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Global -
providing a full UK Software House service at less than half the
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Global is the leading British, offshore software development company
and has been a Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 winner for
the past two years. We provide quality assured, low cost systems
development, integration, testing management and applications
management services on most hardware and software platforms.
Our UK staff are responsible for client liaison, contract management
and quality assurance. Production is carried out at Global's wholly
owned subsidiary in Chennai (formerly Madras) by high quality, cost
effective Indian IT staff, linked via satellite to our UK Head
Office hub and onward to clients' own development environments.
Where required our Indian professionals come to work onshore at our
clients' premises.
Global provides a quality assured, low cost service on most hardware
and software platforms for blue-chip clients, especially in the
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e-commerce |
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CRM |
The main services we provide are:
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bespoke software |
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applications management |
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systems integration |
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testing management |
Current clients include blue-chip companies such as:
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one of the world's leading e-commerce companies |
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one of the world's leading e-banks |
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one of Europe's largest outsourcing companies |
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one of Europe's leading financial services companies |
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the world's leading risk and insurance services company |
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one of Europe's leading financial services companies |
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one of the world's leading travel brands |
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GlobalCoSourcing™ - a lower cost, lower risk approach to
software outsourcing |
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"IT internal organisations are simply not ready
to deliver all of the innovation and flexibility required. It is not
a matter of money."
Source: Gartner Group, February 2001
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It's
no exaggeration to say that IT drives the pace of business. An ever
increasing reliance on IT systems together with the current skills
shortage means that IT can have a negative impact on issues such as
speed to market, business reputation, productivity and
profitability.
Drawbacks of outsourcing
Faced with the skills shortage, many businesses turned to
outsourcing as an alternative to direct employment, but the
drawbacks soon became apparent. Early models sacrifice innovation
and IPR to the service provider. Reliance on freelance contractors
leads to the blackmail syndrome, lack of external quality
management, spiralling costs and the self-defeating exodus of
employees to contracting. In short, outsourcing threatens to become
a bigger problem than the one it was supposed to solve.
This rapidly worsening situation calls for a new model, one that
provides advantages in cost, delivery and the retention of core
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The
GlobalCoSourcing™ model |
Asset/ Service
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Our
Clients
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Global
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New Projects
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Define for competitive edge.
Keep overall management control.
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Deliver on time to budget, at low cost.
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Support & Maintenance
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Determine service requirements.
Release skill for innovation.
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Deliver it at low cost.
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Intellectual Property
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Own it.
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Help create it.
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IT Budgets
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Get more for their money.
Can expect productivity gains.
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Become a valued partner.
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Leverage core IT skills
GlobalCoSourcing™ is an innovative service that enables
organisations to leverage their core IT skills for competitive
advantage and reduce cost substantially. Working within Service
Level Agreements, Global commits to flex the client's cost base in
line with usage of Global's resource. They guarantee to reflect the
resultant productivity gains in their pricing.
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The GlobalCoSourcing™ Model for a business
with a 150-head IT department |
IT Management
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Programme Managers
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4-6 heads |
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CoSource Project Managers
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4 heads |
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Strategy & Architecture Specialists |
2-3 heads |
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Infrastructure & Production Staff |
30 heads |
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GlobalCoSourcing™ Pool |
100 heads at a cost lower than your payroll costs |
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This model can flex up or down for different sized
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Consider the benefits: -
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two thirds of heads at a cost lower than anyone in the UK |
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two thirds of heads on a variable basis |
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lower demand equals lower cost |
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all software managed at high productivity levels to Service
Level Agreements |
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Testing, Testing, Testing - Is your business safe? |
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With
a skills shortage of 400,000 IT professionals in Europe reported by
Gartner, the need to use IT talent wisely for business advantage has
never been more critical.
The trend is to concentrate IT personnel in value addition. As a
result, cosourcing of non-core areas such as application
management/support and testing is becoming the norm.
CIOs are under pressure to deliver systems that provide high
availability and are "quick-to-market". At the same time the
traditional technical requirements for security, reliability and
compatibility with different hardware and software platforms become
increasingly complex and critical.
Global discovered that many of the testing tools bought by companies
for their Y2K programmes are now languishing "on the shelf".
GlobalTest™ Automated Testing makes use of these to provide a
reliable, reusable test environment. The principal benefits have
been reduced time to launch new or modified systems, (generally
taking 50-75% of the equivalent manual method), reduced cost and
fewer embarrassments for clients with their customers and
regulators. |
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Manual Testing versus GlobalTest™ |
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Manual
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GlobalTest™
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Design Test Scenarios |
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Identify the Test Case/Conditions |
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Prepare Test Scripts |
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Automate the Test Scripts |
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Set up Regression Test Pack |
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Run the Test Scripts |
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Run the application |
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Produce formatted error log |
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Check the Expected Results |
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Produce Test Reports |
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Continuously extend the Automated Testing Harness |
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Reusable Test Scripts |
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Run Tests unattended |
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Automatic alerts for failed tests |
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