Success Stories

Visionpace is a software development company and Microsoft certified partner based in Kansas City. They specialize in creating custom web applications in Microsoft technologies including the older Visual FoxPro (VFP) platform. The VFP platform was “maturing” and soon to be unsupported by Microsoft. And in general it was hard to hire Microsoft programmers in Kansas City.

Visionpace wanted to build a nearshore team with VFP and Microsoft .NET experience. Specifically they wanted Microsoft .NET developers in Latin America close by and easy to visit. A partner was selected after several interviews and trips to partner sites in Mexico and Costa Rica.

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Telaurus has their own software development team but also had a list of projects they wanted to outsource. The deliverable software was a web application to generate email alerts about weather conditions. Accelerance partners in Eastern Europe were considered and one in the Ukraine submitted the winning bid.

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Seon is beginning development of a new software product and was unable to hire enough programmers locally in a timely manner. Multiple Accelerance partners in Latin America were considered and one in Colombia was the best fit for them.

Accelerance partner in Colombia  

"We spent months short-listing companies to visit and evaluate in South America. If I had known about Accelerance, I could have saved many weeks of work and thousands of miles of travel." — David Black, Director of Technology, Seon

K&L Consulting is a network of seasoned software professionals who create applications from conceptualization to fully functional and supported software. K&L needed experienced Ruby on Rails programmers to develop a Web 2.0 application to capture and distribute video clips among subscribers.

Accelerance partners were considered who could prove Ruby on Rails programming expertise with a small pilot project. A small programming team was then formed to complete the actual development.

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I-3 is established company doing custom software development for clients in PHP and Java. They then changed focus to create email security products. Their goal was to use global programmers to handle I-3 client projects and to not distract his internal development team that is working on their new email products.

They needed help with infrastructure set up for CVS, subversion and other standard software development processes. Like many software companies, they were using an informal specification process (“here are the screens, you do the backend”) and needed senior developers that can collaborate at this level. There was no world region preference but some workday overlap was desired. Latin America was considered but prooved to be more expensive that other choices

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FormFactor is a global leader in advanced wafer probe card technology and design. It’s among the top 10 global MEMS manufacturers, distinguished by innovation that is transforming and reducing the overall cost of semiconductor test.

FormFactor has a competitive advantage through its large investment in custom and enhanced EDA and CAD design automation tools used to efficiently create the many printed circuit boards required in testing each customer’s silicon wafers.

Only Accelerance partners with significant experience with scientific and computer-aided design applications using Microsoft .NET were considered. A series of fixed-price projects are further improving the performance of the CAD and QA processes at FormFactor.

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Easter Seals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain, Inc. (ESGW-NRM) is a non-profit organization that is a chapter of both the Easter Seals Disability Services and Goodwill Industries national organizations. ESGW-NRM develops software in their IT department office in Great Falls, Montana that gathers and organizes information in multiple offices in the states of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Applications are used to track donations of items in their stores, sales and case management to comply with state regulations. In some cases, these new applications are replacing inefficient paper-based processes or use of multiple Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheet files.

ESGW-NRM is using offshore outsourcing to save money while building time-saving applications using Microsoft .NET technology. But as a non-profit ESGW-NRM cannot afford to make mistakes or wrong turns in their outsourcing. A careful review of their needs for technology and an Agile software development methodology enabled quick selection of a global partner in Argentina with workday time zone overlap.

Accelerance partner in Argentina  

"We were completely new as a company to global outsourcing. I don't think we would've found the company Accelerance referred to us, and they have turned out to be just a phenomenal partner.” — Jackie Slovak, Easter Seals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain

The Createthe Group mission is to deliver digital commerce solutions that transform the luxury, fashion and retail markets. They provide world-class e-commerce, interactive, marketing and technology solutions to elite global brands.

Growing business demands and the high cost of hiring programmers in New York City caused CTG to consider offshore outsourcing with a dedicated team. After a one-month pilot project with two programmers working in their office, a small team was deployed nearshore to provide the growth and expert programming skills needed.

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ChemSW provides chemical inventory and other software applications to the chemical industry. Their software development team is in upstate New York and small because of the scarceness of programmers with Microsoft .NET expertise in the area. Additional customer revenue was being missed because of their limited programming resources. But the offshore locations, options and wide ranging costs were daunting. It was safer to do nothing than to make a wrong decision in picking a global region and vendor.

Working with Accelerance gave the ChemSW executive complete confidence in moving forward. Accelerance partners in Latin America were considered because of their closeness in time zone and distance, and because the ChemSW VP of Engineering knows some Spanish. Access to good programming talent and in an attractive location that is easy to reach became key selection criteria rather than simply saving programming cost. After several emails and phone conferences the choices narrowed to partners in Mexico and Costa Rica and a final selection was made in just a few weeks.

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Ariba has a great deal of experience developing software in the U.S. and India. They wanted to facilitate distributed Agile software development and diversify their global software development locations beyond India. A custom search was performed where companies in Eastern Europe and Latin America were considered.

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The Accelerance Global Partner Network provided BARIDATA with an “instant” match-up with a best-fit team of outsourced software developers . Programming started within days. The outsourcing team accelerated the BARIDATA product time-to-market. BARIDATA estimates they would have spent an additional $350,000 in search costs and saved over $800,000 in programming costs.Read the BARIDATA Case Study…

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"With Accelerance and our offshore partner, we are able to accelerate our time to market, and deliver a high quality product, at a fraction of the cost." — CEO Mark Miles, BARIDATA

As you might guess from their company name, Find White Papers was creating a website to provide technology professionals with an IT Research Library comprised of technical white papers. Thousands of white papers will be available for free download, divided into hundreds of categories based on technology topics. Their specification assumed use of the Drupal content management system (CMS) on a LAMP platform using MySQL and PHP.

All Accelerance partners with PHP and MySQL experience were considered. An initial fixed-price pilot project was followed by a dedicated team adding features and enhancements at the selected partner.

Accelerance partner in India  

"The outsourcing partner we found through the Accelerance Outsourcing Jumpstart service has successfully finished our initial project and we've now re-launched our website and programs.” — Directory Manager Vince Turk, Find White Papers, Inc.

EnergyChaser tried offshoring with a single programmer in India. The CEO realized he needed a small team (3-4 programmers) and the search began for a provider. Here is what he says.

“During my research, I found Steve Mezak’s book Software without Borders and, more importantly, the Accelerance Global Partner Network. I had found one vendor myself after a lot of research. Through Accelerance, I instantly had five more teams from all over the world. Accelerance gave me many evaluation tips to help me make a decision based upon issues like time zones where the team is located and what effects this would have, selecting the appropriate skill sets, and evaluating the final short list. I have been working with one of Accelerance’s recommended partners for over a year now and it has been very successful.”

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"I have been working with my Accelerance partner for over a year now and it has been very successful." — Chuck Watson, President EnergyChaser