Aberdeen Group & Mirantis, Inc. present gaining a competetive advantage through technology development centers in Russia (TDC's)

Whether you're a high tech manufacturer or a manufacturing software vendor, you have to stay competitive. You need to increase the efficiency of your product life cycle, reduce your operational costs and expand your capabilities, all while maintaining control over your people and projects. Productivity, flexibility, and economy are your goals.

The critical concerns you must address to achieve them are:

• Speed to market
• Technical skill requirements
• Cost
• Ramp time and expertise

Increasingly, companies are deploying offshore development strategies to meet these challenges.

Mirantis, Inc., a leader in core development outsourcing, and Aberdeen Group's Senior Offshore Outsourcing Analyst, Steve Lane, invite you to join an industry-leading web seminar titled "Gaining a Competitve Advantage Through Technology Development Centers in Russia", to be presented as a live broadcast over the Web at 1:00pm (EST) / 10:00am (PST) on Wednesday February 6th, 2002.

The purpose of our event is to share our expertise with your organization.

• Meet Steve Lane from the Aberdeen Group who is one of the leading experts in offshore outsourcing.
• Learn how to safely source leading PhD level scientists, engineers, algorithmic mathematicians and programmers.
• Listen to the case studies of Cadence Design Systems, Veritas, and Genesis Microchip.
• Hear Frank Patchel, the President of Mirantis, discussing the company and its successes with world class organizations seeking to gain a competitive advantage and enhance their bottom line.

Join us on February 6, 2002 for a 30 minute web seminar about the benefits of solving your core development, R & D, design and new product development challenges through top-level scientists from Russia. It will be followed by a 15 minute question and answer session during which you will have the opportunity to comment on what you have heard and ask questions.