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Driving Success with the QAT Global Advantage: Custom Solutions for Enterprise Software Development
Welcome to QAT Global, your trusted partner in custom software development and staff augmentation services. Our QAT Global Advantage sets us apart, enabling us to deliver exceptional results and exceed client expectations. Discover how our comprehensive approach and industry expertise can drive your enterprise’s success.
Experience the QAT Global Advantage
At QAT Global, we bring you meaningful results that deliver maximum value. It starts with a focus on quality, value, and speed – everything you want and need for software development projects. We focus on conserving your budget while doing more by developing highly scalable, quick, and secure applications at a rapid pace and with the highest quality using our enterprise software development framework and Agility RPM methodology. The bottom line is – we give customers business advantages that matter.
We give IT Decision Makers and CIOs from all across the country the edge that they need to maximize their budget dollars through compounded savings. Innovation and deep knowledge of current advances in technology form the basis of our core, as we partner with our customers to develop a constant stream of innovative software products and technology solutions that enhance productivity, improve user satisfaction, create new business from advances in technology, and deliver strong ROI. We get the job done for less due to our non-metro locations in the US, Costa Rica, and Brazil. We ensure faster time-to-market and lower R&D costs using our refined fast-track software development process, project accelerators, and open-source technologies by going beyond simple out-of-the-box thinking. Our heavy focus on requirements analysis, usability, product design, and quality assurance also dramatically reduces the long-term total cost of ownership, alleviating unanticipated expenses associated with excessive user training and re-implementation.
We continuously make significant investments in internal R&D teams focused on evolving technologies such as cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), performance engineering, evolving open-source frameworks for the enterprise, mobile, social media, product testing, and big data. This, coupled with our Agile-based methodology, frameworks, models, and extensive experience in software product development, enables us to design and build successful products with the robustness, interoperability, and minimization of risk required for evolving business environments.
With a focus on building long-term relationships with our clients, QAT Global works as a seamless partner with the client development team, adopting best practices and applying flexible engagement models to create world-class software products. This permits us to work in partnership with our clients to focus our collective creative energy exactly where our customers’ markets need it, stimulating further innovation that reaches well beyond an initial project brief.
The QAT Global Advantage
Industry Standards and Best Practices in Action
A Product Mindset for Sustainability
Creating Sustainable Products
Creating sustainable products requires a special product mindset by the development team. It’s about planning for changes in features, scale, security needs, and development team members from day 0 in the development process. At QAT Global, we bring a product mindset to every project.
QAT Global started as a software product development company, so we are exceptionally aware of what makes a project succeed or fail. Our product mindset means we have an acute understanding that a software solution has to work and support business processes on day zero of operation and must be designed to grow and evolve as the business and user needs do. This means you can feel confident that the software we develop for you will contain standardized code that is cohesive, loosely coupled, testable, and above all, maintainable, even as the application grows in size and scale.
Software development that consistently delivers quality results on time and within budget requires a proven recipe. To accomplish this, we use our Enterprise Development Framework to build highly scalable, fast, and secure software applications that are changing how clients are delivering solutions to their internal and external customers. Our framework includes the Agility RPM methodology we follow to manage the projects and the frontend and backend frameworks.
Our development framework supports projects of all scales and addresses all key parameters developed based on the experience gained from providing software product development services for over 25 years and contributing to several hundred successful product releases. In addition, the development framework ensures that your software is designed right the first time and is architected for future growth.
Highlights
- Daily software product development updates
- Flexibility to make adjustments at regular intervals during the development process
- Designed for risk minimization, security, scale, interoperability, and other key factors
- Providing a rich user experience, stability, and robustness
- Architectures that are designed for future modifications
- Business logic is separate from the core architecture so that the latter can stay intact
Research & Development Labs
Premium Technology Services
QAT Global’s Research and Development Labs (R&D) offers premium technology services to clients based on intensive research and experiments with new and upcoming technologies. Our team studies emerging and cutting-edge technologies, looking for high-value ways to leverage them for our clients.
Highlights
- Reusable components, tools, and frameworks that accelerate the software development process
- Faster time-to-market
- Overall software development costs are significantly reduced
- Development with a high level of code reuse
- Increased focus on business functionality and security
QAT Global’s Research and Development Labs act as incubators for new product ideas and a learning center for all our stakeholders. The ideas and innovations emerging out of these Labs have enabled us to, time and again, provide a significant head-start to our clients’ technology initiatives and projects. Putting R&D ideas and innovations into action in real projects furthers their refinement and helps move them from concept to proven component, tool, or framework. Plus, the research knowledge and application enable us to suggest opportunities to create new business from advances in technology, offer new ways to bring solutions to market and offer substantial savings in both cost and time.
Test, fail fast, and scale for growth
Whether you’re building an innovative consumer application or a next-generation enterprise system, prototypes help examine potential problems and evaluate effective solutions.
Our R&D team will create, research, and prototype ideas to validate new technologies, products, and services so you can get user feedback early on and scale solutions rapidly.
Accelerated Software Development
Development Methodology
Agility RPM ensures a development process that consistently delivers quality results, whether offshore or onshore, on time and within budget. It helps improve our ability to change user priorities and benefit from improved project visibility and productivity improvements. The accelerated software development methodology:
- Is based on the agile and scrum development methodology
- Significantly reduces the overall risk associated with software development
- Ensures attaining maximum value through a process of continuous planning and feedback
This methodology comes with a host of cutting-edge features and uses proven methodologies and best practices of agile software development, including those for:
- Requirements Management
- Software Configuration Management
- Defect Management
- Continuous Integration
- Code Metrics
- Test Case Management
- Traceability
- Application Lifecycle Management
Accelerated Software Development with Agility RPM Highlights
- Minimized Risk – Functional software deliveries with each sprint (2-6 weeks).
- Prioritized Business Value – High-value functional elements are designed and built first, demonstrating results fast and controlling costs.
- Client Collaboration – Frequent client collaboration is emphasized, resulting in quick validation and course corrections as needed.
- Sprint Review – The software progress is demonstrated at the end of each sprint, providing constant feedback and opportunities for adjustments.
- Continuous Testing – Quality is managed with mandatory unit testing.
- Managed Complexity – The structured Scrum methodology and disciplined execution enhances the team’s ability to manage complexity and minimize risk.
QAT Global’s Enterprise Development Framework
Agile Meets Scrum for Distributed Development Projects
QAT Global’s Enterprise Development Framework (including an Agile Scrum Methodology) overcomes the challenges of working across a distributed environment to deliver high-quality products while accelerating timelines and reducing development costs.
About Our Enterprise Development Framework
At QAT Global, we focus on developing innovative solutions that are easy to use and fit your business objectives, project goals, and user needs while keeping a careful eye on maximizing value with minimal development time. When it comes to enterprise software development, our solution is to use our Enterprise Development Framework to build highly scalable, fast, and secure enterprise applications that are changing how organizations are delivering solutions to their internal and external customers.
QAT Global Enterprise Development Framework
Agile Scrum Methodology – Agility RPM℠ for Repeatable Success
Software development that consistently delivers quality results on time and within budget requires a proven recipe. Each software project is unique in terms of business objectives, environment, and constraints, yet each project needs to be delivered with equal efficacy – QAT Global delivers this and more with the repeatable process methodology we call Agility RPM℠. This is our Scrum methodology with online tools for our development teams and customers to track, manage and monitor project progress. It not only defines the rules of engagement, but the identifiable steps of each 4-6 week development cycle (sprint), and since the entire team follows the same roadmap, everyone is communicating effectively in terms of where they stand each day in relation to the target date.
Agility RPM
With Agility RPM℠ our clients enjoy improved oversight and better control of changing requirements. They are truly participating with us to deliver a quality product on time and within budget. Agility RPM℠ is rooted in Agile software development methods and industry best practices to help ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products to our clients. Agility RPM℠ is also agile and flexible enough to account for the uniqueness of your project while still being repeatable with clearly defined processes, artifacts, and client involvement to ensure that we are developing the right product at the right time.
Agility RPM℠ includes:
- Methodology: based in Agile and Scrum with a web-based project management tool for team and client access
- Standards for architecture, tools, coding, unit testing, and development that can be customized to the client’s environment
- Specifications
- Design Artifacts
Agility RPM
An agile and innovative approach to application modernization and development
Agility RPM is a proven, cutting-edge approach created by QAT Global to accelerate enterprise application modernization, develop rich user experiences, and develop new enterprise software projects. Agility RPM is a platform combined with a repeatable agile development approach designed specifically to streamline the modernization of legacy systems and get ‘new to agile’ development teams up and running with speed and efficiency. In today’s highly competitive and cost-conscious market, it has become imperative for every organization to stand out of the crowd and integrate the latest technologies that will accelerate business growth. QAT Global strives to be at the forefront of adopting new and innovative technologies to provide quality, world-class products to clients. Agility RPM is yet another example of QAT Global’s commitment to this goal.
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What is Agility RPM methodology?
Agility RPM, from QAT Global, is an innovative and revolutionary approach that produces highly scalable, fast, and secure enterprise applications, changing the way legacy technology looks, acts and runs in a way that minimizes risk to your business.
QAT Global has a team of agile software development experts who take pride in developing enterprise software applications using the Agility RPM enterprise development platform while maintaining the highest quality and efficiency to the core. Agility RPM rapidly advances both front-end applications and backend applications to perfection.
While software development is done at a rapid pace, quality is always a top priority. Moreover, with this methodology and our services approach, the overall software development costs are significantly reduced.
Quality, Value, Speed – Everything you want and need for enterprise software development projects. QAT Global develops projects at a rapid pace and with the highest quality using its Agility RPM enterprise development methodology. Agility RPM is an innovative and revolutionary development approach that produces highly scalable, quick and secure enterprise applications.
How does Agility RPM work?
With Agility RPM, each client is assigned a Delivery Manager, a trademark of QAT Global. This is the result of considerable research done across the development of several software products developed using distributed locations. This agile Delivery Manager enables companies to manage their agile software development strategies from a central point. While each software project is unique in its own way, Agility RPM is a proven method that strikes a balance with projects developed over distributed locations. A similar road map and methodology are used among distributed locations making internal communications effective and strategic. Developers or clients can use this scrum methodology to better control the overall progress of multiple software projects. Both the backend and frontend frameworks are managed dynamically to produce world-class enterprise applications. Updates to business workflow and technological changes are regularly monitored and implemented at the earliest opportunity.
QAT Global agile software development methodology comprises these vital components
- Agility RPM, the cutting-edge agile software development methodology
- jDaptive, backend framework for Java
- nDaptive, backend framework for .NET
- WebDaptive, frontend framework for developing rich internet applications with enhanced graphical user interfaces.
jDaptive (Java) and nDaptive (.NET ) Backend frameworks
The backend framework implemented in Agility RPM is not just a simple methodology. It is done on an incremental procedure wherein changes and updates are incorporated during various levels of agile software development, overcoming challenges like internationalization, logging, security, transaction handling, and much more.
Frontend Framework WebDaptive for a Rich Internet Application Development
WebDaptive brings applications to life. This is the frontend framework of agile software development and relies heavily on jQuery. This rich internet technology features several innovative options to augment the client-server relation and enhance the product’s usability. Another outstanding feature of WebDaptive is the compatibility of the application with major browsers and operating systems.
QAT Global is a one-stop solution for all your technological needs, be it enterprise software development or the implementation of innovative methodologies. With cutting-edge technologies incorporated into the product and expert guidance from QAT Global, there is an overwhelming case for organizations to take full advantage of this revolutionary product.
Accelerating Development with Frameworks and Models
At QAT Global, we have developed frameworks and models to accelerate client projects. They provide a solid foundation for building projects as they allow us to reuse code that had been pre-built and tested, provide generic services, reduce project complexity, and improve overall project quality, consistency, and development productivity.
Backend Frameworks – jDaptive (for Java) and nDaptive (for .NET)
The backend framework, such as Spring and several others, is defined by the framework, but it goes much further than that. It defines the standards for how those technologies are combined to implement the common enterprise application challenges, such as security, logging, transaction handling, caching, validation, and much more. Having all this so well defined, along with our proven ability to train and mentor new teams, gives us a distinct and well-deserved competitive advantage.
jDaptive (for Java)
QAT Global’s layered OO Java/JEE application platform is based on open-source spring and spring batch application frameworks architected to be elastic for the cloud.
Includes the QAT Global Java Architecture, Java Standards, Best Practices & Training:
- Reference Architecture
- Physical Architecture (Deployment environment)
- Technical Architecture (Tools, Programming Languages, Frameworks, etc.…)
- Logical Architecture (Application, Data, Process)
- Logical Application Layers
- Analysis and Design Artifacts standards and governance
- Coding standards and best practices
- Security standards and best practices
- Code review processes and governance
- Unit Test standards and governance
- Functional Test standards and governance
- Development Tools, Configuration Management (i.e., svn), Development/Testing Environment standards, best practices, and governance
- IT resource transformation
nDaptive (for .NET)
QAT Global’s layered OO .NET application platform is architected to be elastic for the cloud.
Includes the QAT Global .NET Architecture, .NET Standards, Best Practices & Training:
- Reference Architecture
- Physical Architecture (Deployment environment)
- Technical Architecture ( Tools, Programming Languages, Frameworks, etc.…)
- Logical Architecture ( Application, Data, Process)
- Logical Application Layers
- Analysis and Design Artifacts standards and governance
- Coding standards and best practices
- Security standards and best practices
- Code review processes and governance
- Unit Test standards and governance
- Functional Test standards and governance
- Development Tools, Configuration Management, Development/Testing Environment standards, best practices, and governance
- IT resource transformation
Frontend Framework – Rich Internet Application Development With WebDaptive
We bring applications to life with WebDaptive. WebDaptive is our frontend framework and is based on all open technology with a heavy emphasis on jQuery. This framework enables us to build the next generation of rich internet applications (RIA) that have the responsiveness of traditional client-server applications with the modern user interface that your users expect. WebDaptive contains a rich set of features, including runtime skinning, security, and server-side integration. Applications developed with WebDaptive work with all major browsers and operating systems.
QAT WebDaptive – User Interface Development / Runtime Web Framework
User Interface Framework – QAT WebDaptive is an open-standards-based user interface development/runtime framework that simplifies the integration of applications, service-oriented architectures, and any web client technology into a single integrated application.
QAT WebDaptive is an open-standards-based framework that can enhance applications with a rich, single-page user interface. It also simplifies the integration of service-oriented architectures and multiple web client technologies. WebDaptive provides simple configuration files to define a single-page menu and navigation schema. WebDaptive supports any combination of top-level menus, left-side tree menus, and tabs to rapidly-produce a rich single-page user interface that includes disparate technologies all integrated as a single application.
QAT WebDaptive will help you build state-of-the-art web applications with a rich user interface that can seamlessly communicate with other web and client/server applications. Take the time to understand the product, and you will quickly realize why WebDaptive is the best choice for both the professional and the novice web developer.
QAT WebDaptive also includes a number of enterprise web services that simplify web development and integration. For example, the Session Service is an enterprise web service that can share data across any application or technology that can communicate via web services.
Distributed Software Development
You have the ability to effectively leverage distributed software development teams to deliver exceptional software with QAT Global’s framework, tools, and experience in setting up, managing, and utilizing high-performing global delivery teams.
Teams and Processes Designed for Consistent, High-Quality Results
Software development that consistently delivers quality results on time and within budget requires a proven recipe. Each software project is unique in terms of business objectives, environment, and constraints, yet each project needs to be delivered with equal efficacy – QAT Global delivers this and more with the repeatable process methodology we call Agility RPM℠ and the use of distributed software development teams.
Our clients enjoy improved oversight and better control of changing requirements. They are truly participating with us to deliver a quality product on time and within budget. Agility RPM℠ is rooted in Agile software development methods and industry best practices to help ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products to our clients. Agility RPM℠ is also agile and flexible enough to account for the uniqueness of your project while still being repeatable with clearly defined processes, artifacts, and client involvement to ensure that your distributed software development team is developing the right product at the right time.
Onsite
Client Location
Offsite
US Development Center
Offsite
Brazil Development Center
Offsite
Costa Rica Development Center
Remote Staff
Best Practices for Distributed Development and Cross Sourcing
Selecting an IT consulting company is about transparency, repeatability, communication, and governance. At QAT Global, we have instituted living best practices for our distributed development engagement models that deliver on each of these critical factors, helping clients reduce time to market, deliver quality software, and improve communications between business and IT stakeholders.
Our unique, repeatable development methodology, Agility RPM℠, combined with a Distributed Development Engagement Model, enables us to develop solutions for virtually any kind of business. QAT Global transformed traditional Agile development and Scrum project management processes designed for single-location teams into Agility RPM℠, a repeatable process methodology for distributed development teams. The Agile and Scrum aspects of Agility RPM provide these distributed development teams with strong communications flow, collaboration, and stakeholder alignment basis required for optimal results. Agility RPM enables our distributed development teams to produce quality results immediately since we work from standards that provide a common technology language that allows everyone to communicate effectively. It also makes it possible to bring additional new project staff up to speed very quickly if needed.
Flexibility and Agility By design, the Agile development method treats change as a normal part of the development cycle and produces rapid results with a short, closed-ended project duration. With Agile, we can improve the project’s overall value without causing slips in planned completion dates.
Quality Results Fast
At QAT Global, we use distributed development teams with Agility RPM℠ to cut the time it typically takes a traditional outsourcing or offshore team to get up to speed from months to 2 weeks, enabling them to produce real results in a few months rather than a year or more.
US-based Architect or Project Manager
Our projects are all guided by a US-based Architect or Project Manager so that our clients always have an English-speaking primary contact to manage their project specifications, feedback, and any offshore team members. In addition, our project leads in Brazil and Costa Rica all speak English. Brazil and Costa Rica enjoy a culture that is also quite similar to that of the US, unlike India, China, or Russia.
Better Blended Rate
Using a combination of resources trained in Agility RPM℠ from across the US and our Brazil or Costa Rica development centers, you get the benefit of offshore rate discounts with the level of quality and time to delivery you’d expect from a solely onshore team.
In all cases, we create and promise these benefits:
- Ownership and Responsibility
- Cost Savings
- Guaranteed Service Levels
- Business Value
Our best practices methodology and proven project management techniques assure our clients that the outsourced operations are properly managed to focus on more strategic efforts. As a result, our clients realize tangible and intangible values such as reduced costs, improved employee morale, and decreased people dependency without compromising quality or function.
The Distributed Development Engagement Model leverages the optimal combination of talented resources for the project, rather than forming a location-based team, to deliver cost-effective, secure development, maintenance, and management of projects for our clients. QAT Global offers clients the option of leveraging talented resources from the US, Brazil, and Costa Rica. Our nearshore development centers in Costa Rica and Brazil offer minimal time differences to the US enabling a high level of communication between development team members and clients.
