Software Outsourcing

2/22/2007

Software Outsourcing Product Development

The software outsourcing product development of India is increasing very quickly and booming very fast. Small cities such as Ahmedabad and mega cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune are now famous as offshore outsourcing hub in whole world. Similar way, Indian BPO market is also in the booming phase. Many more IT enabled services for outsourcing such as account and payroll outsourcing with an advanced trend, and Software Outsourcing product development is way ahead growing in our country. There are many small to medium scale companies that are doing Software Outsourcing of the product development to India.

In India only MNC were doing Software Outsourcing for the product development, so far, but now the trend is changing itself. It was not much incorrigible, now many companies in India have started doing product development with entered in the segment of software outsourcing product development. With this consideration the growth in this business would be more than hundred per cent with offshore outsourcing product development.

Product development requires some sufficient skills; every offshore organization is having not these skills for outsourcing of work. Product selling organization in USA and Europe could reduce cost of development for Software products by doing offshore outsourcing. With this scenario it is requiring to maintain people with specialized skills. If one wants to open offshore development center in India, it can’t be very useful but with partnering with Software Company in India they might get access to wider skills.

Software Outsourcing firms in India are very lucrative due to market and higher charge & billing rate as compared to offshore outsourcing services. On the other hand, they would concentrate on new ideas and marketing. While on the different section it might also costlier for finding & maintaining quality software developer and IT engineers.

The trend itself suggests that, major Indian Software Outsourcing companies were looking for big deal, but they have started to look after small and medium scale businesses deal. Currently, India is having more than 3.6 million small & medium scale organization that are increasing IT deployment for their firms. The competition with the respective business and cost make lots of pressure on these industries. Financial industry is the biggest outsourcer in the market that spends almost thousands of Crores for the Information Technology requirements. Any Offshore Outsourcing company manages their need for strategic suggestions and how to use IT for enterprise benefits.

2/14/2007

Types Of Buyers Looking For Offshore Outsourcing Services

There are many types of buyers looking for Offshore Outsourcing services. In 21st century we heard the word: “Information Technology” many a times. The business of Offshore Software Development is matched with different nature of businesses and different nations as well. So this business exists in every country of the universe at some level. Many a countries are offering Information Technology services like U.K, U.S., Australia, China and India etc. but India and China are the hottest destinations for the business of IT Project Development. India and China believe that they are competitors of each other. But first of all, we have to understand the meaning of Offshore Outsourcing.

What is Outsourcing?

“Offshore Outsourcing is the way by which a company gives its projects to another company located offshore and can grow faster with new ideas at cheaper rates without their own set up and human resources”. There are some major reasons for the growth of the business of Offshore Software Development like: cost efficiency, marvelous quality with the least cost, and better focus on core competencies making offshore outsourcing an attractive solution to various business requirements.

Two types of businesses:

Buyers are seeking the services of Information Technology and also other development services. Usually they fall under one of the two types: Small Business and Medium to large business. Service providers have to understand the differences between the two types of businesses so as to deal with the buyers in a more effective manner.

(1) Small Business:

Anybody can start a home based business or with few employees in the company. These businesses don’t invest more money and run with limited funds. Thus they look for similar solutions. These business look for solutions such as developing a shopping cart, business related software and also a web site. Sometimes companies believe that the Information Technology services consist of new development technology involving excellent programming skills, etc. In short, they believe
that IT business requires particular skills and experience.

Some small companies can not provide full time software developers or programmers so in that case they must outsource their design and development work at low cost. Generally, in small companies there are no official agreements or contracts of the terms of the buyer’s requirement or service provider’s proposal, so the service providers have to do business based on personal relationship.

(2) Medium-to-Large Business:

Not only small companies but also big established companies are going for offshore outsourcing. Service Providers have many developers or programmers to develop their programs and projects also. These companies are recruiting skilled and experienced developers to give their clients, better services and on-time delivery. To reach the top, they are hiring a huge staff and not looking at cost investment, and providing high scale salary.

There are various standards for big companies like ISO 9001, CMM Level etc. ISO 9001 is a well-known quality standard recognized at the universal level. Ample numbers of offshore software development companies have already accepted this valuable standard and many of the new companies want to go in this way. Some of these ISO certified companies may also opt for outsourcing existing work from in-house to outside resources in order to decrease the cost and thus prefer to outsource to small companies. In these companies there are legal contracts, formal agreements and work for hire agreements.

Basically, offshore outsourcing has begun from data processing companies and now a day it’s expanding all over the world. Many software companies call centers, BPOs, KPOs are increasing day by day at a global level and thus the business of offshore software development is booming large. Thus it is a lucrative business for IT service providers as well the buyers looking for offshore outsourcing business.

2/07/2007

Increased Custom Software Development to India and China

Increased Custom Software Development to India and China has brought the great revolution in the Information Technology Era. From the current market trend it can be realized that more and more companies are turning toward these two countries for all types of IT Outsourcing services. Both these countries have enough potential for all types of IT services. India possesses enough potential
for software services while China is more preferable for hardware services as both of them are capable of providing the lower cost and higher quality services.

The cost structure for the development work in the countries like United State, United Kingdom and Australia are very high. No doubt the quality of the work is good but the combination of good quality with lower cost in these countries is not possible. Costs in these countries are almost 4 to 5 times higher then it is in India or China. India is also developing a lot for in the Information Technology sector. Some of the cities of India such as Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad are now highly demanded globally also for the best quality development work. Bangalore is also a hub for most of the overseas IT companies for lower cost and best quality development work.

In the current booming trend of Information Technology, Custom Software Development to India is playing key role in maintaining the development cost lower. As mentioned earlier, India has better pool of resources to serve the global need. And this is the main reason that more and more companies are targeting India for most of their IT Outsourcing services. Aggressive and positive role and attitude of Indian Government is also playing the important role in the glorious success of India. India also has one more advantage and that is the English speaking ability. Most of the Indians are fluent at English speaking and that helps India to gain advantage over the other in the global market.

China is also equally popular for overseas IT services. But it is more famous for its hardware support to the globe. For Custom Software Development, India comes on the first place worldwide, while China wins the race for the Hardware types of IT Outsourcing. Both the countries also have lots of similarities for providing overseas services in the Information Technology Industry. Due to the heavy success of both of these countries some other nations have also started to put efforts in the field of overseas development work. Huge presence of local talent with great fluency over the English language helps India to capture the major share of the global market in the field of Information Technology.

India and China have really covered the most of the overseas market in the field of offshore IT service is concerned. No wonder if both the countries become the IT Hub globally for the Custom Software Development.