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ePlus Consulting Announces AllShore Software Outsourcing & Development Services Onsite, Onshore and Offshore Development from a Single Provider.


HERNDON, Va. -- ePlus inc. (Nasdaq:PLUS - news) today announced a new approach to outsourced software development called AllShore(TM) that is available through ePlus Consulting, the company's custom software development and operations consulting business unit. AllShore combines the best features of onsite, onshore and offshore development to optimize the costs of outsourcing for development projects of any size and complexity.

With dedicated development resources in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and India, ePlus Consulting's AllShore service can allocate development work to the location best suited to meet requirements at the lowest possible cost, while keeping project management under the tight control of stateside state·side  
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 ePlus/client project teams. This strategy provides cost-effective development, reduces risk, and ensures that the software solution is properly designed to meet business objectives.

The onshore and onsite development methodologies utilized have been successfully employed with ePlus Consulting clients including Xerox, First American First American may refer to:
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 Title Insurance Company, W.P. Stewart and Snap-On Tools. In many cases, projects can be split across development centers based on the different requirements of various components of the particular solution.

Bill Scarbrough, Director of IT at Public Abstract Corp., a division of First American Title Insurance Company, says: "With the AllShore capability, ePlus Consulting was able to design and build our custom enterprise solution quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. They offered the flexibility to use the most appropriate resources combined with solid project management that gave us complete control over the entire, distributed development This articlearticle or section has multiple issues:
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 process. We're very satisfied with the ePlus team, process and results."

"Typically, organizations that need custom development are compelled to commit to onsite, onshore or offshore development before they know the full requirements of the project, the real development alternatives and the cost ramifications ramifications nplAuswirkungen pl  of each," said Joshua Bouk, Managing Director of ePlus Consulting "AllShore offers a lower risk, more cost-effective approach."

The outsourcing choices available through ePlus Consulting include:

--Onsite development - appropriate for complex phases and portions of projects that require intense collaboration. This work involves senior staff members from ePlus Consulting who are available to work onsite with the customer project team to define processes and requirements, manage teams, deploy and integrate solutions and train client teams.

--Onshore development - appropriate for work that requires less collaboration or fewer resources. These tasks can be completed at ePlus development centers in cities like Rochester, N.Y, allowing customers to get top engineering talent at mid-market rates in stateside locations, ensuring accurate communication between team members while providing the best ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  to complete those tasks.

--Offshore development - utilizes ePlus' foreign development resources for portions of projects that have stable requirements and require extensive coding. Project management and design functions stay in the U.S. and customers retain complete control of their project, intellectual property and proprietary business processes.

Each AllShore project also includes ePlus operations consulting to help clients define the technology solutions most likely to improve performance and productivity, reduce costs, and provide competitive advantage. ePlus Consulting analyzes an organization's operational processes, workflow, business objectives, market forces and competition to design a solution from the ground up as well as determine the most appropriate development strategy.

"There's no advantage to using the best development process if you're developing the wrong solution," said Tony Mazzullo, Senior Vice President of Operations for ePlus. "In addition to expert software engineering, we offer business process expertise to identify requirements and design the right solution, which may involve new technologies, new processes, new business strategies, or any combination of the three."

About First American:

First American Title Insurance Company, the largest subsidiary of The First American Corporation
This article is about The First American Corporation; for the similarly named banks see First American National Bank


Officially referred to as The First American Corporation (FAC) ,
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), traces its history to 1889. One of the largest title insurers in the nation, the company offers title services through nearly 1,500 offices and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and abroad. The company has its headquarters in Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador
Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region.
, Calif. Information about The First American Corporation's subsidiaries and an archive of its press releases can be found on the Internet at www.firstam.com.

About ePlus Consulting

ePlus Consulting, a division of ePlus Systems, Inc. helps organizations align business strategy, operations and technology to reduce costs and increase profitability. ePlus Consulting first analyzes business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities, and then creates custom software solutions to optimize operations and improve performance. By combining exceptional business insight, technical expertise and AllShore(TM) development capabilities, ePlus Consulting offers unique, cost-effective solutions that deliver rapid ROI and competitive advantage. More information is available at www.eplus.com/consulting and www.eplus.com/allshore.

About ePlus inc.

A leading provider of Enterprise Cost Management, ePlus provides a comprehensive solution to reduce the costs of purchasing, owning, and financing goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . ePlus Enterprise Cost Management (eECM) packages business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , eProcurement, asset management, product and catalog content management, supplier enablement Supplier Enablement is the process of electronically connecting suppliers (or other trading partners) to a company's supply chain. Supplier enablement is achieved when suppliers of goods and services are connected to a company's back-office systems to exchange critical business , strategic sourcing, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 and document access and collaboration into a single integrated solution, all based on ePlus' leading business application software. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA, and has more than 30 locations in the U.S and Canada. For more information, visit www.eplus.com, call 888-482-1122 or email info@eplus.com.

ePlus, AllShore, eECM, ePlus Enterprise Cost Management, and/or other ePlus products referenced herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ePlus inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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