Geographical FAQs
Where are your development centers?
Augmentive has development centers in St. Petersburg and Moscow in Russia,
Belarus and Kiev in the Ukraine. By plane, each of our resource centers is
located within 21/2 hours from several
European hubs including Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. This results in
approximately 50% reduction in travel time and costs when compared to other
offshore geographies like India and China. For more information about our
development centers, click here.
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Why is Eastern Europe a good site for offshore development?
Augmentive chose to establish development centers in Eastern Europe for 4 main
reasons:
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Access to highly skilled technical resources.
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Low turnover rate for companies in the region.
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There is a window of direct communication during normal business hours.
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Eastern Europe is easily accessible from several hubs including New York City,
Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
For a more detailed explanation, click here.
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Do Augmentive employees in Eastern Europe have a good command of the English
language?
Augmentive makes sure that each project lead is proficient in written and
spoken English to ensure proper communication of requirements. As part of our
methodology, we emphasis written requirements documents to ensure high
product quality, in order to be able to do this, we make sure that all project
members are proficient in written English.
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There has been numerous news stories about major companies establishing
development centers in India. Are there major companies also looking at Eastern
Europe?
Yes. Because of many factors, companies are looking to alternative locations to
India and often find exactly what they need in Eastern Europe. Companies such
as Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Lucent technologies, IBM, SCO, Lynx, Nokia,
Nortel Networks, Intel, HP, Rockwell, Samsung, Boeing have long-term
commitments with Eastern European programming teams employing anywhere from 10
to 300 developers each. Ready to be the next company? Contact
us.
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What are the development processes and quality standards of Eastern European
companies?
While Augmentive has development centers in Eastern Europe, we are an American
company with experience working on projects for mid to large software companies
in the United States and Western Europe. Based on the Rational Unified Process,
our development methodology has been rigorously tested and is
applicable to all forms of software projects. As part of our
services, Augmentive will work with you to customize our methodology to
meet your internal standards. For more information about our methodology,
click here. For more information about our services, click
here.
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