GlobalSys Services, Inc (GSS)

Your Reliable IT Business Partner

 Who are We
• GSS is Parent Company
- GSS-M (Moscow): 250+ Technical Staff, 1994
* 11 years
* Major BP (IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Rational SW)
* Mainframe

- GSS-V (Voronezh): 140 Tech Staff, 1990

* 7 years
* World Class Data Base/
Data Warehouse Development

• Partnership Through Ownership

• Focus on GSS-V: Majority Skills for Emerging Companies with low costs & low
turnover
 Welcome to Voronezh

Voronezh is an important IT
center, along with Moscow and
St. Petersburg
 Welcome to Voronezh

Key Facts About Voronezh

• Central Russia, 500 km away from Moscow

• Population of over 1 million people

• One of the major industrial and scientific centers

of Russia

• Over 20 higher education institutions

• Modern infrastructure, including hi-speed

Internet access and wide hardware suppliers
network

• Important IT center

• The labor costs in Voronezh are significantly

lower than in Moscow or St. Petersburg
 Welcome to GSS Voronezh

Key Facts About GSS Voronezh

• One of the leading Russian software development

companies

• A growing company, staffed by 140+ highly competent

specialists

• Provide development, consulting and technical support

services in custom system and application software
development, outsourcing, and DBMS technologies

• Profound experience in implementing and managing

dozens of projects of different levels of complexity for
over 20 years

• Numerous customers, including government, public and private organizations and companies
in Russia as well as overseas

• ISO 9001 certified Quality Management System

 Human Resources

Education Professional Experience 0-2 years

14%
Bachelors 6+ years
30% 38%
Masters
55% 2-4 years
18%
Interns
5% 4-6 years
Ph.D.
10% 30%

English Level
Company Size Dynamics Poor Good
13% 20%

Functional
67%
 Human Resources

Cooperation with Universities

• The aim is to unite the efforts of GSS-V and the universities to train specialists in IT

• Internship contracts with the leading colleges and universities of Central Russia

• Best students have internship in our company each year

• Our employees give lectures in the top
universities of Voronezh

• We sponsor school and university

student contests

• Best trainees get developers and QA

positions at GSS-V
 Facilities

Technical Facilities
• Hardware includes 10 servers, 140 workstations, and
15 special hardware units

• Gigabit corporate network with possibility to connect

300 workstations

• Two independent high-speed (10 and 2 megabit)

Internet connections

• Reliable data/service backup organized, regular

archiving to various media

• Anti-virus and security software configured

• Multi-level security system

• Physical Building Security

 Services

• Consulting

• Software Development

• Technical Support
 Consulting

• IT infrastructure evaluating and development

• Recommendations in software design, development

and deployment

• Database technologies analysis and heterogeneous

data integration

• Software compatibility and integration analysis

• Development of software architectures and product

selection

• Complex IT solutions building guidance

• GSS willing to provide initial consulting guidance @

no cost to NewCo’s to start a relationship
 Development

• Custom application and system software

o Support full development life cycle or participate
in specific phases of particular projects

• Unique DBMS solutions for highly specialized

tasks

• Corporate systems customized to the client

business practices

• Integration of existing and/or newly created

applications

• Maintenance and enhancement of legacy

applications

• Recommend a small pilot program to get started

 Support

• Define and follow the Technical Support Rules

• Provide technical support on a 24х7 basis

• Provide continuous access to the Ticket

Tracking service portal for the clients

• Guarantee solving the clients’ problems within

specified timeframes – Service Level
Agreements (SLA)
 Quality Management System

• ISO 9001 Certified

• Plans for CMMI levels 3 and 4

• Maintain the quality of the product

throughout its life cycle, from the design
stage to technical support

• Create conditions that guarantee the

required quality level
 Project Management

Development Process
• Classic waterfall model

• Iterative/spiral development

• Depending on customer processes

º Learn and use existing process of the
customer
º Work out the best suitable process together
with the customer
º Propose a process to the customer
 Project Management

Tools
• Project Tracking
º Manage project team, tasks, schedule, status and reports
º Keep project documentation

• Ticket Tracking
º Track bugs, enhancements and changes

• MS Project

• Rational Rose, Power Designer

º System and database modeling

• CVS, Subversion

• Automated testing tools

º TestComplete, Load Runner, Rational Test Manager, Rational Quality Architect, WAST, etc.

• Any other tools depending on the customer needs

 MassChallenge Survey
Survey Responses

60
60 56

50
45

40 36
32

30 27 28

20
15

10

0
Website Dev Database Hand Held Simple App Multi-tiered SaaS Dev Application Other Needs
Integration Device Dev Dev App Dev Porting

• GSS-V has skills and experience in all major areas

 Programming Skills

80 79
70

60

50

40 32
28
30 22
20

10

0
C/C++ Java, C#, .NET Modeling
J2SE/J2EE Framework Languages
99
100
82
80

60
45 41
40

20

0
Windows Unix MS Visual GNU C/C++
Studio
 Programming Skills

72 72 50 48
75

60 40 38
37
45
45 30

25 19
30 20
11
15 10 9 10

0 0
SQL DBMS RDBMS DW & BI Oracle MS SQL DB/2 Sybase Informix MySQL PostgreSQL
Development Experience
50
60 54

50
40 42
39
40 30
29
30 24 25
21 20 22
15 17
20
10
10
0
0 Win32 ATL/COM MFC Security Multi- TCP/IP
HTML/DHTML XML/XSL ASP/ASP.NET PHP API threading Protocols
 Intellectual Property Protection

Intellectual Property Protection in Russia

• Russia is a party and signatory to all copyright and
intellectual property protection conventions and treaties

• Russia is as a member of the World Intellectual Property

organization

• Intellectual property protection included in the Russian

constitution and laws

Intellectual Property Protection in GSS-V

• GSS-V pays special attention to protecting confidential
information of its partners and clients

• NDAs are signed by the company as well as new hires

• Special information security service is organized at GSS-V

° Provide data security

° Protect the corporate network from external threats

 Projects Implemented

Implementing projects in both areas of

expertise and new areas, using state-of-
the-art technologies

• GSS-V: More than 150 projects for overseas

customers

• Dozens of large-scale projects for maor Russian

government, public and private organizations and
all size companies
 Projects Implemented

NewCo

Customer: US Software NewCo – under NDA

Location: Northeast
Project: Read-Only High Performance DBMS Technologies
Description:
Providing data access on personal computers and notebooks for
analysis.
The product provides a service for distributed data processing and
improved the accessibility of information.
Technologies: WIN32 API, ODBC, YACC/BISON.
Architectural Design: Work done only from 15 page Architectural
Design.
 Projects Implemented

IBM Software Group - Worldwide

Customer: IBM Software Group - Worldwide

Location: North America + Other Geographies
Project: Data Base Migrations from Brand X to DB2
Description:
The Russian engineer creativity allows for Black Box Solutions
where only the source and target systems are known.
Relationship has been 8 years, working with all types of
companies including software companies acquired by IBM who
are required to offer DB2 solutions on all server hardware and
software platforms.
GSS-V is only non IBM offshore company selected to perform
this work for IBM worldwide.
 Projects Implemented

Health Care – Custom Solutions for Medical

Imaging

Customer: Medical Imaging Hardware/Software

Reference is available
Location: Texas
Project: Medical Imaging Systems
Description:
Provide 100% of all software development (9 programmers)
including test. Relationship stated with GSS-V only do part of
the software development work. Other portion was done in
India.

New Release each year.

Mission of company: To provides medical imaging and related

products and service that are standards-based where possible with
high quality and cost-effective.
 Projects Implemented

RDBMS Linter

Linux QNX
МСВС USIX
Solaris VxWorks
Mac OS X OS-9
BSD OS-9000
UnixWare OC2000
IRIX INTROS
AIX VMS
SINIX Windows

SQL server available for various hardware and software platforms, including
handhelds/PDA
 GSS-V Experience in DBMS Technologies

Experience Areas:
• Parsers, translators, interpreters

• Data management

• Indexing

• Data compression

• Transaction processing

• Query optimization

• Interoperability software

• Fault-tolerance systems

• Advanced Security

• Embedded and real-time

• Multi-platform software development

• DW and BI solutions
More than 150 projects for overseas customers

Dozens of large-scale projects for Russian government, public and private organizations and companies
 Well Known Large Company References
(Small, Software & Newco References Available)