Released on: August 25, 2008, 7:39 am

Press Release Author: Nvolve Limited

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Today outsourcing technology development is a big way in
which companies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland compete, according
to Lee Tedstone (sales and marketing director of Nvolve Limited Outsourcing
service). Tedstone states. \"That\'s why companies are continuing to watch spend and
return on investment (ROI) in development of their applications".

Press Release Body: Nvolve's outsourcing service is based in Northern Ireland with
offices in the Republic of Ireland and India, specializing in the development of
outsourcing to India while keeping the project and account management in Ireland.
Tedstone says \"Our team of project and account managers based here in Ireland
provides the strategic and technology direction for our developers based in India
allowing us to maintain close working relationships with our client while our
developers concentrate on being able to provide cost effective high quality
development resources".

Tedstone says cost was not the major issue in management\'s decision to set up our
outsource business. Instead, it was \"availability of highly skilled labor.\" Nvolve
went through this process them selves in development of their learning management
software (www.nvolve.net) and want to share the benefits with other Irish
operations. \"Talented people were in short supply when we were engaged in our
product development. We were unable to secure the coding skills we needed at any
sort of reasonable cost, so the company took a steak holding in a software
development centre in India,\" the director explains.

Tedstone says his operation \"has been growing ever since\" because Nvolve continues
to improve its service and product offerings.
Today the Irish operation actually offshores part of its applications development to
its Indian operation \"to maximize the benefits.\" Tedstone says that the company
utilizes different skill sets at their Indian centre. Tasks like re-engineering
projects are best shipped to India. That\'s when, for example, software designed for
one platform must be modified so that it runs on a different platform or database.
\"We like the cost savings as well as the availability of the relevant skills,\" he
says of his Indian centre. The subject matter and expertise tends to stay in
Ireland.

Tedstone says his programmers are trained to specialize in particular aspects of
Sharepoint, .Net, SQL Server and IIS (Internet Information Server). Software
engineers typically work as part of larger teams based mainly in the US, Ireland or
mainland Europe. The multinational workforce means members on both sides of the pond
need to be articulated about the specs and requirements. There are well-documented
methodologies and lots of video and audio conferences available.

However, Tedstone says \"The need to travel never goes away because the work requires
face-to-face meetings with the business units, but we have over come this by
utilising our Irish based project managers and technologists. At first our clients
don't always know all the information that they need to tell our project managers.
This is why it is critical to have locally based bilingual specialists who can
translate all the required information while building working relationships with
individuals on-site. Our projects are small in numbers but are very sophisticated,\"
he says.

A list of project can be seen here at
http://www.nvolve.ie/Brochures/NvolveLocalOffshoreprojectcasestudies.pdf

For advice on outsourcing or see if outsourcing is something that your business can
benefit from please feel free to contact Nvolve on +353(0)7491 16000 or contact Lee
Tedstone via email at leetedstone@nvolve.net



Web Site: http://www.nvolve.net

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Tel: +353 (0)7491 16000
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