Responding to customer requests for greater ROI along with greater engagement flexibility, NASoft has developed and implemented the NASoft XShore™ Outsourcing Methodology

While the majority of companies using resources outside of the U.S. are employing workers from India, NAsoft expands customer sourcing options to include offshore (India, Asia, etc.) and Nearshore (U.S., Canada, Mexico). Each location provides unique advantages and challenges, which need to be matched to unique customer requirements.

The NASoft XShore™ outsourcing methodology provides a number of offerings (including ODC facilities in various parts of the world). The range of offerings possible within the NASoft XShore™ outsourcing methodology provide the flexibility associated with the augmentation of your technical staff added to the productivity benefits of cost-effectively inserting talented offshore or nearshore (which ever makes the most sense for each project) engineers to your application development projects.

Corporations have continually increased the scope of their applications development in their quest for satisfying the needs of ever more demanding customers.

The management overhead associated with offshore development, have made it mostly the privy of the largest corporations. Most offshore development centers (ODC’s) have been located in one location: India.
Current world events, however, have driven home the need to mitigate the risks associated with centralizing development activities in one area of the world. In this vein, large corporations with the resources at their disposal have opened additional ODC’s within the same hemisphere as the US. These Nearshore facilities can be located in countries such as Canada or Mexico (both members of NAFTA).

Nasoft’s Xshore™ methodology combined with the company’s strong technical expertise in traditional areas such as EAI, document exchange, workflow and business intelligence provide the necessary tools to meet today’s customer demands. Moreover, the company continues to invest in strengthening both areas (methodology and technology expertise). In particular, the company has already made a name for itself with web services software companies such as Microsoft in developing world-class solutions based on this new technology and combining top-notch application development with equally compelling, proof-of-concept, QA, and architectural consulting services.

Xshore™ Application Level Methodology (Development + QA + Maintenance)

At the application level, the Xshore™ methodology treats QA testing and maintenance (usually 80% of the total solution cost) on an equal footing with application development. The basis of the methodology is the RUP methodology with some additions.




Lifecycle for the Ration Unified Process (RUP)

In addition to key RUP methodologies, Xshore™ incorporates methodologies for managing the offshore and nearshore components of solutions delivery. Project managers at the customer site follow defined processes for insuring that collaboration with onshore/offsite, offshore and nearshore teams are optimized. This proven methodology has been successfully employed even in newer projects involving Microsoft .NET solutions with teams spread throughout various geographies.

Building upon the RUP methodologies, Nasoft Xshore™ Methodology adds processes for geographic collaboration, web service architecting, managing the solution once in production (maintenance). Consequently, the Xhsore™ methodology provides a world-class solution for managing the global sourcing of engineering talent and adapting to dynamic business requirements in addition to creating quality software.

While methodologies (RUP) and disciplines (CMM) have been created for developing IT solutions, traditional software has been written without much of an underlying plan for dealing with changes in requirements dynamics. While a strong CMM discipline by itself might provide advantages particularly with respect to quality, strict adherence to CMM without due attention to customer needs for speed and agility can cripple the software development effort from the start.


Development Process




Nasoft’s Xshore™ methodology combined with the company’s strong technical expertise in traditional areas such as EAI, document exchange, workflow and business intelligence provide the necessary tools to meet today’s customer demands. Moreover, the company continues to invest in strengthening both areas (methodology and technology expertise). In particular, the company has already made a name for itself with web services software companies such as Microsoft in developing world-class solutions based on this new technology and combining top-notch application development with equally compelling, proof-of-concept, QA, and architectural consulting services.