Products
In business area Offshore Development offers EBS the following Products:
EBS Developer · Software development
- Developer live · Building of new Versions and Releases
- Developersitter · Maintenance of shipped Versions and Releases
EBS Transformer · Implementation of system changes
- Transadaptor · Adaptation to new Platforms
- Transmigrator · Tools for migration
- Transdata · Migration of existing Databases
- Transtech · Technology change-over
EBS Qualitester · The testing section
- Qualitester K · Testing compatibility
- Qualitester U · Testing usability
EBS Foreigner · Services for existing applications
- Foreigner L · Localization
- Foreigner X · Multilingual versions and nationalization
- Foreigner D · Documentation
Target Markets
EBS Services are designed to comply with the needs of the following target businesses:
- Standard software producers
- Customizing services providers
- Software maintenance service providers
- Individual software development project providers
Therefore EBS doesn't address directly to final customers anymore.
Quick Check
The decision of going offshore would always have to be made on the background of a long term engagement. That's why a careful scheduling is absolutely necessary. On this regard, EBS places at Your disposal a first Quick Check that would help You find out the answers to the most of the fundamental questions:
- Why should be offshore development taken into consideration?
- Which assignments could be fulfilled offshore?
- What makes offshore development successful?
- How should You prepare yourself?
- What risks are to be anticipated?
Motivation
Offshore development is an innovative business model. Its development trend is upwards. In the next years is expected a massive growth of this market segment. So far, as one or more of the following topics are still subject to debate, it would be worthwhile to deal with it more precisely:
- The use of additional Know How
- Saving effects due to low payment level
- Decreased time to market
- Flexibility gain on planning
- Safe planning through fix prices
- Product increased quality through a better costs/use ratio
- Increased quality of the development processes
- Concentration on the bottom lines
- Administration costs cut-off
- Remedy of (temporary) lack of personnel
As soon as it will be clear what objectives are to be reached through Offshore, EBS can be rightfully estimated as a partner.
Spectrum of services
Tasks compatible with offshore development
- Very appropriate are:
- delimited
- time-intensively
- easy to itemize
- long lasting
- Services such as:
- the development of software modules for which there are good specifications available and for which there is the possibility to work together during the development process
- Complex development tasks can also be successfully assigned if an appropriate training for the EBS employees takes place at the beginning of the project
- In time the EBS employees will gain sufficient know how, meaning that very difficult development issues could be dealt with in Cluj, too
The perspectives for success improve substantially along with contractor's processes and development methods maturity growth, and along with the availability for periodical and intensive agreements.
Success factors
When are the outsourced development issues regarded as successes ?
- A successful software outsourcing project requires from both the customer and EBS a precise and similar understanding of the possibilities and restrictions of the collaboration, trust, standby in overcoming difficulties and will for a successful cooperation management in both companies. The purposes of such an activity can be fulfilled only on the condition of a long term collaboration.
- Both parties must express the will of partnership
- The obligations of both parties and the procedures to be carried out have to be precisely stated
The key for success in Outsourcing – The process modeling
- Regarding the continuity of every project phase there are wide-used process models, such as cascade or spiral model, the V-model or the Rational Unified Process (RUP). EBS „talks“ all the model languages but suggests the use of RUP, which is settled in today as quasi standard
- On the basis of a process model, the „homeworks“ will be divided between customer and EBS
- Issues that can be carried out offshore can be precisely described and handed over to EBS
- Important issues remain indoor. This way there will be no loss of know-how. Special issues – from the point of view of costs and intensive work - will be left over to EBS.
Homework
How do the employees of our customer prepare themselves for the offshore activity?
- Offshore means change and change is often viewed as challenging
- In order to obtain the necessary level of acceptance in the organization, there is some assertive and persuasive work to be done
- The assertive work should be early and actively accomplished by the management team
- The employees of our customer will be entrusted with new management tasks
- They will become aware of the leading- planning- and control tasks they need in order to guide the EBS employees on the specific projects
- It is recommended for the employees to prepare themselves on this regard
Protection against risks
Through a careful planning of the offshore activities, the following basic existing risks could be minimized:
- Competence loss of your own development department
- Controll loss due to intransparent development processes and methods
- Losses because of different quality conception
- Defective communication
- Violation of copyrights
- Poor definition of contract terms
- Choice of the wrong partner ]
Contract clarity
Advantages like costs, time and quality come true just when the basic conditions are the appropriate ones.
That's why clear contracts and services level agreements (SLA) have to be signed. To prepare these, EBS recommends the followings:
- To write down everything that is expected from
- Together with EBS the responsibilities have to be defined very clear:
- What is the Customer/EBS responsible for?
- Which are the advance concessions and personal contributions of the Customer, so that EBS can fulfill its services?
Choosing the provider
When choosing the right Offshore Development partner, criteria like provider's abilities experience or cost advantages, play the most significant role in the decision making.
- A potential partner should be able to demonstrate the followings:
- Sound Experience in software development and offshore outsourcing
- High reliability
- Mature interoperability
- A solid business model
- Adequate size and financial power
- Ability in building transparent offers
- Compatible organizational culture
- The provider's know how and size only do not tell enough about his suitability of being an adequate partner
EBS offers you the opportunity to test the collaboration by developing a first project together.
Customers' Benefits
When it will be clear for both parties WHO is responsible for WHAT and HOW should the development process work , there will be no more impediments regarding a successful offshore development.
A long term partnership with the customers stands among the highest corporate goals of EBS. This presumes solid and lasting advantages and trade-offs, both for our customers and EBS. This is the only way for guaranteeing customer's satisfaction and the only guarantee that leads to a lasting customer – EBS partnership.
EBS aims to achieve this purpose by the following means:
- The focus on providing services at highest quality
- The certitude of loyalty and schedule effectiveness
- Kind, amiable interpersonal relations
- The active search and presentation of alternatives and forward-looking solutions
Customer benefits
The partnership with EBS implies also a positive impact on the client's development process itself. For its clients, EBS takes over the most different tasks regarding software application development. In all situations would be absolutely necessary for both customer's and EBS's processes to be in tune with one another. The customer's net gains by fulfilling the above mentioned requests are: independence, transparency, efficiency and quality.
Customers' Portfolio
- Fly by Wire, Austin, U.S.A.
- SiteCore, Copenhaga, Danemark
- Semantic System, Zürich , Switzerland
- DKV Information Service GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
- EMPRISE Consulting München GmbH, München, Germany
- Gesellschaft für Innovative Personalwirtschaftssysteme GmbH, Frankfurt, German
- Ideal System, Athens, Greece
Fly by Wire, Austin, U.S.A.
Fly by Wire, a company with headquarters in Austin (Texas/USA), is an American software provider. At the moment the company is developing an innovative solution regarding the process management.
Client from: 01.07.2003
Client for: Development of web applications for all processes of a company.
Internet: www.flybywire.com
SiteCore, Copenhaga, Danemark
SiteCore is an important European Content Management solutions provider. The SiteCore System is used for the development and administration of dynamic web sites and serves at the moment more than a million home pages. ( for example: Informatics center Copenhagen, Telenor Connect, ABN AMRO Copenhagen, Billund Airport etc.).
Client from: 20.07.2003
Client for: Development and administration of dynamic web sites
Internet: www.sitecore.com
Semantic System, Zürich , Switzerland
Semantic System AG from Switzerland is a high innovative Software company. The Semantic solutions are based on the methods of artificial intelligence and neuronal networks.
Client from: 01.09.02
Client for: Collaboration on the front end development of the Knowledge System of Semantic System
Internet: www.semantic.com
EMPRISE Consulting München GmbH, München, Germany
EMPRISE Management Consulting is an IT consulting and services company that develops solutions for the optimizing company specific processes.
EMPRISE offers consulting services and IT strategies services, from development and integration of new software to IT infrastructure. This kind of services enable companies to develop complex projects with only one business partner.
Among EMPRISE clients and partners there are: Siemens, British American Tobacco, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, IBM Deutschland, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, respectively Adobe, IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, Novel Oracle, Rational, SAP, Sybase.
Client from: November 2003
Client for: Java projects
Internet: www.emprise.de
Gesellschaft für Innovative Personalwirtschaftssysteme GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
The GIP company is one of the five most important providers of payment systems in Germany. Kidicap, the most known product of GIP, is used in the public sector, and in the parish system, as well.
Client from: 01.08.2002
Client for: Development of payment systems for the public and parish sectors
Internet: www.gipmbh.de
Ideal System, Athens, Greece
Ideal Systems is one of the main providers of integrated technical solutions in Greece. Important clients of the Ideal Systems company are the Ministry of Public Order, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Antena TV, Coca Cola 3 Epsilon, Interamerican and Air Tour Greece.
Client for: Java projects
Internet: www.idealsystem.gr
Know How
Know How / core competencies
EBS developed core competencies that enables it to support the whole life cycle of a software product.
Besides the Knowledge regarding various development technologies there is also the application technical understanding that needs to be taken into consideration. This stands in fact for the essential assumption there has to be fulfilled in order to get high quality software applications.
Substantial economical know how is also available due to extensive practical experience combined with solid university education background.
Our employees' competencies with regard to the most recent development technologies and economical know how, combined with fluent foreign languages (English and German) comprehension and speaking represent the most valuable assets of EBS.
More details:
- Overview of the core competencies of EBS
- Overview of the economical know how
Overview of the core competencies of EBS
- MS.NET and J2EE including development tools and Class Libraries
- Web Applications such as CMS, Portale
- Web-Server MS-ISI and Apache
- Application server like IBM Websphere, BEA WebLogic
- Programming languages (C#, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Java)
- Data bases (Oracle, SQL-Server, MySQL)
- Software AG Natural, Adabas, Tamino
Besides technical formation, the development and project management procedures will also be treated with great attention.
Details
Programming languages
Java, Visual Studio .Net, Natural, SQL, PHP, Delphi, C/C++, Fox Pro, Access, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembler Intel 808x
Development environment
Borland JBuilder, Eclipse, Borland Delphi, Microsoft Visual Basic, Borland C++ Builder, VisualAge for Java, Jprobe, Kawa, UltraEdit, Ezsql
Data Bases
IBM DB2, Oracle 8i, MS SQL-Server, MySQL, Sybase ASA, Informix, Adabas, Dbase, Interbase, Paradox, MSAccess
Application Server
Jakarta Tomcat, Borland Application Server, BEA WebLogic, JBoss Aplication Server, iPlanet, JRun, Resin
Technologies
Java2EE , J2SE , Java AWT, OO-Analyse / Design / Programmierung, Client/Server & 3-Tier Architecture, RMI & CORBA, TCP/IP, CORBA, Sockets, Database
Tools
XML Spy, Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, Digital Metaphors ReportBuilder, WinCVS, Borland TeamSource, Sybase SQL Modeler, Adobe ImageStyler, MS FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev, Jbulider, TogetherJ, Apache, IntelliJ
Operating systems
MS Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, Unix, Mainframe
Development methods
Analyse/Modelling: OOA / OOD with UML under Rational Rose, Poseidon, design patterns, database modelling, Volere Process (Requirement Specification), Extreme Programming, RUP
Others
XML/XSL, HTML, JavaScript, Servlets, JSP
Overview of the economical know how
The economical know how we accumulated so far is due to our specialists' sound knowledge in the following areas:
- Controlling
- Materials Management
- Human Resources
- Financial Management
- Asset Management
Controlling
In the field of Controlling EBS acquired sound knowledge in relation to the following topics:
- Cost & profit centers, assignments, projects, cost units
- Categories of costs and acquisition size
- Planning
- Flexible value form types
- Pay-offs
- Costs distribution
- Constant factors management
- Features management
- Employees management
Materials Management
In the field of Materials Management EBS has rich knowledge regarding the following topics:
- Article and batch management
- Article movement
- Demand analyses
- Order handling/ -supervising
- Goods received
- Calculation
- Frame work contract and on-demand orders management
- Stock management
- Inventory valuation
- Stock-taking
Human Resources
In the field of Human Resources EBS obtained useful knowledge about:
- Gross - and Net income calculation
- Calculation of income, church and solidarity taxes (health insurance, pension insurance, care insurance, unemployment insurance)
- Calculation of contributions / contribution proof
- Contribution assessment limit
- Assessment system
- Part time payment
- Occasional employment
- Part-time work for elderly people
- time intermittent / time absent
Financial Management
In the field of Financial Management EBS possess solid knowledge related to:
- Accounting and vouchers registration
- Nominal accounts
- Creditors and accounts receivable accounting
- Loans management
- Stocks and shares administration
- Contributions administration
- Cash planning
Asset Management
In the Asset Management area EBS gained useful knowledge in relation with the following topics:
- Accounting and vouchers registration
- Asset administration
- Amortization methods
- Depreciations / write offs
Infrastructure
Data line
The most important data lines providers are present on the market of Cluj. They are able to put at Your disposal, by request, different technologies and services capacities (from 32 kbit, to 2 MB bandwidth). In order to communicate with its clients and for its own purposes, EBS uses Frame-Relay and VPN technologies, too.
Network
The EBS Headquarters have been completely renovated in the beginning of 2002, to better adjust our logistical needs. On this occasion there has been, reinstalled the whole network according to the EBS requests and implemented the latest network technologies from Cisco, Lucent and 3com.
Server
As servers EBS uses Compaq products.
SW – Licences
EBS has made continuous and considerable investment efforts for the SW-licences acquisition. Besides the standard equipment for each work-place, (meaning MS-Office software package), EBS has umpteen other SW-licences, such as SQL-Server, Java and Visual Studio Net.
Other EBS Business Areas
Standard software
EBS develops and offers for the Romanian market software products based on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) concept.
Training
“Performing better” than others requires nowadays a continuous training and learning process in order to be up to date with the latest changes in the IT field and to keep up with the dynamism and the changes of the market.
EBS Training Center encourages your ambition to acquire success in your profession through training programs, which offer you the possibility to enhance your education and develop your career.
In order to meet the upcoming changes of the IT-Industry, beginning with September 2003 EBS Training Center extends its Courses Offer :
- DotNet
- MS SQL Server 2000
- Software Project Management
- Virtual Private Networks and Firewall
- Development of web sites with PHP and ASP
- German for computer scientists
More on this subject on the Romanian Home Page.
Contact – EBS Romania S.R.L.
Your contacts: In Romania / Mr. Daniel METZ +40 (264) 406 460 (Fon) In Germany / Mr. Thomas P. HAECK
+49 (211) 29 26 149 (Fax) By E-mail:
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