Why Cyber Group?

What DO WE DO?

Cyber Group partners with our customers to maintain, re-engineer and enhance their software products and to develop their control electronics products. Our Dallas based systems engineers interact with customers, and our American trained engineers in India, to accurately capture customer product requirements; and deliver. We reduce our customers’ time and cost to market with our proven process and around-the-clock engineering operation.

Why us?

In a highly competitive environment, Cyber Group distinguishes itself by providing the following advantages:

· Our Dallas based project managers ensure, that any risks associated with offshore outsourcing are minimized, and accountability is increased. You don't have to worry about issues like cultural differences, time difference, and communication gaps etc.

· By employing world-class software resources in India, we ensure for you high quality solutions along with significant savings.

· By partnering with us for your software and/or control electronic needs, you can better devote resources to your core business.

When it comes to deciding to outsource, you should ask the same questions that companies like Verisae, Branson Ultrasonics, and other similar companies that we have worked with for 8 years asked before they chose us. The conclusion after working with us for two years for one company:

“We have renewed our contract for the third year in a row with Cyber Group. Over the past 2 years they have successfully helped Verisae implement many successful strategic development goals as well as provide solid ongoing support and maintenance of our application. Cyber Group has become a key, long-term technology partner.”

We want the opportunity to show you why the companies we work with continue to renew their contracts with us.

Why Use Cyber Group, Inc. for Outsourcing Engineering Services?

Ø You're on a tight schedule.

Ø You're short on engineering resources to get your project done on time. We'll get it done for you and do it right.

Ø We have a proven engineering team ready to go to work on your project.

Ø You have an idea. We'll make it work.

Ø We have proven processes, standards, and procedures to get your project done successfully.

Ø You have a need for specialized engineering. We'll provide the services you need, and you won't have to hire and maintain an expensive, specialized engineering staff.

Ø Your job is on the line - it depends on the success of your project. We'll lower your risk by taking your project to a successful completion.

Ø We have the talent, experience, and motivation to get your project done and do it right.

Profile

We bring in economic value by employing highly skilled, but inexpensive resources that ensure high accountability at minimal risk. It helps in reducing our client’s risks associated with offshore engagements.

Our “Global Consulting” NearShoreOffShore approach ensures that our work force is globally trained, and our clients enjoy the benefits of the low cost services, low risk engagements and world-class quality solutions. The ability to convert our client’s vision into a cost effective and efficient business solution is our distinct selling point.

CUSTOM SOFTWARE REENGINEERING/EMBEDDED SYSTEMS/MAINTENANCE

Cyber Group offers a strong team consisting of project managers, business consultants, software engineers and programmers, testers, designers and technical writers. Our experience in developing applications in various languages and on various platforms allows us to make judicious decisions while selecting platform and designing software architecture. Our consulting approach would also suggest any process improvements that are needed to leverage the technology as much as possible.

Our custom software reengineering services include:

· Client/Server applications

· Distributed applications

· Component development

· End-to-end web based systems

· Comprehensive business solutions

· Services Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Embedded Systems Credentials include:

· Systems and Design Process Consulting

· Systems Engineering

· Operations Software Design & Development

· Processor (Embedded) Controller Design

· Equipment Control (Embedded) Software Engineering

· Embedded Software Code Development

· Software and Hardware Integration and Testing

· Hardware-In-The-Loop Testing

· Application Development / GUI – Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, HTML, Oracle, SQL

· Equipment/Hardware connectivity through the LAN/Internet

· User Interface Software Development with Remote Control/Monitoring with LAN/Internet connectivity

Transparent project management and change management ensures that our client is involved at all levels of the development cycle. We understand the urgency to realize your investment in IT, so we ensure that the deliverables are defined in phases relevant to the business needs. Our efficient management of overheads expenditures like travel and communication costs enables us to deliver effective solutions within budget and on time.

Safe Practices in NearShore-OffShore Software Development

Cyber Group has implemented the approach that encompasses the minutest details, which had been or may have been easily overlooked by the nascent businesses to win the client interest. Clearly, the enticing feature of NearShore-OffShore is cost savings without compromising on quality.

We can offer huge cost savings, time optimization and talented technocrats in a minimal risk environment; while eliminating challenges such as, communication gaps, decreased visibility to project status, unexpected spikes in budget allocation and cultural hindrances.

The success of our Software NearShore-OffShore Development is the seamless flow of communication between the client and the Cyber Group. A constructive dialogue between the two sides is not limited to verbal communication, but is aggressively pursued in writing, meetings and conferences.

Seamless communication are reinforced by working on a global clock, which is accomplished by implementing work-schedules with a time overlap between our engineers in Dallas, Delhi and our clients. Our local presence is an added privilege to our client, as it guarantees direct and constant interfacing.

We make sure that the terms of engagement are clear; our clients’ teams and our teams coordinate the efforts and work on the project. The Engagement Model may be transparent to our client and their customers; and hence one that adds value to the relationship.

Cyber Group architects the design such that ensures an uninterrupted work-flow. Implementing a development environment that is a replication of the client environment serves as a conduit to smooth accomplishment of tasks.

Apart from setting up an extension of the Client backdrop, the teams engaged from either side delegating their tasks through a single point of contact to eliminate any ambiguities that could arise due to multiple interfacing channels. All the tasks relayed between the Delhi and Dallas teams, and the clients’ teams are anchored on close communication and active follow up.

How much everyone decides to implement an error-free design, some issues or unpredictable bumps in the road pop up and slow down the work-process. Our goal is to handle with a mutual consensus and cooperation from all parties so that we can ramp up the process to successfully achieve the target.

ENGAGEMENT MODELS

We offer our clients variety of engagement models to meet their specific requirements. Some of our engagement models are:

Effort Based Pricing: This model is useful for projects where scope and specifications changes during the course of project. Here, pricing is done based on the time and resources utilized; therefore project specifications can be modified on an ongoing basis. This model provides flexibility to clients to balance resources especially in onsite-offshore model.

Offshore Dedicated Center: This model is best suited for clients as it is a cost effective solution for clients with long term forecasted need of outsourcing. The client is provided with dedicated resources that work exclusively for the client. Regular training programs are undertaken to provide the team with necessary training on a regular basis.

DELIVERY MODELS

Cyber Group offers flexible delivery model to our client to suit their requirements. Our unique way of working enables our clients to use the benefits of offshore development for gaining competitive advantage. Our delivery model includes:

Onsite Delivery Model: In this model, the resources are used at the client’s premises. The model is best suited for projects whose scope is not clearly defined but goals are repetitive and open ended. The planning of the project, including collecting requirements to product implementation is done at the client’s end; with support from the Dallas Operations Center project managers.

Onsite – NearShore-OffShore Delivery Model: This model provides our clients the advantage of both onsite and offshore delivery model. Onsite team interacts directly with the client. The role of onsite team involves on-site consulting, requirement gathering, knowledge acquisition, designing the architecture of the system, product implementation, system testing. The talented, low cost offshore resources interact with the onsite team and the role includes high level system design, development, testing and providing remote support and maintenance. The benefit of this model is that it helps in maximizing efficiency and optimizing cost.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

Cyber Group adopts a proven parallel approach to deliver a project. This approach follows an iterative Development model through which the development phases are revisited with a feedback loop from forward stages at the end of critical milestones/changes.

The main benefit of this approach is that the customer can always see how the project is shaping up, not like waterfall approach where customer sees projects only after one phase is complete. This process reduces rework. We work with our clients and work through all these phases closely. Our team participates closely in each of the phases with the on-shore team. We take the ownership of delivery at all times.

Effective Deployment of 6 Best Practices

The Rational Unified Process describes how to effectively deploy commercially proven approaches to software development for software development teams. These are called "best practices" not so much because you can precisely quantify their value, but rather, because they are observed to be commonly used in industry by successful organizations. The Rational Unified Process provides each team member with the guidelines, templates and tool mentors necessary for the entire team to take full advantage of among others the following best practices:

1. Develop software iteratively
2. Manage requirements
3. Use component-based architectures
4. Visually model software
5. Verify software quality
6. Control changes to software

Develop Software Iteratively--Given today's sophisticated software systems, it is not possible to sequentially first define the entire problem, design the entire solution, build the software and then test the product at the end. An iterative approach is required that allows an increasing understanding of the problem through successive refinements, and to incrementally grow an effective solution over multiple iterations. The Rational Unified Process supports an iterative approach to development that addresses the highest risk items at every stage in the lifecycle, significantly reducing a project's risk profile. This iterative approach helps you attack risk through demonstrable progress¾frequent, executable releases that enable continuous end user involvement and feedback. Because each iteration ends with an executable release, the development team stays focused on producing results, and frequent status checks help ensure that the project stays on schedule. An iterative approach also makes it easier to accommodate tactical changes in requirements, features or schedule.

Manage Requirements--The Rational Unified Process describes how to elicit, organize, and document required functionality and constraints; track and document tradeoffs and decisions; and easily capture and communicate business requirements. The notions of use case and scenarios proscribed in the process has proven to be an excellent way to capture functional requirements and to ensure that these drive the design, implementation and testing of software, making it more likely that the final system fulfills the end user needs. They provide coherent and traceable threads through both the development and the delivered system.

Use Component-Based Architectures--The process focuses on early development and baselining of a robust executable architecture, prior to committing resources for full-scale development. It describes how to design a resilient architecture that is flexible, accommodates change, is intuitively understandable, and promotes more effective software reuse. The Rational Unified Process supports component-based software development. Components are non-trivial modules, subsystems that fulfill a clear function. The Rational Unified Process provides a systematic approach to defining an architecture using new and existing components. These are assembled in a well-defined architecture, either ad hoc, or in a component infrastructure such as the Internet, CORBA, and COM, for which an industry of reusable components is emerging.

Visually Model Software--The process shows you how to visually model software to capture the structure and behavior of architectures and components. This allows you to hide the details and write code using "graphical building blocks." Visual abstractions help you communicate different aspects of your software; see how the elements of the system fit together; make sure that the building blocks are consistent with your code; maintain consistency between a design and its implementation; and promote unambiguous communication.

Verify Software Quality--Poor application performance and poor reliability are common factors which dramatically inhibit the acceptability of today's software applications. Hence, quality should be reviewed with respect to the requirements based on reliability, functionality, application performance and system performance. The Rational Unified Process assists you in the planning, design, implementation, execution, and evaluation of these test types. Quality assessment is built into the process, in all activities, involving all participants, using objective measurements and criteria, and not treated as an afterthought or a separate activity performed by a separate group.

Control Changes to Software--The ability to manage change--making certain that each change is acceptable, and being able to track changes--is essential in an environment in which change is inevitable. The process describes how to control, track and monitor changes to enable successful iterative development. It also guides you in how to establish secure workspaces for each developer by providing isolation from changes made in other workspaces and by controlling changes of all software artifacts (e.g., models, code, documents, etc.). And it brings a team together to work as a single unit by describing how to automate integration and build management.