Coreshell is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) founded in June 2006 in Cyprus. The start-up company currently develops an online accounting solution that will be delivered through the Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) Business Model.

CoreShell was already at a mature stage of development in its endeavor in creating a SAAS based accounting application. This project was running severely behind schedule due to staff and skill unavailability in Cyprus .

IWD provided the expertise and resources needed by deploying a business analyst, a senior .NET engineer and an additional backup programmer.

The solution for the web reports module was a reporting engine that was designed, coded, tested through Microsoft SQL reporting services and then was used as a tool to develop the required reports.

Knowledge transfer to IWD was not easy due to lack of documentation of the current project which made it difficult and slow, since existing code reviews was carried out often.

Business analysis was employed to extract and clarify in detail the requirements and specifications of the project when needed. Lack of documentation.

Weekly conference calls and review meetings were held among key members of the team. Here the progress was measured and checks were put in place to overcome anomalies and also plan for the next week.

Daily reports were sent collating the day's work; this provided a micro level report to the technical manager of CoreShell. The technical manager then would issue clarification and/or comment on the reports.

CoreShell was able to scale their application and were able to move ahead in planning their go-to-market strategy.

Having plagued by resource problems locally, the engagement with IWD allowed them to reduce business risk by a higher quality of analysis and programming thus helping then to focus on their core business.

The offshore hiring model helped them reduce overall costs which wouldn't have been possible if a local team had been deployed.

Also the additional assets of business analysis, unit testing and outsourcing process management gave them leeway to plan and scale their application before taking it to end-user.

"Stylus helped us develop a reporting module for our online accounting software using Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. Communication and response to changes was excellent. Both developer and analyst helped us identify all project aspects, discussed and solved various problems during the project to achieve project goals. We are very happy and impressed from the project deliverables. Our cooperation exceeded our expectations and we will definitely work with you again." - Athos Kyriakides, CoreShell