Step-by Step process of Hiring an Offshore Php Programmer

April 6th, 2010

With the change in the business trends, outsourcing is getting popular day by day since it enables businesses to outsource their various needs such that they can focus on important activities. A lot of good outsourcing firms are there to get in touch with to hire dedicated or part-time PHP programmers to outsource your programming work. Numerous well-known and reputed companies are taking benefit of outsourcing to reduce costs and accomplish desired results in their business.

Important steps to be taken in the process of Hiring an Offshore Php Programmer

Explain all your project requirements and development schemes to the PHP programmer. Put in writing all your necessities associated with the website so that the programmer has an unambiguous view of his responsibilities. Talk about important development requirements including schedule and deadlines during starting discussion.

Before hiring a programmer, check the credentials and qualifications. Look at some of the previous work of the programmer and if he is not ready to share his past work experience, there is no point in working with him.

Make up your mind on the programmer’s compensation before hiring him/her. Though price should not be the crucial aspect while hiring a programmer, never get persuaded by a programmer offering services at a low price who might try to raise the charges later.

All over the globe, companies are gaining advantage from the outsourcing which has become the most influential business tool to minimize the costs and improve efficiency. Web application development might turn out to be costly, but hiring a full-time PHP programmer through a well known outsourcing company is an intelligent option.

PHP is one of the most successful open source scripting languages and it is widely used. With ever increasing demand, PHP programmers have started charging high salary for their services and most companies cannot afford it. Therefore, lots of companies now hire PHP programmers through reputed outsourcing companies that provide them with an ease of hiring the required expertise at reduced costs.

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OsCommerce – A completely out of the box solution

April 1st, 2010

OsCommerce is the most widespread and conventional open source Shopping Cart system of this technological era. It provides complete range of customization choices depending on the need of online store owners at a very reasonable price as it contains a vast list of features and is most likely the best flexible shopping cart solution available. In case, you are interested in setting up an e-shop, you must give osCommerce a thought.

OsCommerce is an online shopping store solution that offers a variety of outstanding and unique features that allows you to easily setup online shopping stores in minimum time. Released under GNU’s general public license, it is offered free to everyone as an Open Source solution.

An absolute online shopping store solution, osCommerce includes both a resourceful catalog front-end and an efficient administration tool back-end, which can be effortlessly put together and managed over the web.

Some advantages of using osCommerce system:

  • It is an easy to install and use, full-featured shopping cart using Php and MySQL.
  • It supports a large number of products and categories since it uses an indexed database and can handle numerous products.
  • A number of add-on modules are there to use and many more are in development phase and will be available soon.

Some weak points:

  • Support regarding the installation and other technical issues is restricted to the osCommerce forums, which is not sufficient for new users.
  • More technical knowledge is required to customize this store.   

Important stuff while choosing your Hosting for osCommerce:

A web hosting service that includes MySQL is capable to fulfill all the needs and requirements for osCommerce installation.You may be having few difficulties in the beginning but after some experience and browsing through the helpful forums and the knowledge base, you will become familiar and get-going with osCommerce.

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Benefits Of Outsource Application Development in India

April 1st, 2010

There is an enormous increase in the market of outsourced goods and services these days. Any business can take advantage from outsourcing provided that it is done appropriately and in the right direction. The major reason, why most of the businesses choose outsourcing these days is due to the world wide effects of globalization, which gives an easy access to expertise from any corner of the world. Earlier, businesses were geographically constrained and restricted in their capability to use various resources. Gradually, bigger businesses started taking advantage of the open global markets to get resources from the places where they are in abundance and cheap.

At the present time, resources in terms of goods and services move all over the globe to reach the business destination where they are required. Half a century ago, it was unimaginable to use services from another country, and now we do not observe how many services are outsourced around us from faraway areas.

There are lots of outsourcing hubs that are operating in developing areas of the world like India, simply because there are various explicit resources available in these regions that are low-priced and available in great quantity. Currently, employees working in offshore software development centers from India and software technicians from China are getting smart salaries that become handsome amount in their home countries but in terms of dollar, it sounds small. This difference of currency values of various countries makes it possible for a business in the US or UK to spend less money and gain more advantage, while the resource providing the business possibility is also adequately rewarded.

Another important effect of outsourcing is that it makes it possible for the businesses to get the resources at the most competitive price. Simultaneously, the developed nations will also share certain expertise that is produced by them and all this results in reasonable distribution of resources across the world.

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Key to Successful Offshore Projects

March 27th, 2010

One of the most popular trends flourishing day by day in the business world is offshore outsourcing. In the recession hit corporate scenario, companies are facing pressure of reducing their operational costs and other expenses to maintain their profit margins. And “offshore outsourcing” looks like the most lucrative moves that companies have taken to retain their benefits and come out of these difficult times. Following the current trend, offshore product development partners need to take care of various aspects to make the offshore projects successful.

Reason carrying almost complete credit for the failure of many offshore outsourcing projects are incompatibility and lack of communication between the outsourcing company and the service providers. Selecting the correct vendors for a long term business relationship is very important since you are bound to work with them for a significant period of time. Among the other factors, it is the rapport established between client and service provider on which the success of an offshore project depends. When you have good business relations with your vendor, they feel more attached to your work and are open to make suggestions for the project on hand.

The basic building blocks – Communication & Relationship

Strong work relationships and regular communication are the basic building blocks of continued partnerships. When the buyer and the vendor work together with mutual cooperation, their combined strength leads the project toward completion efficiently. It also ensures better returns on all the investment and efforts that are made and consequently, improvement in project results. All this eventually results in improved quality of deliverables for your project.

Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

If you are on good working terms with your vendors, they are more cautious and vigilant towards your project. Consequently, their enthusiasm in the work results in completion of all project modules with more efficiency and before estimated deadlines.

Difference in work cultures can hamper the growth

One of the greatest obstacles in the smooth flow of ongoing offshore outsourcing projects is difference in work culture. The dissimilarity between the corporate cultures of the buyer and the vendor can create problems and possibly can hamper the growth of the project. To overcome this problem, you must sit together and discuss the problems to sort out the differences.

Good and frequent communication has always paved way to success

To rule out the possibilities of disputes in the future you must communicate regularly with your vendor since it ensures that both of you have the same opinion regarding various aspects of the project.

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The Migration Series 1 –…

March 23rd, 2010

The Migration Series 1 – Migrating your Legacy Applications to Java http://bit.ly/b7GIFz via @AddToAny

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Cheer leaders in migrating Legacy Applications to Java

March 23rd, 2010

In the mid 90s a lot of IT departments in various sectors rushed to migrate their legacy software applications to newer technologies ‘cos Y2K was coming. There was a great fear that many legacy software applications would be unable to handle the requirements and even stop working because of the change in the first two digits of a four-digit year. This fear led a number of companies chose to purchase and implement new applications that handled most of their business processes right, if not all. They purchased these applications as a single or an integrated package, from companies such as PeopleSoft, Microsoft and Oracle. Many other companies chose to modify their existing software to handle the Y2K requirements themselves. But now the time has changed, companies have realized that legacy applications though are easy to use, given the fact that they are legacy and have been worked on for years together, however they are not modernized and not at all ready for new functionality and difficult to use for the end user. There are newer versions, but they have an expensive license or have limited support.

iBoss Tech Solutions helps clients to migrate or modernize legacy applications to current technologies like Java and .Net. Our Technical competency in both Java and .Net has come with good practical experience on legacy systems helping us to understand the architecture and risks behind a business to migrate the applications. “iBoss re-faced our existing application and helped us transform to Java technology very smoothly. An overnight transformation wasn’t expected. But, they did it. Cheer leaders at Java, that’s what I call them” a client added.

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iBoss – The Java Tigers

March 23rd, 2010

By partnering with professional custom application development service providers with experience working on both B2B and B2C platforms and leveraging proven outsourced software development best practices, iBoss addresses the various unique needs of multiple industries and gives companies a wonderful cost-effective opportunity to grow even in the time of industry recession.

“One of our very important success stories come straight from the United States. We have been serving this company since our origination. And today in response to the market demand, we offer technology support to a larger number of other companies looking to optimize their costs and business processes and at the same time a vendor they can trust and build long term relationships with. We are a company that beleives in networking with complete dedication to work and showing the world our excellence at software development services”, – said Rishi Ghai, Director – Information Technology at iBoss. He added “Our IT systems analysts, project managers, team leads, and developers are dedicated to a customer-oriented approach. Our flexibility at the methodologies makes sure that each solution we create is the one that complies with client’s unique requirements. Cutomised to the demand of the buisness we are dealing with, the software solutions provided by iBoss helps businesses to maximize their return on investment by offering the best value”.

The services iBoss provides range from complete application development services, to large scale back office operations. iBoss’s experience covers customized aplication development for warranty companies, housing societies, real estate and other industries embracing the best from IT today.

“Our next-generation web-based payroll service solutions would enable companies to optimize their internal and external employee processes and make it easy to manage and control each and every payroll process, thus keeping finger on the pulse of the company “the manpower” and let us be flexible in unforeseeable situations on this dynamic market. I call the team – Java Tigers”, – added a client of iBoss.

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Helping customers migrate their AS400 applications to Java

March 23rd, 2010

If migrating AS 400 applications to Java is the latest endeavor then the required data and download help is just a click away! Now it has become easier to accomplish the task with the help of dedicated server platforms. There are a number of software and service providers who are now empowering the Java switch over from AS 400 with the help of specially crafted and deployed migration tools.

How transition takes place:

Not only are the ingrained technologies used to convert RPG applications for AS 400 into Java, but they are also built to capitalize on the versatility and dynamism of standard based platforms. The various tools used for the changeover use Intel Xeon technology, integrity servers, and certified Java platform applications. This has enabled the maintenance and development of all existing AS 400 applications into less expensive and relatively newer packaged applications in Java.

Many of the online resources dedicated to the endeavor are replete with integrated and specially engineered AS 400 specific software. This makes the transfer to a non-proprietary platform quite an appealing alternative. Instead of resorting to the redundancy of wholesale replacement of ingrained AS 400 applications, you can now bank on the efficiency and effectiveness of a good replacement strategy – feasible and more sophisticated.

With the help of Open Systems hardware not only is the process made quicker and cost effective, but also more functional. There are many resources designed and deployed to help in the migration from AS 400 to Java that use a high degree of automation (Microsoft .NET and JAVA). The end result is rapid migration towards standard-based servers enhanced with UNIX, Linux, or Windows.

Frills and add-ons for cost effective functionality:

The versatility of the operating systems is also used to switch from proprietary based databases to more upgraded versions such as Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL Server and MYSQL. The migration thus achieved makes porting faster and a lot more secure. Beyond this enhanced functionality, the result is also less expensive than the cost involved in deploying new software systems. You can beat the cost of redeveloping software and retain critical functionality while implementing new improvements with the help of dedicated technologies.

The makeover triggered by the correct use of the modern programming language – Java makes migration very easy. There are potential arenas to be tapped for instant help like versatile server lines and futuristic server platforms. You can now access the required trade-in program for timely migration, alongside training and hardware support from many online sources. You are instantly empowered with services, tools and tutorials designed that are designed to facilitate smooth migration via Integrated and comprehensive portfolio applications.

The shift over happens alongside dedicated porting and migration assessments, data migration, virtualization, SAP migration and the availability of workshops for optimizing computing centers. The applications are all generated within arenas replete with technological assistance from engineers who are adept at recognizing and addressing futuristic business applications. The sooner the migration from AS 400 to Java the more versatile your web presence and subsequently generated online business!

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The grey matter at iBoss is growing everyday

March 23rd, 2010

Looking for Custom Application Development. iBoss Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd offers state-of-the-art capabilities for custom developments.

With the advent of technology, there has been an increasing need for both innovative and professional software development services. Since, aplications can now be built for any platform possible, be it your laptops, your personal computer or your mobile phone, the number of users embracing the revolution has exponentially risen too and these users are primarily companies like Google, MSN, Twitter, noticably, both large and small and then they have you as their end-user.

At the forefront of this rapidly changing technology and ever changing technology is the grey Matter at iBoss Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and when we say grey matter, we mean the expertise that the dedicated software developers at the offshore development center have gained over the last 5 years of existence. With many projects running from clients at different regions of the world, it is true that these resources have got what it takes to build complex applications for various industries. Pioneering the competitive list of custom application development service companies in India, iBoss Tech Solutions has mastered the swift dynamics of a constantly evolving custom application market. With applications tailor-made for housing societies, TPA Warranty, real estate, food chains and now payroll, iBoss is leading with many similar opportunities coming their way and with both small and large business ventures eager to garner a major portion of the software market pie, iBoss now finds favor with every progressive business mind in the industry hoping to get the best application with the best chosen technology.

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