Relativity’s long running partnership with the BridgeQuest offshore development team is a key factor in this success story. Since its inception Relativity Technologies has outsourced a significant amount of its R&D activities to BridgeQuest teams in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, Russia. Based on varying needs, Relativity has at times engaged over 90 BridgeQuest engineers to fortify its product development efforts. The combination of BridgeQuest’s innovation and creativity - with its roots in the scientifically intensive Russian educational system - and Relativity’s software market savvy and western management practices produced a synergistic win-win partnership. The favorable economics and ready supply of highly skilled technical talent further sealed the success of this undertaking.

Over the last 7 years Relativity and BridgeQuest built a trusted partnership. In particular, the large scale of the combined organization and the distributed nature of its operations necessitated increased levels of sophistication in software development process. Streamlined team communications, rigorous planning and design techniques, mature coding standards, nightly product builds, and extensive automated regression testing provide the very foundation of this process. A process reflected in the sophistication of the solution Relativity provides to help companies better manage their outsourcing relationships.

As the Relativity flagship product offering evolved and matured in sophistication, additional focus was placed on such advanced issues as product installation and portability, quality and serviceability, ease of use, as well as support for international markets.

Working with its western partner, BridgeQuest learned to appreciate the intricacies of modern business landscape. Notions such as end of fiscal quarter, revenue recognition, time to market, and customer satisfaction - previously unheard of in Russia - now became integral elements of BridgeQuest daily life.

Today, true team spirit unifies daily collaboration between the BridgeQuest and Relativity development teams. Human elements of this partnership are just as critical to the overall success as the leading edge technology and state-of-the-art development processes. Working with the Relativity executive team BridgeQuest developed an advanced human resource management approach that reaches across the continents to motivate and professionally grow its offshore team. Well-defined career paths and on-going professional training are at the center of this remote personnel management approach. Periodic on-site business trips further strengthen the relationship.

“BridgeQuest is about Bright Minds and Great Results. Relativity Technologies’ long running partnership with BridgeQuest is a great testimony to this slogan. Since our founding to present day BridgeQuest’s innovation and creativity, combined with structured process and mature development team practices, are key to our business. We look forward to continuing to leverage BridgeQuest as a critical success factor in our future endeavors” – Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity.