QAT BRAZIL OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER

COMPETITIVE COSTS + MINIMIZED RISKS

QAT offers our customers the option of offshore development through our fully owned and staffed Development Center in Rio de Janeiro.  The Rio de Janeiro office provides ROI that has been well received by customers who have opted to take advantage of this facility and its technical resources.  QAT Brazil brings a committed focus to the critical success factors and risk reduction methods in our development approach.

Customers engaged with QAT Brazil have the option of cooperatively managing the project with your staff, Omaha-based QAT Consultants, or a combination of both.  The flexibility of either a portion of or the entire project being performed in Brazil is a benefit clients enjoy who choose QAT Brazil.  

When you select QAT Brazil for your offshore development project, you can be assured that offshore development best practices principles will be the standard and norm.

• Full comprehension of business and user requisites - We understand that cooperation is fundamental in order to make two or more development teams complement each other in an off-shore development project.  Much more than just coders, QAT Brazil offers professionals capable of evolving and developing a deep understanding of the requisites and business rules. Through this movement, we look to position ourselves in a more integrated manner with our clients, continuously growing our knowledge base of their business and capability of offering aggregate value.

• Long term relationship building - QAT Brazil reflects the same beliefs of QAT USA as a whole, believing that the relationships among people make the difference.  We understand that a long term partnership brings us the benefits of maturity, thus contributing to the minimizations of risks made by short-term decisions. Trust, mutual knowledge, flexibility and good will are just some of the benefits of making time our ally.  Thus, through continuous improvement and day to day learning, we are able to perfect our processes, know our clients better, and become trustworthy partners which have as a most priceless asset the relationship bonding built throughout the years.

• Communication - Since distance is a determining factor on the approach of off-shore development, communication skills are one of the most important critical success factors. As partners in the development efforts, our continuous and clear communication is essential to meeting project deadlines. QAT Brazil believes that communication techniques and tools are as important to offshore software development efforts as are technologies and programming, because through effective communication we are able to avoid misunderstandings and poor definition of requisites which will translate into a product which will not meet business needs.

• Productivity and Quality Assurance — Acomplishing more with less is a fact of life in today’s IT. One important way of increasing resources is within productivity enabled by the experience and usage of tools specially developed for this means. Aligned with service providing, QAT has a tradition in creating productivity and code automation tools which allow developers to accomplish more in less time.

• Competitive Costs - As is the theme with any offshore solution, QAT Brazil will provide your project budgetary savings while also producing quality work you can take to production with confidence.

• Flexibility and Change Agility — A noted characteristic of QAT as a whole, inherited by QAT Brazil, is its rapid response of change requests. It is not always possible to preview all aspects involved in a given project. These realities make our ability to identify issues quickly, diagnose when the traditional working approach does not apply to the issues, and having the flexibility and availability of searching for new solutions for the project critical for success.

• Strong integration and follow-up between QAT USA and QAT Brazil - QAT's offshore projects are monitored by a project manager at QAT's USA office. This ensures that status reports reflect the current progress of the project giving project managers and business sponsors an accurate sense of project progress and status.

• Configuration management - "Bringing it all together" for implementation in the production environment is one of the most challenging parts of any software project. Our offshore team is specifically trained in integration techniques to avoid this problem. Starting with the project inception, the team is focused on how to better deliver and transfer knowledge at the end of the tasks.