Cleo Networks is the Right Outsourcing Partner
Cleo Networks offers a full range of software outsourcing services from end-to-end development of new software and web solutions to re-engineering and enhancement of legacy applications, application integration and on-going maintenance and support. Cleo Networks has a vast pool of seasoned professionals with diverse skills that are available to clients on a dedicated or as-needed scheme. Cleo Networks puts special emphasis on training and keeping the team updated with the latest technologies, industry standards and the best software development practices.
Key Benefits of Outsourcing to Cleo Networks are:
Access to Expertise
Cleo Networks has accumulated considerable expertise in different technologies and business domains. Our experience ranges from website design and web application programming to development and integration of complex web-based or stand-alone enterprise systems. We have strong competence in different technologies including PHP, .NET, Java technologies, Ruby on Rails and others.
High-Skilled Team
Cleo Networks has a team of 35+ IT specialists with wide knowledge and extensive experience. Our effective hiring strategy, internal trainings, links with leading technical universities and proper motivation practices enables us to hire and retain the best-of-breed IT professionals (personal turnover less than 7% annually).
Flexibility and Scalability
Cleo Networks is a one-stop IT solutions provider offering a full-cycle software services and able to serve all your software development needs. We offer flexible engagement schemes enabling you to decrease or increase the team size or involve specialists with different expertise when your business requirements change. This lets you optimize the team performance and the cost structure to get the maximum ROI out of the outsourcing engagement.
Confidentially and Intellectual Property Protection
At Cleo Networks we take comprehensive measures to secure the clients’ confidential information. We have a set of policies and procedures to protect your business sensitive information and software artifacts (source codes, specification, etc.). After the project is finished, you retain the source codes and all IP rights on developed software.
Cost Savings
We offer competitive hourly rates considerably lower than EU or US service providers while keeping upper-level standards of quality and reliability.
Seamless Communication
Cleo Networks realizes the vital importance of effective communication for outsourcing projects. We aim to create and maintain a productive and secure communication flow. Established knowledge management infrastructure and different communication channels ensure efficient information sharing and management with all project members.
Location Advantages
Cleo Networks development centers are located in Cracow, Poland and Kharkov, Ukraine. It is about 2-hour flight from London and about 6 hours to get from New York. Due to our convenient location we can easily conduct onsite visits when required and welcome our clients to visit us. We have only 0 or 1 hour time difference with our European clients and adjust teams’ working time for US clients to have enough overlapping hours for project communication. Moreover we turn the time difference with US clients into an advantage through an "overnight turnaround" approach.
Outsourcing Strategy
Software outsourcing is a completely different business area with its specific rules and issues. Whether you have an experience in outsourcing or just planning to engage for the first time, we will help to elaborate an effective outsourcing strategy and conduct a seamless offshore migration. Leveraging our experience we will help you with:
- Establishing a productive outsourcing environment
- Adapting of existing processes to a new engagement
- Organization of an effective communication and workflow
- Knowledge transfer and experience exchange
Cleo Networks aims becoming your real business partner rather than just a service provider. With the evolvement of cooperation Cleo Networks accumulates considerable knowledge about your products and services and becomes an organic extension of your business.
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Outsourcing & Collaboration Models
With Cleo Networks you can select the most convenient outsourcing model for your project and business needs. We can set up various types Outsourcing Development Centers, develop software solutions on a Fixed-Price basisor you can simply buy developer hours on a Time & Material basis.
Fixed-Price projects
In the fixed price model, Cleo Networks's software engineers quote the project and we commit to fixed-price, fixed deadlines and fixed scope of work. This model is suited for projects with well-defined requirements. But even if you do not have a specification, you can hire Cleo Networks to elaborate on your requirements. As an outcome of the Elaboration phase, you will obtain a fixed-price quote for development and receive a full-scale Technical Proposal.
Advantages of the Fixed-Price model
- Fixed project budget and deadline is known before the project start;
- The responsibility for project completion on time and on budget is outsourced to Cleo Networks;
How Fixed-Price projects work at Cleo Networks
- Our engineers will review your project requirements and respond with any questions needed to clarify the scope of work. We can also suggest an Elaboration phase to prepare full and detailed software requirements specification;
- Once we fully understand the scope of your requirements we will create a proposal for your review. If this is acceptable, we begin the development.
- At the end of the development, you will have a time period to carry on an Acceptance procedure to try out and examine the quality of the developed software and other project deliverables.
- The changes requested during the fixed-price project can be implemented, but in most cases it may result in a revision of the project cost and delivery dates.
Developer hours on Time & Material basis
This model is well-suited for those who do not have well-defined requirements, need research work, or want ongoing software enhancements.
Advantages of Time & Material model
- Extensive requirement specification before development start is not needed;
- The customer can define, elaborate and change requirements in parallel with development;
- The customer can schedule project activities and tasks depending on current priorities;
- We bill exactly for what is spent, no more or less.
How the Time & Material projects work at Cleo Networks
- Depending on your needs, you can send us tasks daily, weekly or upon completion of the previous tasks.
- The customer and Cleo Networks experts agree on a ballpark estimation for the specified task, and the Project Manager assigns the task to the developer and assures it is completed close to the estimate.
- We guarantee that your tasks will be processed immediately upon request if you care about a regular work load of the developer resources within your project.
- Weekly, monthly, or by task completion -- we send you a precise and detailed time spent report by task and by software developer for your approval.
Dedicated Development Partners
We build and set up Outsourcing Development Centers and Dedicated Teams that work exclusively for your company. The model suits well for long-term relationships when staff retention is a key for keeping costs down.
Advantages of Outsourcing Development Centers
- Development resources are reserved for the customer at the volume required to perform regular development tasks;
- The customer has flexibility of prioritizing work item schedules;
- The customer can manage outsourcing by objectives and timelines (i.e. agree with the outsourcing team what they attempt to achieve in the period ahead) and improve motivation and performance in this way;
- In most cases we notice reduced paperwork and approval cycle for project or task initiation within the customer's organization;
- The team builds a knowledgebase about customer's business and about the developed software, thus becoming more effective and more sophisticated over time.
- The customer is entitled – on demand – to influence staffing decisions;
- Utmost motivation and loyalty of the developers, who perceive themselves a part of customer's team, is reflected in initiative, and high performance and quality services.
How the Outsourcing Development Centers work at Cleo Networks
- There are different ways on how you can set up an Outsourcing Development Center. You can start from a fixed-price project and evaluate our quality and management capabilities. Or you can start on a time & material basis and rate our performance. You can also cautiously grow a team starting at a minimum of one member.
- We highly recommend our customers to focus on setting major objectives and deadlines, while entrusting Cleo Networks's operational management. In this way, our customers achieve the maximum performance of their Outsourcing Development Centers for the lowest in-house management effort and costs.
- You can outsource an entire software production cycle to Cleo Networks or any one of the production processes: requirements specification, architecture design, development, testing, documentation and 3-level support.
- At Cleo Networks, you can use shared resources if there is no full-time workload for a project role, or supplement your team with time & material resources.
- Our managers keep the project efforts and deadlines very close to estimates on 97% of all projects.
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 Michael Sosnowski
Managing Partner & Dir. of Global Strategies
Mr. Sosnowski is a strategic visionary, investor and managing partner. In his role as strategic advisor and facilitator of innovation, Mr. Sosnowski is principally engaged in the identification of new trends in communication behavior, and how businesses have an opportunity to respond by using new communication technologies, channels and means, with the aim of improving conversion, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. To monitor communication behavior and needs, Mr. Sosnowski regularly speaks with representatives of various target groups. Through his involvement with several innovative CRM start-ups, he remains constantly aware of the latest developments in this area, which enables him to combine several applications and offer complete business solutions.
Mr. Sosnowski studied Business Administration at the European Business School and received an MBA from the Thunderbird University in Phoenix (USA). Later, he moved to IBM Global Services as a project manager... the rest is, as they say, history! |
 Przemek (Shemek) Fedyczkowski
Managing Director & Consulting Specialist
FOUNDER
Przemek Fedyczkowski has been actively involved in the software industry for over 12 years now. Przemek knows the industry, IT product development and IT sales & marketing strategies. As the visionary behind the core concept at Cleo Networks, Przemek is focused and committed to delivering top notch service to clients and collaborating with them to built the best fit solution for them.
Przemek applies a hands-on approach in every stage of R & D; he is an idea powerhouse with experience in business planning, product development and marketing strategies. Przemek is passionate about technology innovation and focused in delivering the most up-to-date, communication services & technologies to end-users around the world.
With a philosophy to build products from the client perspective as well as results-driven product management with all stakeholders, Przemek is always researching optimal marketing & sales strategies - primarily via technology convergence. His leadership skills are reflected in his ability to hire the most talented individuals within a given capacity and in his ability to motivate them to achieve the highest results. Prior to launching Cleo Networks Przemek operated Creative Avenue Communications for 5 years, this was a successful marketing company that specialized in building various solutions for the software industry.
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 Alexey Mykhaylov
Chief Technology Officer
Alexey Mykhaylov brings more than 10 years of experience in software industry. He has worked for several companies in Canada and Europe focusing on design and implementation of web applications and enterprise systems. Mr. Mykhaylov is passionate about making web technologies more efficient and user friendly. Alexey Mykhaylov is also extremely knowledgable and an innovator the area of mobile applications, SMS technologies and IVR technologies.
When working with clients Mr. Mykhaylov has deep insight into both the needs of a client and what it takes to deliver the perfect solution. Alexey's skills as a Project Manager are unmatched. Mr. Mykhaylov is personally responsible for the successful deployment of over 150 IT projects for companies around the world.
In addition to his involvement with Cleo, Alexey is also a co-owner of a successful software development company. Alexey has a Master’s degree in software development and Bachelor’s degree in IT management. |
 Piotr Dworak
Partner (Poland Enterprise)
Mr. Dworak most recently worked in EFG Leasing S.A. as Regional Director for the new southern Poland regional office. Mr. Dworak was hired for his previous management experience to lead management in overall business development from the ground up, including building a sales network. From May 2004 to February 2008 Mr. Dworak worked in Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy S.A. as Regional Director based out of Wroclaw. During those 4 years Mr. Dworak continually lead his regional department to be the most successful of all other Polish regions within the company. Mr. Dworak takes his professional life very seriously and firmly believes in taking an active role from the ground up. He is known for his ability to successfuly design and implement new procedures which streamline internal processes and sales strategies across entire departments and across regional departments.
Prior to being Regional Director, from February 1995 he held the position of Branch Director in Kraków at Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy S.A. Mr. Piotr Dworak studied at AGH Kraków were he studied Geophysics and holds a masters in engineering. However soon after graduation Mr. Dworak began employment in the financial sector. |
