Scand: 10 Years in the Software Development Business

Oct. 25, 2010 - PRLog -- Scand Ltd. (Minsk, Belarus) is an offshore software development company located in Eastern Europe. The company is a provider of IT outsourcing services and offers custom and mobile software development using .NET, Java, PHP, C++ technologies, as well as design, support, integration and maintenance of custom software, IT consulting, software testing, writing technical documentation, custom web-design and re-design.
The company’s core competences have grown in number and developed together with the company and today cover the areas of web application development, custom software development for Windows, Mac OS and Unix, database design, development and management, mobile software development for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian.    
The technologies used by Scand include JAVA, PHP / LAMP / AJAX, .NET, C++.
Scand makes use of such efficient software development methodologies as Rapid Application Development, Agile (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Retrospection, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development), Object-oriented Programming, Architecture, Design and Aspects, Rational Unified Process, Microsoft Solutions Framework, Oracle CASE*Method, Fusebox, EMF, UML, 4GL.

During its decade in the IT sphere Scand was concentrating and is now focusing on software engineering for such industries as energy carrier production and consumption, publishing and advertising, architecture and construction, banking, postal services, recruiting, production management and control. The company also develops web applications and software products for independent software vendors (ISV) and large-scale IT companies.
The customers of the company are located globally - in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the USA, Luxemburg, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan, Latvia, the Russian Federation.
Scand is flexible in terms of building relationship with their customers and offers several working models and combinations thereof. The main working models include a fixed bid / fixed price option, a Time and Material (T&M) model and an Offshore Development Centre (ODC) / Offshore Dedicated Team (ODT) solution.
Apart from being engaged in offshore software development projects and outsourcing IT services Scand has developed their own valuable and innovative products, some of which are open source. A network management tool, an object-oriented PHP framework, addons for Skype, a full-featured RSS and ATOM reader for iPhone and iPod touch, high-performance Java applets are only some of software products developed by Scand Ltd.

10 years in the IT industry, solid background and experience of a large company together with flexibility and adaptability of a middle-scale firm enable Scand to have a convincing success story and to continue accumulating experience in the sphere of software development and IT outsourcing services.

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Scand Ltd. is an offshore software development company and an IT outsourcing services provider located in Belarus, in the center of Eastern Europe. The Company is primarily focusing on web application and software product development using .NET, Java, PHP, C++ technologies. Scand is also specializing in custom software development, mobile application development, database development and management.