INTERNET/SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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Axa Solutions

Axa Solutions, Inc. of New York City provides a full spectrum of software development services - including custom software development, third party testing, graphic design, marketing services, technical documentation, and complete turnkey systems - primarily in the area of Internet-based Enterprise Business Applications. Axa's clients may use any or all of these services at a cost savings of more than 50% of United States and Western European prices. Since 1996, Axa, a Delaware corporation with its development subsidiary, Haemimont AD, in Sofia, Bulgaria, has become a European development alternative to outsourcing companies in India and China.

Axa has completed a wide range of software development projects that include database-driven server-side tools and applications, standalone applications, corporate web sites, and custom software solutions. In addition to its technical capabilities, Axa also has an experienced creative staff with extensive graphic design and copywriting experience. Axa can provide not only graphics production, but complete graphics design as well. Axa also offers a wide range of writing services - from technical documentation to creative content and advertising copy. All of these services are available, not only for projects fully developed by Axa, but as separate services for projects developed by third parties. Among its clients are Anthem Insurance Companies, the von Holtzbrinck Group, Intel, Pfizer, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Pfizer, Scholastic, SeaChange International, and Time Warner.

A politically and economically stable country, Bulgaria is a strong ally of the United States and is scheduled to join the European Union. Bulgaria has a tradition of producing highly trained software engineers since the country was mandated by the Soviet Union to emphasize mathematics, computer science, and engineering in its university programs. Consequently, Bulgaria has a large pool of qualified programmers and developers, as well as other professionals including designers and artists, produced by the country's exceptionally effective education system. A number of leading United States and Western European companies have started operations in Bulgaria to take advantage of this talent, calling Bulgarian the "Silicon Valley of Southeastern Europe".

Axa's United States and the Bulgaria-based staff work as an integrated team, each with complementary capabilities and expertise. United States operations provide sales support, on-site pre and post-sale technical support, and creative services while the 40 highly trained and rigorously selected engineers, designers, and artists in Axa's Bulgarian operations perform all development, testing, and graphics production activities. Creative design and site architecture are developed both in the United States and in Bulgaria by our world-class designers delivering high production values, fast turn around times, and low economic impact.

The majority of Axa's developers have master's degrees in mathematics, computers science, or engineering, and some hold doctorates. They have demonstrated expertise in developing consumer grade applications and systems level software of the highest reliability for a wide variety of platforms and networked configurations. Axa typically provides a one-year warranty covering any defect that may be encountered after a work-for-hire development is accepted.