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Global software development

Posted by John Minnihan - 25/03/06 at 08:03:56 am

It may be old news that software development has gone global, with forecasts for offshore application development reaching $50 billion annually by 2010.

To remain competitive, enterprises must be positioned to rapidly respond to new and changing markets, often through the development of new software applications and systems that are designed to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, or increase revenues.

Offshoring is one of the more visible mechanisms enterprises have adopted in efforts to reduce costs of this software development.

What isn’t old news, and in fact may surprise the old-school IT mentality, is that much of this work will be- and is already being – managed within third-party provided development workspaces. Enterprises will outsource, in the same way they’ve contracted out the actual development, provision of the source control, defect tracking, and project management tools that allow these distributed teams to effectively work together.

The traditional Enterprise IT solution – setting up a private, point-to-point VPN that provides 100kb – 500kb bandwidth between the primary geographic locations of the team members – is costly, time consuming and almost never actually delivers ROI. It becomes yet another “thing” that IT has to manage. Any value provided is offset by the costs of installing, configuring and managing the pipe. This presumes that you have IT staff on both ends of the pipe who are qualified to provide such support, and this too is almost never the case.

Enterprises need to be able to setup project workspaces in which geographically distributed software development teams can collaborate – securely, efficiently, cost-effectively, and in a manner that encourages developer adoption.

Long-term costs? Gotta be low or non-existent. ROI? Need it today, not six months from now. Ease of use? It must be web-based so teams can use it without dedicated, locally present support staff. Secure? Everything must be encrypted. Developer adoption? Gotta support the clients and IDEs the team is already using.

Sound like a tall order? It is, but fortunately this is exactly the problem space for which Freepository was designed. Using Freepository, individual team members from anywhere across the globe come together into a secure, common version controlled workspace in seconds, and can continue using any of nine differerent IDEs (in addition to the web browser). Team members need only an Internet connection.

The reduction in complexity and costs to the enterprise is immediate, real, and measurable.

This is a multi-billion dollar market opportunity for solving a costly, recurring problem that enterprises currently have and will continue to have. Freepository has been here for six years, quietly proving itself over and over again, at thousands of companies, universities and governmental agencies worldwide.

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