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

Offshore Product Development is all about collaboration and communication. From our offshore engagements, we have learnt that distributed collaborative development needs a different approach to conventional development methodologies. Conventional methodologies succumb to offshore challenges such as speed-to-market, changing priorities, insufficient documentation and late feature additions.

Implementing “Agile” principles allowed us to streamline our offshore development process. Infact, we had inadvertently adopted Agile practices while working with a market leading product in the GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) way back in 2004. The experience we gained from this engagement allowed us to re-define the way we look at offshore development. Most of our engagements since then have used Agile Techniques to drive customer participation, collaboration and transparency.

By implementing Agile Principles, our development team creates an abundance of resources and inputs to head-start on a set of high level tasks assigned to them directly or implicitly by the client. Though the daily routine, task assignment mechanism and collaborative tools may vary from client-to-client (Software Product Companies), underlying Agile Practices are embedded in every Cordianteer.

Here are a few Agile Practices we adopt in our offshore engagements. This includes Offshore Product Development for Enterprise Application such as Neptune’s Rubikon (Core Banking Product) or a Consumer Internet Application like www.cmdn.com.

• Customer centric development – Handover Meetings and daily progress updates
• Early and continuous delivery of software components which derives business value – frequent Builds and Releases
• Collaboration among customer, business analysts and developers – self-organizing teams, common repository for Work assignment Jiras, SVN, Email and Chat Groups
• Using working software as a measure of success – Prototypes, POC, Components
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design – Team Wikis
• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances – Priority updates to teams, Escalations to Relationship Management

Agile Practices helps us to understand and help our customers and this in turn helps them serve their customers better. It is our customers business helps us going and we understand the importance of that.

Here are our customer’s successes:

• Marketing Leading GRC product has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leader’s Quadrant of the Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms Magic Quadrant.
• Neptune’s Rubikon (new generation core banking software) goes live in 4 banks in Europe and Africa. http://www.neptunesoftwareplc.com/pressrelease.html
• Cricket portal www.cmdn.com is one among the five most popular cricket sites around the web. One of first sites of this genre integrated with Facebook Stream API to facilitate Social Networking and Virtual Money Loyalty Points System. Intuitive CMDN ScoreCaster re-defines the way cricket scoring can be done for its simplicity.