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Offshore programming involves a high level of process dependence and trust. Most buyers of offshore programming services have to know the process of offshore programming to understand and reap the benefits of remote programming in Pakistan.
This section tries to answer certain key questions regarding offshore programming services and also tries to provide answers to various business and technical services provided by Altelt in Pakistan.
Please feel free to contact if you have further queries and we will be glad to answer them.
What is the advantage of being associated with Altel, Pakistan?
Altel has couple of years of experience in IT consulting, remote programming, handling outsourced offshore programming and has executed off shore projects on budget and on time every time. Altel, Pakistan, offers extremely competitive rates and provides quality IT solutions using the offshore programming model. |
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What programming experience does Altel,Pakistan, have? |
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What domain knowledge / expertise does Altel, Pakistan, have ? |
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What are the usual deliverables of a remote programming assignment? |
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Can Altel.Pakistan, provide web site and graphics design? |
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Your offshore programming development process looks complicated. Is it really necessary? |
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How do I control the remote programming project's progress? |
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What should I do, if I am not exactly sure what functionality I need, will Altel help in my offshore programming assignment? |
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How can I be assured that Altel,Pakistan, delivers high quality, reliable software? |
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Can I outsource the projects and assignments that I have from my clients to Altel, Pakistan? |
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Altel has five years of experience in IT consulting, remote programming, handling outsourced offshore programming and has executed off shore projects on budget and on time every time. Altel offers extremely competitive rates and provides quality IT solutions using the offshore programming model.
Altel undertakes your IT projects ranging from a simple utility to a total automation of your business, custom information systems are expensive and involves hiring skilled professionals. We assure that by using our offshore programming model you will have an economic benefit of at least 50%. By adapting our remote programming model you can achieve significant savings on equipment, maintenance and infrastructure required during the development. Learn additional information on our |
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Altel is an IT consulting programming with proven experience in the offshore programming methodology.
Altel offers remote programming solutions in the areas of
Application management
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e-Business solutions |
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Database services |
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e-Learning services |
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Web Branding services |
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QA & Testing services |
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IVRS and Voice Mail solutions |
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System Architecture & Networking |
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Remote programming and offshore programming methodologies suit projects where there is considerable clarity on the requirements of the project. The economic benefits depend on the cost of similar services in your country and the availability of such technical resources in the geographical area of your operations. Altel has proven methodologies to handle offshore programming and remote programming projects. With over 15 person years of project management experience and around eight hundred person months of programming experience Altel can offer you services of your choice on time and on budget every time |
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Our process-oriented remote programming methodology ensures that you are in control of the project at every stage. The process of development will be delineated so that you are aware of the status of the project on an extremely close basis. |
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Offshore programming and remote programming methodologies run the normal risks of any outsourced projects in terms of improper specification, flawed change request procedure, improper communication protocols and poor QA and testing practices.
These flaws are accentuated in offshore programming to a great degree and should be addressed by the buyer and the supplier in the initial stages of agreement. The other risks inherent to offshore programming are inability to choose proper vendors, cultural differences and communication issues. Altel maturity level in remote programming is very high and you can rest assured that we bring down the risk to a minimum |
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Our obsession for process centric approach our maturity in remote programming methodology our skills and our attitude towards customer is the hall mark of Altel |
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Our terms and conditions are driven by your needs. We believe in thorough functional detailing of a project or assignment as this is the cornerstone of success in remote programming. We would appreciate that we all spend considerable time and effort towards achieving this objective. This is our primary condition for undertaking any offshore programming assignment. |
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Effort estimate is an involved process and takes some time to arrive at. We however will provide you with a ballpark figure based on our experience and the base functionality of the assignment. |
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Yes, we encourage users to test our services before the actual contract is finalized. Most of the time we undertake a pilot or a test project with a minimal fee. |
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Certainly, Yes. Please visit our client's section. You may write to them to get an independent assessment of our capabilities. |
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Altel is a solution driven technology agnostic company with focus on offshore programming. Altel has competence in various technology domains. We are competent delivering solutions in a wide variety of technology platforms. |
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You don't need to prepare anything before asking for a proposal - just an email and Altel will ask questions to determine what is needed from you to create a proposal. Altel as an offshore programming and consulting company will help you prepare a detailed functional requirement document and scope of the project. We would however appreciate if you could share with us your existing documentation. A clear line of communication with your team members will aid in hastening this process |
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Altel has the experience of executing couple remote programming assignments. Based on this experience a detailed functional requirement document is made, our team will examine the scope of the project arrive at effort estimates. (We have libraries of re-usable components and modules, which will lower the cost of production considerably). We refine our estimate by grouping the requirements into smaller components or phases and arrive at a realistic effort estimate. Our estimate will detail the cost of the various components and phases of the project to enable you to take an informed decision |
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Communication, Communication and more communication is the key success factor for your remote programming assignment |
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The owner ship of the code lies with you. Generic and reusable components which are owned by Altel. |
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Technology Answers |
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Altel is a solution driven technology agnostic company with focus on offshore programming.Altel has competence in various technology domains including .net We are competent delivering solutions in a wide variety of technology platforms.
Altel has been providing remote programming services for the past 1 year. Over these years Savitrsoft has developed competence in the following technologies.
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Window 9x/ NT/ 2000/XP/CE , Linux, all flavors of Unix |
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RUP, UML, Rational Rose |
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J2EE , .NET |
| Databases |
Oracle 7.x and 8.x, MS SQL server, MS Acess, Informix, Sybase, mySQL, Postgres, mSQL, |
| RAD Tools |
VB and VB.NET |
| Web Technologies |
ASP, Java, Enterprise Java |
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HTML, Developer 2000, Power Builder, Macro media Flash |
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C, C++, C #, VC++ ( MFC & SDK), Java, ASP, XML |
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Win Runner, Load runner |
| Multimedia |
3D Max, Adobe, Macromedia, Director, Illustrator, Animation Pro |
| Wireless protocols |
GSM, CDMA, TDMA, AMPS |
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ATM,CSS7, SS7 |
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Nortel, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorala, Lucent etc. |
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Socket programming, WAP |
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Altel, Pakistan offers consulting experience in a variety of domains. Altel has considerable exposure to the following generic domains.
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Web commerce & communication |
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Manufacturing services & Supply chain management |
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Enterprise resource planning |
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Banking & Financial services |
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Telecom |
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Sales force automation & CRM |
Altel offers services in the above areas using the remote programming methodology.
What services does Altel,Pakistan offer ? |
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The usual deliverables for offshore programming assignments are
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The executable files |
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Quality Assurance documentation |
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User's Guide |
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Online Context-Sensitive Help |
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Installation program and instructions |
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Completely documented source code |
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Maintenance instructions |
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Yes, of course. Altel has excellent design skills.Our design department apart from developing user interface of the software, provides a full range of web design, graphics and multimedia through the offshore programming development model. |
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Software development by virtue of its nature is not simple. As the consequences of getting IT wrong are huge a concerted and detailed process needs to be adhered to.
Altel has handled a number of remote programming assignments successfully and will make the process simple for you. |
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You do have full control over the offshore programming development, primary through on-site Project Manager (single point contact from your side). Our Software Development Methodology ensures that there will be no unpleasant surprises at the end of each deliverable/ phase / component. |
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It is not a rare situation. Remote programming effort is a team effort, where your team and Altel Team work together even if it means working from an idea stage. Simply contact us even with a rough idea. We will arrive at the scope and the functional details of the envisaged idea or project. |
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Altel remote / offshore programming follows the proven Development Methodology / Process which is aimed at quality and only quality. We provide Software quality assurance and testing Services and frame works for other software development organizations. Also, you will have all preliminary versions of the software installed at your location for internal testing, verification and acceptance. |
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Yes. We are looking for alliance partners, who continuously outsource the assignments they have to reduce the cost of ownership of software services to their customers. We are looking at long term rewarding relationships with individuals and organizations across the globe to partner with us in making us as their extended development / technical arm. To bring synergies into the relationship and treat Altel as their remote programming / offshore programming base in Pakistan. Please check out our alliances section.
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Following are the prices we offer for some development areas:
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ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Cold Fusion, MS SQL - $15 - 20/Hr |
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Java/ J2EE Programming - $ 20/Hr |
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C, C++, VC ++, C# - $20/Hr |
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ASP, PHP, CGI-Perl, MYSQL Server - $10-12/Hr |
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Web Design, Graphic Design, Data Entry etc. $8/HrWeb Design, Graphic Design, Data Entry etc. $8/Hr |
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Offshore IT Consultancy |
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Altel offers a full range of software development and IT consultancy services
As well as developing high-quality Windows software for our clients, we can also provide clear, considered technical advice. We're not just IT experts - we aim to listen carefully and understand the business context of technical problems.
Altel Offshore Development Centre (ODC) in Lahore,Pakistan acts as the global sourcing hub for our overseas consulting operations and houses dedicated software technology practices to provide offshore IT consultancy. The ODC is equipped with the best of infrastructure and as well as expertise and experience across heterogeneous technology platforms.
Due to our expertise across multi-platform technologies and skill-sets, we provide services to a wide spectrum of customers across verticals such as Banking, Financial Services, Healthcare, Human Resources, Telecom, Insurance, Hospitality, Retail & Distribution and Manufacturing.
At Altel, we work with our clients at a strategic level to help them achieve their optimal IT strategy, by defining the technology frameworks and architectures needed to support their business objectives. To achieve this we have developed a set of activities, which are usually undertaken as short consultancy-based reviews, to discover the actual state of our client's IT capability.
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Information gathering |
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Analysis |
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Presentation of Results |
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