The Client:
The client is a leader in semiconductor equipment health monitoring and advanced fault detection enterprise software solutions.


The Challenge:
The project required the design and development of browser-based data viewing capabilities for various streams of data. The system also had to be highly configurable. In addition, there were challenges related to handling of large volumes of data in real time.


The Solution:
Sopra India created an offshore development centre and had an onshore requirements gathering consultant and a project manager working with the client.

• The team at the offshore development center worked on the development of the product consisting of a graphical library, client side application and a server component.
• The offshore team followed standard development methodologies and created a comprehensive framework to effectively communicate with the client's on-site IT team.
• Sopra India's team used various collaborative tools and it’s CMM accessed process was optimized keeping in mind the needs of such a mechanism.
• Sopra India also had a Project Manager, working on-site to help the client's management team and to ensure that the client's management bandwidth was spared.
• Sopra India also worked closely with the client to ensure effective knowledge transfer in the domain related to Yield Management and equipment health monitoring.

Technology Used:

• Client/Server architecture
• Java based development
• Web services

Sopra India Benefits:

• Sopra India's process maturity as well as the capability of continuous process improvement was a key to success with the client.
• Sopra India had a large team base in India as well as sufficient capacity in the India development centre and was able to provide a fast ramp-up to the client as and when needed, many times within a very short time frame.
• The client was able to get excellent cost benefits due to Sopra India's focus on working with the various stages of the software product lifecycle in an offshore model based out of India.