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Why offshore development? |
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Offshore development is always a good
proposition for companies working in Europe
and US where human resources are significantly
costlier. The slow down in the IT business has
brought its unique set of challenges for IT
solutions providers. This has made offshore
development essential. Most companies have
moved part of their operations offshore
making them more competitive than purely
onshore companies. These companies have
dual advantage of lower costs as well as
more specialized resources.
You should outsource:
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To increase your margins and make your quotes more competitive for the client. This helps bring down product development and testing costs.
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If you're running too many projects and need to focus.
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If you want to port legacy code to newer technologies, versions, OSes or devices.
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If you require additional technical expertise.
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If you need to increase your capacity for a specified period of time.
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If you need to expand your team.
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Why is it more productive to outsource to an offshore company? |
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You get far more value for your money by outsourcing to an offshore company. By taking advantage of lower costs and easier availability of skilled resources, offshore companies can deliver highly cost-effective solutions. By working with an experienced and organized team, you have access to skilled and immediately productive development and management resources.
The nature of the very IT business is cyclic, from overload to a lull – the graph oscillates heavily. This affects the profitability in a huge way. Offshore outsourcing helps you spread that risk at the same time keep the optimum size of people in your in-country operations and use offshore providers to handle the additional load as and when it arrives.
Outsourcing helps you:
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Get a whole team of experts that already work well together
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Lower costs
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Add resources quickly to a project to handle the unexpected
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Convert your fixed monthly costs to variable costs
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What about quality? |
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According to most surveys Israel and Australia stand at the top in quality. India is fast rising up to the top rung, at the same time drastically low in prices. Outsourcing to quality vendors from such counties spruces up the quality.
While outsourcing:
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Make testing and QA certification an integral part of development-release cycle
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Integrate required quality standards into all phases of development
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Be as specific as possible on your requirements
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Pass your quality knowledge base and processes to the offshore team.
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What about communication? |
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Communication is critical to the success of an outsourced project. With effective and efficient communication, remotely monitoring or being part of a development team is never a problem. Offshore development has been on since 1996, when bandwidth availability was miniscule and connectivity was at 28.8 kbps. Today with gigabits of net capacities being available there are many sophisticated systems to ensure gap free communications.
Offshore Companies employ a number of approaches to ensure that we are in constant touch with the clients:
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Internet connectivity for email, web site updates, file transfers, chatting
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24 * 7 phone access to key managers, regular conference calls
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Common web based project status management systems ensure to-the-minute project updates and status reports.
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In fact, our team timings are scheduled according to client’s office hours to ensure a “black out” free scheduling.
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How are your interests protected? |
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Most offshore centers execute non-disclosure agreements with clients. Depending on requirements, additional contracts and non-conflict of interest agreements are drawn up. Also apart from agreements, the need of long term business and reputation always ensures that the offshore partners take extra precautions in protecting the client’s interests.
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