Still some turnover decrease is observed in this domain. According to available statistic data companies’ investments into the IT will be reduced of 20% all over the world this year. In the judgments of experts in the context of global crisis the customers will demand large discounts. As for IT services providers they will have to reduce the margin and concentrate on business optimization in conditions of intense competition.

In the before crisis period the part of medium and small IT providers on global market was not great. They just couldn’t meet the competition in the light of customers’ acquaintance with worldwide known products. Regardless numerous start-up projects that attracted interest of investors only few could consolidate their position on the congested IT market. The global crisis has radically changed the situation. A lot of enterprises are not able to appeal for services of big companies. Owing to this small software business was given a good chance for development. Customers began to look for different vendors and they got convinced that the proposals of moderate less known IT services providers could be a good alternative of expensive services that are accepted not only as a standard but as the best. All-in-all they were not disappointed as got the same expertise at affordable costs.

In 2009 analysts predict software market decline in the segment “Enterprise” of 20% and an insignificant decline will be observed in the small and medium business sector. At the same time the segment of end consumers will grow on 10-20 %. The great number of analysts withholds the prognosis of rapid market recovery as the situation can develop unpredictably. However the IT services providers will lead serious and consistent work on the market, try to preserve and develop the existing sales channels and to extend new ones. Taking into account the current global situation only this way IT vendors will prosper and shore up their positions.

The first step on the way to global business is to find a reliable partner who can deliver high-quality services due to onshore and offshore software professional development. Practice makes perfect, having a great experience in delivering offshore outsourcing services, Concept Soft offers all it’s practice and knowledge to move your business and to support it at the whole lifecycle.

One of the strongest Concept Soft C-points is a deep business analyses. Our clients may be sure in as much as possible close examination of the plan for future success. According to our special system which is based on the work of high-qualified team with an advantages combination of business knowledge and technical expertise we can formulate an individual business plan for our customers.

Concept Soft uses generally accepted and well-known in the business world model of business analyses:

• Description of the project
• Market, customer, and competition
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Sensitivity analysis, risk assessment, and contingencies
• Definitions of success and failure

Why is it so important to make deep business definitions? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this process?

Advantages:

• Working out better ways of developing
• Finding out strong and weak points of the business-process.
• Understanding all crucial points to avoid unnecessary risk at all developing levels.
• Keeping time and money at every step on the way of developing.
• Defining the most appropriated IT-services in the areas such as banking, finance, insurance, healthcare, SCM and manufacturing for your business.
• Giving the effectiveness mark of the project.
• Determining quantitative and qualitative indices of the whole process.
• Working out reserve variants in case of force majeure circumstance

Concept Soft offers the most important analysis components such as business strategy analysis, accounting analysis, financial analysis, and prospective analysis.

Both of them (J2EE and Microsoft .NET) have a lot of advantages:

Microsoft .NET

• Total supporting of Web-services.
• High quality of Visual Studio .NET
• Simple programming model
• Using different programming languages in one application
• High integration degree with the operation system

J2EE

It is supported at the level of the whole industry

• Easy conception of inherited code in the form of web-services.
• Adopted language supporting of the information exchange between the applications of electronic commerce ebXML.
• Better opportunities for the inherited application usage due to Java Connector Architecture (JCA)
• Wide choice of the hardware-controlled platforms and operation systems for the realization server part of the applications.
• A lot of Java- development engineers labor market.

Both platforms have very much in common, but, of course, each of them has it’s own advantages and disadvantages, which should be taken into the account while choosing technology for the realization your personal solution. It’s up to the client to decide which one to choose according to the preferences: reliability, low price, usage of the special hardware-controlled equipment, etc.

Concept Soft is a great specialist in both technologies and we are ready to offer you top-quality services using any platform or both of them according to your demands. We always take into the account personal demands of your company and the requirement to the creation of the solution.

I have an idea! This phrase could be thought a real reason of writing this article, thus in general it is a keystone of any project, any complex project. At a definite period of time you come to understanding of the fact that there are so many absolutely brilliant beginnings that have been unrealized. Moreover I am not speaking of a situation when one says: “Yeah! It would have been cool to do that, it would have been real success!”

I am speaking of the situation where the idea is absolutely real and tangible for the happy one who had it. I mean that apart from the fact that you exactly know how and what you want to do, all of this has appropriate context. The idea is going to turn into a plan, a starting point to reaching your aim. Here is our whole way to success depending on that point. The clearer the features of the project realization plan are the bigger the chance is that there will be either this or that bottle neck. And it will not necessarily be the fact that you won’t have the right specialists. This situation is rather individual as your need in no case could become less urgent because of the fact that it were too specific.

In the latter case, the problem of time, expenses and costs of the result is much more important. Even small companies worship these idols; moreover because of the limited budget this problem is even more acute for them than for pillars of industry.

Well, there are two situations which are at least uncomfortable for the one who got there: you have a specific need, but no appropriate skills (there are hardly excellent accountants who are at the same time skilled enterprise application developers) or realization of some of your project’s stages causes such expenses (organizational, financial or timely) that if you don’t find an alternative the project will loose most of its efficiency. Or it might also happen that it would be delayed because of undefended high risks.

The abovementioned situation has not been an exclusion when the demand rouses the supply. This is exactly the service of similar needs that is realized by the “custom development” segment or in our case IT Outsourcing. The supply of these services is not new, it has appeared long before IT sphere development and introduction of such notions as “Hire offshore” and “Outsourcing vendor”. An individual approach to customers’ needs has always been appreciated. However, in the age information technologies bloom this variant got real value. The number of various spheres of knowledge, technologies, methods and means has increased so much that it doesn’t leave any chance for “universal specialists”. Only transnational corporations can clear this hurdle with a certain success rate. But we don’t want to speak of abstract things, we want to discuss how to avoid these problems at all. We want to get what we need and we don’t want to think of unnecessary things.

The moon project was a joke. But people quickly realized that Gmail was for real, and the service would serve as the foundation for the company’s launching of Google Apps, a free set of messaging and collaboration applications, including e-mail (Gmail), calendar, documents & spreadsheets, presentations, instant messaging (Google Talk), a wiki (Google Sites) and a start page (iGoogle).

Since launching an enterprise version of Google Apps in February 2007 for $50 per user per year, Google entered a competitive landscape inhabited for decades by the likes of Microsoft Corp. and IBM, which both offer office productivity software and corporate e-mail systems.

But it hasn’t been an easy road for Google Enterprise (the name given to the division of the company that oversees Google Apps). According to Jonathan Edwards, an analyst at the Yankee Group Research Inc., Google has faced reluctant IT departments (and their CIOs) that see Google Apps as a consumer product, out of touch with the realities of providing the proper security, support and reliability businesses require in enterprise software.

Google fights reputation as a consumer juggernaut as corporate IT resists adoption

This perception about Google’s consumer orientation among corporate IT departments runs deep when it comes to e-mail. A recent decision survey by CIO of more than 300 IT decision-makers found that only 18% of respondents would consider a hosted e-mail service like enterprise Gmail. More than 50% said they wouldn’t consider it at all, and cited “security reasons” as the main barrier.

For these prospective customers, the decision of whether to adopt Google Apps in the enterprise is as much philosophical as technical. According to Edwards, many companies balk at the idea of letting their data (especially e-mail messages) being stored outside their company’s walls and in Google’s data center because they worry it will put them at odds with compliance laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley, which requires companies be ready to have their data audited and know exactly where it’s located.

Analysts say it’s a challenge Google has sought to address through the acquisition of security vendor Postini, which provides such services as archiving and message encryption. Google also offers its customers service-level agreements (SLAs) and IT road maps (a projection of how the technology will progress over time), characteristics inherent in a typical contract between a software vendor and a company buying their product.

Google Apps makers believe time (and IT value) is on their side

Google officials acknowledge this challenge of convincing corporate IT departments that they can be a business software provider. But leaders at Google Enterprise and Google Apps believe they will win the good graces of large business over time for the same reasons other software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors, such as Salesforce.com Inc., did years ago.

According to Dave Girouard, president of Google Enterprise, software delivered over the Web (or “the cloud”) like Google Apps allows IT departments to realize substantial cost savings by having fewer servers to maintain and seamless upgrades to the applications that don’t require IT or end users to ever hit a button.

Project Echo, unveiled at this week’s eBay Developers Conference in Chicago, takes the company’s online platform to the next level by enabling outside developers to embed applications in the eBay site.

“Third-party developers want our help with marketing and distribution, and sellers consistently seek better tools to help them scale,” said Max Mancini, senior director of platform and disruptive innovation at eBay. “Opening eBay.com directly to third-party applications through the selling manager gives developers an immediate channel to growth-minded eBay sellers.”

New Revenue Streams

Developers meeting the site standards for trusted buying and selling experiences will have an opportunity to showcase their tools as well as realize direct sales to eBay’s 700,000 sellers.

“This move presents a great opportunity for us to tap into the distribution and marketing scale of eBay in a way we’ve never been able to utilize before,” said Jerad Schempp, CEO of Hosted Support.

Developers will embed their applications in selling manager through an ‘Echo Canvas’ window slated to appear within My eBay. They will be able to promote their products based on keywords as well as manage the delivery of important information to subscribed users over a secure on-site communications channel.

Developers will also be given the opportunity to benefit from real-time promotions and placements. Listings for their applications will appear within popular eBay site flows based on context-sensitive user profile data, with sellers shown the applications most relevant to their needs.

Trusted Access

According to eBay, subscribing to a third-party application or feature in selling manager will be identical to how eBay-developed selling features and applications are offered. Business sellers will be able to browse for applications by category or search by keyword, as well as view applications according to popularity.

Project Echo will benefit eBay sellers by delivering streamlined one-stop and trusted access to advanced selling tools that meet specific needs. Subscribers will receive a free, 30-day evaluation period to try new applications.

Project Echo is currently in what eBay calls the ‘alpha pilot’ stage. According to the company, wider developer participation and eBay seller adoption will coincide with the introduction of a beta release in the first quarter of next year.

More immediately, eBay’s PayPal is scheduled to introduce a new developer portal next month that will pave the way for developers to help merchants with online payments.

“We’ve created a wealth of new resources to help developers respond to the skyrocketing demand for safer, easier online payments,” said Glenn Lim, general manager of PayPal’s alliances and developer services. “Our active developer community is one of the drivers of PayPal’s growth, and supporting their success is a top priority for us.”