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Your business needs some software to cut the time. Do you look at offshore?
I have heard from my partners and friends in the US and UK that there are several business that need a realiable software vendor or partner to be more specific but dont know whom to trust. Is that true?
My effort is to understand the feelings of a small business owner and see how we can reposition ourselves better to make it economical and also trust worthy for all those who are in need of partners like us.
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I am not sure what you mean by "Cut the time", but if it is the project time then I would not look offshore. The additional barriers of time zones, lack of face to face communications, and potentially language or culture gaps can add time to a project, or even cost depending on what value time has to the project (reduced point of ROI, second to market instead of first, etc.). For those reasons offshore is not an option to reduce time.
Agree with David. Having used offshore resources many times over the years, there is an overhead cost. If you had an offshore vendor that you had an existing relationship with, and had put in a place a process to deal with time zone, culture, language, etc, then you might be able to "cut time" because they could easily ramp to add more resources to the project you are working on. Usually though, offshore tends to be a way to reduce hard dollar costs. Dont forget to calculate in the "soft cost" of spending time on the phone, working through language issues, etc. Also, in the area of software development, I found that off shoring testing was easier than off shoring development.
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