Software Outsourcing: Why to Give It a Try!

Featured article by Soumyajit Chakraborty, CEO at SoftProdigy

Outsourcing is a great way sought by many business organizations to cut their cost and save time in completing a particular task. And with the internet being a major platform for today’s work patterns, outsourcing comes in very handy!

When it comes to dealing with the IT and software related tasks, software outsourcing can be the best pick for the companies that are not generally involved in the IT work.

There can be a number of reasons for which a business organization or a company seeks software outsourcing. These reasons are listed down below:

– Cost-cutting: Sometimes, hiring an in-house employee for delivering services, especially in terms of IT or software development can prove out to be very costly.
In many cases, to hire such employees, it is first required to establish a different department for them, which might drain your budget to a great extent.
And so, the companies usually outsource these services from outside the business organization at much cheaper costs. This way, it doesn’t burden the budget of the company. The companies based in developed economies, often hire the services of an offshore software outsourcing company that is located in a less developed economy. So, cost-cutting becomes convenient!

– The Temporary Need of Services: Sometimes, there is no need for a different department of software or IT experts in a company.
To cite an example, for a company that manufactures products and sells it in the physical markets, it would be worthless to invest in a separate software development department. This is because such a business concern would need the IT or software services just once or twice and that purpose can be served through outsourcing or offshoring.
For instance, a company in the USA can hire web programmers India, for the delivery of IT and software services at a much lesser cost. –

– Saves Time: As outsourcing can be done from more than one companies at a time, you can easily get your projects done in a flash.
This is because when more than one outsourcing company is working on your projects, you can rest assured that things are done fast and within the prescribed time.
It is necessary to pay heed to the division of task to these different outsourcing companies to avoid any sort of chaos.
Taking assistance from different outsourcing companies doesn’t only save your time, but it also helps you mitigate the risk factor that can generate from relying wholly on one outsourcing company.

– Reduced Risk Factor: Hiring more than one outsourcing or offshore software outsourcing companycan really help you reducing the risk factor involved in your projects.
You can assign your IT and software development work to different outsourcing companies so that you don’t have to invest in the services of just one company for the whole work. In case the services of one company don’t come out as expected, there is not much to lose. So, software outsourcing from different companies can help reduce the risk factor that arises from failed projects.

Expert Services: When you decide on outsourcing the software services from the outsourcing companies, your work will be handled by the expert professionals.
No wonder you can yourself hire the in-house professionals but the professionals from these outsourcing companies are available at a lesser cost.
For instance, if you’re looking forward to getting your website designed and developed, you can hire wordpress programmers in India.
So, with the help of software or IT outsourcing, you can avail expert services at much cheaper rates as compared to in-house hiring.

In case you’re still looking forward to appointing the skilled professionals for your in-house work, you can always avail the services of a company engaged in outsourcing staffing services. Such companies make the staffing task easy and effective for the business organizations.

These companies are known to make the work of your human resource department, much easy and more effective.

The outsourcing staffing services can be availed to hire employees with better qualifications, reliable and expert skillset, required experience and expertise and what not!

So, the staffing done with the help of such services saves a lot of your time and efforts in finding the right personnel for your business organization.

If you’re on a lookout for the software and IT services that can be availed along with all of these benefits, you must go for taking the services of an outsourcing or an offshore software outsourcing company.

So now, you have to choose between an outsourcing company and an offshoring company.

Outsourcing VS Offshoring

In some sense, outsourcing and offshoring can be considered as synonyms.

However, not to mention, both these terms have a different meaning.

You can opt for an outsourcing company within your country or from across the borders. The choice is yours.

When an outsourcing company is hired from across the border, that is, a company working in some other country, then it is called offshore outsourcing or offshoring.

You can choose anyone between outsourcing from your own country or offshoring. But make sure you’re well-prepared and well-equipped to work with an offshore software outsourcing company.

This is because dealing with the companies working across the borders need proper communication, knowledge of company culture and work patterns, and management of time as per the time-zones.

So, when you’re done analyzing your needs and budget, you can go for a pick!

Author Bio:

Soumyajit Chakraborty is CEO at SoftProdigy. He is having more than a decade of experience in IT sector. He is focused and goal-oriented person who’s passionate about blogging as well.