class infrastructure and telecommunication facilities, Cordiant’s unrelenting focus on Intellectual Property protection have enabled ISVs to immediately take advantage of the benefits of offshoring. In addition to natural benefits of offshoring, these ISVs have leveraged on Cordiant’s expertise in product management and latest technologies.

Extended Product Development Services

Engagement	Domain	Technologies Used	PDF
Core product development and customization for a market leading SOX vendor serving Fortune 500 customers	Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC)	J2EE – EJB, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Web Services, SOAP, JUnit, CACTUS, WSAD 5.x, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, DB2/Oracle, Windows/ Linux
Building an offshore team for a UK based ISV offering a suite of world-class banking products	Banking & Securities	J2EE – EJB, MDBs, JSP, Servlets and Tag libraries, XML, XSLT, Web Services, SOAP, DB2/ Oracle, WSAD 5.x, WebSphere Application Server, UML & OOAD, Windows/Linux
Product Engineering services for a UK based ISV offering a suite of products for Navigation & Planning	Oil and Gas Exploration	C, Perl, Java 1.5 Tiger, JSP, Servlets , JAXB, Jetty server, Berkeley DB, SlickEdit ,Ajax, Gunplot, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Product upgradation services for a US based ISV focused on FDA compliance solution for the Life Sciences Industry	FDA Compliance	Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1, Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft SharePoint Portal server, C#, ASP.NET,Visual SourceSafe, Sub Version, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Internet Information Server 6.0, Windows 2003, MS Virtual Server 2003, Target Process
Product Co-Development with a Brokerage House in the United Kingdom	Financial Services	Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 , C#, VB.NET, Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Reporting Server, Internet Information Server 6.0, Windows 2003, WebEx, MSN LiveMeeting, PC Anywhere, GoToMyPC
US Based ISV working for a State Agency	Inventory Management	Microsoft .Net, JavaScript, MS SQL Server 2000, Internet Information Server 5.0, SQL Reporting Server

Other Technology Services

Engagement	Domain	Technologies Used	PDF
Ski Holiday Reservation and e-Marketing System	Travel and Leisure	Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1, C#, VB.NET, Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Reporting Server, Internet Information Server 6.0, Windows 2003, WebEx, MSN LiveMeeting, PC Anywhere, GoToMyPC
CURL - Rich client technology for a Business Accountability Solution	BPM	Surge CURL, Rich Internet Application, J2EE
Content Management Portal for TMA using MDA RAD	Content Management	MDA RAD, IBM Rational RRD, J2EE, MYSQL, Apache Tomcat, Lucene Search, Linux
Co-sourcing Engagement with a US based CRM Product Vendor	CRM	Lotus Domino 6.5, R6 WebDAV features with tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, DXL, XML and XSL, JavaScript, HTML , DHTML, CSS and CSS with XSL, Java, LotusScript and Formula Language, SpeedWork, IBM Lotus Sametime, WebEx
Lotus to J2EE Migration for an Independent Claims Service Provider	Insurance	JDK 1.3, Lotus Notes/Domino Java API, Java Servlet Development Kit 2.0, Eclipse IDE 3.0.1, VSS Plug in version 1.6 for Eclipse 3.0, Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0
Software Testing for an Operational Risk Management Solution	Risk Management	JMeter, Mercury QuickTest Professional, Oracle/ DB2, WebSphere/ Weblogic/ JBoss, Windows/ Linux

We build products for our customers. It matters a lot how well we understand their Product Vision. It matters how quickly and effectively we can build the features required to take that Vision to the marketplace. It also matters how we can follow up on the initial successes and failures and continue to improve our customers’ offerings so that they are ahead of their competition.

Fixed Price Contracts rather than traditional Staff Augmentation rule most of our recent offshore development engagements. The pricing is agreed on the basis of very high-level requirements, sometimes, even based simply on the Product Vision. This helps us a long way towards delivering good working software quickly without going back and forth with the customer on requirements creep. We never discuss the commercial impact of requirements creep with our customers. We believe that requirements creep is an inherent, positive aspect of good software design and development. In fact, we will be genuinely concerned if there is very little requirements creep in a particular project.

The products we build, require our developers and testers to work closely with our customers. With the short iterations and frequent demonstrations we have in our development, there is continual interaction with the product owner. This keeps our teams engaged and also brings the best out of them.

It is interesting to note that User Stories take different levels of detail, even when they originate from the same individual or group. Our teams love this challenge, of translating these stories into technically executable working software.

The Agile that we practice, provides a lot of visibility to every single team-member. Great people are identified, irrespective of their age and experience. Poor performers are exposed early on, and the team gets stronger and better.

In terms of Agile Project Management software, we manage through a simple though popular solution rather than the more complex and ‘powerful’ offerings in the marketplace.

Recently, we have progressed into writing Automated Customer Acceptance Test Cases for each of the user stories,  in parallel with development. Automation is implemented using Selenium and follows the same number of iterations that the development cycle takes.