Project Title: Efficient Outsourcing Experience from a Leading Medical Device Manufacturer

The Challenge

To concentrate its in-house efforts on the strategic directions, Dräger Medical decided to outsource software-related tasks to Auriga, because it offered the best combination of outstanding experience in high availability software development and price, with its high level of customer service – even the Aberdeen Group described the relationships between Auriga and one of its clients to exemplify the best practice in outsourcing.

The Solution

The collaboration between Auriga and Dräger Medical Systems began in 2003 with a pilot project to test Auriga’s capabilities and talents. Auriga succeeded and collaboration has been efficiently continued since then. In 2003-2005, Auriga successfully completed a series of projects for Dräger Medical Systems, such as:

• System-level software development;
  
• Embedded software development
  
• MS Windows and Linux applications development and maintenance;
  
• Applications porting;
  
• Testing Services

Auriga was chosen because it offered the best combination of engineering experience and price, as well as its high level of customer service – even Aberdeen Group used the relationship
between Auriga and its clients to as the ultimate success in offshore software outsourcing. As a reliable software outsourcing partner, capable of providing a comprehensive scope of services, Auriga offered a convenient solution for Dräger Medical Systems.

RESULTS
Outsourcing to Auriga allowed Dräger Medical to

• Reduce the development time, and, thus, increase speed-to-market;
  
• Cut down development costs;
  
• Get access to a wide pool of trained IT staff;
  
• Utilize engineering resources flexibly, quickly applying them to any development/testing area exactly when needed.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Auriga’s unique expertise in firmware and driver development allowed to implement innovative solutions;
  
• Auriga’s development team quickly gained the expertise in Dräger Medical software internals and delivered complex projects on time and on budget;
  
• Auriga’s testing team got excellent evaluations from Dräger Medical Verification&Validation team acknowledging the exceptional level of Auriga’s testing services
  
• Auriga has built an extensive knowledge of the standards and processes used for the development of software products for medical device industry
  
• Auriga’s optimized processes allowed to increase the quality by performing code reviews (done offshore) throughout the development phase and to decrease product development cycle time by incorporating test development at the beginning of the development phase, rather than towards the end, thus decreasing the QA cycle and offloading work from the client's onsite development and QA teams
  
• Auriga has developed an experience in testing 3rd party components in order to verify their compliance to the standards used in medical device industry
  
• Auriga’s diversified, time- and result-proven porting experience ensured smooth porting from expensive proprietary platforms to open-source Linux-based ones, expanding the range of global markets, increasing legacy margins worldwide, and decreasing dependency on proprietary platform manufacturers
  
• Auriga’s efficient staff management allowed to maintain the stable teams of trained staff and to utilize engineering resources flexibly, quickly adding them to any development/testing area exactly when they are needed

Tools and Technologies

• Windows 2000/XP/XP Embedded, Linux, AIX;
  
• C/C++, Rational Robot scripts, Perl, XML;
  
• MS Visual Studio, MS Windows Embedded
  
• Studio, gcc, Rational Robot.

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