Argusoft
mODCs - a partnership for success
(managed Offshore Development Center)
(for supplementing US development & QA teams)
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Value proposition
mODCs
Organization
Team
Technology exposure
Value proposition
• Established, running software center in India
• Solid technical and management leadership
• Reputation - recognized as one of the premier
IT companies in Gujarat, India, minimal attrition
• Smaller size brings more attention and support
• Unique ‘managed’ ODC model ensures
– Supplementing US development and QA teams
– Quality & throughput through local leadership
– Better management of US-India time difference
• A quality operating model at a lower cost
mODCs
• Offshore team locally mentored and managed by
senior technical manager
• Immediate resolution of tech. issues
• Continuous local management of team
• Better control, productivity; better throughput
• Unique recruitment process includes attitude and
behavior screening
• High level of tech. competence ensured thru
ArguSoft’s T-CEM (Tech-capability enhancement model)
• Resource pool to mitigate attrition related risks
• Lower costs (3:1 advantage to loaded US salaries)
mODCs Clients
• Novitaz Inc. – Java/J2EE/CRM (US)
• Vivantech – Java/J2EE/Kuali (US)
• Navosoft – Java/J2EE (US)
• Mayosys Inc. – Java/J2EE (US)
Organization
• Located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
• Senior management staffed US office
• Land and building owned by principles
• Incorporated in 2000 - a self funded, zero
liability company – no debts
• Key focus as a turnkey, web2.0, enterprise SOA
software development and integration house
• Strong resource pool, essentially working in the
Java/J2EE/J2ME and web2.0 technology space
Organization
• Modern office building, 10,000 sq ft carpet area
located in software industries zone
• Ready capacity to accommodate up to 80 people
• Easily scalable to a size of 250 people
• Facility includes a large seminar room, two
conference rooms, lunch room, library area,
common lounge, offices, cubes and lab areas
• Office fully networked - wired as well as wireless
• 4 Mbps (scalable) leased internet connectivity
Organization - Building
Team
• Senior Management (75+ years experience)
• Ravi Gopalan
• Ram Gopalan
• Sethuraman AV
(President & CEO)
(MD US Operations)
(VP Engineering)
• Senior Staff (70+ years experience)
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Kishore Patel – Senior Software Architect
Mayank Modi – Director, Technology & Engineering
Jayant Sharma – Project & Delivery manager
Ravi Shankar – Project & Delivery manager
Nagaprasad – Director, Software Quality Assurance
Premanand – AVP Domestic Sales
R. Boda – AVP International Sales
• Present team size ~ 50+
Team
Level
Persons
Avg. experience Function
President & CEO
MD US Operations
Vice President Engineering
AVP Marketing & Sales
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31
36
27
17
Operations/Management
Engagement/Management
Engineering/Management
Domestic/Intl. Sales
Senior Software Architect
Project Management &
Delivery Managers
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9
Java & C++
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12
Java & C++
Director - Technology
Director - SQA
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1
7
9
Java & C++
Software QA
Group Lead - Technology
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6
Java & C++
Graphic Design Manager
HR/G&A Manager
Developer - Senior
Developer - Junior
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1
15
19
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5
3
Web FE Design
Recruitment
Java & C++
Java & C++
Biz Analyst/Developer
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3
Java
Software Quality Analyst
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4
Software QA
Back office & maintenance
Technical Writer
3
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NA
10
G&A
Content Generation
Technology exposure
Software Development
J2EE Technologies
Mobile App Development
Mobile OS platforms
Security
Clustering Technology
Frameworks
SOA Integration platform
ORM tools
JAVA, C, C++
EJB, Servlets, JSP, JSF/Facelets
J2ME, Objective C,
Android, iPhone, Nokia, Symbion
ACEGI Security, Spring Security
Terracotta
Struts, Spring, Spring WS
WebMethods 7.1 with Blaze &
Designer, Netsuite
Hibernate, Ibatis
Technology Exposure
Client side technologies
Java Script, AJAX, XSLT
Other Technologies
XML, DOM, MSMQ , JMS
Win32, WebServices
Jcaptcha, Widgets
Testing Technology
Junit, QEngine 6.8, WinTask
RDBMS
MS-SQL 2000/2005,
Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL
Servers
JBoss 4.x, IIS 5.0/6.0, Jetty6.x,
Tomcat 5.x, Glassfish v2x
GUI tools
JAVA Swing, AWT
Technology Exposure
IDEs & Tools
Config. & Code mgmt.
Bug Tracking Tools
Operating Systems
Project Methodologies
Requirements Mgmt.
Reporting Tools
Eclipse 3.x, NetBeans 6.x,
Visual Studio 2008,KDevelop,
Enterprise Architect 7.x
Hudson, Nexus, Fisheye,
SVN, CVS
JIRA, Bugzilla
Windows 2000/XP, Red Hat
Linux, Ubuntu
RUP, Agile Process
Case Complete, UML
BIRT, Itext, Jfreechart
Technology Exposure
Project Mgmt. tools
MS Project, Zoho (SaaS)
Req. verification tools
Clickable model, MTM
Data Modeling
Ralph Kimball’s Dimensional
Modeling, ERDs
Business Intelligence
Pentaho, SpagoBI, MS
Reporting and Analytics server
CRMs
MS CRM, Pivotal, Concur
Web CMS
Alfresco, Jhoomla, Dhrupal
RFID Middleware
RIFIDI, iAnywhere
Contact
Argusoft India Ltd
A66, Sector 25, GIDC, Gandhinagar - 382016, Gujarat, India
Contact:
Ravi Gopalan +91 9974666600
rgopalan@argusoft.com
AV Sethuraman +91 9974666602
avsethu@argusoft.com
Argusoft America Inc
35463 Dumbarton Court, Newark, CA 94560
Contact:
Ram Gopalan 510-435-0567
ramgopalan@argusoft.com