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PlanV Software LLC

“Blue Shift” Software Development for Early Stage Technology Companies

About Us

Today, you can find a multitude of organizations that provide offshore software development services based in lower cost regions such as India, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Israel. The target customer base for these organizations are large companies with well defined software development management processes. Many Fortune 1000 organizations have enjoyed substantial cost savings by moving maintenance and business process activities to offshore development partners.

However, as experienced managers of offshore development programs will attest, the key to successful projects is to have extremely detailed “cookbook like” specifications for the work to be performed. Offshore supplier’s management processes

processes are set up to execute to well defined specifications. At the other end of the spectrum, numerous new product development projects have not been successful using offshore development resources. Highly effective communications, and flexible and agile management processes are key success attributes for offshore development of new products.

Early stage technology companies have not experienced the same level of success with offshore engineering as larger organizations. This is because they are typically involved in new product development in new markets, and therefore must remain very responsive to evolving product requirements. The rigid management processes associated with successful offshore projects are not appropriate for new product and new market development activities. The PlanV service products are designed to address this issue, allowing early stage companies to benefit from low cost software engineering resources.

OffShore Engineering with PlanV

At PlanV Software our team has many years of experience managing offshore development projects in various regions of the world including India, Russia, Israel, China, and Vietnam. We have been most impressed by the skill, flexibility, low cost, and ease on management of the software engineers in Vietnam. Quite frankly, for new product development where communicating the evolution of new ideas is essential, the Vietnamese engineers just “get it” much more easily than any other region we have experienced. For these reasons we have set up our software engineering services center in Vietnam.

Our Vietnam based resources offer the following benefits:

· High quality well educated work force

· Very good English skills, required education from the 4th grade

· Strong work ethic, minimal turnover

· Easy management, strong loyalty to the team

· Very flexible and open minded

· Very large labor pool, young population

· Low cost

· Strong desire to work with Western organizations

· Now is the time to get in, the market is developing rapidly

India vs. Vietnam Resource Cost and Turnover

As illustrated by the graph above, from a resource cost and turnover perspective, Vietnam is equivalent to where India was 15 years ago. While it is impossible to predict the future, Vietnam will likely offer substantial benefits as compared to other regions for at least the next 10 years.