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• DSRC transforms its vast experience, technology expertise and proven offshore delivery experience into increased revenue and bottom-line profitability for our clients.
• Primary business lines include IT Application Services, e-Learning Products, Training & Education & IT Enabled Services.
• Right People – Right Process – Right Results!
• 400+ employees & US$7 million in global revenues.
• ISO 9001:2008 Quality Accreditation; ISO 27001 Security (Internal Audit Underway).
• Privately held – 40 years industry experience with strong reputation!
• Global Locations – Chennai, India :: Santa Clara, CA , United States:: London, United Kingdom
Who we are?DSRC at a glance…
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"DSRC has always provided prompt and reliable results. We have had several years of success using DSRC's offshore development and testing services in the entire SDLC".
Top Qualities: Personable, Good Value, High Integrity.
Gabriel McDermott
CTO
Sysnet Global Solutions
Integrity, Prompt & Reliable
“DSRC has been very professional, talented and service-oriented. DSRC's teams have been very supportive and have helped us with our speed-to-market initiatives.“
Top Qualities: Professional, High-integrity, Good Value
Mike WellsOperations DirectorCloud Amber
Entrepreneurial & Customer-centric
“We are indeed pleased that we chose DSRC, who were knowledgeable, responsive with strong communication skills and neutral accents. The project delivery was professional, on time and at a reasonable price.”
Top Qualities: Responsive, Knowledgeable, Commitment
Vinod MuthannaCEOBDS Vircon
Responsive & Competitive
Why DSRC? As recognized by our Customers!Commendable testimonials recognizing the value and strength we bring to the partnership…!
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Domain: Legal Practice Mgmt.
Work Profile: Offshore Project Delivery – Application Maintenance – SaaS Development – Mobility Solutions
Stephen KeoghCEODublin, Ireland
Keyhouse Computing
Domain: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Work Profile: Offshore Application Maintenance & Support, Testing
Richard McGlaveManaging DirectorGlasgow, United Kingdom
Continuity2 Limited
Domain: Healthcare & Homecare
Work Profile: Offshore Development, Maintenance & Testing
Demo SolaruPrincipal PartnerCleveland, Ohio, United States
Mid-America Consulting Group
Recent CustomersDemonstrable Experience & Referenceable
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Target Markets & Sample Customer ShowcaseWho we work for?
SME & Mid-market
Software Services Companies
Global Tier-1
IT System Integrators
End Users
Captive India IT Back-offices of Global Majors
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Rapid development cycles, complete transparency and control on remote development.
Measurable improvement in Productivity and assured Service Levels with immediate Savings on Cost, Time and Resources.
Remarkable Speed-to-Market benefits - delivering on-time and within budget.
We have proven to improve Application Performance & Availability and reduced overall defect density.
Strong resourcing and ramp-up capability to quickly and cost effectively respond to project demands and peak-time requirements.
Flexibility & Adaptability to Client Business Requirements.
Effective Project Status Reporting providing control and monitoring by Client.
AdvantagesExpertise
Application Development Services…expertise across major platforms, industry verticals and application domains
• Rapid Application Design, Architecture and Prototyping
• Enterprise Application Development
− Design & Architecture
− Development, Testing & Deployment
− Expertise developing applications for Windows Desktop, Retail/POS Terminals, Mobile Workforce, Multi-touch Kiosks, Engineering/Process Controls, Mainframe Systems
• Enterprise Mobility Solutions
− Hybrid Apps
− Native Apps
− Mobile Web Apps
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Experienced Product Architecting, Engineering and R&D specialization capabilities
Accelerated Product Development
Improved Service Levels
Reduced Development Cost
Iterative/Incremental Product Development Cycles
Meticulous Development Time and Budget Management
AdvantagesExpertise
Outsourced Product Development Services…services aimed at ISVs specializing across a wide variety of business application domains
• Product Engineering - Design & Prototyping, Architecture,
• Product Development Lifecycle Services - BRD to Development, Testing & Test Automation, Deployment, End-to-end Support
• Product Performance Engineering
• Re-engineering & Product Localization & Internationalization
• Product Migration & Porting
• Product License Management, Packaging and Release Management
• Product Mobile Enablement
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• Offshore Application Transition Impact Analysis & Maintainability Analysis
• Accelerated Application Maintenance & Enhancement –
− New Functionalities & Change Requests
− Improvements, Enhancements & Customizations
− Bug & Issue Management
• Application Re-design, Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS Development
• Application Re-engineering &
• Re-architecture
• Web Application Performance Improvement
• DB Performance Optimization
Application Maintenance Services
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Application Operations
•24x7 Application Monitoring & Reporting
•Incident Management, Issue Tracking & Escalation Management and Closure
Production Support
•Analysis of Incident & Incident Resolution
•Problem Management - Trend & Root Cause analysis
•Creation of CRQs and break-fixes (excluding code changes)
Deployment, Release and Change Support
•Management of Application Test Environments
•Release/change activities such as release coordination, emergency releases, build and code deployment, managing release calendar
•Configuration Management
Objectives
Reduce cost and minimize risk
Increase agility and drive innovation
Improve quality
Improve governance and transparency
Application Management ServicesAre you looking for a scalable and cost-effective Application Management & Support capability?
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• Test Consulting such as –
− Test Coverage Analysis
− System Performance Check and Maintenance
− Process Governance
− Environmental Analysis
• Application Testing Services such as System Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing
• Testing Virtualization for various OS platforms, deployment environments (Web/Cloud, Mobile/Tablets), Cross-browser compatibility
• Independent Software Validation and User Acceptance Testing
• Specialized Test Management Services such as Locale Testing, Web Services Testing, Compatibility Testing, Security Testing, Accessibility Testing
• Test Automation covering end-to-end test scenario identification, test cases, script creation, execution of scripts
Application Testing ServicesTesting, Test Automation, Quality Assurance & Validation
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Service Engagement Model & Pricing Options
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Onsite Dual Shore
Managed Offshore Delivery
Fixed Price Projects
Dedicated ODC Build-Operate-Transfer
Captive Partnering
Service Delivery & Engagement ModelsScalable, Flexible & Adaptable Service Engagement Options
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Advantages
Dedicated resource management contact provide collaborative support.
Direct Sourcing Team; we do not use agencies to source or staff.
Multi-sourcing capability to ensure the continual availability of qualified and efficient resources.
Onsite DeliveryViable Sourcing Alternative – Faster Turnaround Time – Cost Effective
• Aimed to supplement your contract staffing & variable resourcing requirements and skill-shortages.
• Contract on Time & Material.
• Self-managed Onsite Project Teams.
• Customer Managed Integrated Project Teams.
• Sourcing to manage the entire life-cycle of the project.
• Faster ramp-up offering quick turnaround and speed-to-market advantage and flexible ramp-down.
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Benefits
Great option to support your Speed-to-Market initiatives
ODC team works as an extension to customer's in-house teams
Agile & Accelerated Development
Dedicated, Long-term & Consistent
Managed Offshore Delivery Model
• This option involves use of our skilled offshore based development or testing resources for your specific deliverables, as an extension to your team.
• Ideal if you already have an in-house development team and are simply looking to cost effectively extend/complement your existing development capability, perhaps for new project, while your core team provides business-as-usual support.
• Assigned resources will work under the direct control of your Team/Project Manager. Weekly timesheets will be provided for Resources’ efforts expended.
• This option provides faster ramp-up and flexible ramp-down of development/testing resources.
• Core team will be retained while the larger team can be added/reduced based on the ebb and flow of the project.
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Project executed on a firm fixed price model based on clearly defined requirements specifications.
End-to-end Project and Delivery Management.
Project deliverables would be incremental and would based on various milestones/activities agreed with the customer.
Complete support during customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & deployment.
Well defined change control management procedures.
Includes post-implementation warranty of deliverables for an agreed period of time to fix any bugs not identified during UAT phase.
DSRC would retain core project staff to provide ongoing support and maintenance, if customer wishes to consider this option.
Fixed Price Projects
• This option involves fixed price approach to development based on detailed specification.
• Ideal for situations where you’d like to outsource a complete project/product development for a fixed price.
• Development projects are broken down into logical deliverables based on time-box or functionality or based on specific go-to-market strategies and milestones.
• Ideally suitable for projects where requirements and deliverables are clearly defined.
• If detailed specification is not available, we can assist with a feasibility study and develop a detailed specification. You can take full leverage of DSRC’s Development Project Management and Business Analysis services.
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• Time & Material Model: per calendar month basis (managed service delivery).
• Firm, fixed-price Model – for turnkey engagements when requirements are clear. well-defined and documented.
• Base offshore pricing ranges from $14/hour – $25/hour depending upon experience, skill level and skill-set; this covers from junior developers to application architects and project managers.
• Blended pricing: >7 offshore resources with 6 months contract or >3 offshore resources with 12 months contract.
• Resource Ramp-up: 2 – 4 weeks; Resource ramp-down: 3 – 4 weeks.
Offshore Pricing ModelsWell-defined – Controlled – Competitive
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Offshore Delivery CenterTechnology Center of Excellence
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Microsoft
ASP .NET, C#, VB .NET
SharePoint
Dynamics CRM
Commerce Server
Windows 8
SQL Server
Java
Java J2EE
STRUTS Framework
EJB
Spring Framework
JSP, Java, Swing
Oracle, MYSQL, SQL
Server
PHP
Symfony, Zend,
CakePHP
MySQL, PostgreSQL,
SQLite, MongoDB
Drupal, Joomla,
WordPress
Web Front-end
HTML5
CSS3, JavaScript,
jQuery
AJAX, JSON, XML
XSLT, Smarty
Enterprise Mobility
Hybrid App –Titanium
Appcelerator, Xamarin, Sencha
Mobile App –HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript
Native App –Android, iOS,
Windows
Software Testing
Test Management
Test Automation
Test Complete
Selenium
QTP
VisionPlus Testing
Mainframe
z/OS, CICS, JCL, VSAM
COBOL, PL1
Assembler
DB2, IMS DB
Oracle e-business
Financials
HRMS & Payroll
Distribution
SCM
Manufacturing and Logistics
CRM
BI
Other Skills & Expertise
Embedded Programming using C/C++
CA Gen
Technology Practices & ExpertiseCross Platform Technology Expertise & Skill-sets
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Industry & Application Domain ExperienceServices to a wide spectrum of customers and business application domains
BFSI, Pension and Savings, Mortgage & Reverse Mortgage
Credit Card Processing & Payments, PCI DSS
Data Center Management
Logistics and Haulage Management
Urban Traffic Management
Automotive and Vehicle Management
Media Print Management Solution
Healthcare, Homecare & Human Care
Medicare Management Systems, HIPAA
e-HR System
Legal Practice Management
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management
Hospitality
Telecom Billing System
ERP-CRM
Software Asset Management
Timesheet Management System
UK NICEIC Standards Compliance System
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Talent Size & StrengthPeople are our assets; best talent makes service delivery flawless!
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120• Dedicated, full-time, agile teams assigned for customer projects
• Vendor Certifications like Microsoft, Sun, HP, ISEB/ISTQB
• Excellent Talent Acquisition, Retention and Management Capability
• Low Employee Attrition (12.5%) & well defined Career Progression & Growth Options
• Excellent Communication, Client facing & Interpersonal Skills
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Talent Acquisition & Retention Capabilities
• Strong Talent Acquisition and Mobilization capabilities.
• Effective Skill & Requirement Mapping, Skill Profiling and Assessment expertise and capabilities.
• Proven track record mobilizing teams in client-specific thrust areas.
• Strong delivery capabilities to quickly and cost effectively ramp-up offshore teams at short notice –strategic bench in routine skills where demand persists.
• Excellent knowledge and talent management capabilities on client-specific domain, technology & skill-sets, process and methodologies.
• Excellent Training infrastructure – encourage talent up-skilling and continuous training. Encourage certification and benchmarking of skill and talent.
• Excellent Talent Retention Rate: Career Progression – Work Culture – Compensation & Perks –Flexible Work Options help nurture and retain deserving talent.
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• System developed based on the Urban Traffic Management Control (UTMC) protocols and standards laid out by Real Time Information Group (RTIG), Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI)
• Successfully rolled out in 25 UK counties and several local councils.
• Features
− Provides real time traffic information management & real time data of bus transport and time management.
− Journey time calculation based on data collected from speed detection cameras.
− Shortest distance calculation based on Diikstra’s Algorithm.
− Integration with Umbraco CMS, Google Maps & DigiTV Emulator.
• Architecture
− Multi Tier Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that includes two major Web Applications which are UTMC Core and Public Portal interfaced with various Web Services and WCF hosted in Windows Services for CRUD activities in DB and establish third party communications.
− The public portal is published via Umbraco Content Management Server.
• Development Methodology: Agile SCRUM based
• Technologies: Microsoft .NET 4.0, SQL Server, IIS, Umbraco (CMS) and Visual Studio 2010.
Live Traffic Management SystemOffshore Development, Maintenance, Porting & Production Support for Cloud Amber
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• Offshore Maintenance and Support of Healthcare – Social Care HIPAA compliant Software Products:
− Referral Valet
− Long Term Care
− Client Service Manager
• Challenge
− No documentation – Current Service Provider reluctant to support knowledge transition.
− Inappropriate Data Modeling and improper data integrity design with missing normalization, constraints and indexing resulting in performance bottlenecks.
− Over 300+ backlog of issues/bugs, CRQs and enhancements
• Highlights
− Two weeks of Study State – One week of Knowledge Transition – Maintenance commenced from third week
− 80% of Severity-1 Issues (system show-stoppers) were fixed/tested and deployed in 3 months
− Stable State providing routine application maintenance and support in 6 months
Mid-AmericaOffshore Application Maintenance, Performance Improvement, Support
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• Project was outsourced by the Global Shared Services Centre of a leading multinational bank.
• Deployment lifecycle of software applications are supported through this system – like,
− Pipeline to Production
− Production to Decommission / Retire / Abort
− Decommission to Production
• Uses powerful business process manager and workflow engine to manage notifications and approvals.
• Automated email facility integrated with the GAI Workflow for notifications and approvals.
• Integrates with the banks LDAP for authentication.
• Features rich reporting system; downloadable to Excel and PDF.
• Extensively leverages Java and open source technologies.
Global Application Inventory OnlineOutsourced Project for Standard Chartered Bank
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• Web-based System covering wide range of e-HR System Functionalities
• Built a proprietary workflow engine to manage employee structure and hierarchy for approvals, authorisations, appraisals, leave & attendance etc.
• Incorporates manager & employee self-service features aimed to reduce administrative workload, time delays and cost.
• Has independent modules to cover recruitment and hiring, skill-mapping, talent management, talent transformation, appraisals and promotions, leave and attendance, benefits and planning, transfers and attrition, salary planning, in-sourcing, resourcing and staffing services vendors.
• Rolled out in over 16 countries in the CEEMEA region of the bank’s operations.
eHR SystemOutsourced Project for Citibank
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• Offshore Maintenance of Corrugator Process Control and Monitoring System for Qualitek, Inc.
• Development and Integration of License Management & User Management System for Simplisys
• Securus Offshore Testing for Sysnet Global Solutions
• Offshore Development of the Pension Management System for StraitLogics
• Haulage Management System for a UK mid-sized IT Services company
• Online Retail Commerce Portal for a UK IT consultancy
• Legal Practice Management System for Keyhouse
• Business Continuity Management System –Offshore Maintenance for Continuity2
• SharePoint Application Development for BDS Vircon
• Application Development & Maintenance for MoneyAdvice
• Offshore Testing & Test Automation for Secret Escapes
• Offshore Testing of VisionPlus-based Payment Transaction System for FirstData
More Projects…Sample List of Recent Project Engagements
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Offshore Delivery CenterInfrastructure & Environment
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• Central Code Repository.
• Effective Project Management, Bug/Issue Management System, Project Delivery Reporting.
• Cost effective Team Collaboration and Communication Tools.
• Overlap of Work Time for effective review and discussions.
• Low Employee Attrition.
• No hidden or fringe cost overheads – facilities fully owned and managed by us.
• Projects executed come under the ambit of ISO 9001:2008 based standards and surveillance.
• Effective Customer Liaison – Business, Project, Systems, Quality and Delivery.
• Effective Definition and Management of –
− Communication
− Processes
− Standards and Operating Procedures
− Weekly Review and Reporting
− SLA
− Delivery and Review Cycles.
• Customer-specific Knowledge and Process Management.
Features of DSRC’s Offshore Delivery CenterPerformance Driven – Adaptive - Successful
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• Web Servers: TomCat, IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM): LINQ, Hibernate
• Database: MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, IMS DB, Adabas, MongoDB, SQLLite
• Source Code Control: SVN, CVS, Bitbucket, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, GitHub
• Testing: Test Complete, QTP, Selenium
• Network Infrastructure: Gigabit LAN, Routers (wired and wireless), Firewall, Repeaters, Hubs & Switches, Rack Servers, Structured CAT6 Ethernet Cabling, Ethernet Network Topology
• Security: Symantec Endpoint Protection, Proventia Email Filtering, Intruder Detection, Spam Check, Sonic Firewall
• Connectivity: Redundant high speed ISP connectivity, Secured VPN connectivity for Client Network Access
• Project Management: Jira, Microsoft Project, Bugnet, Bugzilla, OTRS, GitHub, FogBugz
• Development Platform: Microsoft .NET, Java, PHP, Mainframe
• OS: Windows 2003, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2010, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2013, Suse Linux, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris, z/OS, MAC OS
• Design Language/Framework: UML, Liferay, Microsoft Visio
• Web Front-end: HTML5, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, CSS
• Framework: MVC, STRUTS, Spring, MFC
• IDE: Visual Studio, Eclipse, MyEclipse, Netbean, Spring IDE
• Application Servers: JBoss, Apache, OAS, WebLogic, WebSphere
• Mobility: Android, Windows, iOS, Titanium Appcelerator, Xamarin, Sencha
Development Environment…enabling customers to leverage on our state-of-the-art infrastructure & facilities
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“To pursue continuous improvement in business excellence by integrating process, people and technologies to meet customer expectations every time.”
• QMS based on ISO 9001:2008 standards – certified by Bureau Veritas.
• Scope of Certification: Design, Development, Maintenance and Support of Business Application Software Products and Services.
Quality Management System (QMS)Stringent Quality Controls and Procedures in place…
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• Information & Data Security Procedures in place as part of the QMS –
− Physical & Network Security
− Data Encryption and Masking
− Source Code Control and Obfuscation
− Controls to Manage Email, Internet Access and Devices
− Data Backup
− Symantec Endpoint Security, Sonicwall, Proventia Mail Filtering
• Best Practice to govern Information Security, Controls and Procedures – ISO 27001:2013 process implementation underway – audit and compliance accreditation before July 2014.
• Data Protection and Security through the entire lifecycle covering Data Usage, Data Transmission, Data Storage and Data Disposal.
• Policy and Process to classify data, create and manage access privileges and safeguards to protect customer data.
Data Protection & Information Security
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• Ongoing Application Maintenance & Support
• New Custom Development Projects
• System Reengineering & Application/DB Performance Improvement
• R & D and Client-specific Solution Prototyping
• Test Management & Test Automation
Candidates for Offshore Project Engagement
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• Initiate formal Review & Due Diligence, Project Demonstrations & Customer Reference Checks
• Requirements review and Proposal, Agreements and NDA
• Explore areas where we can support you immediately…
• Test waters; Ramp up slowly!
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