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Augmentum at Forefront of China Offshoring Trend; Duke University Report Confirms China's Competitive Ability to Innovate

2007-04-24 09:53 1327

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

Source: Augmentum
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