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“To discover the new, we must
challenge the old”
As your partner, Strategies brings world-class processes,
global expertise in application development and our
legacy of best practices to enhance the value of your
application portfolio and to help you whether every
successive wave of business and technological change.
Strategies has been a strong champion of the Carnegie
Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s
(SEI) renowned Capability Maturity Model (CMM) with
a deep commitment to process improvement.
Partnering with Strategies will assure
you with-
• Improved service levels.
• Relentless focus on what is core to your business.
• Greater speed to market.
• Defect-free, reliable solutions.
• Significant savings to your bottom line.
Strategies approach to development
or maintenance relies on simplified access to project
domains. With support channels that stay open on phone,
fax, email and all leading instant messenger services,
we are accessible to our customers around the clock,
around the world. Strategies has a well equipped development
and research lab located in Bangalore, India with highly
qualified and English speaking workforce of computer
professionals who have played a significant role in
the success of IT outsourcing to India. Strategies has
profound experience in performing "transition"
projects for our customers. We concentrate on guiding
you through the transition process.
Unlike other companies, we pay special
attention to business analysis, as it is an integral
part of the software development process. Our business
analysts may identify and study the current business
processes, tasks, and needs of your organization or
collect requirements of your development project. Then,
technical experts and software architects define the
way and how the needs and requirements can be satisfied
by means of business software. On this stage, we prepare
and elaborate requirements, technical specifications,
CASE, and UML models. After the stage of business analysis,
you will receive a set of documents that fully describe
your company and/or business, together with technical
requirements for future software solutions.
Strategies has a proven track record
of developing competent solutions in the fields of Website
design and development, custom application development
spanning a range of industries including publishing,
financial services, ecommerce, healthcare and media.
We love building partnerships as much as we love building
software. At strategies, we value long term relationships
rather than short term high profits. We cherish every
relationship, and believe that the success of our partners
is inextricably linked with our own success. For our
partners, we will go beyond the narrow bounds of a brief,
dig deep into the wellsprings of our creativity, and
deliver against all odds. It’s simple really,
we win when you win and make no mistake about it, we
want to win.
With us significant cost savings fall
as a complimentary benefit with the processes we follow,
the performance of our development team and the rigorous
testing and review process of our QA team to deliver
defect free products. We are committed to provide a
consistent quality of service in the most efficient
and economic manner. We offer a very competitive cost
structure that enables you to achieve more with your
IT budget. Strategies provide a competitive advantage
to our clients over their competitors with high quality
work that complies with international quality standards
by using technology in a more productive and effective
way to reduce the overheads.
Strategies have a fully dedicated Quality
Assurance department whose only aim is to give our customers
complete satisfaction. At Strategies, Quality is not
just about implementing a system or working towards
a set of standards. It is an attitude, a way of working,
which not only improves businesses but the way people
work and live. We strive to facilitate and promote the
use of quality to add value to organizations and enhance
the standing of quality professionals. Strategies provides
software outsourcing and ecommerce solutions to offer
a powerful combination of design and technology. This
comprehensive set of online e- commerce technology is
designed to help you make the most of your new or existing
business. Whether you are spend to create software solutions
for your business or re-engineer the maintain your existing
software, Strategies provides you with revolutionary
services that cut your cost by more then half while
maintaining exemplary quality. In other words we help
you cut costs without cutting corners. We achieve this
by meticulously following the processes (operational
methods) that are evolved over a period of time. By
carefully studying why software development costs as
much as it does and where we can cut costs without cutting
down on quality, Strategies has been able to evolve
a set of processes that are acknowledged as the best
practices in the industry today.
Strategies, with its practical experience
of developing & supporting business critical applications
and its partnership with leading technology and platform
providers like Microsoft, Rational etc. offers these
services from its offices or at the client’s site.
Since our inception we have been constantly assisting
our customers to develop new IT services and enhance
and support their existing IT systems. Strategies aims
to provide the best offshore software development services
that deliver robust, scalable, and cost-effective software
solutions. A team of top class professionals offers
you proven expertise to ensure the quality and reliability
Why Strategies? “To discover the new, we must
challenge the old” of the products we develop
for you. We emphasize meeting the unique business needs
of our customers.
If your company doesn’t specialize
in software production but needs software designed or
needs the functionality of existing software (e. g.
cross-platform development work) extended, then Strategies
can help you to focus on your core business. Our offshore
development capabilities meet the needs of clients across
many different industries. We also leverage the IT resources
of software companies that need to lower costs of software
production. Strategies can manage your product from
conception to production, from in-depth technical assessments
to full software development and implementation. We
can even continue designing your own project from any
stage, and test, tune and maintain it. Our product management
and software development processes meet ISO-9001 and
CMMI requirements. Strategies uses up-to-date software
development tools, the latest project management techniques
and software engineering practices, thus meeting the
many IT challenges of our customers.
Customer
oriented company
We always fully understand your needs and fulfill them
in the best way possible.
Stable, reliable
and qualified team
Our team consists of the best of the breed employees
with many years of experience in real software development
projects.
Reasonable
cost
Being an Indian company, we are able to offer services
for very reasonable pricing, several times lower than
that of the US and European Union companies.
Technically
advanced
We have the best of breed employees who has top notch
scientific or engineering degrees from the best universities.
We know the technology and we will make it work for
you.
Easy communications
Our customers and partners appreciate the ease with
which they can reach us any time from any where in the
world. Reaction time is a minimum. You will like the
speed and quality of our work.
Quality
We know the technology and how to develop software.
We use the best practices of worldwide software development
technology. The quality is predictable and extremely
reliable.
Convenient
location
We are located in Bangalore, India, also known as the
Silicon Valley of India. Very convenient and a cosmopolitan
city with an International airport with direct flights
from all over the world.
A to Z internet
solutions
Once you have Strategies as your IT Solutions provider
you will not need any other provider of IT solutions,
we offer full-cycle software development from beginning
to end.
More
Each of our clients has his or her own unique benefits
from working with Strategies. Choose us and gain more
advantages over your competitor.
How Strategies
can complement your existing IT team rather than replace
it
We complement and not replace your existing IT team.
Your existing IT team is good, but might be facing some
serious issues like lack of important skills or can’t
be expanded/downsized reasonably quickly or economically.
Whatever external resources we bring in, we don’t
want to change much of our style and processes. We always
try to follow and improve your processes and if we think
your processes are inherently flawed we will bring that
to the table as a suggestion and an alternative process
to fix the problem.
Clients typical concerns are along
the lines
• Will our guys work with ‘those’
guys well?
• Will we loose much time and info in endless
email correspondence?
• It seems so much easier to explain the task
to the person at the next desk than to someone overseas
via phone or email.
• We know our processes are not perfect, but we
don’t want to be the ones to blame every time
we screw up a piece of documentation. We want consultants
to help us.
• We are too busy with day to day maintenance
activities that we don’t have time to get involved
with the core design and development of the main product.
This is a very common situation. No
company wants to loose what’s good about their
existing teams and none will sacrifice any of that for
the sake of outsourcing relationship. Yet, the business
should go on and your team needs to concentrate on the
core activities rather than being tied up by the maintenance
activities. Furthermore, most outsourcing services buyers
say that finding the right chemistry between their internal
staff and their off-site consultants is the number one
issue. It is a problem with many faces-you have to count
in cultural differences, software process maturity levels,
communication skills, intra-team styles and many other
factors. Strategies has a proven method of filling the
resources blanks in the most productive, yet gentle
way. Clients don’t sacrifice what’s good
about their existing teams and get exactly the help
they needed, exactly when they need it, if not more.
Process flexibility
We know how to work in various corporate environments
and reporting structures. With this type of service,
we focus more on covering specific responsibility areas,
rather than following standard ‘correct’
processes. Leadership is often more important than formalities-and
we are ready to work under client’s leadership;
Superb communication
facilities makes sure that we are available 24 x 7
Dynamic teams
It is in the nature of our service to be able to scale
up / downsize client’s teams quickly-and we are
very good at that. You don’t have to lock yourself
to a year-long contract with fixed number of developers.
To put a long story short, you deal
with people who have been trained not to follow some
process by the book, but to help clients. Helping clients
solve their business problems is the top goal and we
are serious about that. As your application outsourcing
partner, Strategies ideas, proven methods and experienced
staff will focus on business payback for our clients.
Our application development and technical expertise
will be used to make sure that every technology investment
that you make must yield real benefit in the marketplace.
Breakthrough applications mean bringing
clients and developers together in innovative ways to
focus on business opportunities. Methodologies followed
by Strategies delivers a detailed and interwoven business
strategy and technology strategy. It bridges business
process with technology vision in sufficient detail
to drive enterprise technology architecture and connect
this with downstream application development. We bring
all the stakeholders together to slash 30%-50% of the
time and effort needed to choose and implement commercial,
off-the-shelf application solutions.
Strategies Lightning Approach fosters
rapid, component-based development of powerful Internet
applications. We focus all of our experience, technology
and expertise to build complex applications in record
time. We maximize outsourcing investments through an
onsite/offshore Delivery Service, increasing the efficiency
of how complex IT projects are delivered. Strategies
global approach also makes a significant and positive
impact on speed-to-market, budgets, and quality. We
deploy a custom delivery model that is a seamless extension
of your IT organization to fit your business goals and
a proprietary knowledge transfer methodology to guarantee
knowledge continuity. With Strategies, offshore outsourcing
becomes easy and reliable, because we are a dependable
company and we always support the customer with all
our efforts. We bring exceptional value to our clients
through lowered cost of software development services,
outstanding quality, reliability and customer service.We
are very flexible in our software development process
and try to accommodate to our customers' needs. We are
committed to making a long-term relationship with our
clients so we endeavor to be a one-stop source for all
of their IT needs: strategy, architecture, development,
implementation, maintenance, training and support. We
are experienced in continuing software development from
any stage and performance tuning as well.
Also we have a set of rigid and working
processes in place that we follow meticulously. At Strategies
such processes are based on the following principles.
• Working on business goals,
not just piece of software
• Always keep stakeholders and their goals in
sight
• Think pro-actively on tradeoffs, shortcuts or
external services
• Scope management
• Work together with the client to prioritize
tasks
• Propose options whenever possible
•"Don't re-invent the wheel" - maximum
re-use of existing software modules or third-party components
• Client-controlled fast delivery
• Extensive use of prototypes and "proof-of-concept"
• Feedback from the client
• Risk management - information is key
• Communication lines must be short
• Intensive information exchange
• Synchronize vision often with many contributors
Strategies software development center
offers cost-effective services to companies who outsource
their software product development. Perfectly suited
for extensive offshore software product development
and remote product support, we focus on Rapid Product
Development to meet "Time to Market" requirements
of its clients. With a strategic partner ship in mind,
and a dedicated offshore project team, Strategies offers
clients a trustworthy, relationship that grows and is
beneficial to both concerned.
Strategies offshore development center
offers
Quality Processes
At Strategies commitment to quality is a core objective
as we believe this is the only way to ensure customer
satisfaction. Strategies applies its Quality Assurance
System based on best practices and methodologies in
each software development project from initial inception
through to successful delivery, ensuring high quality
and reliability of its products and thereby helps us
fulfill our promise of Total Quality on budget, on time
every time .
Strong Project
Management skills
Strategies has highly skilled project managers who are
seasoned professionals, possessing excellent communication
skills and proficiency in tools like MS Project. Our
business analysts and project leaders available for
on-site work. Our analysts are true leaders, capable
of understanding complex problems and distributing them
effectively among our teams. Strategies has formulated
specific communication norms that are followed when
communicating with a client in the course of a project,
especially between the client and our offshore development
center. Strategies has a robust Bug Tracking/Issue Management
System that enables clients to assign tasks and issues
to individuals or project group; view the status of
task / issue assigned; close and accept tasks / issue.
Top flight
Skills
Strategies has the best of the breed skilled professionals
from where clients can select the skill sets they require
for their offshore development center. Our employees
are drawn from the most prestigious Indian universities
and engineering schools- our staff is well-grounded
in the basic sciences, as well as software development.
Our continuing connection to the resources of world-class
universities gives you access to the latest in research
and development -- at no added cost.
Cost advantage
Software development is a highly technical job. To develop
software in-house requires time, skilled manpower, and
expensive programs and equipment. Offshore software
development is a cost effective alternative to developing
software in-house. Strategies has been providing offshore
software development services for companies across the
globe from the offshore outsourcing center in India.
Software Outsourcing and Offshore Programming at Strategies
safeguards the client's intellectual property, proprietary
software and new development specifications with very
high levels of security. Clients retain full ownership
of all intellectual property rights and software source
code at the completion of the project. For start-up
companies, the benefits of Offshore Software Development
can be monumental for the simple fact that it allows
you to go farther on your limited funds. The costs of
Offshore software Development are much lower than hiring
programmers to fulfill your design. Strategies can deliver
the best possible quality, at significant cost savings
to you, every time.
Better Value
For Money & Total Value
Strategies stringent quality processes ensure a low
error rate and hence minimum rework and bug fixing.
This coupled with our competitive cost structure enables
you to achieve more with your IT budget. Also we promise
total value with solutions that complement your business
strategies, practices, structures and vision.
Insight into
business specifics & Robust Practices
We’ve gained significant experience in several
vertical industries, such as eCommerce, Financial etc.
That means our development team understands your business
specifics and can convert them into the most appropriate
technical solutions. Coupled with this the use of renowned
best practices in the software field guarantee incredible
response times all add up to incredible flexibility
and productivity.
Flexibility
/ 24/7 Availability
In our relationship with clients over time, we have
shown a proven ability to adapt to clients' changing
needs. As companies grow, requirements change. We have
demonstrated that we can change along with them and
can respond quickly to evolving business demands. At
Strategies our 24/7 support channels stay open on phone,
fax, email and all leading instant messenger services,
we are accessible to our customers around the clock,
around the world. Because of the round the clock availability
Yesterday evening’s problem actually gets converted
to today morning’s solution. Offshore Software
Development is synonymous with flexibility. When facing
a large project but of short duration, you can use Offshore
programming to limit the number of new employees and
administrative support personnel. Strategies allows
you to double the number of programmers you have access
to and better yet, we are just a phone call away.
Futuristic
offshore software development Infrastructure
To keep pace with their competitors in software development,
the software development team ought to be well equipped
with technology, tools and trained professionals. It
is not enough to be strong in the development of a software
application. The software application has to be presented
as an attractive package also, so that it will attract
customers towards the software development centers offshore.
The software application should also meet the current
business requirements of the offshore product development
and has to be scalable to future needs. Strategies Offshore
Development Center possess the latest infrastructure
that are readily available thereby reducing project
start time and avoiding any major capital investments.
all facilities are highly secure through restricted
access, network security by firewall implementations
and other isolation mechanisms.
Secure network
infrastructure
The secure network infrastructure found in our New York
and Indian offices allows us to provide security and
communication setups for the most demanding clients.
We adhere to a rigid control system of internal checks
and balances governed by more than thirty fully-documented
security protocols to ensure air tight security and
total protection of all of your data and intellectual
property.
Knowledge
base
We accumulate knowledge of software methodologies, ready-made
components, most effective practices, and industry-specific
information from every project and training program.
The wide-ranging expertise proves to be a very important
resource for project teams.
Risk Identification
Many software projects fail because organizations have
overlooked potential problems and risks. Our knowledge
base and our team's collective experience give us a
unique opportunity to foresee those risks for you. Whether
it's a technical problem with the process itself, or
difficulties in working with other programs, we can
keep you from investing time and money in a flawed approach.
Unmatched
Experience and Technical capabilities
Strategies expert staff deal with most modern, major
software platforms, with a specific focus on Microsoft
.NET and J2EE. We have completed many complex projects
on Microsoft, UNIX and open-source platforms, utilizing
the most appropriate toolsets and development systems
for the specific task.
Telecommunication
facilities
Strategies provides a prompt data-sharing infrastructure
to ease communications with remote teams. Our clients
do not even have to call long distance to speak with
an offshore team.
Real results
You get high quality software faster and at a far lower
cost than doing the work in house.
Solid business
solutions
We invest the necessary time up front to thoroughly
understand your objectives so that the resulting product
meets your business needs.
User-centric
applications
Our unique system for rapid prototyping engages your
end users hands-on early in the development process.
This way we can validate or adjust our assumptions every
step of the way to translate user needs into optimized
software solutions.
Accurate
time and cost estimates
You get accurate estimates that let you budget accurately
and be prepared to take advantage of your new software
immediately. Strategies stands behind all of its project
estimates.
On-demand
staff augmentation
If you have a great in house team, but they have limited
bandwidth or lack certain technical skills, Strategies
experienced technical resources can help you achieve
your software development goals on time, on budget.
We’re always ready, on call, to help whenever
you need us.
Complete
solution delivery
We deliver more than software. We deliver end to end
solutions. Strategies applications are meticulously
documented, and a full set of documentation is delivered
as part of every software project. We also provide installation,
user familiarization training, and technical support.
Instant access
to top talent without costly overhead
With Strategies extensive pool of trained technology
experts, you eliminate the time-consuming and costly
process or recruiting and hiring staff and the long
ramp-up times often needed to bring new hires up to
speed. You also get all the benefits of a team of skilled
resources without In house staff-related overhead expenses
like office space, furniture, equipment, telephone and
supplies.
Faster delivery
times
We employ only senior development professionals with
both business and technical expertise, so they come
up to speed fast and know how to streamline projects
and accomplish more with less in less time.
A trusted
development partner
We treat our clients as our partners. We make it our
business to learn your about business, work closely
with your end users, and became a dynamic, synergistic
extension of your in house IT team.
Independence
Offshore development offers another major advantage:
independence. Most software vendors or investors cannot
conduct independent analyses of their own or their competitors'
products. Strategies not only performs development work
but also can obtain the competition's software for evaluation
purposes for clients. This ability allows us to ask
the questions you want answered and not disclose client
identity. As a fully operational offshore programming
base in India, Strategies services include Envisioning,
Planning, Rapid Development, Testing, Deployment and
management of IT Divisions / Custom IT Requirements
/ Products or a set of related applications. These software
outsourcing services broadly include software consulting
and software development, as well as support, maintenance
and enhancement.
Strategies offers world-class offshore
outsourcing services and outsourcing solutions from
offshore programming base in India. Offshore Development
at Strategies allows you to cut production costs without
the need to compromise on either speed or quality. Your
operation becomes adaptable to increasingly complex
and rapidly changing business environment. Strategies
leverages people, process, expertise and low cost to
offer top-quality cost-effective outsourcing solutions.
In addition to the above processes and practices we
follow some stringent procedures to mitigate our client’s
risk by securing our premises and communication channels
to make sure that our clients data and proprietary intellectual
property are safe in our hands. Some of the procedures
that follow in terms of our infrastructural security
and other areas that will give our clients the peace
of mind are discussed below.
Risk Management
Software
Development Center Security
Strategies Indian facility at Bangalore is located in
an exclusive secure modern office building. Building
access is controlled by security staff 24x7 and is based
on strict photo identification.
Communications
Strategies uses digital phone lines for voice communication.
In terms of Internet connectivity, Strategies offices
have 2 independent high-speed ADSL links to different
providers.
Network security
Strategies uses a secure network architecture to ensure
protection of all our systems, networks, applications,
and intellectual properties. This security architecture
is emulated in various configurations throughout Strategies.
The core architecture uses the following components:
• Connection Points- External
routers provide a connection between Strategies network
and the Internet and provide basic protection (based
on packet filters) from traffic spoofing. Our firewall
is the first line of defense for our network to prevent
unauthorized access (penetration) from external entities
and controls internal traffic policy. Our firewall policy
is based on communications protocol, traffic source
and destination, and protocol state restrictions.
• The Network Address Translation function and
our Proxy ensure a higher level of network security
during communications between the Strategies LAN and
external resources.
• Tunneling- We use tunnels for connecting our
premises with common computing networks through the
public Internet. Our tunnels are built on the Ipsec
protocol and provide 64-bit traffic encryption. In addition,
we maintain a secure VPN between Strategies New York
and Strategies Bangalore offices.
• PartSecure Segments- The PartSecure Segment
is a portion of our network that is in essence a protected
firewall system. The computing systems on this network
have direct access to/from the Internet and are typically
used only for demonstrating our products to customers.
• Authentication Authorization Accounting (AAA)
Domain- A user (Strategies employee, customer, partner
etc) gains access to computing resources after authentication
(based on login/password and source control schemas).
User is also verified to have permission to use the
resource through an access list. All important user
actions are logged. Strategies domain is implemented
using Microsoft Active Directory on Microsoft-based
computers and other variants (local authorization, RADIUS-server)
on non-Microsoft platforms.
Data Security
A backup solution for all Strategies premises is a backup
server employing a tape device (DDS-3, DDS-4 or DLT).
Backup and recovery procedures have been established
and tested for each type of data. The following is covered
with backup
• Data storage (database, file,
mail, source-code servers)
• Servers and workstations (operating system data
and workspace)
• All backup tapes are stored outside the company's
facilities in a secure location.
• Backup procedures run automatically, with periodic
manual control based on daily, weekly, monthly, and
yearly backup sets. Also, at the end of a project, all
project-related data (source code, documentation, databases
etc.) are burned into CDs.
• The type of backup data can be changed by request
from the project team (at the beginning or the end of
the project, change of the computer environment, etc.)
and validated by system administration team on periodic
basis (e.g. once per month).
• Recovery from backup is performed by a system
administration team in cases of hardware failure or
by client request.
Disaster
Recovery Plan
The disaster recovery plan addresses the following areas:
• Hardware or software failures, data loss during
development work
• A dedicated system administrator is responsible
for hardware, software, or data failures. Sys Admin
restores data from backups that are stored outside of
the office. Sys Admin is also responsible for synchronizing
information between the offices
Strategies maintains 3 server sets:
• Development and demo servers at the Bangalore
office
• Demo servers at the New York office
• Demo servers at an independent provider in Bangalore.
When required, development or demo
sites are quickly transferred to one of the backup servers.
All project information (including documentation and
code) is on development servers that are covered by
a continuous backup routine.
• General office building problems
(fire or other)- Every member of the development team
has a computer at home equipped with dial-in Internet
connectivity, which shall be used in case of any general
office problems. External server platforms are used
to restore the team development environment from the
backup.
• Internet connectivity problems- In Bangalore,
there are two independent channels. Should one of them
go down, dynamic routing transfers all traffic to the
other one. If both lines are down, the office has dial-up
connectivity for critical tasks. In New York, Sprint
support is used to resolve office connectivity issues.
In the event the link is down during office hours, New
York staff uses dial-up access.
• Employee attrition- Strategies maintains long-term
contracts with employees. This ensures that we have
minimal staff turnover. As a rule, a person finishes
all his tasks and shares his knowledge with others before
leaving the company. In each project, a senior manager
supervises the process. He is always up to date with
project requirements and status. In the event a team
member gets sick or unexpectedly leaves the company,
he initiates replacement and knowledge- sharing processes.
• Technology Risk Management- Strategies takes
great pains to ensure that its process is running properly
and that the final product is of the utmost quality.
Projects that provide and describe standard processes
have checklists and assessment schedules as inseparable
parts of the contract; assessments are held according
to a coordinated schedule; reports are delivered. In
processes wherein a standard process is not explicitly
provided for, senior management performs routine project
checks (at least once every two weeks, for short or
urgent projects periodicity can vary from once a week
to once a day).
The following process areas are checked:
• SCM (checks if version control
systems are used, backup procedures, document storage,
bug tracking)
• Requirements management (quality of specifications,
whether client interaction is smooth, whether the customer
is actively involved in evaluating intermediate versions
and testing) Process & Resources (whether any important
project phases have been forgotten; whether all necessary
roles have been defined and assigned; whether all participants
are properly qualified; whether PM records are being
filled out properly)
• Planning, Schedule & Deliverables (whether
the plan is kept up-to-date; whether everything is being
accomplished according to schedule; whether all deliverables
are delivered as promised)
• Communications (whether there is a mailing list;
whether all correspondence goes via the list; whether
client interaction/communication rules have been established
and communicated; whether client-side contacts are responding
adequately; whether status and review meetings are being
held)
• Legal Risk- Strategies offers customers protection
from legal risks. For IP and confidentiality matters,
Strategies offers clients a strong NDA form for protection.
Strategies LLC is a United States Corporation (LLC)
and is liable under US jurisdiction. Strategies has
proper records with D&B. Strategies Ingenious Software
Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore is legally registered
in India.
Customer
Care
• Project support and maintenance- Strategies
provides 3 months post-project technical support at
no cost, including bug fixing
• Technical support over e-mail (installation,
maintenance etc) for the platforms the application was
tested on. For other platforms (newer versions etc.)
support package include 1 months support and expert
analysis of possible issues for 6 months.
Security
and confidentiality
Strategies understands the security and confidentiality
concerns of hedge fund managers-you want to be certain
that your information will be kept secure and none of
your strategies will be revealed to anyone.We address
security and confidentiality on several levels.
Organizational
• Familiarization-We can start with a small, non-critical
project so you can familiarize yourselves with Strategies
• Segregation - In most projects, it is possible
to separate the software and data - many of Strategies
clients follow this route, and we highly recommend it.
The model followed is that Strategies only deals with
forms, algorithms and fake data, and not with the actual
trades or models. The final testing and deployment and
data population takes place on the client's premises
and is handled by internal staff.
• Technical - After a level of trust is established,
confidential information may be transmitted between
Strategies and the client. There are technical measures
that are taken to ensure the security of this information:
• Secure VPNs (virtual private networks)
• Redundant servers and data storage
• Sensitive data kept in New York
• Strategies policies and infrastructure controlling
employee actions
Legal and
other
• IP - You keep the intellectual property of all
systems that Strategies develops for you Jurisdiction
Strategies is incorporated in New York and Delaware.
• NDA-Strategies has a standard NDA and is willing
to discuss NDA terms. All Strategies employees have
a legal contract with an NDA clause .
• Independence-Strategies has no investments in
any hedge fund.
To sum it up, Strategies is a flexible
organization and has policies, which are to the highest
degree customer-centric. An outsourcing partner must
satisfy a number of critical technology, management
and business criteria. Strategies has all the essential
ingredients of a successful software out-sourcing partner...
• Lightning fast turn around
time
• Near to the ground cost
• Support & Maintenance
• Top-Flight Skills
• Project Management
• Management expertise
• Significant experience in outsourcing including
Offshore Development
• Excellent Development Infrastructure
• Communication
• Assured Total Quality, on budget, on time, every
time.
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