value proposition

How do we compete with Off-shore?

Low labor rates may mask the true cost of a long drawn-out project. Furthermore, tolerance to change and the cost of change drives the true cost of ownership for software. Software must adapt and evolve at the speed of business. Well-designed software accommodates change with reasonable effort. Savings from lower initial development costs might change to relative losses after higher costs, associated with subsequent enhancement and maintenance, are factored in.

Multi Threading

Background

Power and heat limitations in server rooms are driving hardware manufacturers to exploit multi-chip and multi-core approaches. In general, multi-core microprocessors allow computing devices to exhibit some form of thread-level parallelism (TLP), without using multiple microprocessors in separate physical packages. This form of TLP is known as chip-level processing or CMP. This novel packaging technique improves performance in many cases, without generating increased demands for greater cooling capacity.

Model Driven Architecture

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) yields significant benefits to business leaders and developers alike. MDA provides a solid framework that frees system infrastructures to evolve in response to a never-ending parade of platforms and changing business needs, while preserving and leveraging existing technology investments.

Technology Investigations

Our senior-level skills include evaluating and profiling the real capabilities of new technologies. Based on early requirements sets from clients, we develop rapid prototypes under contract, to calibrate the maturity of these new technologies.

Mixed Language Frameworks

OCI engineers combine Java, C#, and C++ applications through CORBA, RMI/IIOP, DDS, J2EE, .NET, XML, and other technologies to give clients a suite of interoperable elements that match their needs, Java client-side applications to the most demanding, mission critical, deterministic server behavior available with C++, and everything in between.

Embedded Systems Development

OCI development labs include many RTOS and board level target systems enabling us to do projects requiring special hardware and software combinations, and cross platform development.
We now see more use of DSPs and FPGAs as clients look to leverage specific hardware for their software solutions. Not only can OCI develop on those targets but we can create cross-platform development environments that facilitate the easy movement of developers and their code from hosts to targets.

Testing and Validation

You cannot improve what you cannot measure and test. Reviews and tests are a critical part of our "no surprises" development process. We include rigorous testing and quality assurance reviews in project plans to help ensure software is implemented correctly according to requirements. We incorporate best practices for technologies and languages we use. We test often and extensively to verify that projects meet functional and performance requirements.

Performance Tuning

In light of today’s compressed development cycles, multi-tiered architectures, and complex technologies, deploying stable enterprise applications in a timely manner challenges many organizations.

As a result, they discover problems with scaling, or failing to meet required response times. Devoting a small, but continuing, amount of energy throughout the development process to identify and correct performance issues dramatically lowers risks and costs associated with delivering functional, but poorly performing, applications.

Technology Transfer

You, the client, are the owner of your project and the solutions that take it to successful deployment. OCI understands you have a significant stake in ownership of the implementation, and we share that with you as an equal stakeholder. With that objective in mind, we provide you the appropriate levels of technical information and understanding, enabling you to support your project long after we have left.

Project Planning and Estimating

OCI provides realistic cost and time estimates for your project before we start work. Furthermore, we incorporate your work team from the start in order to promote ownership, knowledge transfer, and visibility into the project as a whole. In addition, we provide project planning and management as required. Frequent status meetings — incorporating requirements updates and progress reporting — promote continuous project health assessment as a measure of how well we meet your schedule and budget goals.

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