“I just visited the MySpace website, 10 minutes later I got a phone call from my boss,  who was in another city, asking me why I am on that website rather than working. It’ s as if my boss is behind me and watching. Too maddening! ”

My friend Katie is pouring out her experience this morning. Katie works in the sales department of a small company. She says, everyday, the first thing after she starts the computer is updating her MySpace or chatting with friends but not beginning to work. Not only her but also everyone else in the office does like this. Some guys even frequently visit sexually explicit sites and game sites. That’ s a common thing in her company.

Depending on the developed technology, employees can indulge themselves in cyberspace to combat tedious work by means of instant messengers, personal email accounts and social networking sites. Meanwhile time-wasting Internet uses prevent them from getting their work done. On a business level, this represents productivity lost, and ultimately, money lost. Beyond worrying about this, employers take means to prevent cyberspace loafing.

Nowadays, the new technologies allow employers to check whether employees are wasting time in browsing recreational websites or sending personal emails. Then how they do it? Actually, that’ s what Katie wonders.

Most employers who monitor their staff would apply software directly into the company computers thus employee monitoring software has become more widespread in the workplaces, varying from small companies to big IT leading enterprises. There is no shortage of such kind of software available for purchase. Employee monitoring software allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. Programs like IMonitor can record detailed activities of users, including emails, instant messages, keystrokes, print jobs, files transferred, websites visited, applications used and much more. Some employee monitoring software with remote spy features gives company administrators the authority to remotely monitor office computers from any place at any time. This must be what Katie’ s boss utilizes.

Is employee monitoring software really effective?
The answer is positively. According to a survey, 70 percent of the companies which apply employee monitoring software have enhanced staff efficiency and production, what’ s more, confidential data transfer cases decrease sharply. Surveillance is now a routine business practice among employers.

However, this always eventually leads to conflict as employees may feel that monitoring is an unacceptable invasion of privacy but employers want to be sure that employees are keeping loyalty and not abusing company resources.

The ultimate way to solve this problem is making a concession between both parties. Employers need to balance the monitoring from invasion. As to employees, sometimes they do have to handle some personal matters during working time, but at least they should have a sense to quit spending long time on MySpace or Facebook during working hours.

Nowadays, not only big companies like Adobe and Microsoft are doing software and product development in India, but small to medium scale companies have started entering into outsourcing as well. It is considered that the increase in business will be around 100% in offshore outsourcing product development.

Software Product development requires specialized skills which not every software outsourcing company has. Product selling firms in the US and Europe can reduce their software development cost by doing offshore outsourcing. And, they can concentrate on marketing and new ideas. Also, they may have to maintain people with specialized skills if they want to do on their own. If they want to open their own small development center in India, it can also be done and also by aligning with Indian software outsourcing company, they can get access to wider skill area.

In the Product Development life cycle, companies should take care while making the decision on their offshore partners.  It is important that offshore partners stand beside them during the entire product life cycle from where ever they start.

All offshore projects require a long-term strategy to ensure delivering of higher ROI and success ratio. While the concern across the globe about effective project management, control of the offshore projects, as well as efficient communication management is quite understandable, we at Elan Emerging Technologies PVT Ltd. have ensured simple steps to ensure maximum transparency on the status of the projects for our esteemed clients. The fantastic team at Elan Technologies always wants to exceed the client expectations by achieving highest customer satisfaction.

Our Offshore Engagement Models are different and tailored for different type of projects and clients. Whether it is an End Client, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Software Development House, Software Product Company or Web Development company our process starts with defining the right balance of Project Management Practice and Communication Protocols for the Pre-Project, Project and Post-Project scenario which goes a long way to build an outsourcing partnership.

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Custom software development services are a concept that can provide solutions to your problems, having stemmed from traditional methods of working. When you are using ready made tools and it doesn’t provide you the reports as required, it becomes useless and becomes even more time wasting when you keep using it though it doesn’t comply with your needs. More difficulty arouses when you are not using the software at all and keep working in traditional pen and paper method, messing with registers, ledgers and pile of files.

Problem you are facing due to, either you are not using custom software development services or you were not able to find the right ready made tool that works exactly according to your requirements and gives you the required reports, so you keep feeling data in the available software and preparing the reports manually and decide to go back to your traditional method of working with pen papers and files, instead of boggling with ridiculous software tool you are using to find the solutions and receive the reports to generate more profits for you… which will never come out of it. Here starts the need of custom software development service, which gives you the solutions as you required it.

When it comes to custom software development, it remains completely as its name suggests custom or say tailor made. Custom made software is the one that is made after analyzing your problems, your work processes, your current system of working and also it analysis about how your staff would be working on the it during the routine process etc. to find the right solution for your need and to give you the desired output in forms of reports, results and revenue.

Once analyzing the current scenario in all the ways possible, it comes to find out the solutions and check points on how your custom software development can be made more economic, more effective and more report generative. During the process, it is also considered, whether some check points can be useful or time wasting or addition of some other processes currently not being followed can be incorporated or not. After this very important part it starts the custom software development process where each functions and modules are developed and integrated through programming systems and utilities.

Before implementation of the custom made software it needs a robust testing to evaluate that it works fine in all conditions it is made to work for.

All the care taken during custom software development process, results in an effective tool, to use in your office, company, organization, institutions or if you are using it for your personal monitoring for more reports and analysis to convert it towards a highly profitable custom software development service for you.

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