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Published: 12 December 2013

Munich, 10^th December 2013
The pliXos B2B marketplace for software development projects (www.plixos.com/market) is getting positive recognition by users. Many providers have already been acquired in order to foster the basic idea of fast and safe awarding of projects to the best fitting service providers for customers. Additionally, a new rating system was defined and is currently evaluated by experts.

After launching the pliXos B2B marketplace for fast and safe tendering of global software development projects for customers, new service providers have continuously been added. For this purpose pliXos identified fitting enterprises and directly asked them to register on the marketplace. Especially providers from Eastern European countries like Ukraine and Bulgaria showed great interest.

A rating system of providers from a customer’s perspective was developed and is currently evaluated by domain experts. Both, direct customers of a specific provider as well as pliXos as the neutral operator of the marketplace are able to rate individual providers, which shall serve as a valuable source of information to new customers.

The rating system contains three quality clusters: “delivered software, service and the service provider in general” each one consisting of further sub-criteria. Particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) profit from the neutral ratings, since many may not be familiar with the implementation of global development projects. The marketplace helps them with getting started easily and at low risk.

Dr. Joerg Stimmer, MD of pliXos, explains: “The positive resonance we got after presenting the rating system to selected experts proves that the rating system results in a significant increase in attractiveness of our marketplace for customers. We offer SMEs a possibility to minimize risks of tendering and project implementation. We think this to be in line with the goals of the initiative Digital Bavaria which aims at achieving a new way of synergies between local enterprises and the information and communications technology.” In numerous domains, the Internet offers a major extension of the classical value proposition of enterprises. This allows new potentials to be realized and especially SMEs could profit from this development.

Dr. Joerg Stimmer is convinced that in line with an increasing Digitalisation the dynamics of the Internet will extend to services between companies (“B2B”) in the following years. We want to contribute to this development with our marketplace.

About pliXos
pliXos sees itself as a provider of solutions for the optimization of globally distributed software services. Significant cost and time advantages are implemented by using these solutions based on best-practices processes. Offers of pliXos are "tool-assisted" evaluation and analysis of global sourcing projects, the optimized control of such projects as well as consulting and the assumption of overall responsibility for individual projects. pliXos was founded in April 2009. Participants include the High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital and a Bavarian entrepreneur (private investor).

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Nóra Regős
Press Relations
Munich Technology Centre (MTZ)
Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1
80992 Munich
Germany
Tel: +49 89 44234771
Fax: +49 89 381511379
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Last Updated: 12 December 2013

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Published: 27 June 2012

pliXos shares experiences for an improved implementation of agile offshore / nearshore SW projects with the help of KPIs

Im Rahmen der Konferenz „Agile World 2012“ am 11. / 12. Juli 2012 in München stellt pliXos seine Erfahrungen zur Kombinationen agiler Methoden (SCRUM) und einem automatischen Kennzahlen-Cockpit beim offshore / nearshore Outsourcing vor.

München, den 03.07.2012. "Sharing Experiences and Ideas" – so heißt das Motto der diesjährigen Agile World Konferenz vom 11. bis 12. Juli bei Telefónica Germany im Tower in München. Dr. Jörg Stimmer, Geschäftsführer der pliXos GmbH und erfahrener Outsourcing Experte, referiert am 12. Juli 2012 über „Offshore Outsourcing – Bewertung der Produktivität“. Der Beitrag von pliXos in der Session „Distributed Teams“ (12.7., 9.00 – 12.00 Uhr) nimmt die Schwierigkeiten unter die Lupe, die sich insbesondere bei der Definition der Parameter für eine Vergleichbarkeit verteilter SW Projekten ergeben. Dabei werden aus der Praxis die wichtigsten Aspekte für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Offshore Projektes vorgestellt und bewertet.

Für Entwicklung und Wartung von SW geht an global verteilten Teams („Offshoring, Nearshoring) oft kein Weg vorbei. Wird dies mit einer Fremdvergabe („Outsourcing“) gekoppelt, erhöht sich die Komplexität noch weiter. Zahlreichen typischen Herausforderungen kann durch den Einsatz agiler Methoden wie z.B. SCRUM begegnet werden. Nichts desto trotz ist ein zeitnahes und fundiertes Reporting zur Steuerung der Projekte von hoher Bedeutung, eben gerade bei offshore/nearshore Outsourcing.

Die richtige Definition, Erhebung und Analyse von Kennzahlen (Key Performance Indicators, KPIs) für ein effektives und Management der Projekte, nahezu in Echtzeit. Richtig aufgesetzt, zeigen Trends über längere Zeiträume und Vergleiche zwischen Projekten (Benchmarks) weitere Optimierungspotenziale auf.

Die Konferenz „Agile World 2012“ bietet Unternehmen praxisnahes Insiderwissen zur optimalen Projektumsetzung. Die Teilnehmer erhalten dabei die Möglichkeit, von den Erfahrungen der anderen zu lernen, die Basics und "Day to Day Scrum" Praktiken anhand anschaulicher Beispiele und Geschichten zu begreifen und sich davon inspirieren zu lassen. Weitere Informationen unter www.agileworld.de .

Über die pliXos GmbH

pliXos versteht sich als Anbieter von Lösungen zur Optimierung von global verteilten SW-Dienstleistungen. Durch den Einsatz der Lösungen können signifikante Kosten- und Zeitvorteile bei der Umsetzung entsprechender Projekte realisiert werden basierend auf Best-Practises Prozessen. Angebote der pliXos sind die „Tool-unterstützte“ Bewertung und Analyse von Global Sourcing Vorhaben, die optimierte Steuerung entsprechender Projekte, Beratung und auch die Übernahme der Gesamtverantwortung in einzelnen Projekten. pliXos wurde im April 2009 gegründet. Beteiligt sind unter anderem der High-Tech-Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital und ein bayerischer Unternehmer (Privatinvestor).

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Press Relations
Münchner Technologiezentrum (MTZ)
Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1
80992 München
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Last Updated: 10 January 2014

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Published: 28 January 2013

pliXos Awarded a Place on the G-Cloud ii Framework

"pliXos GmbH has been appointed by the UK Government Procurement Service to supply cloud-based Remote Applications Development, Sourcing Strategies and specialist Outsourcing Support Services to the UK Public sector, under the new G-Cloud ii Framework Agreement. Under G-Cloud ii, pliXos is able to offer its Outsourcing Director, Outsourcing Adviser and Sourcing Advisory support, particularly in Agile based applications development to help government departments deliver complex projects with the required functionality, in time, to budget and at the lowest possible cost for UK citizens."

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Last Updated: 05 March 2014

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Published: 26 June 2012

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pliXos and the Technische Universität München start a three-year pilot project "GlobuS - Global Bus Software" - supported by the program "Information and Communication Technology" of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology.

Munich, 26 June 2012. pliXos started to cooperate with the Department of Software and Systems Engineering at the Technische Universität München within the framework of the "Information and communication technology Bavaria (ICT)" by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology (StMWIVT). The aim of the three-year project is to develop an independent project bus, which allows the effective integration of the pliXos product suite known as "Outsourcing Director" with the currently most important and most widely used tools in the market for software development lifecycle (SDLC). This will cover the most important trends in governance of globally distributed (offshore/nearshore) software development projects and will allow all companies, corporations as well as small to medium-sized enterprises to benefit from a global approach in SW development. The project consists of necessary research, specifications, development as well as tests in real live scenarios. Well-known industry partners are supporting the project. Those emphasize the importance of integrating multiple SW tools for the rising MultiSourcing approach – the integrated management of multiple service providers.

The cooperation with the Technische Universität München is considered by pliXos as a further step in its program to increase the transparency and success rates in software development. This is especially true when using globally distributed teams and agile processes. Dr. Joerg Stimmer, founder and MD of pliXos and a well known expert in Outsourcing said: "It is a great pleasure for us, that we are able to build upon a three year funding and strong partners to actively work on further innovative topics in the industrialization and optimization of SW services delivery. Especially the opportunity of transferring the results to an autonomous product, the integration bus is a significant benfit for us as well as any user. The integration of our "Outsourcing Director" with the most important tools in the market by an open bus system, aligned with any standards provides a high added value for our customers. The action will particularly focus on agile processes.” Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Broy, director of the Institute for Software and Systems Engineering at the Technische Universität München, emphasizes that the pilot project provides an essential contribution to the cognitive progress in the scientific fields of software and system development: "The benefit to TUM results from the increasing scientific knowledge and particularly from the ability to validate the research findings in practice". pliXos has offered possibilities of industrialization in SW development with its innovative software as a service (SaaS) products. With GloBuS these opportunities will be available to a wider range of users.

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About pliXos

pliXos sees itself as a provider of solutions for the optimization of globally distributed software services. Significant cost and time advantages are implemented by using these solutions based on best-practices processes. Offers of pliXos are "tool-assisted" evaluation and analysis of global sourcing projects, the optimized control of such projects as well as consulting and the assumption of overall responsibility for individual projects. pliXos was founded in April 2009. Participants include the high-tech start-up funds, Bayern Kapital and a Bavarian entrepreneur (private investor).

Contact

pliXos
Nóra Regős

Press Relations
Munich Technology Centre (MTZ)
Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1
80992 Munich

Germany
Tel: +49 89 44234771
Fax: +49 89 381511379
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.plixos.com 

Last Updated: 17 September 2012