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WEB PORTAL AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITY DOCUMENT

We've been working with Sigma Infosolutions since last couple of years on various web and software development projects. Initially we started with a very small pilot project to reckon our team chemistry but now they have become an extension of our development team which didn't only gave us an access to higher skilled workforce but by offloading our development to them we are able to better concentrate on marketing and our niche areas. They always have good grasp of our and our clients requirements, their solutions are robust and they are swiftly able to adopt our processes. If you are looking for a

Building e-Businesses for the Fast Lane.

k n ow l e d g e a b l e ,

re s p on s ive ,

consistent and reliable technology partner to outsource your development work, "Sigma" is the answer.
- Dr. P N Misra, Senior VP, Abasys Technologies Inc.

Making Web Portals and Applications Work Harder for You.

Online space is becoming more and more competitive by each passing minute. On the web is all about converting every click to a sale. An online presence that can engage and build trust within its users, will experience unsurpassed loyalty. But with limited real estate on the web the true challenge lies in maximizing usability and user acceptance - otherwise today's customers won't think twice before moving on to your competitor. Evaluating and leveraging appropriate technology will help you build a high performing web business that secures an immediate return on investment. For more than half a decade, Sigma Infosolutions has been helping more than 100 companies across the globe to strategize, develop, and bring custom portals to life. Our extensive insight into portal strategy and related technology development helps us deliver cost-effective, innovative, and feature rich portals through use of web 2.0 technologies, rich internet applications, mobile platforms, content management, and social media.

A TUV Certified ISO 9001:2008 Company

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
Tools and Frameworks: JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, AJAX, Flash, Actionscript, Maya, 3DMax, Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Django Content Management Systems: Drupal, Liferay, DotNETNUKE, Typo3, Goodbarry, CMS Made Simple, Joomla J2EE & Related Technologies CMS & E-commerce System PHP & Related Technologies

E-commerce Systems: Magento, Ubercart, XCart, Zen Cart, Goodbarry

Languages: PHP, HTML, J2EE, ASP.Net, C#, Python

Operating Systems and Servers: Apache, Linux, Windows, Oracle, MySQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Liferay

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Integration: Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, Google Books, XML Feed, Kayako, Kindle

Discussion Forum based Social networking

B2B and B2C eCommerce Solution: Mobile web sites, Live 3D rendering engines to interact with web server applications

Interaction and Interface Design

Sigma's strengths on web technologies

l We work with various off the shelf products like Magento, Drupal, l Because of larger team and people having deep expertise in

Joomla, Ubercart etc which bring down the cost of development by 80 - 90% (over custom development from scratch)
l We have a web factory model where there are specialized teams to

varying technologies, we can deliver the projects much faster than competition which relies on individual skills of 1 or 2 developers to complete a project.
l Offshore - onsite model helps us offer the solutions at the most

do creative design, template creation, implementations of products, customizations, custom development and QA and thus we can execute the projects in a far more cost effective manner.

cost effective prices and fastest turnaround.

WHY SIGMA?

Our wide spread competencies, resources, methodology, and alliances Our half decade of experience in creating solutions for specific industries Expertise to exploit open-source technologies to deliver cost effective yet high performing solutions

FOCUS AREAS
Web Design & Development Content Management Systems E-Commerce Solutions Social Networking Sites Search Engine Optimization

DOMAIN EXPERTISE
Auctions Distribution Manufacturing

Our repository of re-usable modules and frameworks that reduce development time and thus cost Several success stories of on-time, high quality, and high performance solutions

SERVICE OFFERINGS
Portal User Interface Consulting Portal Development, Customization and Implementation Maintenance and Support Independent Testing Mobile Enablement Web Analytics and Performance Engineering

Business Services Travel Agencies Clinical Research Litigation Telecom Life Sciences Education Insurance I have had the pleasure of interacting and collaborating with the Sigma InfoSolutions team on various webbased projects. I appreciate their professionalism, timely delivery and above all the effort spent in providing the right technical solution to the end-customer. I highly recommend the Sigma team

Our Methodology - MULTIPLE BUILD APPROACH

Enables us to build reliable and robust solutions within quick delivery timelines.

for your web development needs. - Meena Srinivasan, SCION IDEAS, Chief Brand Consultant/Founder

Global Delivery Model

Driving excellence from limited IT investment.

RESOURCE POOL
Sigma Infosolutions has a dedicated team of qualified professionals who have extensive expertise in architecting and developing web portals and applications.
SME & Business Analyst 7 UI Developers 4 5

Testers

1-2 Years 2+ Years 3+ Years

8+ Years 5+ Years

30

Web Developers

Classification of Web Portal Team based on responsibility

Classification of Web Portal Team based on years of experience

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q. Do you have the ability to customize your environments to match the client? Please explain. A. Yes. We work with several clients as an extended development team. This requires us to use the development, testing, and build tools as used by the client. This is usually a one time effort and takes only a couple of day's time to sync up our environment with clients.

Q. Please provide some details about the service you offer? Do you offer Full service which includes a project manager, architect, developers, and testers? If so, do you have the flexibility to offer these skills? On the contrary, do you have the flexibility to allow me to use only the skills I need if necessary? A. We provide services in the area of application development, application maintenance, database and application migration, testing- functional and automated, portal development, and business intelligence. We are a team of 95+ full time employees and also engage contractors on a need basis. We have full time architects, designers, developers, projects managers, UI engineers, testing engineers, and business analysts who work on our projects. We can provide turnkey services as well as give our clients an option of using only the skills needed by them in a project. Many of our clients had initially started working with 1 or 2 developers and then moved onto utilizing our testing services and turnkey project delivery capabilities respectively.

Q. Do you have the ability to conduct conference calls or online meetings if needed? How much advanced notice is necessary? A. Yes. We have the necessary infrastructure in place to conduct conference calls and online meetings. From an infrastructure perspective, no advance notice is needed to have these meetings. For scheduling purposes, usually 2 days is good to make sure that people have enough time to plan their calendars and can confirm in advance.

Q. What are some of the services you use, web or otherwise, to conduct conference calls or online meetings? A. We use VOIP phone for our meetings. If requested by clients, our developers can share their Skype id. For online meetings and desktop sharing we use GoToMeeting.

Q. What are your standard operating hours relative to U.S.- Eastern Standard Time (New York)? Do you operate on U.S. time as well as your local time? A. Our US office in Irvine works from 9 AM PST (12 Noon EST) to 6 PM PST (9 PM EST). In our India office, people usually work from 9 AM IST to 7 PM IST (which is 5.30 PM EST to 9.30 AM EST). However, depending on the project needs and client's time zone, we adjust timings of the project team to provide necessary overlap to our clients. Our project coordinators can usually provide an overlap till 2PM EST.

Q. What project management tools do you use? A. Dot project and OpenProject for project management and Actitime for time management.

Sigma is a very professionally run organization that makes the processes of offshore development as easy and efficient as it can be. They have very high quality talent that are able to deliver quality meeting our tough standards. The relationship with sigma has enabled us to cost effectively expand our resource pool and bring our product to market faster and with a more complete user experience. - Erik Hogan, Director-Product Management, Attributor Corporation, Redwood City, USA

Q. What kind of lead time do you require for each project? Please provide a minimum lead time and a lead time that you would be most comfortable with. A. On an average 2 days lead time is good for small projects (less than 2 person month), 4 days is good for mid sized projects (2 ~ 6 person month) and 8 days for larger projects (6+ person month). Many a times our clients keep us posted on likely projects to come and thus we create our plan based on this information.

Q. For application development do you work on a time and materials basis, fixed bid basis, or both? Are there any other ways in which you work? A. We work on T&M as well as Fixed Price basis. Many a times, the project starts with T&M and once the scope is frozen it gets converted to a fixed price project. For websites, portals and e-commerce solutions, we have prices depending on the components required by a client.

Q. What development methodology does your company typically use? Are you flexible? A. One is Waterfall for projects with a clear scope definition and the other is Agile for startups, projects which evolve by the day.

Q. What type of warranties do you provide with your services and for the quality of your work? A. 30 days free bug fixing support from the date of handing over the solution for beta testing.

Q. What types of agreements do you work under with your clients? (I.e. confidentiality, non-compete, privacy, etc.) Are any of your clients US based? A. More than 70 % of our customers are US based (around 100 customers). To maintain confidentiality we sign a Non Disclosure Agreement with our customers. For each customer we have a Master Professional Services agreement which covers things like Ownership, Non Compete, Employee and Client Solicitation, etc. We also sign a SOW which contains project scope, team working on it, delivery schedules, prices, and any specific terms of business for a project not covered in the MPSA.

I want to thank you and your staff for delivering our project under such stressful conditions. Sigma Infosolutions undertook to learn our complex requirements, document them, engineer and code according to our requests. The company delivered remarkable results given the aggressive time constraints we faced. They understood how to interpret our vague requirements and generate outstanding results. We are grateful to have found Sigma to work with as a trusted advisor. I will not hesitate to leverage their outstanding design and coding skills as we move forward with our visualisation and Java requirements. - Mike Mc.Gonigal, Exsalgo Corp., USA

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About Sigma Infosolutions

Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export, Handicrafts Manufacturing & Exports, and Software Development Headquartered in US with presence in India Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Intuit, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc. Other Services span across Program Management, Project and Product, Application Management, Consulting Our Mission: We work towards providing reliable, relevant and robust IT solutions at most competitive prices to our customers. We ensure 100% customer satisfaction at all times

Office Locations
Sigma Infosolutions - USA, California 2082 Michelson Dr. Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92612 Phone: (714) 717-1826 Fax: (866) 405-6750 Toll Free No.: 1-888-861-7360 Sigma Infosolutions - India, Bangalore Sigma Towers #66/A, 13th Cross 6th Main, JP Nagar 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078 Phone: +91-80-40865100 Fax: +91-80-40865103

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