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

The Lab is equipped with world-class hardware, software and communication lab and is backed by superb facilities which include 3-tier power backup, 24/7 broadband connectivity, ready pool of multiple Internet and telecommunication service providers, state-of-the-art fire-protection and advanced security system, amenities such as centralized air-conditioning, food court, retail mall, gymnasium, medical clinic and auto-banking. For a quick peek into our resource lab, click here

The Resource Lab provides services catering to the ISV’s growth stage and its product(s).

Offshore Services offered by Cordiant through its Resource Lab for ISVs.

Cordiant Technologies is dedicated to providing a complete range of offshore services for ISVs worldwide by leveraging an India-based offshore infrastructure.

Cordiant’s broad range of services, spanning the entire product lifecycle, include, New Product Development, Product Advancement, Product Testing, Product Implementation, Product Maintenance, Product Documentation and Product Support.

Cordiant offers the following services through its ‘Resource Lab for ISVs’:

• Research and Development – Core services to get ISV’s software product development started. Includes Program Management, Architecture, Design, Development, Testing and QA.
• Technical Services – Additional services to augment ISV’s existing product development effort. Includes Deployment (Customization and Integration), Training, Technical Support, and Maintenance.
• Sales and Marketing Services for ISV’s high growth or legacy products. Includes Product Management, Sales and Marketing support services (Pre-Sales Support, Campaign Management, etc.).
• Offshore Infrastructure Services – Basic services for setting up and operating ISV’s offshore development center or subsidiary. Includes HR, Finance, Facilities, Legal, MIS, and Travel Management.

Cordiant Technologies was boot-strapped by Dennis Paul M in October 1995, in the basement of a house in Cochin (Kochi), India.

Since 1997, Cordiant has been providing India-based offshore development services to an international customer base.

What started off as simple programming services in 1997 by leveraging labor arbitrage through the internet, grew later into a more mature set of offerings to our global customers.

Today, Cordiant Technologies provides Outsourced Product Development and Internet Application Development to Independent Software Vendors ( ISVs), internet businesses and internet-enabled businesses, primarily through the Cordiant Build-Operate-Transfer model.

2009 has been an exciting year for Cordiant.

The Paisley Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution ( Paisley GRC)  continued its leadership position in the  Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2009. Paisley GRC, now part of Thomson Reuters, is a recognized leader in providing more than 1400 organizations, including 30% of the Fortune 500, with comprehensive solutions to streamline GRC processes, reduce costs of compliance, manage and mitigate risks, and provide visibility, oversight and assurance.

Rubikon, the next-generation Universal Banking Software, almost exclusively developed at our Chennai Development Center through a Build-Operate-Transfer engagement with Neptune Software plc of the UK,  made rapid strides in the marketplace. 4 banks have already gone live on the product and another 12 customers have signed up on the product. Rubikon made its maiden entry into the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2009 for International Retail Core Banking. It  also moved into the 6^th position in the IBS Sales League Table 2010, moving from the 18^th position it held in 2009, at the time of its launch.

At Cordiant, we build India A-Teams for our international customers. Since the teams are purpose-built from the ground up through a rigorous talent-acquisition process, we have been able to achieve a very high level of success for our customers.

Cordiant Build-Operate-Transfer offering, on which Rubikon Banking solution has been built, provides our customers with an offshoring alternative that substantially enhances their enterprise value as compared to typical third-party offshoring/ outsourcing.

Cordiant has its India offshore centers in International Tech Park, Chennai and in Indira Nagar, Cochin. It has its US Office in Chicago.

This has been a very special customer engagement for Cordiant where we saw the product grow from vision to  being a world leader in the  fast maturing Governance, Risk and Compliance ( GRC) platforms market.

With the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, many US corporations were faced with new requirements for audit, operational risk and control.  Our customer’s solution then became the leading application used to address the requirements of Sections 404 and 302 in corporate America.

In 2005, our customer released the first-generation GRC solution that combined the functionality of audit and risk management on a single platform. In 2007, our customer again led the market with the releases of the Enterprise GRC solution and GRC on Demand. These comprehensive GRC solutions have six components built on a single data repository – financial controls management, operational risk management, enterprise risk management, internal audit, IT governance and compliance.

Today, our customer is a recognized leader in providing more than 1400 organizations – including 30 percent of the Fortune 500 – with comprehensive solutions to streamline GRC processes, reduce costs of compliance, manage and mitigate risks, and provide visibility, oversight and assurance.

Gartner has positioned our customer’s product in the Leaders Quadrant of its 2009 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms. As a matter of record, our customer has been holding its position in the Leaders Quadrant since 2007.

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Engagement History & Cordiant Execution

With Federal regulations & SOX deadline, our customer was faced with the challenge of rapidly delivering a product tailored to their customers’ unique requirements within extremely tight timeframes. In essence, a ‘tornado’ approach was required to deliver software solutions to a large number of the world’s top enterprises. Our customer needed to find a reliable and competent offshore partner who would deliver them the advantage of speed-to-market combined with world-class quality.

Cordiant facilitated a quick ramp-up of highly skilled resources for Product Development, QA and Offshore Delivery. Cordiant deployed a 70 member offshore team which functioned as a virtual extension of our customer’s  development team in the United States. Separate teams functioned for core product development and for rapid customization for individual customers. Over time, features were included in the core product to minimize the need for individual customization.

Special efforts were in place at Cordiant to ensure that only highly motivated and superior skilled team players were recruited as part of the team. Thus, our customer got an A-TEAM in India, working as a virtual extension of their team in the US.

Cordiant also provided the customer the flexibility to ramp up and ramp down the team size,  based on the then prevailing demand for resources. This way, our customer benefited from a highly flexible workforce through their relationship with Cordiant.

Technologies used

• J2EE – EJB, JSP, Servlets, Struts
•  Software on Demand, SAAS
• Web Services, SOAP
• JUnit, CACTUS
• WSAD 5.x
• WebSphere Application Server, JBoss
• DB2/Oracle
• Windows/ Linux