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Advertising Feature: Why Not Outsource Clarion Services?
by Thomas Mathew (tmathew@ccstechnologies.in)
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
Being a loyal Clarion developer for more than 15 years gives me the confidence in using C6.3 as a tool for developing almost any business application. Though the intelligent IDE gives a high level of productivity, my profit increases when someone else does the development and maintenance work for me. My time can be better used for finding new jobs/customers and implementing them to customer delight. This is the objective behind outsourcing.
Benefits of outsourcing
- Reduced Development Cost
- Scalability of Resources as and when needed
- Leveraging Time Zone Advantages
- Reduced administration of Human Resources
Remote Delivery Models
- Directly work on the Partner/Client's server by connecting through VPN/Remote Connection
- Develop locally, Test & Deliver
- Develop on own Server & give access to the Partner/Client to monitor the progress.
Protection of IP Rights
- Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA)
- Service Level agreements (SLA)
- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
CCS Technologies is an IT Company in India, established in 1981, started using Clarion in 1992, with CPD. Now in C6.3, moving towards C7 & Clarion.NET, with Oracle, Sybase, MS-SQL, MySQL, and TopSpeed. Expertise include Design, Development, Maintenance, Database Migration, Template creation/maintenance, etc., to Partners/Clients in USA, Australia and Middle East. Developers in CCS are very friendly and easily accessible. Size of job is not a constraint for CCS to take it up. Has knowledge in using third party tools. Good & reliable international references can be provided on request.
Outsource Management model
- Project Management by the Partner/Client or CCS
- CCS Developers working as extended team members of the Partner/Client
- Reporting directly to the Partner/Client Project Lead (IM, Email, VOIP Phone)
- Weekly Time Sheets
- Regular Progress review meetings by both parties
A few cases of Remote Clarion jobs provided to International Partners/Clients
- System Migration from Btrieve Flat File System to MS SQL
- Development of Search System for the data retrieval in the application
- Retrieval of data from a web service to create a Purchase Order
- Bug Corrections in Transactions and Reports
- Redesign of Database Schema
- Integration of Clarion application to an ERP system
- Screen Layout designing for better appearance
- Import data from XML file to an application
- System to auto upgrade an existing application at different locations
- New Template: Open a Thread safe, Multi Occurant, Resizable form to update the data with the base form in another DLL
- Regular maintenance of a Warehousing & Distribution package
- Reports Development for an application
A Few Clarion Applications developed by CCS
- Applications for Print Media - Advertisement, Circulation and Subscription modules for the largest circulated vernacular newspaper in India
- Fleet Manager [Rent-a-Car operations]
- AdWiz [For Advertising Agency]
- FMS [Accounts with GL/AR/AP]
- IMS [Inventory Control]
- BusPerf [Business Performance Monitoring]
- CMS [Marketing Contact Management]
- MyPEOPLE [Personnel/HR Information System]
Thomas Mathew, Executive Director, CCS Technologies, can be contacted at tmathew@ccstechnologies.in
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