Tokyo, Japan – August 25, 2009 - Realcom, a leading provider of enterprise software and services that enable organizations to capture and leverage enterprise information, knowledge and expertise, today extended its service offerings to include a new set of globalization services aimed at easing the development cost burden faced by Japanese software companies.

“The increasing costs associated with developing quality software have become a barrier to Japanese software companies, as they attempt to launch new software and continue to evolve their existing offerings”, according to Tadashi Tanimoto, Realcom’s President.“Packaging our expertise and offshore resources together as an integrated services offering will help Japanese software companies to lower their development costs, get products to market more quickly and compete more effectively in a market driven by cost and innovation.”

This new service is available immediately and is delivered through the joint resources of Realcom Inc. , in Tokyo Japan, and Realcom Technology India Pvt. Ltd., in Pune, India, a subsidiary of Realcom Inc.

Although Japanese software companies continue to leverage the cost savings associated with offshore development in China, offshoring to India, the world’s largest software offshoring destination, is still an underutilized resource for Japanese software companies. “Even though offshore software development uses an established methodology worldwide, Japanese software companies have not significantly leveraged the cost and efficiency gains offered by the India option” says Tanimoto. “This leaves tremendous untapped opportunity for Japanese software companies to take advantage of the cost differential provided in India.”

One of the barriers to adoption, when it comes to offshoring development operations to India resources, is the operational overhead associated with locating resources, managing virtual teams, employing a proven “virtual development” methodology and documenting quality. This one-stop service addresses those barriers by combining the offshore development itself with a comprehensive training program aimed at increasing the offshore development management expertise among the managers, leaders, and engineers within Japanese software companies. “Once the team members themselves are globalized in their development thinking and the software development process is adjusted to the world standard, our clients are able to optimize the efficiency of their offshore product development,” added Tanimoto.

Not only aimed at initially raising Realcom’s clients’ globalization capabilities, the service also incorporates numerous options for Realcom clients to continue to outsource their offshoring process, on an ongoing basis, for product/service development including code maintenance, enhancements, product roadmaps and future upgrades.

About Realcom

As a leading supplier of enterprise social networking and knowledge management solutions, Realcom (www.realcom-inc.com) and its AskMe products provide the framework, tools and related professional services that allow organizations employing knowledge workers in a team-based environment to more effectively leverage internal information, knowledge and expertise; thus enabling organizations to effectively build customer loyalty,speed the pace of internal innovation and meet time-to-market pressures.

An international company with offices in Tokyo, Seattle and Pune, India, Realcom’s AskMe solutions have enabled customers such as Mitsubishi, Novartis, Sony, Bank of Tokyo and PTC to streamline their knowledge management practices and make organization-wide information and expertise both visible and actionable.

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