The client is one of China's largest automotive firm, with about 50 plants in the Shanghai area. The company makes passenger cars, tractors, motorcycles, trucks, buses, and automotive parts. The company's joint venture with famous international auto makers for the Chinese market. The company's other operations include car leasing, auto parts wholesale and retail, and financing.

The company is engaged into a double race: become the leading car manufacturer in China (they are currently the top 5 manufacturer) and become a global supplier (they are holding the top 20 position in the world). To succeed on such a fierce market, the company has instated a set a corporate rules, one of them being to focus on its core business and therefore to outsource all non-core activities to a selected group of strategic partners, with the capacity of accompanying the company rapid growth, in China and abroad.

Venus Software Corporation (Venus) has become the company's strategic IT outsourcing partner for their mission critical Internet-based B2B and B2C applications. The first mission assigned to Venus was to acquire enough functional knowledge to be able to take over entire responsibility, to accelerate development pace, and to lower application development and maintenance costs.

The various applications now handled by Venus include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), commercial vehicle portal, the company information portal, car dealer portal, etc.

The project has been running for over 4 years now. Venus currently has a team of 20 engineers in charge of developing new applications and providing technical support on the existing ones.

Director of the company said "we are very pleased with Venus. They understood our business challenges and were able to set the right team and the right procedures to help us reach our overall objectives cost-effectively. They are in charge of very visible and highly sensitive applications, and we are extremely attentive to their work."

Guided by its new corporate values, the company has sped up its growth and reached new highs in sales. It sold more than 1.05 million vehicles in 2005, of which more than 740,000 were passenger cars, and realized consolidated revenue of $14.37 billion.

The company was facing two major questions. Number one is transit rapidly from a state owned car manufacturer on a protected market to a global worldwide supplier, a process likely to include major acquisitions. And number two is to Create a world class Internet based set of WEB-based applications to provide dealers, suppliers and customers with the right information at the right time.

AS financially stable, reliable IT outsourcing company VSC is able to deliver a rapidly increasing number of sophisticated applications. With existing experience of the various domains VSC could ease knowledge transfer . We spent lot of time to understand the company's Challenges and created a proposal that suit the company perfectly.

The company has a set of state-of-the-art portals tailored to the needs of their customers, dealers, employees and suppliers. At the same time our solution met the company's quality requirements. The total cost of application ownership has been reduced according to the company's initial forecast.