Duke University Study Reports China Well-Positioned for Future Science and Technology
SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Calif., April 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
According to the report recently released in National Academy of Sciences
Magazine, based on a Duke University study
(http://www.issues.org/23.3/wadhwa.html), China is unique in its rates of
graduating engineering and technology Ph.D.s and its ability to perform
critical research and development.
Augmentum, a leading provider of value-added software development
services, headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California with
additional facilities in Beijing, is living proof of the China success story
described in this study. With the ability to select the best and brightest
candidates from a huge Chinese talent pool, Augmentum delivers superior
business value to enterprise customers. Augmentum's Fortune 500 and rapidly
growing startup clients experience higher quality and faster delivery at the
lowest realized total costs. Augmentum offers the entire scope of outsourced
software services, ranging from full cycle software development and business
application development, to complex system integration and solution
implementation. Augmentum is committed to becoming the best software services
provider in the world. Fortune 500 companies, including Intel, Motorola, and
Microsoft, have relied on Augmentum to develop and test their complex
software. Augmentum was recently acknowledged for outsourcing leadership in
the Booz Allen Hamilton book, Outsourcing Thought Leaders: Managing Business
without Borders (http://www.strategy-business.com/oasreader).
"Given the wealth of talented programmers in China, Augmentum has created
a Silicon Valley start-up culture that allows employees to embrace projects
requiring technical know-how coupled with creativity and innovation," said
Frank Yu, President and COO of Augmentum. "Throughout 2006, more than 10,000
people applied for the 500 positions at Augmentum, giving us the chance to
choose the most innovative talents for our worldwide developer team. Built on
differentiating factors including managerial style, problem-solving skills,
customer focus, and an extremely disciplined culture and development process,
Augmentum's success is evident in the company's rapid growth and world class
customer list."
Augmentum is a sponsor of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Emerging Trends, in
San Francisco, CA, April 23-25, located in booth #421.
About Augmentum
Augmentum provides Outsourcing Leadership for Innovation. Augmentum
engineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edge
development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create
commercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collective
experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is
headquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California.
The company has grown to 800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three
years since its founding and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 award
in 2005, and the Risk Management award at the China Outsourcing Summit in
2006. For more information, please visit http://www.augmentum.com or call
(650) 578-9221 x104.
About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic
conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For
more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises,
Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual
planning efforts. Attendees rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight
into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges
and improve operational efficiency. For more information, please visit
http://www.gartner.com/us/symposiumwest.com