Outsourcing of Microsoft software development projects

Over the last decade, Exigen Services has completed more than 300 projects based on Microsoft software. We have implemented applications on all Microsoft platforms, from Windows 3.1 platform to Windows Server 2008. More than 250 of our developers are widely utilizing .NET, SQL Server and other Microsoft technologies in their day-to-day work. A significant portion of them are Microsoft Certified Professionals and one of our engineers was nominated as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. As a result, Microsoft recognizes Exigen Services as a Gold Certified Partner for last several years.

Exigen Services has proven its ability to rapidly deliver products that add measureable value for our customers' business. We believe that the keys to success are not only technological excellence, but also to make sure that each team member understands not just their individual task within the project, but also how their efforts contribute to the whole system, and the customer usage case for their work.

Exigen Services clients are companies of all different sizes: from small family business employing several people, to huge multinational corporations. Our engineering team can adapt to virtually any development process that is practiced within your organization — heavyweight RUP-alike, lightweight Agile, or somewhere in between. Exigen Services will be more than happy to assist you if you are looking for advice of how to effectively set up communication with an outsourcing partner.

We have the right combination of new technologies/third-party modules and proven methodologies/design patterns to significantly accelerate development velocity while maintaining excellent quality levels.

A key consideration that directly affects end users' productivity (and thus business value of the solution) is that of user experience and interface design. Exigen Services' usability practices are very well supported by the effective utilization of open source and commercial components from Infragistics, Dundas, Telerik, ComponentOne. In web-development, we use both the classic reliable REST-like approach to the implementation of user interface and Web 2.0 technologies: Ajax, Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Flex. On the server-side, we successfully utilize the combination of ASP.NET MVC + LINQ.

Frequent product builds coupled with comprehensive unit testing, allows us to find the majority of defects very early in development process. Depending on the nature of the project, we are ready to test the system as frequently as necessary, and even test continuously for projects using Extreme Programming. Exigen Services is eager to receive our customer's feedback, as soon as possible, so we can deliver working products and in some cases on a daily basis.

For any outsourcing services provider it is important to assess their capability to take ownership of any stage of the product lifecycle. Exigen Services has significant experience in taking over an existing system from another outsourcing vendor for ongoing support. Our Knowledge Transfer and Acquisition methodology helps our engineers to start providing full support services within the shortest possible time, even if supporting documentation is incomplete or entirely missing.

Each .NET developer rigorously follows Microsoft's recommended code standards as well as leveraging of appropriate tools such as FxCop, NDepend, SourceMonitor, etc. enables us to improve code readability and consequently to cut costs for further software maintenance.

The rich experience with Microsoft technology allows us to elaborate an efficient methodology of rapid .NET based solution development coupled with continuous control and assurance of quality.

Technologies:

  • Servers: Windows Server, SQL Server (including SSRS and SSAS), Biztalk, Host Integration Server, SharePoint, Exchange
  • SOA: Windows Communication Frameworks, ASP.NET Web Services/WSE, .NET Remoting, COM/DCOM/COM+
  • Programming languages: C#, Visual Basic, Managed/Unmanaged C++, Transact-SQL, VBA
  • Web-clients: ASP.NET WebForms/AJAX, Silverlight, Standard and 3rd-party server controls
  • Traditional clients: Windows Presentation Frameworks (XAML, XPS), WinForms, .NET/ActiveX UI controls, GDI+/DirectX, MS Office applications
  • Mobile devices: Compact Framework.NET, Mobile Internet Toolkit