U.S Energy Firm– A Revitalizing Dive into China’s Offshore Tech Market

Case Study
U.S Energy Firm– A Revitalizing Dive into China's Offshore Tech Market

* The client is a world leader in the utilization and control of water and has been supplying equipment to the hydropower and water control industries for over one hundred and fifty years. This case study is about hiSoft's first and most challenging long-term commitment in Europe and North America, which was to provide qualified services and solutions for the purpose of maintaining U.S Energy Firm's support system.

    Challenges

    hiSoft's Solutions

    Benefits

  • The U.S Energy Firm launched its project in China, looking for a partner who could offer solutions including program development, application testing, system maintenance, and 24 hour technical support.


  • The U.S firm expected the new provider to fully meet its quality standards and started looking for a medium-sized team that could manage one of the most complex and advanced technical systems in the world of hydropower and water control installations.
    • Application server (BEA Weblogic)
    • DB (DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access)
    • DB related technologies (Data warehouse, Data mining, Data Mart, performance tuning up)
    • Programming languages such as C/C++, Java/J2EE, Delphi, VB, COBOL/JCL.
  • Built up a team to support the project in terms of integrating the module of off-shore with on-site together.


  • Built up an offshore team was formed in Dalian, with several different technical groups:
    • AS400 solution team
    • DB (DB2, Oracle, MS SDL server solution team, data warehouse solution team),
    • ERP/MRP solution team
    • Java/J2EE solution team, and
    • C/C++ solution team.
  • hiSoft migrated the concept of Six Sigma to their project management right after the testing period.
  • The group significantly improved its services with the evaluation of CMM 5 standards and it received very positive feedback from the client.


  • The client's expectations of a more cost-effective solution were fully met, the partnership has evolved to the next stage.
  • 20% less expensive than the bidding price from Indian vendors, hiSoft enabled the client to cut the previous vendor's budget nearly to half.