proServices Corporation’s principals, founders and management team have been inventors, manufacturers, investors and users of Software Automation Tooling Technology for over 25 years. Applying this experience, has been a benefit to their clients during the past 10 years. proServices’ Trenton, NJ Software Factory supplies both commercial software development automation tooling technology along with proven methods, processes and procedures to produce results.

As a Managed Service Provider (MSP) proServices provides its customers with results using standard, commercial software development automation tooling technology. The value-add proposition of a MSP with “domain expertise” in applying software development automation tooling versus traditional hand based approaches is eliminating costly and inefficient software development processes for finding errors & bugs in the source code is cost justified. *The cost of finding an error is $10,000 per error according to Capers Jones of the U.S. Software Consortium. proServices’ “domain expertise” in software quality services provides their client the ability to improve their software manufacturing process and quality of their software system. The list of services below represents proServices’ Proprietary Software Factory Quality Services offering:

• Quality Assessment & Audit
  
• Error Detection
  
• Memory Leak Detection
  
• Performance Tuning
  
• Test Coverage Analysis
  
• Darwin Testing
  
• COE Assessment & Audit
  

The charts below represent a complete and conservative Return on Investment analysis when comparing proServices service products to other in house practices.

• Part I represents all of the “real” costs incurred by a company to purchase just one (1) software automation tool (i.e. Error Detection Tool) for a small development organization of 10 – 15 developers. This analysis does not include the labor cost to perform the task to yield results.
  
• Part II of this analysis will compare the cost of just one (1) tool plus labor to do the service, in this case “Error Detection Service”.
  
• Part III compares the cost of supporting all seven (7) software development automation tooling technologies offering all seven (7) of the services supported by proServices.
  

Process & Methods, Custom Scripts and Interpretation/Reports

Process & Methods

proServices value add and unique capability from 11 years of using software development automation tools has successfully allowed them to enforce standard processes and methods which their factory software engineers use to perform all the service work. All services are based on the use of commercial grade and available software development automation tooling technologies. It is proServices’ process & methods which provide a unique capability to deliver a fix priced service.

Custom Scripts

Custom scripts built by proServices provide value add and unique capability by querying standard commercial grade and available software development automation tooling technologies beyond their current functionality. This enriches the deliverables only available from proServices service.

Interpretation/Reports

proServices’ value add and unique capability of having high level technical software engineers to interpret the raw data generated by the software development automation tooling technologies helps find and classify all errors and bugs and eliminate false positives. These reports are automatically generated and the reports will compare our code against similar applications, languages and software characteristics.

Firm Fixed Price Contracts

• No cost over runs.
  
• System is scoped by lines of code, language and service type to determine guaranteed fixed price.
  
• Published Commercial price list.
  
• Price includes:
  • VPN set-up
    
  • Collecting client software inventory
    
  • Installing software development automation tooling technology
    
  • Tooling software development automation to client’s software inventory
    
  • Running software development automation tooling technologies
    
  • Preparing data output for interpretation
    
  • Interpretation and generating the custom report
    
  • Generate proServices’ ScoreCard custom report
    
  • Presenting reports and findings via video conferencing
    
  • Providing ongoing consulting support for interpretation of any and all data from custom reports client’s software
    
  
  

Guaranteed Time Table for Delivery

proServices will ensure the following:

• 6 – 10 weeks from receiving the entire inventory of the software system source code and software artifacts, the report will be delivered to client.