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About QAT Global
Your Technology Innovation Partner
For over 25 years, QAT Global has been an innovation partner delivering high-quality results on time and on budget. QAT Global provides a comprehensive range of technical and strategic consulting services; we focus on how IT can make a real difference to your business by building in agility, streamlining business processes, integrating data assets in new ways, and transforming technical assets. We also help our clients quickly get to market with new or enhanced products, including custom software solutions, web software, desktop software, line of business applications, third-party integrations, e-commerce solutions, content management systems, rich internet applications, and mainframe applications. QAT Global has invested in key technical talent, jump-start tool kits, development libraries, methodologies, frameworks, and templates that have been refined over many product development efforts and achieve above-average, repeatable results for our clients.
QAT Global has a flexible operating model, we work with each of our clients to determine the right fit, and we design an approach that will work the most effectively for each client. This always begins with helping our clients balance insight and ideas with strategic action. Most importantly, throughout our relationship, we always place the interests of our clients first.
Our Partnership Pledge
At QAT Global, our team is committed to building strong, long-term relationships with our clients. We believe in working as a team to develop the best solution for you. To achieve this, we spend time getting to know your business and team so we have a well-informed understanding of your needs, goals, and interests. We deliver the right help and advice on demand and use an Agile-scrum development methodology that inspires and creates trust, mutual respect, transparency, accountability, and a sense of operational partnership.
Why Choose QAT Global
When you have a vision for a custom-designed application that would give your business a competitive advantage or forges new ground and need help designing and building it, you’ve come to the right place. Custom solutions are what we do best and most often. Our team thrives on new challenges and is ready to help you make your vision a reality, no matter how complex or ground-breaking.
We aren’t new to enterprise-level custom software development. We’ve been designing successful client solutions for over 25 years. Our team of solution architects, UX & UI designers, database/security experts, business analysts, and experienced project managers bring the experience, expertise, and enthusiasm you need to make your project a success. We’ve been there, we’ve done it, and we can’t wait to help you succeed.
Technology Competence
Our unique competence in various technologies enables us to deliver integrated, scalable, robust solutions with the optimal cost/performance ratio. Our R&D lab constantly conducts research on new technology products to meet the ever-growing customer needs. We never stop improving our services, including development methodologies, engineering practices, management techniques and QA standards to enhance our team’s capabilities and increase customer satisfaction.
QAT Global Business Experience
With over 25 years of experience in providing professional software development services for clients across the globe, QAT Global has gained unmatched business and technological expertise. We have completed hundreds of projects of different sizes and complexity in various business and technology domains. Capitalizing on the accumulated experience, QAT Global provides full-cycle services ranging from business analysis and consulting to project implementation and support.
Vertical and Domain Expertise
Our rich business domain experience enables us to speak the same language with clients and understand their business needs easily. Our knowledge stretches from application design, development, and integration to operating key processes. This knowledge base and experience help us save clients’ precious time and deliver the right solution for each unique situation.
Our Customer Focused Approach
QAT Global is a client-centric organization. We make it our business to understand and help our clients achieve their business goals.
Our Commitments
QAT Global is committed to delivering quality solutions and client satisfaction.
Our Values…
Commitment to Quality
At QAT Global, our commitment to quality means two things. First, we are committed to delivering quality solutions, meeting expectations, and satisfying clients. Second, we are committed to continuously improving the processes by which we provide our solutions so that our work repeatedly hits the mark each time.
For our custom software development projects, QAT Global’s repeatable development process, Agility RPM, enables our programmers and developers to build and maintain higher-quality software products for our clients.
Our Repeatable Development Process
Repeatable Success for Software Projects
For our custom software development projects, QAT Global’s repeatable development process, Agility RPM, enables our programmers and developers to build and maintain higher-quality software products for our clients.
What is QAT Global’s Repeatable Development Process?
A repeatable development process is critical for an organization to achieve optimal time-to-market, manage development cost and risk, and ensure the product’s quality and performance on a consistent basis. At QAT, our repeatable development process – Agility RPM – is rooted in Agile software development methodologies.
Agility RPM includes repeatable and clearly defined processes and artifacts around project management, architecture, analysis, design and design standards, training, and testing (unit, integration, and acceptance). While having a clearly defined repeatable process is critical, our experience has proven that the characteristics of each project (size, technology, maturity, purpose, and success factors) are unique. This uniqueness has shown that a single rigid, repeatable development process will not always work. This is why Agility RPM℠ not only uses Agile methodologies but is Agile itself to account for the uniqueness of your project while still being repeatable with clearly defined processes and artifacts.
Technological Breadth
At QAT Global, we have a vast technical talent pool trained across technologies. This breadth of our experience comes to play while creating the most appropriate solution for your technical business needs. We have experts ready to assist you with cloud computing, DevOps, user experience, rich internet applications, mobile applications, custom software solutions, web software, desktop software, line of business applications, third-party integrations, e-commerce solutions, content management systems, mainframe applications, integrated marketing, and so on.
Project Delivery Location Flexibility
QAT Global is extremely flexible regarding delivery location. Whether it’s your site or one of QAT Global’s development centers across the globe, we have the right mix of models to customize your experience.
We can assign our skilled resources to your premises or set up an offshore software development team at our Brazil or Costa Rica office. We can also assign our on-site project coordinator, who will manage the offshore team and be your single point of contact for the entire project management and delivery.
Our corporate office in the US and our low-cost Brazil and Costa Rica offshore software development labs offer cost-conscious options.
We focus on solutions, not just technologies.
With knowledge of multiple technical solutions to any given problem, we don’t evangelize any single programming language or platform – we help clients make informed decisions that fit within their unique objectives and budget. Our toolbox of technologies keeps expanding with our early adoption of whatever’s next.
By translating these technologies into high-value solutions through our repeatable agile development approach, strategic consulting services, product engineering, and custom engagement models, we’re helping our clients solve real business problems and innovate quickly. It takes a strong blend of technical artistry, high-end engineering and deliberate execution – that’s how we approach every project we take on. Most importantly, throughout our relationship, we always place the interests of our clients first.
QAT Global’s History
Our Story
Together, we are one.
Incorporated in 1995, QAT Global is a recognized leader in custom software development, product engineering, rich internet applications, and strategic consulting, with exceptional strength in the areas of agile distributed development, user experience, and innovation.
QAT Global is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, with wholly owned and operated offshore development centers in Uberaba, Brazil and San Antonio de Belén Heredia, Costa Rica. QAT’s leadership team includes co-founders Ken Bass and Rollie Stephens. The QAT Global executive leadership team has an average of over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, software development, and application integration.
QAT Global got its start in developing enterprise-level solutions using model-based development tools that enabled our products and services to span multiple platforms and databases. Our early success with large enterprise customers across multiple platforms and databases instilled a development culture with a focus on tools, repeatable development processes, application scalability, and component reuse, a culture that is still very much part of this company.
Although the technology has changed over the years, with our core practices around Java, .NET and model-based development, these core strengths in enterprise-level architecture, development and business process automation continue to be fully leveraged across our solution stack.
Q.A. Technologies, Inc. (DBA QAT Global) is a privately held, debt-free S-Corporation.
The Five Keys to QAT Global’s Growth and Success
Commitment to Quality
While retaining competitive rates, we never compromise the quality of our services. A dedicated quality assurance department monitors project activities at all development phases and guarantees defect prevention, project risk mitigation, and high-quality results.
Personnel Quality
The quality of our people makes us stand out. We hire and retain only the best professionals. At QAT Global, we set up a thorough personnel selection process and a challenging environment to grow and improve our large resource pool of top-notch experts.
Process Quality
QAT Global follows proven development methodologies on every project we undertake. We implement the best industry standards and practices like Agile. These standards and QAT Global’s experience guarantee outstanding results and allow us to better serve clients in terms of cost, quality, and timeframes.
Company Timeline
Our Strategic Partners and Alliances
At QAT Global, we are extremely proud of the relationships we’ve built and maintained with other industry leaders. Together, we innovate, develop best-in-class products and services, and create joint development, marketing, and sales engagements.
QAT Global recognizes the benefits that joint technology partnerships and strategic alliances can bring to our customers. That’s why QAT Global has created the Alliances & Partners Program with the mission of building new business opportunities and long-term partnerships that enable us to deliver comprehensive and proven technology solutions to our shared markets.
Outsystems
Sensus
Insysco
QAT Global is a Premier Altova Software Partner.
Member of The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
Become a Strategic Partner With QAT Global
QAT Global partners with a select group of organizations to develop strategic business alliances and sponsorship opportunities that are mutually advantageous.
The QAT Global Alliances and Partners Program delivers best-in-class solutions with industry-leading companies who, by partnering with QAT Global, can:
- Extend the sales and market reach of our two organizations
- Co-market solutions through branding, awareness, and lead-generation activities.
- Create long-term value, reach targeted audiences and build relationships.
QAT Global’s Startup Technology Ventures
Startup Incubator
Creative Hive Labs Startups is a strategic partner for promising startups focused on business growth and development, cutting-edge technology, and products that provide an exceptional user experience. QAT aims to create new business opportunities and stimulate economic growth by investing in and providing hands-on mentorship to capital-efficient and scalable technology companies. We are especially interested in partnering with promising B2B startups in the insurance and financial industries.
The Creative Hive Labs Startups team partners with entrepreneurs to build leading technology-based companies. With startup founders facing challenges such as business planning, staffing, launching, and financing, we provide expert mentoring backed by years of entrepreneurial and technology experience and extensive services and resources to help turn great ideas into scalable enterprises. The program’s services and resources include technology, marketing, operational, and financial support to selected ambitious startups.
The goal of QAT’s incubator program is to help entrepreneurs achieve in months what typically takes, without our extensive resources, several years. QAT programs are characterized by the following key aspects: top-notch talent, direct and intense interaction with QAT Global Experts, and a targeted lean startup methodology.
Have a new brilliant idea? Contact us today to discuss how we can work together.
At QAT Global, we’re proud to call Omaha home.
It’s where our business got its start, and it’s the home base that provides us with the ability to grow and deliver exceptional results for our clients year after year. We are Omaha Strong!
What Does it Mean to be Omaha Strong?
Omaha provides all of the elements a company needs to be successful.
People
Strong leadership, dedication to company and community, experience.
Community Connection
Local business partners, charity, community involvement, philanthropy.
Midwest Values
Sensibility, teamwork, empathy.
Company Culture
Flextime, family-first, customer orientation.
Structural Position
Time zone differences, flights, moving products from coast to coast.
Talent
Educational institutions, degrees.
Cost of Doing Business
Taxes, cost of living, economy.
Research Environment
Healthcare and technology.
Financial Accessibility
Abundant funding options.
Infrastructure
IT services, interstates, schools, energy, communications.
Why Omaha Strong?
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and is also the anchor of the eight-county bi-state Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Today, approximately 1.3 million people reside in the Greater Omaha area within a 50 mile radius of Downtown Omaha.
Brief Origin & History
Omaha was a stop on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in 1804. The Omaha, Ponca, and various other Native American Tribes lived on the land that became Omaha. Omaha’s name comes from the Indian word meaning “upstream people.” A treaty with the Omaha Tribe allowed for the creation of the Nebraska Territory and Omaha City. Omaha was then informally established on July 4th, 1854 on Capital Hill in Downtown Omaha, where Omaha Central High School now sits. Omaha was declared Capital of Nebraska, until 1867 when the capital moved to Lincoln.
In the 19th century, Omaha’s central location in the U.S made the city an important national transportation hub. Omaha became known as the “gateway to the West” as the Platte and Missouri rivers were vital transportation arteries. From the 1890s to the mid 20th century, Omaha was one of the top livestock markets in the world. The Omaha Stockyards was once the world’s largest and the local meatpacking plants acquired international prominence.
21st Century
Today, Omaha is home to the headquarters of Fortune 500 companies including Berkshire Hathaway, Kiewit Corporation, Mutual of Omaha, and Union Pacific Corporation.
In 2002, the First National Bank Tower was completed as Omaha’s largest skyscraper at 634 feet.
In 2008, Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge opened crossing the Missouri River between Council Bluffs and Omaha.
In 2011, TD Ameritrade Park was completed in the North Downtown area, becoming the new home of the College World Series.
In 2019, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium again ranks #2 as the best zoo in the country. The zoo’s Lied Jungle is the largest indoor rainforest in America.
Interesting Facts :
- Some notable inventions from Omaha include the bobby pin, Butter Brickle Ice Cream, Reuben Sandwich, Raisin Bran Cereal, TV Dinners, cake mix, and the ski lift.
- The NCAA Men’s College World Series has been a tradition in Omaha for 60+ years.
- Omaha has been the host of the U.S Olympic Swim Trials for three consecutive trials.
- Ebola patients are transported to Omaha and treated because the University of Nebraska Medical Center has one of the leading high-level containment centers in the nation.
- Famous people who call Omaha home: President Gerald Ford, Malcolm X, Actor Nick Nolte, Fred Astaire, Actress Gabrielle Union, Warren Buffett, and more.
- Penny from The Big Bang Theory is also from Omaha.
- Omaha hosted the World’s Fair in 1898.
- Nebraska is where Arbor Day first began.
QAT Global is Omaha Strong
Incorporated in 1995 by Ken Bass and Rollie Stephens QAT Global is a recognized leader in custom software development, product engineering, rich internet applications, and strategic consulting with exceptional strength in the areas of agile distributed development, user experience, and innovation.
QAT Global is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with wholly owned and operated offshore development centers in Uberaba, Brazil and San Antonio de Belén Heredia, Costa Rica. The QAT Global executive leadership team has an average of over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, software development, and application integration.
QAT Global got its start in developing enterprise-level solutions using model-based development tools that enabled our products and services to span multiple platforms and databases. Our early success with large enterprise customers across multiple platforms and databases instilled a development culture with a focus on tools, repeatable development processes, application scalability, and component reuse; a culture that is still very much part of this company.
High quality of life, low cost of living, and diversity of educational and living options characterize life in Omaha. The greater Omaha area population of 1.3 million people is one of the country’s most affordable tech centers. At 4.9% below the national cost of living average, it costs less to live and work here than in most tech areas. Omaha has also been rated No. 2 in America’s Best Cities by Resonance (population of more than 200,000 but fewer than 1 million), No. 2 in Cities Where Renters Can Afford to Live Alone by SmartAssets, and No. 5 in Cities You Should Consider Moving to ASAP by Zoe Report.
Arts & Culture
With several theatre venues, history and art museums, and music venues, Omaha’s cultural community is thriving.
Sports & Events
Omaha is home to the Omaha Storm Chasers AAA baseball team, Omaha Beef professional indoor football team, and the Omaha Lancers hockey team.
Omaha also hosts several special sporting events, such as The College World Series, US Olympic Swim Trials, and US Senior Open, in addition to a wide variety of college sports events.
Outdoors & Adventure
With more than 240 parks and 120 miles of paved trails, Omaha provides excellent access to biking, fishing, golf courses, swimming pools, fitness trails, and picnic areas. There are also four large recreation areas nearby for fishing, camping, and boating fun.
Entertainment & Food
Locals love to socialize and celebrate; as a result, the community has abundant entertainment and food options. From one of the world’s best zoos to thirteen entertainment districts, there’s something for everyone.
Health Care
From primary care facilities and comprehensive hospitals to health care research and technology, Omaha delivers first-class health care to residents.
Business Environment | Talent Pool | Quality of Living
Learn Why People and Companies Make Omaha, NE Their Home
People keep coming to the Omaha area. In fact, nearly 10,000 people a year. Ready to learn why they come to Omaha? For the same reasons that companies like QAT Global, Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific Railroad, Werner Enterprises, Mutual of Omaha, Home Instead Senior Care, West, Kiewit, TD Ameritrade, and so many others have made Omaha their home. The business environment, talent pool, and quality of living provide a foundation for success.
Need more proof that Omaha makes us strong? Consider these numbers:
No. 1
Up-and-Coming Tech Hotspots
(livability.com)
No. 1
Best City to Work in Tech
(Smart Asset)
No. 1
Most Financially Literate State
(WalletHub)
No. 2
State for Cost of Doing Business
(America’s Top States for Business 2018)
No. 3
Most Up-and-Coming Cities in America
(Time)
No. 3
Financial Planning & Habits
(WalletHub)
No. 3
Top US Cities Where Millennials Are Moving, And Staying
(Financial Advisor)
No. 4
City to Start Your Tech Job Search
(Ziprecriter.com)
No. 6
Best State for Education
(USNews.com)
No. 6
Financial Knowledge & Education
(WalletHub)
No. 7
Best State for Fiscal Stability
(USNews.com)
No. 8
in U.S. State Economy Rankings
(Business Insider – 2018)
No. 9
Overall Best State
(USNews.com)
No. 11
Credit Score Rank
(WalletHub)
No. 14
Largest IT Hub With Over 5.8% of Jobs in IT
(Omaha Chamber)
No. 19
Best Large City to Live in
(WalletHub)
Media Contacts & Resources
Resources for the Media
QAT Global can help you with your media needs. Our team is available to provide expert commentary on Application Development, Agile Development, Rich Internet Applications, Mobile Applications, Social Media Applications, DevOpsps, User Experience, and Offshoring to Brazil.
QAT Global has organized a set of quick links to help media representatives get the information they need quickly.
If you are a member of the media and have questions about a QAT Global news release, product, or service, or if you would like to schedule an interview with a QAT Global team member, please contact us at 402-391-9200 or email us.
Karie Barrett, Marketing Director
Ken Bass, Owner
Rollie Stephens, Owner
Corporate Headquarters
222 South 15th Street
Suite 221 North
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
800-799-8545 / 402-391-9200
Fax: 402-391-1175
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