Need to upscale without the overheads?

EB Pearls are technology specialists, we work with a whole host of technology. Here’s some more detail surrounding this:

• Web:
  • Content management systems are the perfect way to build your website. By definition, they are incredibly flexible and powerful, with abilities to update content with ease and customise design and functionality. Our developers are well versed in the open-source CMS platforms, WordPress and Drupal technologies. WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform that is intuitive and flexible. Drupal is perfect for bigger organisations, who require faster and more customisable sites. We work with technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, ReactJS and PHP.
• Mobile:
  • EB Pearls developers are expert developers in both iOS and Android platforms, which are the two most prominent mobile platforms. If you have a brilliant idea, we have the means to bring the app to the market.

• Enterprise:
  • If you need a custom application that has advanced and complex requirements, EB Pearls can develop using PHP frameworks, such as CodeIgniter and Laravel, which are completely open source platforms, and Microsoft ASP.NET, which a proprietary platform. All of these options allow for a huge degree of customisation, so it is perfect if you need a SaaS application.
• eCommerce:
  • Although it may be easy to setup an eCommerce store with a template, if you are after customisation and maintenance, you will definitely need specialists in eCommerce technologies. We can customise stores using platforms such as Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce (WordPress). Depending on the size of your business, Magento (large) or Shopify (small) may be good options for you. If you already have an existing website using a content management system, WooCommerce and Drupal Commerce are perfect platforms for you.

When you opt in to EB Pearls’ staff leasing program, you will get a talented developer or team in your chosen technology and you they become your extended employees. You can assign someone on your side to manage the developers, which means you will have full control what they work on. Here are some further details:

• Every month, your developer will work for you for 22 days/month (minimum 176 hours).

• You handle all project management, and communication can be done through email, Skype and phone.
• The work is carried on between 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Mon – Fri) in Kathmandu time, which is 12:45 PM – 9:45 PM AEST.
• Invoices are sent every 30 days and work must be paid 1 month in advance.

We will make sure we set the expectations from the outset with a workshop to discuss:

1. Complete transparency: After our first engagement, we present you a Reseller agreement which allows you to understand our key offering and services. You will have the complete peace of mind that we will abide by the terms and conditions set out in the document.
2. Understanding your needs and process: We want to learn what problems you need solving, so we know how to provide the best solutions. This means understand what to expect in the future.
3. Communication and Accountability: We discuss how you can always be in the loop, communicating with the development team and the Sydney/Melbourne team. We will also give you a rundown about what you can expect when it comes to weekly reporting.
4. IP & White labelled: Be rest assured that you’re in safe hands when you work with us. Your websites and apps are your property after we handover the project to you. We never communicate with your client directly, unless you let us, so everything is white labelled and you control the communication within the project.
5. Agile development sprints: We will discuss how we use the Agile method to make sure our development process is optimised. We pride ourselves in using this iterative method to ensure that testing detects bugs early, the user is always first and the product reaches market in the fastest time, with the highest quality.

We have two ways you can hire your developer or development team:

1. We will provide you the CVs of three of our talented developers. You will be able choose from these candidates (or request new ones) to interview.
2. We will implore to understand your project as best as possible, and after gathering these requirements, we will choose the best candidate for you to interview, to ensure that we have made the best choice. We recommend this method since we will able to best match the developer based on your needs.

After choosing your developer, you will be able to have them for a two week trial period. This time period is the perfect time to see if your developer/s are a good fit for your company. After this period you may elect to:

1. Continue with the developer, in which case, we will prepare a contract and set out the terms.
2. Switch developer, in which case, we will be able to provide you with other resources that may be able to suit your needs more than your current one.
3. Cancel the service, in which case, we ask that you pay for the two weeks of work the developer completed.

Developers must give us 1 month notice before leaving and we will let you know when this happens. We will replace the developer are soon as possible, but in the meantime, you will have a stand-in developer, so your project is not delayed.

Developers in Kathmandu work between 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Mon – Fri) in Kathmandu time, which is 12:45 PM – 9:45 PM AEST. Project managers will be available from 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Mon – Fri) in Kathmandu time (11:45 AM – 9:45 PM AEST). Sydney and Melbourne offices are in operation from 9:00 AM – 5:00PM AEST.

In Australia, we handle all the account management, business strategy, solution conceptualisation and design. If you require any of these services, you can work with our staff in Sydney and Melbourne, who will be able to assist you.

In Kathmandu, all our developers work to bring websites and apps to fruition. We have a variety of developers from different disciplines, across web and mobile technologies.

We hold transparency with utmost importance. You can expect to receive daily, fortnightly and monthly reports of progress.

Developers maintain a timesheet and update the progress on assigned tasks everyday. This means that you’re able to keep track of the work that is undertaken.

EB Pearls will provide fortnightly/monthly reports surrounding the work that has been completed by the developer. In these reports, you can expect to see, how effective resource utilisation has been, discrepancies between estimated, planned and actual hours and the tasks that have been completed. As part of our utilisation of the Agile method, we will also provide you a Burndown chart, which plots ideal effort hours against actual effort hours, maintaining full accountability.

These reports will help you see the benefits of our service and help you understand if you have under or over-estimated work allocation. We can definitely help you understand these reports and suggest how to best optimise your resources.

We understand the importance of your ideas, so we are more than happy to sign any IP, Privacy or NDA documents that you would like use to. These documents are enforceable company-wide, so your idea is definitely safe with us.

You will have an account manager in Sydney/Melbourne who can answer your questions when your developer/s is not available. We manage the documentation of your project on a Google Docs that is constantly updated throughout the project, so you are on the pulse with your project.

In terms of your day-to-day management of your projects, you will use Trello is easily lodge any issues you may have encountered in your project builds. Your developer/s will update the progress of issue fixes in real time, so you have utmost transparency. Your developer will also be available on Skype for live communication, and can be integrated within any other communication channels you currently use.

We ensure quality control on all fronts of the project, design, functionality and security. You will have a quality assurance engineer who will look through your app to ensure your pixel-perfect designs have been built perfectly.

Automated and human testing is done to check all functionality has been implemented correctly. Testing is also conducted on a multitude of devices, ensuring that 95% of the world’s devices will be able to use your website with ease.

Security in this modern world is nothing to take lightly. We run state-of-the-art scripts with your project to check that there are no vulnerabilities that may compromise the safety of your users/ and/or your clients’ data.