Destination Data, Director
Outsourcing for Enterprises
SSD has helped many large companies to cut costs, raise quality, and increase the effectiveness of their software development. All of them became repeat clients. (see our Featured Case Studies)
High quality / Low cost
We offer high quality enterprise level software development services at the most attractive price in Eastern Europe. This is because we have access to the highly-qualified low-cost labor market, where we can afford hiring only top 10% professionals, paying them competitive salaries, and training them with the latest IT techniques while still staying very price competitive. Our engineers are certified by industry leaders such as Microsoft, Teradata, Oracle, BrainBench and others. You can communicate with them in English as if they were in your local office, and you can expect them to seamlessly integrate into your company's culture. We have one of the lowest turn-over rates, so you can work with the same people for years and expect them to be exclusively dedicated to your project as if they were your employees. Working with us removes many hassles associated with hiring domestic staff, adding up office infrastructure, paying high salaries and benefits, and incurring termination and litigation costs. We can provide you with the domestic level of IT services without the burden of the associated expenses.
Experience in the development of enterprise products
SSD has built a lasting relationship with a number of large enterprise clients. We would be happy to provide references from them upon request. Dependent upon your needs, we can offer you the full software development life cycle from business analysis to iterative development, quality assurance, and post-launch maintenance. We analyze your product requirements in tight cooperation with your on-site team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, and we help our clients to track and prioritize all functionality change requests. One of our experienced project managers usually coordinates the local development for every client. We follow the best industry standards and we maintain a very well organized and constantly improving software development process. That allows our clients to expect an extremely reliable product of a predictable high quality delivered on budget, strictly according to their requirements, and by the set deadlines.
Excellent communication, status tracking, and reporting
All our developers speak English fluently. Some of them also speak German. We established excellent communication processes with our North America and EU clients that include daily Skype meetings, desktop sharing software, video conferences, source control software, project management software, and other distance collaboration tools. Our clients can continuously track the status of their projects through a centralized project management / status tracking systems. You will receive a detailed project schedule that our project managers will update regularly. Finally, our experience with proactive risk management allows us to avoid risks early and to notify you about the potential dependencies and issues as soon as possible.
Scalability of the workforce
Since we work with several clients, we can afford maintaining a pool of instantly available high-demand professionals whom we can easily add to your project as soon as you need them. If we do not have a professional with the required skill set, we usually send to our customers a list of resumes of the candidates whom we can quickly hire on the local labor market. That keeps our clients away from the risks of hiring extra staff whom they might not immediately need. On the other hand, we require our engineers to write the code in a way that your domestic team can easily understand and support if you choose to bring part of the development back on-shore. Finally, due to the competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and team-oriented culture where A-players thrive and learn from other A-players, we enjoy one of the lowest turn-over rates in the country. So our clients always have the certainty that they can work with the same team for years.
The existing Business Intelligence system GYMS 1.0, which DHL used to optimize pricing and analyze sales, had a number of deficiencies that needed to be addressed as soon as possible. Teradata, DHL IT solutions provider, faced with the challenge to increase the quality and consistency of loaded data, eliminate reference gaps, and to make the web-based user interface more user-friendly and comprehensible. GYMS uses three data warehouses of 10TB updated in real-time from 6,500+ DHL offices in 220+ countries and territories, each having local, business and legal peculiarities regarding the processing of 1.5+ billion shipments per year. Making any improvements or changes in such a system required a rare combination of technical expertise, superior attention to detail, and tight cooperation with globally distributed business analysts at various responsibility levels. To meet DHL request under the tight budget and short time constraints, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. The company decided to extend its core product used by Fortune 500 companies with major new features, and to repackage it into a new one called AcquireVision, marking this way the next step in its growth. After SSD successfully delivered its AcquireLocal product targeted at small and medium businesses, AcquireWeb contracted SSD for the second time to develop AcquireVision system that would combine an even greater accuracy of consumer targeting with the effectiveness of advanced frequency-based programs. See more...
As DHL has been adopting an increasing variety of sophisticated visibility and planning methodologies, gleaning a complete picture from disparate data sources became an extremely difficult and confusing task, often performed manually by individuals with varying knowledge of the system. Teradata, DHL IT solutions provider, was contracted to develop a new reporting tool called OneView that would give a holistic view of revenue and operations and provide a comprehensive web interface to manage client accounts. The tool would use a cross functional data mart and produce detailed reports for DHL business analysts and senior management. DHL has three data warehouses of 10TB cross-referenced with numerous satellite databases updated from 6,500+ offices in 220+ countries and territories, each having local, business and legal peculiarities regarding the processing of 1.5+ billion shipments per year. Dealing with such a mix of business entities and legacy products required a rare combination of technical expertise, superior attention to detail, and tight cooperation with globally distributed business analysts at various responsibility levels. To meet DHL request under the tight budget and short time constraints, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. The company came to SSD at its maturity stage, aiming to expand its industry presence from Global 2000 companies to small & medium business segment. AcquireWeb needed to develop a new AcquireLocal product that would bring the power of a proven customer acquisition program designed for large global companies to the local level. The new product would leverage AcquireWeb massive prospect database reaching to 75mil+ US households (130mil+ individuals) to give the possibility to local businesses both to leverage their existing customer connections and to engage new prospects, maximizing this way their sales growth at the local level. See more...
DHL Express is the world's largest provider of international express mail services represented in 220+ countries and territories and processing over 1.5 billion shipments per year. To manage its rapidly growing data infrastructure, DHL contracted Teradata (NYSE:TDC), one of the most well-known providers of Data Warehousing and Analytics solutions. As DHL had been increasingly adopting a variety of sophisticated business analysis and planning techniques, Teradata faced the need to provide a growing number of automated reports and Business Intelligence tools for DHL business analysis and general managers, who were pressed to increase efficiency and explore more ways to generate revenue. To meet these needs, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams who had extensive experience in developing enterprise Business Intelligence tools under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. Since the beginning of this collaboration SSD was challenged to deliver over 80 large analytical projects of varying degree of sophistication and complexity. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. AcquireWeb has successfully collaborated with SSD on the development, market launch, and further maintenance of its flagship AcquireLocal and AcquireVision products. As the online advertising market was becoming more and more competitive, AcquireWeb sought new ways to leverage its proprietary 130mil permission-based prospects database. To win new Fortune 500 clients who were using other companies' products for customer acquisition, AcquireWeb commissioned SSD the development of web services and Real-Time Data API that would enable advertisers, marketers, and publishers to match fragments of customer data collected through their own channels with a complete customer profile gleaned from AcquireWeb proprietary database. Having a better knowledge of their prospects would enable these companies to increase the accuracy of their targeting and to immediate boost ROI. Thus, AcquireWeb Real-Time Data API was meant to be a strategic first step towards winning new clients and further strengthening AcquireWeb market presence. See more...
Inkotech company manages IT infrastructure projects for governmental agencies . Inkotech needed to create a reliable Content Management System for maintaining up-to-date information on all real-estate development projects s for the Ministry of Construction & Architecture. The system needed to have a sophisticated access control mechanism to allow authorized government officials and third parties to access State Registry information as well as statistical, analytical, legal, and project status data on all commercial and state-sponsored real-estate projects. The system would also maintain the information pertaining to the relevant licensed parties such as architects, suppliers, engineers, builders, surveyors, inspectors, and contractors. After having put the project out to tender, Inkotech eventually selected SSD team of experienced developers and business analysts to conduct planning, design, implementation, quality assurance, and long-term maintenance of ICT government portal. See more...