Today's corporate IT departments are being stretched to their limits. In today's economy, we see an increased emphasis on cost savings and faster ROI. Spectraforce SpectraMaint methodology is geared to meet these requirements of lower total costs of IT spending and increased and faster ROI.

IT Outsourcing enables your organization to increase ROI, flexibility to change, and allows access to best in class practices and services. During the next few years, Gartner Dataquest expects that IT outsourcing will continue to show this positive direction, increasing from $161.1 billion in 2002 to reach $230.9 billion in 2007. SmartSourcing is Spectraforce approach to full lifecycle applications management, including application development. Our SmartSourcing service provides a broad range of application development services in client/server architectures, Internet/intranet applications, and legacy systems. Our team of software engineers are equipped with in-depth vertical experience, business knowledge, and established methodologies to handle any development project from legacy, such as Cobol, to more advanced applications, such as Microsoft-based, Java-based or Wireless Technology.

By employing our Global Delivery Model Spectraforce provides real results fast. This model uses a custom mix of on-site, off-site, and offshore resources to provide cost-effective solutions and rapid implementations. We use proven project management practices to facilitate communication between client and Spectraforce, manage project workflow, and perform detailed design and analysis phases. Development/construction phases are carried out at our off-site / offshore development centers. Our proven Methodology and best-of-breed practices are based on our 30+ years of project experience developing custom software applications.

The SpectraMaint process is a logical combination of processes, which is comprised of proven methods and tools to assimilate customer's business process knowledge and align with their standards and procedures. This methodology is powered by the Spectraforce Global Delivery Service, which gives us the flexibility and ability to deliver a unique mix of services, on-site at the customer location, off-site / offshore development centers. This methodology consists of four phases - Plan, Transition, Stable and Optimize.

Transition: During this phase our team utilizes of SpectraTransfer processes for the collection and understanding of application and business knowledge by the on-site and offshore staff so that the customer's environment is understood. During this phase, we create business processes and management procedures to be followed after Spectraforce takes responsibility for services. Baseline service level information is obtained as a basis for measuring engagement progress. Resources from Spectraforce offshore development center will travel to customer site to acquire business knowledge expertise. The transition concludes with the transfer of responsibility for application support and/or maintenance from the customer to Spectraforce. The cutover tasks are focused on completing a seamless transition of service from the customer to Spectraforce with no interruption of service. Cycles are monitored, initial metrics are captured and reported, and the workload is executed for the customer.

Stabilize: This is the post-evolution period when the complete workload is executed, additional workload is gradually shifted from on-site to offshore, process refinement occurs, metrics are analyzed, and a stable state of operations is reached. The Spectraforce team gains additional experience in both the application and business knowledge of the customer environment and uses this knowledge to identify improvements throughout the customer's portfolio of applications.

Optimize: In this phase the engagement is put into a continuous improvement mode by capturing and analyzing required metrics related to engagement success. Based on the metrics analysis and lesson learnt necessary corrective and preventive action are taken.