Development Matters Blog

Over the coming months, we will be writing a series of articles detailing the benefits of our Offshore Development combined with Local Project Management.

To start this series, here are 2 benefits specific to our office locations:

1. Since our development lab is located in Eastern Europe, we actually consider it ‘near shore’. The 7-hour time difference gives us enough daily overlap to collaborate efficiently across teams. There are three hours naturally overlapping in the business day, and it is easy to stretch it to five or six hours. This gives us no ‘drop off’ in collaboration between team members at different locations. And with both teams utilizing the same processes and systems, we have been able to develop a proven methodology that works.
2. With a software development lab in Eastern Europe, we are able to take advantage of a less penetrated market. It is a non-traditional region for outsourcing as compared to India or China, which enables us to consistently hire and retain the top 5% of talent. Our relationships with the US Commercial Service and local Embassies enable us to obtain visas when we need to get our developers to the US as projects sometimes demand. As contrasted to other offshore development organizations in India and China, this provides a productivity advantage, and can substantially reduce project risk.

Be sure to check back in the future for more benefits of Offshore Development and Local Project Management.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a compelling and attractively priced solution to companies now facing a technological crossroad and need to update legacy systems.

To lower the cost and make migrations easier when upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics AX, we utilize the straightforward migration methodology supported by Microsoft tools. Using the Sure Step migration process together with the new Migration Tool for Microsoft Dynamics AX,  we can help companies speed up the implementation process.

Our proven processes lessen the risks inherent in many implementations, providing increased transparency, delivering improved accuracy, and easing the pain that can take place when migrating to a new system.

I have Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows Vista Enterprise and a few days ago, the mouse just stopped working in Word, so I could not select, copy, paste, edit. The reason was an automatic update for Word 2007 on Windows Vista-based computer.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products and published resolution for this problem on their support site:

 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940791

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC (Release Candidate) were made available to all MSDN subscribers on February 8.

The rest of the world will have a chance do get it on Wednesday, February 10th. This version also includes a go-live license.

For more information on the RC, visit Jason Zander’s Weblog.

Happy coding!