Offshore Software Development Services

Through our Offshore Development Centres in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City we enable you to take advantage of the highly qualified and cost-effective development resources available in Vietnam. The centres have CMMi Level 5 and BS7799 accreditation and Harvey Nash is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

Harvey Nash’s Offshore Software Development Services provide comprehensive options that deliver a flexible mix of solutions to enable clients to maximise the effectiveness of their system portfolio. Our global delivery model also enables clients to reduce costs while maintaining exceptional quality and minimising risk. The service elements provided are described below.

Bespoke Application Development

Provision of custom development to satisfy a customer’s individual requirements covering software architecture, design, application development and a full testing service. This often involves system integration to other applications and corporate services.

Application Migration and Transformation

Transformation of existing system functionality, typically from older technologies to modern platforms, such as Java and .NET often utilising an n-tiered architecture and service orientated delivery. Customers frequently demand enhanced functionality as part of this task which invariably involves data migration activity.

Applications Management

In many ways these are the toughest assignments we undertake. Unfortunately for the IT industry, systems do not have consistent make-ups and consequently each application management engagement requires it own individual study and familiarisation programme.

To address this challenge Harvey Nash has developed a transition methodology for Applications Management. Our recommended approach to building offshore Applications Management capability involves undertaking cycles of transition activity based around a three step process:

• Readiness where we understand and the plan the services required.
• Exchange undertakes those functions that enable the offshore team to become effective e.g. Period in UK or client staff going to Hanoi to execute a defined training plan
• Deliver the services to the agreed Service Level Agreements, ensuring that our service, the relationships and the environments are properly monitored and managed.

For large systems several transition cycles may be necessary. Candidate projects for early transition activity include the following:

• Bug fixing
• Small self contained enhancements
• Testing execution assignments
• Documentation projects including test scripting

Software Product Development and Support

Aimed at Independent Service Vendors this service line provides development, maintenance and enhancement of a 3rd party’s product(s) to published roadmaps and defined service levels

Quality Assurance Services

Full testing services covering system, user acceptance, regression, performance load and stress, accessibility and security testing. We are able to offer the latest best practices, automated tools and techniques including division test strategies and plans, producing test scripts with expected results, recording actual results and producing testing reports.

Most of our QA analysts have programming skills and entry qualifications to the QA and development practises are consistent.