Aside from developing high end software solutions, Avantica Technologies covers the technological support required by some of its clients. Such is the case of Adaptive Planning, an American software company, which provides a Web based financial budgeting program to third parties.

Adaptive Planning’s software simulates a financial worksheet created using Java and Oracle; this software works within Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox. The worksheet allows the accounting or financial analyst to develop equations and formulas which calculate budgets in different scenarios.

Although Adaptive Planning’s main offices are located in Mountain View, California, the distance is not an obstacle for it to work together with a company located miles away in Central America. Working remotely, Costa Rican engineers are in charge of upgrading many of the functionalities that Adaptive Planning offers to their customers.

Costa Rica’s location coupled with Avantica’s engineers' excellent English skills has won over Adaptive Planning; a decision that Adaptive Planning feels very satisfied about.

"English abilities are very important to us, because we try to integrate our teams independent of their location, so engineers need to speak and write excellent English. We find people in Costa Rica have the level of English skills that we need", mentioned Hali Lindbloom, QA Manager of Adaptive Planning.

Nowadays, software has become a service instead of only a product. Companies like Avantica offer their clients a complete solution based on software as a service. By outsourcing technological maintenance and support, companies don’t have to grow extensively, hire engineers or programmers, which eventually translates in a high cost of ownership for the company.

The Maintenance and Support service Avantica offers Adaptive Planning is constant. Costa Rican professionals work in corrective, adaptive and extensive maintenance and support functions for Adaptive Planning. Avantica offers Adaptive Planning a complete solution based on their specific needs from analysis and development to testing phases in order to deliver a high quality product.

Costa Rica’s and Peru’s Adaptive Planning team in Avantica began with five engineers, presently, this team has grown to 12 professionals. Besides Costa Rica, Adaptive Planning maintains development teams in the U.S. and India. Avantica's team maintains strict communication with each of these teams in order to complete all the work the best way possible, adhering to well defined software production chain processes defined by Adaptive Planning.

Additionally, Avantica is in charge of testing the new applications Adaptive Planning is interested in releasing. Avantica's team in Costa Rica carries out three different testing levels: Unit Testing, Manual Testing and Automated Testing. This way, the Web-based software solution company makes sure all of the applications were developed properly taking into consideration their entire solution and specific needs.

Due to the excellent experience that Adaptive Planning has had with Avantica, Adaptive Planning is interested in continuing its growth alongside Avantica. “Definitely we would like to continue to grow and add people to our team at Avantica. We see Avantica’s engineers as an extension of our team in California. We have noticed that our product has been growing very well and want Avantica to be part of that growth”, declared Lindbloom.

For more information regarding Adaptive Planning, please visit the Website: www.adaptiveplanning.com

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