FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

QAI India Launches Benchmarking Service with 
Quantitative Software Management, Inc. USA

New Delhi, 8 October 2001 

Softwaredioxide.com, the ecosystem for software and the world's first software engineering and management portal, was declared as the official host portal at the launch of a performance benchmarking service from QAI India.  The new service is being launched in collaboration with Quantitative Software Management Inc., (QSM) and will be aimed at serving Information Technology companies worldwide.

QAI India is one of India's leading IT consulting & training firms, with business activities stretching from India to China via Southeast Asia. QSM, founded by software metrics & measurement guru Lawrence H. Putnam Sr., is a force in software metrics consulting and the leading supplier of the SLIM® suite of software measurement tools which help software development firms measure, estimate, and control software projects.

The QAI Benchmarking service, the first of its kind, will be a continuous and systematic process of evaluating and comparing a company's software project development record with that of industry leaders worldwide. Working with an organization's historical project development data, QAI's online benchmarking service through Softwaredioxide.com will submit a detailed benchmarking report supplemented with expert analysis using over 42 graphs; thus providing rich and actionable insights for an organization.

This service promises a definite return on the fee charged, as it helps businesses determine "best practice" development processes and establish rational performance goals. In today's competitive environment, this amounts to real-time cost savings for companies at all levels of maturity.  Even CMM Level 4 and 5 IT firms with established process improvement practices will find the benchmarking report to be an essential resource.

QAI's ability to help software companies obtain comprehensive performance benchmarks on their data against international standards is supported by QSM's database of over 5100 international software projects. Softwaredioxide.com facilitates the process by allowing registration for the service and download of the data entry forms online - making the service accessible worldwide.

Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Mr. Navyug Mohnot, Executive Director of QAI India Ltd. said, "Organizations worldwide are committed to quality and are determined to make the process change to enable it. Benchmarking lets us see the actual need for improvement and the goals to set. It is one of the most crucial inputs for process improvement."

QAI's service promises to be both cost-effective and simple to use - capturing data using forms based on the MS Excel standard. Further, all analysis will be performed by a QAI expert within a specified turn-around time, with technical feedback from QSM, Inc., USA.

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