UNL grad's software company moving some testing to Kearney from India
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By RICHARD PIERSOL/Lincoln Journal Star
A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is relocating part of his software development company’s testing and quality assurance program from Pune, India, to Kearney.
Xpanxion is an Atlanta-based software developer owned by Paul Eurek, a native of Loup City and a 1981 graduate of UNL in business education. The company develops software for a vareity of purposes, including those in finance,health care and retail applications, he said.
The testing center is scheduled to open this summer and will employ ten people in the first year, Eurek said, but could bring more high-tech jobs.
An offshoring pioneer in India, according to Atlanta news reports, Xpanxion now calls its software development model “cross-sourcing,” which it said combines the best elements of local, offshore, and rural outsourcing.
It allows clients to control their costs while eliminating many of the “logistical and cultural challenges that have traditionally plagued offshore development projects,” the company said.
“Cross-sourcing allows us to parlay the economic value of our programming team in India, the expertise of on-site project managers in Atlanta, and the high work ethic and quality standards of the Nebraska workforce.” Eurek said in a prepared statement. “It also allows us to take advantage of several government incentive programs in Nebraska aimed at increasing the presence of IT industries in rural areas.”
The company is applying for the usual array of public incentives, like loans from the Community Development Block Grant program, and tax incentives from the Nebraska Advantage, Eurek said.
His company expects to recruit talent from local and neighboring regions, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and also Nebraska natives who have moved away for technical work and want to return to Nebraska.
The pay scale ranges from $35,000 to $65,000 a year, Eurek said.
He’s looking for a location with 3,000 to 4,000 square feet in Kearney.
He looked at other cities, but central Nebraska drew him back, Eurek said.
“In our assessment, we looked around Georgia, and then just kind of in the hope I could eventually move back to Nebraska, we decided to look around,” Eurek said. “We looked at Omaha nd Lincoln just for their size, but ended up selecting Kearney. It’s more centralized, close to where I grew up and there was a good, available work force.
“We had strong community support and a chance to talk to pepeople about helping us build educational programs.”
“Eventually I’m going to move back there.”
Gov. Dave Heineman released a statement welcoming the company.
Some of the company’s quality assurance and testing will remain in India, Eurek said, but some specialized parts, integration and performance testing, needed to come back to America.
“Infrastructure, bandwidth, access to hardware just isn’t as accessible,” he said. “We’re testing these large, complex systems it’s better for us to have that here.”
And some clients find it easier to be in closer time zones to the testing, he said.
Reach Richard Piersol at 473-7241 or at dpiersol@journalstar.com
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