e-Zest bags employee Scheduler software product outsourcing contract

e-Zest Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a provider of offshore software product life cycle management outsourcing services, has announced that it has bagged medium sized product outsourcing contract from US based leading provider of workforce optimization solutions (Covered under NDA).

Pune (PRWEB) March 1, 2004 --This product is completely automated employee scheduling system that lowers payroll costs, ensures sufficient skilled staffing and provides accurate record-keeping, enabling companies to effectively manage large, complex work environments with 1000+ employees. This employee Scheduler product delivers robust scheduling solutions to organizations with complex employee scheduling needs. Current version of product is a Visual FoxPro - based application, evolved since 1989, currently in version 8.0 and already installed at almost 100 clients.

e-Zest will be developing next generation product with enhancements on J2EE technology platform. This next generation product will address many of the limitations of the current version, and will allow e-Zests client to pursue market segments that it can not currently pursue, either because of limitations concerning scalability or functionalities of applications. Development of product using J2EE technology helps to provide the better application scalability and performance benefits. Next generation product will be released in two versions expedited Standard version and full featured Enterprise version over next 12 months.

CEO of e-Zest Solutions, Devendra Deshmukh, said: "We are delighted at winning this prestigious product outsourcings contract against stiff global competition that included well known international product outsourcing firms. The advantage we extended to our client is our flexible outsourcing option coupled with the proven ability of our people in a product development. e-Zest has a sizeable pool of high end architectural, design and testing skills and flexible and dynamic development environments. Also e-Zest has done over the period substantial investments in product development centric tools. Our CTO Ashish Gupta and e-Zest client engagement team members has played major role to acquire this client account and product contract and project management team headed by COO Amol Pande will ensure successful development of product"

About e-Zest (http://www.e-zest.net): Founded in 1998, e-Zest has grown from a small start-up to Indias respected offshore software development company, offering a broad range of generic, branded and vertical services with focus on product outsourcing services. The "Global Onsite / Offshore Delivery Model" is the key to all service offerings. It uses a robust distributed project management methodology on a state-of-the-art computing and communication backbone. Quality is benchmarked against global best practices at e-Zest. e-Zest has offices in USA, UK and India.