The Eastern Ontario Canadian Nearshore Advantage
Nearshore software development is a popular model for companies that don’t want to deal with the cultural, language or time zone differences involved in offshoring, where teams are separated by oceans. Rural outsourcing is also a popular model in the United States. Our Eastern Ontario nearshoring model is much more attractive than offshoring, and cheaper than rural outsourcing. Our proximity and common culture can reduce risk, complexity, and cost, and facilitate closer collaboration, and easier, more effective communication.
Operating in the same time zone as our US eastern based clients allows us to work as a single team and be more productive. Agile development depends on team members being allowing to interact in real-time throughout the day. We have video conferencing, virtual whiteboards and collaborative software tools to support Agile development using distributed teams.
We’re Canadian, so there no foreign language barriers to communication with our clients. We have decades of experience collaborating with our target customer base. That’s why we welcome client visits so we can truly be part of your team.
People live and work in the 1000 Islands region because they love it here. For half of the year, this locale is paradise on earth with many fresh water boating adventures. For the winter months, there are several ski resorts nearby.
Face-to-face interaction is an important ingredient for most engagements to build chemistry, trust and effective relationships. Our geographic proximity to US makes travel easier and less expensive thus facilitating face-to-face interaction.
Why big river?
- We’re in your time zone and share your mindset.
- We are fanatically Agile and deliver quality results using Business Driven development and Continuous Integration.
- We are centrally located in Eastern Ontario between Carlton, Queens, Concordia and McGill Universities
- We have access to a highly educated technical community of software developers.
- We are located on the Canadian/US border, and a one hour drive from an international airport.
- Our cost advantage makes our price point lower than the internal billing rate of your existing or planned nearshore software development facility.
Our People
- Experienced, passionate, hard-working, empowered, talented people.
- World class work environment, centrally situated between four universities enabling us to recruit (scale quickly) with the best talent available in the industry.
- Higher long-term productivity through a healthy work/life balance, team-building and recreational events, and open communication with employees.
- Strong ties to the local universities and a challenging, continual learning environment in-house that fosters personal growth, innovation, and a long term career path.
- Diverse talent pool of software developers and architects, QA and test engineers, UI and graphic designers, project and release managers, and business analysts.
- Candidates go through a rigorous interview process to ensure technical competency and a philosophical fit with our corporate values.
Security
- We are a Canadian company, and we support the ISO 27001 model
- Your intellectual property is protected with documented, comprehensive levels of physical and information security.
- Clients retain full ownership of all intellectual property and software source code.
- Project teams are segregated in separate physical locations and work within a dedicated LAN segment.
- All employees subject to strict IP Protection and Security Policy agreements and NDA’s.
- All employees are subject to background screening before joining our team.
Cost Advantage
- We can meet or in many cases be lower cost than other centers such as Costa Rica or onshore rural outsourcing.
- Well-managed quality work, aligned with client requirements, done correctly the first time avoiding costly rework.
- Top talent at competitive rates with less turnover and high productivity = Lower Total Cost.