Application Migration and Porting

Is your current business application is not supporting the latest functionalities due to out dated technology used to develop it, you need application migration and porting to more robust and compatible technology. BrickRed is an India based expert in porting and migration of application in to different technologies best suited to application.

Before deciding for migration and porting of your business application, consider following things at least once.

Whether you need to stay?
If you can achieve your goal by just adding more functionality in application using current technology then no other solution can be better than it.

Whether you need porting?

Let us know whether your application actually needs porting into some other more robust technology, we are expert in analyzing pros and cons of porting any particular application.

Whether you need Re engineering of product?

It is necessary to recognize whether your current business application needs re building or re engineering to attain all functionality and match up with the performance requirement.

Whether you need to purchase new one?

Sometime development of any application is costly then purchasing an alternative product, if any product meets your business requirement and cost suit to your budget then it is the one you should go for.

JAVA / J2EE Application Development

If you are looking for JAVA application development or J2EE application development then BrickRed Technology is the best option for choosing it as Offshore Java / J2EE development partner.

Brickred has established Java / J2ee excellence center that is full fledged with tons of experience, domain expertise and world class development infrastructure. Core offering from Brickred’s Java / J2EE excellence center includes:

• Desktop application development with Java
• E business application development with Java / J2ee
• Software Application migration and porting to and from Java/J2EE
• J2EE application testing and quality assurance
• Architecture design and implementation of J2EE applications
• Use of Turbine, Apache Struts, Spring and other open source frameworks for software development
• Software product development using Java/J2EE Technologies

.Net Development

To establish core competency in Microsoft .Net application development, Brickred has its special .Net application development center containing world class infrastructure and extensive experience team of Microsoft certified engineers. Microsoft .NET framework has become more robust for e business application and web based business application development. New Microsoft technologies like asp.Net, VB.net and C# are perfect to accomplish all business application development needs.


BrickRed Technology has established a special .Net development center keeping all aspect of e business application development in .Net framework. The Microsoft .NET Development Center of BrickRed is constitute of experienced Microsoft Certified professionals having savvy ness of development of business application in appropriate Microsoft development environments.

Software Product Development

Brickred Technology, is the name of trust when someone talk about offshore software product development companies. Brickred is successfully dealing in this domain since 2002 and product development is the core expertise of the company.

Why outsource product development to BrickRed Technology

1. Let the best software product development engineers do the job for you.
2. Transparent and Proven Outsourced Product Development Methodology
3. Domain expert team and extensive experience in software product development
4. Complete privacy and intellectual Property Protection
5. Established infrastructure and environment for product development
6. We have our process and practices that is our strength and guarantee of success
7. Faster time to market

If you need to outsource outsource product development to reduce costs, time saving, boost bottom line and focus on core activities, Brickred is the best option for all purposes. Product development is the expertise services of Brickred and delivering successful product development solution for many years. To glean the maximum benefit, Brickred has systems in place to imbibe within the lessons-learned and to integrate them into its systems where appropriate.

Product Re Engineering

To lead your domain you need the un matched functionality, supreme performance and most robust software product. To compete and beat the competition you always need product re engineering. BrickRed is ready to take up the challenge to re engineer your software product.

Software Product Testing

Always avoid in house software product testing because it can be infected with biasness, if any project team have two friends, one developer and other tester then it can cause in buggy software or product. Along with this valid reason there are other reasons for outsourcing software testing job to other companies, like software testing require special skill sets, tools, expertise and infrastructure.

BrickRed Technology – A Complete software product testing provider company, is one of the big name among favorite offshore software product testing destinations, many small to big product development vendors opted BrickRed Technology as their offshore software testing partner. Get the access to world’s most experienced, highly skilled team, most advanced testing tools professionals and infrastructure by simply partnering BrickRed.


Brickred’s QA & Testing Offerings

Unit Testing
Functional Testing
Test Automation

Tools we use

JUnit, NUnit
Winrunner, QTP, Silk Test, Rational
Winrunner, Loadrunner TBD

Credit Union Bank Intranet Portal

Most of financial organizations these days are showing their interest in customized bank intranet portal packages rather than developing software to accomplish the need of organization. There are lots of intranet portal provider companies that provide bank intranet, credit union intranet portal as a sharepoint for bank knowledge management system.

Passageways is one of the leading bank extranet portal provider that help banks and other financial institution to customize this dashboard according to their functionality and requirement. This is not only time and money saving solution but it is also easy to implement without long training sessions. These bank intranet portals are designed and developed in such a way that can be customize to meet your specific business model and functionality.

Passageways has recently introduced performance dashboard that take care of performance and task completion of various departments across the financial organization. This helps credit union board of directors to make a policy or controlling the movement of functions within the organization. These performance dashboards are relatively inexpensive against the other software.

Many of the features of credit union extranet and intranet portal includes measurement of efficiencies, trend and prediction on the basis of collective data, instant massaging and quick connectivity within organization, assistance in business decisions, alignment of strategies and goals of organization.

CANADA - a choice of Nearshoring for U.S.

Being neighboring country of U.S. Canada is favorite destination for Asian IT and ITES companies to compete business in U.S. However cost is higher than other offshore outsourcing countries but still less than U.S. Quality of work is excellent and It has geographical and social proximity to the U.S.

What makes Canada an offshore outsourcing center:

Stable Government
Established Economy
Pro-Business Policies of Government.
Good Project Management
Highly Skilled Employee

IT Infrastructure:

Telephones: 20 million
Internet Users:16 million

Lots of Indian Software Professionals are working in Canada in various companies and the ability of Indian IT professionals are proven in IT and software industry for more than 10 years, it is also an advantage for Canada to being a hot nearshoring center for U.S.

Major software development Companies in CANADA

Keane Canada
March Network
AICOM Solution
CGI
IBM
Unisys Canada

Canada also specializes in Call Center Outsourcing. BPO is fast growing industry in CANADA for couple of years.

Costa Rica- Best nearshoring center for U.S.

Costa Rica is favorite destination for IT outsourcing and ITES outsourcing for U.S offshore outsourcing of those project which need clients interface regularly costa rica is first choice of U.S. along with Canada because it’s few hours away from U.S. by air. It is called Switzerland of Central America.

Following are the factors which makes it favorite nearshoring, offshoring center

Stable Government so the political stability.
Pro IT Costa Rica- Best nearshoring center for U.S.
development policies by government.
Good English Speaking people.
Geographical and cultural similarity to U.S.
Economically stable.
Highly IT skilled work force.

Negative Points:
Small labor supply.
Lower cost.
Wage structure is less than INDIA.

IT infrastructure:
Well enough IT infrastructure.
Telephones: 1.1 million
Internet Users : 800,000

Bottom Lines: Costa Rica is doing good in IT offshore outsourcing and will continue good performance with its IT skilled and excellent English speaking work force. But there is threat of restriction on growth because of less labor supply which can make this stable at some stage of growth may be after 5-6 years. Costa Rica’s competitors in IT Offshore outsourcing market like INDIA,CHINA and CANADA can supply labor to IT industry for more than 10 years easily. This make thing difficult for Costa Rica in IT offshore outsourcing Global market.

CHINA - Emerging Offshore Destination in Asia

After India , China is second favourite center for offshore outsourcing.
China Has its Positive as well as Negative points, Lets have a brief but essential
look on it

Positive Points

Low Cost labour
Good IT Infrastructure
Telephones :270 million
Internet Users : 75 million
Improving Standard of Technical Education.
GDP growth rate : 9.1 %

Negative Points

Communist government tight political control.
English language proficiency is big concern.

Major Offshore Outsourcing Companies:

Asiainfo
Digital China
ZTE Corp
Huawei
I.T. United
NeuSoft
Eastcom group
Datacraft

INDIA - Leading Offshore Destination

INDIA- Leading Offshore Destination for More Than Decade.

Advantage India:

Why India Is Leading Offshore Outsourcing Country

• Good English Speaking Skilled Professionals.
• Pro -IT outsourcing Government Policies.
• Strong Technical and Professional Educational System ( IITs and IIMs ).
• Cheap Labor Cost.
• Excellent GDP Growth – 8%.
• Good IT Infrastructure
Telephones: 49 millions
nternet Users: 19 millions
• Good Work Force: More than 2 million IT Graduates per Year.

Major Companies-

 Wipro
 Tata Consultancy
 HCL Technologies
 Infosys
 Satyam
 Polaris
 Brickred Technologies

Eastern Europe in Offshore Outsourcing Business

With the growing fashion and dependency on offshore outsourcing, many countries of Eastern Europe has come up as an alternative to traditional offshore destinations. A highly skilled workforce, shorter journey times, smaller time-zone differences, European language skills and western culture all contribute to this attraction.
As an impact of it, many IT executives in the US and Western Europe have moved to Eastern Europe for outsourcing and system and development needs. The major work areas in Eastern Europe include senior managers, decision makers, business consultants and advisors.
Although the country (Eastern Europe) currently has a small number of offshore projects, it promises to rise up in near future with the upcoming markets like Czech Republic taking third place after India and China in offshore outsourcing. The other attractive offshore work centers in Eastern Europe include Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and the Baltic.
These markets not only offer low cost skilled labor force, but also an attractive regulatory environment with a close proximity and cultural ties to Western Europe. The other advantages of moving to Eastern Europe offshore markets are connected to its political stability, government commitment to the industry, highly skilled labor force and minimal socio-cultural differences found in these countries. Many outsourcing companies also hold the view that work performed in Eastern European countries is much more scientifically intensive than that which is produced in other markets.
Even though India has earned for itself a reputation worldwide as leading outsourcing destination, the political conditions of country like the ongoing conflict between India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, have forced the companies to look for an alternative or at least a second source. Eastern Europe has highly efficient school system that adds thousands of skilled labor every year to its professionals. They deliver faster and higher quality solutions at lower costs.
Eastern Europe is still too far to be hit by the boom of offshore outsourcing that is seen in the top ranking markets of the world and hence, has been successfully able to leave an unmarked impression over its customers, especially the Western countries that have worked with the partners of Eastern Europe recently have been impressed by their professionalism and timelessness.
Thus we can say that Eastern European countries are creating a buzz in the outsourcing industry.

Asian Region In Offshore Outsourcing

Regional Analysis :

Lets see how Regions of world are performing in Offshore Outsourcing business

Asian Countries : following are the major countries which are involved firmly in offshore outsourcing business:

1. India
2. China
3. Malaysia
4. Singapore
5. Philippines

At this moment India is leading Asian Region In outsourcing sector, while China is very close to India but at second position, Other Countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines etc are growing rapidly in outsourcing sector to make a strong impact on International Outsourcing Market. In next few years Big portion of outsourcing business will shift to Asian region because of low cost and excellent work.

Outsourcing Terminology

Outsourcing

The concept of taking internal company functions and paying an outside firm to handle them. Outsourcing is done to save money, improve quality, or free company resources for other activities. Outsourcing was first done in the data-processing industry and has spread to areas, including tele messaging and call centers. Outsourcing is the wave of the future.

Offshoring

Offshoring can be defined as relocation of business processes (including production/manufacturing) to a lower cost location, usually overseas.

Nearshoring

Nearshoring is defined as moving business processes to lower cost locations that are in close geographical proximity ( e.g. shifting India bases business and IT processes to China).

Inshoring


Inshoring means taking services within the Same country.

Business Process Outsourcing


When all business functions are outsourced like IT, Call Centers, Customer Service , Payroll,
Human Resource).

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