We have 8 years of experience working for American Express globally, as preferred vendors. At V&A we have a straightforward, consistent and standardized approach to software development that will add value to your organization.

You have now at your disposal our Business Analysts, Project Managers, Lead Developers, Developers, Technical Writers and QA Testers. They all have ample experience delivering under the most demanding deadlines, budgets and standards. Working as a team, everyone is fully accountable, always available and a peer shadows everyone so no one is ever indispensable.

V&A’s track record shows experience under NT and Unix operating systems, working with all Microsoft technologies, IBM (we are MS and IBM business partners), SAS, Oracle, Java, Sybase, Linux, wireless for the Palm and Windows CE OS, etc. on client-server, mainframe and web applications. We bring other skill-sets on demand.

Our motto is a promise to you: We Listen, Program and Deliver. We ‘hit the floor running’ as we spend all the necessary time ‘listening’ to what you have to say, your needs, problems, limitations, deadlines and pressures. By avoiding the traditional approach of imposing the consultant’s own preferences, we get on with the work very quickly and you see results faster.

We embrace ‘extreme programming’ approach and traditional methodology: you decide since you are the customer and you are in control: we never forget it.

If time is the driving factor, we will meet with you and start coding the same week. According to the Extreme Programming concept, you will get a working product very fast with the ‘nice-to-haves’ at a later stage.

If the time allocated is more reasonable we will work following traditional methodologies.

The system architects and designers, project managers, tech writers and QA testers work locally, directly with you. Our developers can work either at your facility, at ours or remotely offshore. We have over a thousand qualified developers available to work for your projects on short notice. V&A has entered into partnerships with important development labs in India; like everything else, we will work following your preferences.

Your systems will be solid and well documented, including error trapping, recovery, usage and event logs. Code is profusely documented and easy to read by our and any other developers. Help menus are friendly and context-sensitive. Screens and web pages are friendly and beautifully conceived by professional graphic artists. The entire system is intuitive making the dialog between the system and the user, and the system and the administrators, natural and safe.

Hourly rates start at $35 and reach $180 an hour, according to the skills, combination of skills, scope of engagement and development location (here or offshore). If the nature of your engagement of our services requires (your decision), we will man an outpost at your own facility, providing support to our employees and your managers working with us.

V&A can help you improve your productivity by automating and streamlining business processes, e-commerce and website development.