Benefits of Working With an Offshore Software Development Center

A decade ago, software outsourcing was seen as an attractive option for enterprises that wanted to lower operational costs overall when the purpose of the organization was not primarily focused in the IT industry. Nowadays, as the demand for IT resources continues to increase exponentially, offshore software development may be the only acceptable course of action.

There are several articles on the Internet about the advantages and problems when considering an Offshore Development Center (ODC), though most of them focus only on 3 main factors: the budget, the confidence, and the commitment of the selected company. In this article, we will review the benefits of working with an offshore software development company in addition to broadly discussing these 3 topics.

Once you are convinced of the benefits working with these sorts of companies, you will also realize that most of the problems and disadvantages will be specifically related to the risks at the moment when choosing the right partner. For that matter, we recommend reading this article. So, let’s move on…

The main benefits that can be achieved by outsourcing your software development can be broken down into the following:

1.  REDUCE COSTS IN SALARIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE

As we mentioned above, this may be the main concern to take into account when deciding to contract a service instead of building and working with one of your own. Besides the obvious reduction of costs at the facilities and for equipment, the salaries may greatly affect your budget.

Even when working with the same level of qualified professionals, there may be significant differences in the overall salaries paid overseas when looking at countries recognized for their software development centers.

2.  EASE RECRUITING BY DELEGATING AND EXPANDING THE SEARCH ACROSS THE GLOBE

Recruiting and staffing are getting harder with the increasing demand worldwide. Outsourcing removes this problem almost completely while providing you with the best professionals around the world, depending on your offshore software development of choice, of course.

3. YOU GET INNOVATION AND QUALITY

Innovation and quality are main concerns of outsourcing companies. Depending on your requirements, you can get highly qualified professionals following the highest standards in software development. If you need to build a team of your own with the same level of quality, you would either have to contract very expensive resources (which may not be available at all), or you would need to invest in training that could take young professionals years to become as productive as a senior professional with several years of experience.

4. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

Risk management in software development is usually underestimated by most non-IT companies. When deciding to outsource a given component, the parties agree on what has to be done, and the impact and risk management is shared among them. Managing and mitigating the risks produced by the development can be handled better by the offshore company as it is part of its core business to do so.

5. NO NEW INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED

One huge advantage of hiring a software development company is that you do not need to create and manage a development team at all. Project start-up can takeoff more quickly if you do not need to consider the infrastructure and the setup of your own development center.

6. AUTO-SCALING THE IT TEAM

Although this term refers mostly to scaling in hardware infrastructure, it is also an important factor introduced by offshore development. our business may not require the same resources all the time. There might be a phase of your products and services that require a greater number of expert resources to work on, and then you could achieve a level of maturity that makes it unnecessary to continue with the same level of higher qualified professionals.

At this point, you may decide to shrink the team or switch roles and positions to a more operative level. This degree of management of IT resources could be tremendously complex when dealing directly with the hiring of personnel, instead of delegating all this to your offshore development center.

TO SUM UP

Although most benefits you get from working with offshore software development companies would certainly impact on the reduction of costs, by delving deeper into the benefits, one will realize that it is not only a matter of budget. Even with equal or greater costs, the expertise and specialization that you can have when you consider outsourcing software, allowing you to focus on your company’s main goals, are certainly key factors to consider.

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