ASCALab Services

Bringing innovative ideas to life and shaping them into value for our partners.

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DEVELOPMENT AS A SERVICE

We assemble and train software teams to work in your specific environment and deliver your product.
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DEVOPS AS A SERVICE

Get professional devops engineers onboard immediately to help you in any stage of your pipeline.
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TESTING AS A SERVICE

Get a team of experienced testing professionals to test your products quickly and efficiently.

Development as a Service

We use the following approach when building teams for our clients:

TEAM EXTENSION

Integrate our engineers in your team to cooperate on your projects.

DEDICATED TEAM

A dedicated team works remotely on your project and is not an extension …

SETTING UP MISSING PROCESSES

You have an IT team, but you want to improve your results.

PROJECT BASED MODEL

If you are facing a challenge that does not fit into the previous models.

TEAM EXTENSION

Integrate our engineers in your team to cooperate on your projects. Our software developers, QA, business analysts or project managers collaborate as part of your company.

When would this model work for you?

Let’s say you have an in-house development team and technical leadership, and you want to speed up the execution of your in-house projects. At this point you can face one or more of the following problems:

  • You realize your IT project requires additional specialists to get things done.
  • You need new or advanced skills and technologies that are missing in-house.
  • Maybe you do not need help in development, but in QA.
  • You need someone to coordinate your remotely managed teams, located in different countries.

Quite often, IT projects require a special set of competencies focused on a particular matter. Our skilled experts will give momentum to your tech initiative and help you solve any complex issue.

Recommended for: startups, short-term partnerships, and short deadlines.

DEDICATED TEAM

A dedicated team works remotely on your project and is not an extension of the customer’s team but a separate unit, with its own framework and management. This model significantly reduces product’s time to market, improves the client’s business processes and is less dependent on the customer.

Our team of dedicated professionals provides custom delivery according to your project and company’s requirements.

A dedicated software development team structure usually includes the following key players, who are focused solely and completely on your project:

  • Front-end engineers
  • Back-end engineers
  • QA engineers
  • UX/UI designers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Business analysts
  • Project managers

Recommended for: scale ups to enterprise, long-term partnership, and high product complexity.

SETTING UP MISSING PROCESSES

You have an IT team, but you want to improve your results. We identify possible improvements and advise how to apply best practices from the industry. Our experts from various fields provide high quality service and can implement proven methods and systems in your company.

Our skills include:

  • Deployment process,
  • QA process,
  • Help in Project Management,
  • Business Analysis.

 

PROJECT BASED MODEL

If you are facing a challenge that does not fit into the previous models, we can adapt the processes to fit your specific issues.

We will assess your situation and tell you what resources are needed, how long it will take, and what technologies you need.

Get a custom quote for your project.

Devops as a Service

For all identified possible improvements we advise the client to apply best practices from the industry, which we learned by providing high quality service to our clients and gathering experts from various fields:

  • Deployment process,
  • QA process,
  • Help in Project Management,
  • Business Analysis.

Testing as a Service

We are experienced in the following DevOps services for all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP) :

  • Infrastructure provided by Terraform and Terragrunt,
  • CI/CD processes through pipelines,
  • Kubernetes – cloud or local managed clusters,

  • Networking, backup and recovery strategies,
  • Logging and monitoring systems,
  • Setting up deployment process.

    How we work?

    When being approached by a client, we always start our partnership by performing assessment in approximately two weeks duration.
    By performing an assessment, we allow the client to limit the risk of entering into new partnership.
    It also allows us to show the client on their very case our capabilities and identify the most suitable solution for the client’s needs.

    1. KICK OFF THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

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    2. RESULT OF THE ASSESSMENT

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    1. Kick Off The Assessment Process

    We make a presentation for the management and key project stakeholders where we explain our approach and plan for the next two weeks.
    We start by interviewing management and key people and identifying pain points (issues, needs).
    We usually face one of the following scenarios:

     

    • Client is missing certain team members or the whole team:
        • Developers (we identify which technologies are necessary and propose to provide adequate team)
        • QA (we identify the status of the current testing process and possibilities for testing automatization)
        • PM (we identify whether project manager or scrum master is needed
    • Missing key processes:
        • Client has difficulties with deployment process – maybe test or pre-prod environments are missing?
        • Are releases organized in controlled manner? Is it clear when the development branch may go to release candidate and when the release candidate is ready for production?
        • Is testing process sufficiently established? Can we automatize certain steps? Are there many broken functionalities when issuing new releases?
        • Management issues: Delivery team is doing ad hoc staff? Client’s clients are not happy due to missed deliveries? Team members are frustrating due to being assigned to several tasks at the same time?
        • Is it necessary to involve Business Analysts? Are developers talking directly to end users? Is there a lot of misunderstandings and repeatedly updated functionalities?
    • Challenging technical tasks the internal team doesn’t have capacities to deal with

    2. Result Of The Assessment

    Upon completing our two weeks assessment, we can expect one of the following areas to be proposed:

     

    • List of key improvements to be done by area:
        • Client is missing certain team members or the whole team.
        • Missing key processes.
        • Challenging technical tasks the internal team doesn’t have capacities to deal with – we propose the appropriate technical solution by giving client several options where each option has its advantages and disadvantages.
    • Project plan for execution
    • Proposal for future cooperation

    Types of collaboration

    Never limiting ourselves to pure outsourcing

    We dig into our clients’ needs to fully understand them and then maintain the expertise of our team to ensure the appropriate level of our service.

    We recognize 3 different types of cooperation with our clients:

    Team Extension

    Integrate our engineers with your team to work cooperatively on your projects. Our software developers, QA, business analysts or project managers collaborate as part of your company.

    When would this model work for you?

    Let’s say you have an in-house development team and technical leadership and you want to speed up the execution of your in-house projects. At this point you can face the problem:

    • You realize your IT project requires additional specialists to get things done, this is where involving our skilled experts will help you give momentum to your tech initiative.
    • You need new or advanced skills and technologies that are missing in-house.
    • Maybe you do not need help in development, but in QA?
    • Or you need someone to coordinate your remotely managed teams which are located in different countries.

    Quite often, IT projects require a special set of competencies focused on a particular matter. We can help you solving any complex issue.

    Recommended for: startups, short-term partnership and short deadlines.

    Dedicated Teams

    A dedicated team model is a team that works remotely on a project in order to significantly reduce a product’s time to market and improve the client’s business processes. Such a team is not an extension of the customer’s team but a separate unit with its own framework and management, meaning it is less dependent on the customer than teams in other models.

    Our team of dedicated professionals provide custom delivery according to your project requirements and your company’s requirements.

    A dedicated software development team structure usually includes the following key players, who are focused on your project solely and completely:

    • Front-end engineers
    • Back-end engineers
    • QA engineers
    • UX/UI designers
    • DevOps engineers
    • Business analysts
    • Project managers

    Recommended for: scale ups to enterprise, long-term partnership and high product complexity.

    Project Based Model

    Get a custom quote for your project. We will tell you what resources are needed, how long it will take and what technologies you need.

    Technologies we work with

    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

    .NET (C#, Core, ASP)
    C/C++
    Java
    Python/Django
    SQL – advanced

    WEB FRONT-END TECHNOLOGIES

    Angular
    React
    jQuery

    CLOUD / DEVOPS

    AWS, MS Azure
    CI/CD
    Docker, Kubernetes

    E-COMMERCE

    Magento
    PHP

    MOBILE DEVELOPEMENT

    React Native
    Xamarin
    Android

    EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

    C/C++
    Microcontrollers programming
    PCB design
    Keil Arm, Embedded Iar, Eclipse

    BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

    Power BI
    SQL Reporting Services

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    Trust is the backbone of any good partnership.

    Contact Info

    Main Office

    ASCALAB d.o.o.
    Rožna dolina cesta II 7,

    1000 Ljubljana,
    SLOVENIA
    Europe

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    Get in Touch

    info@ascalab.com
    +386 40 649 101