WHO WE ARE

We truly are an international partnership, and this allows enhanced benefits for our customers:

• The customer can adjust all of the terms of the contract with an American representative of the company using US contract law.
• The customer can adjust all of the terms of the contract with a European representative of the company using European contract law.
• By utilizing skilled software specialists from Eastern Europe (with a strong background in programming for the space industry in the former Soviet Union), significant cost savings are passed on to the customer without compromising quality.
• Fulfillment of the customer's requirements, terms of the contract, and quality of the software product shall be ensured by the well qualified management in America and offshore.

Mission Statement

• We are here to let you focus on your core competencies, decrease your costs and help you to achieve your goals.
• Our commitment is to learn and understand your business, provide the services and solutions that fit and then follow with support and training you may need.
• We bring to the table the synergy of solid technical expertise and goal oriented development practices at best prices.
• Taking into account current state of IT industry at this period of time our Mission can be interpreted as "help companies in their endeavors to get back to steady growth".

Base Principles

• Eagerness in learning and understanding of your business
  ...to guarantee that the achieved results match your expectations and satisfy your needs.
• Reality in our commitments
  ...to ensure the robust and healthy work relationship.
• Predictability and Visibility of the results and Controllability of creativeness
  ...to make sure that you obtain exactly what you order.
• Effectiveness and Transparency of Communications
  ...to let you clearly see and supervise what we do for you and to deliver the projects in time, within budget and on scope.
• Flexibility and Interactivity of the People
  ...to let you control who will be working on your projects and how the teams adopt according to your changing project needs.
• Pragmatism in Software Processes
  ...to produce deliverables of high quality, utilizing the proven practices based on RUP, CMM, ECSS, ISO standards; processes are adopted to suit your needs but not vice versa.
• Staying up to date with the trends of IT industry
  ...to be able to utilize cutting edge technologies to develop for you complex modern software systems.
• Appropriateness of Technologies
  ...to ensure that technologies are chosen to achieve the results in the most effective way and not just for the beauty of the concept. We don’t invent spherical models of the horses to win in the absolute vacuum.

All that principles together are introduced to help you decreasing costs for your company and to let you concentrate on your core business.

Areas of professional expertise of our companies

We can perform most projects and solve most any problem in the following areas:

• System Integration
• Platform Conversions
• Software Development:
  • Databases
  • Re-Engineering
  • Web-design
  • Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Computer Graphics Design
• Quality Standards
  Our partner companies organize their work in accordance with a well defined software life cycle.
  This is ensured by their operation under the ECSS standards (European Cooperation for Space Standardization); additionally, many specialists from these companies have worked for the space industry segments in the Former Soviet Union, which demanded the utmost in quality assurance.
  
• Software Product Engineering
  While developing software, our companies use Standard ECSS-E-40A as the basis, in particular item 4:
  Space system software engineering, which defines all processes, states, and main documents of the software product, including:
  • Customers' requirements analysis process
  • Software requirements engineering process
  • Software design engineering process
  • Software verification and validation (qualification) process
  • Software operations engineering process
  • Software maintenance process
  In addition, while working with different customers, terminology may differ. The essentials of the phases and processes for the development of software, however, remain intact.
  
• Software Project Management
  To manage the projects, our companies use ECSS-M-series standards. These standards include: ECSS-M-00, -30, -40, -50, -60, of which the principal standard is ECSS-M-30: Project phases and planning and ECSS-M-60: Cost and schedule management.