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VALUES

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We take our core values very seriously. We believe that self motivation and dedication provide the highest quality results in a growing business. Our values are:

 

Service Excellence - Improving our client business profits and performance by cost effective service offerings, excellence and win-win relationships

 

Learning - To provide a platform for continuous learning and self-improvement in order to maintain the highest level of expertise we provide to our customers.

 

Quality - We strive to be professionals of excellence in the quality of our work that we provide to our internal customers (our employees) and external customers (you).

 

Leading - To build and lead challenging projects with readiness to change.
Offshore Outsourcing Corporate Capability Statement

 

 

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OUR ADVANTAGES

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Partnership Centric Approach - Our approach to customer's projects enable clients to experience zerO'clock as an extension of their own teams. zerO'clock’s partnership-centric approach has successfully helped clients realize a high Return on Investment (ROI) and coming back with repeat orders. By partnering with zerO'clock, you are assured of transparency in communication, business continuity and guaranteed growth.

 

Affordable Rates - Software and web development costs often dominate system costs and sometimes it costs more to maintain and retain than it does to develop. zerO'clock provides on-time and on-budget delivery of high performance, reliable, scalable and flexible software and web development solutions by bringing you the right blend of resources at affordable prices.

 

Wide Technology Competence - zerO'clock provides you with a large working team with varied skill set, which you would be able to employ for just the task at hand. zerO'clock's technology excellence centers enables clients to choose from virtually any technology options so as to realize an optimal performance in their applications and products. For a detailed technology profile, see below or refer to our Technology Competency Center.
 

Streamlined Delivery Approach - zerO'clock has a streamlined delivery approach that provides clearly defined process guidelines emphasizing the importance of information flow and communications. The robustness of our methodology combined with the infrastructure and quality orientation reduces your engagement risk significantly and helps you optimize the use of IT, become more competitive and improve resource efficiency and productivity.
 

Well Defined Processes - zerO'clock is compliant to ISO 27001 processes for data security and ISO 9001 processes for quality assurance, so you have a set of well-defined software development process for the entire software development life cycle that is inclined towards uniformity and quality delivery. These processes have evolved since our existence to incorporate best practices in requirements management, project management and oversight, design methods, testing tools and methodologies.
 

Highly Competent Resources - zerO'clock provides you with dedicated software programmers that are highly competent and qualified to meet all types of programming needs. This talent has been hand-picked from reputed colleges and has worked on numerous projects with us and also prior to joining our company.
 

End to End Customizable Business Solutions - zerO'clock’s ability to provide customized and end-to-end business solutions has been the hallmark of our leadership. We have the right experience and capability of rapidly turning around prototypes and managing both small and large projects by breaking them into manageable parts apart from a readiness for the uncertain future. zerO'clock resources are willing to take on new challenges, of all kinds, head-on; bringing you customized software and web applications that give you a business edge.
 

Secured Environment - We understand that designing, developing and deploying secure software and web applications and protection of sensitive information is the responsibility of all the stakeholders involved with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), i.e, both us and you. Whilst, the security of software can be attributed to the technologies chosen or processes followed, eventual accountability is ascribed to the people building it. That, is why, zerO'clock makes a deliberate effort in securing the software development environment and follows best practices related to a secure software development process. We protect your brand as our own and support it with secure solutions together with compliance to governance, regulations and privacy laws.

 

 

 

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SKILL PROFILES & SOLUTION PORTFOLIO

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Government Applications
Human Services Applications, Government Commerce and Regulatory Applications, Government Administration Applications

 

IT Security
Data Security, Endpoint Security, Identity and Access Management, Internet Security Software, IT Security Management Software, Network Security, Secure Messaging, Vulnerability Management, Web Services Security, Privacy and Ethics, Security Management

 

Enterprise Resource Planning
Corporate Operations, Enterprise Asset Management, Human Resources Management Software

Knowledge Support
Collaboration, Content Management, Document Management, Knowledge Management, Digital Rights Management, Metadata Repositories

 

Payments
Bill Presentment and Payment

 

Financial Services Systems
Banking Systems

 

Project and Portfolio Management / Internal IT Service Management
Professional Service Automation, Service Optimization Management, Portfolio Management Software, Project Management Software, Service–Level Management, Service Process Analytics and Forecasting

 

Enterprise Portals
Web Portals and applications that enable controlled and structured access to corporate assets to the different types of users (B2E - business-to-employee, B2B - business-to-business, B2C - business-to-consumer)

 

Survey Applications
Web-based applications for online survey and to analyze the results.

 

Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platforms
RIA applications and high-impact contents for all the principal approaches (browser-only, enhanced browser, outside-the-browser). Using market-leading technologies.

 

 

 

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METHODOLOGIES AND ARCHITECTURES

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Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) Software Engineering

For several years, ZerO'clock has successfully joined the development approach proposed by Object Management Group (OMG) implementing important applications for Public Administrations and private Customers.

 

Ontology Engineering
Ontology, as part of W3C standard (Sematic Web), is used to specify a conceptual standard vocabulary used to exchange data between systems, query services on display, publish reusable knowledges and offer services to facilitates interoperability among multiple heterogeneous systems.

 

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – Development & Testing
Competition, globalization and new technologies are driving companies to increasingly change products, processes and prices. In a context like this is strategic design and implement applications to support business in SOA architectures.

A software application can achieve high qualitative standards only if in his lifecycle is an accurate and effective testing phase, expecially if ti is a service oriented application. ZerO'clock implements  methodologies and testing activities for web services: XML checking, Load & Stress Testing, Automatic Continuous Testing.

 

Event-Driven Architecture
Where a strategy exclusively service-oriented architecture (SOA) isn't able to support all business requirements must be supported by Event Driven (EDA) components/services able to react appropriately in according to the most different and difficoult events that can occour in a business processes (eg. orders, changes of address, missed deliveries, etc)

 

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Security Methodologies
ZerO'clock remarkable experience in IT Security led to the definition and consolidation of methodologies for Secure Development that are olso used to detect, fix and prevent application vulnerabilities effectively.

 

Agile Development Methodology
The effective application of Agile development methodology allows to ZerO'clock to establish a high level of cooperation between the development team, the customers and end-user software application and a reduction of the development time. ZerO'clock is able to adapting quickly and accurately to customer's requirements changes, unespected needs and priority changes.

 

 

 

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SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

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Application Integration and Middleware Software (IBM, Oracle, BEA, RedHat-JBoss)

• Business Process Management: Software, Platforms, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Rule–Based Technologies
• Platform Middleware: Application Platform Suites, Application Server Software
• Portals and Web Infrastructure
• Web Services
• Application Architecture: J2EE, .Net, Service–Oriented Architecture, Service–Oriented Development of Applications, Open–Source Applications
• Metadata Repositories
• Mobile Programming

 

Data Management and Integration

• Data Integration
• Database Management Software: Database Administration and Utility Software, Mobile Embedded Database Management Software, Object–Oriented Database Management Software, Relational Database Management Software, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• Metadata Management: Data Modeling, Metadata Repositories

 

Application Performance Management (APM)
Management and monitoring of performances and availability of application services to ensure that technological SLA and business expectations are satisfie. Application of End User Experience Management and Real User Management methodologies to misure real user's experience in production environment.

 

Enterprise Management Software

• Event Management e Security Information and Event Management (Novell Sentinel, Sensage, ArcSight, enVision, Ossim)
• Archiving and Content Storage: Content–Addressed Storage (Billing, IBM AFP)

 

Security Software
Data Security, Endpoint Security, Identity and Access Management, Internet Security Software, IT Security Management Software, Network Security, Secure Messaging, Vulnerability Management, Web Services Security, Privacy and Ethics, Security Management

 

Application Development Tools

• Development Environment and Suites Software: Integrated Development Environments, Modeling and Code Generation (MDA)
• Development Life Cycle Software: Debugging and Defect Tracking Tools, Software Configuration Management Tools, Migration and Porting Tools, Software Process Management, Test Software
• Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, PL/SQL
• Web Services Production Platforms
• Web Site Development Tools

 

Operating Systems Software
UNIX, Windows, z/OS, z/Linux

 

Metadata Repositories
A quick look to the web to detect the presence of complex multimedial contents combining texts, images, audio and video. The distribution of this content is only one aspect of a much more complex operation that requires design skills and the most important technologies for Metadata Repositories to manage and analyze artifacts that represent the company assets