What Every Company
That Develops Software Should Know
About Offshore Outsourcing

Spend 3 minutes now and save your company thousands of dollars in search time and hundreds of thousands in programming costs later.

If you've read this far, you've reached one of two points in your decision to outsource. You're either:

1. Looking for a way to avoid the outsourcing disasters your peers have experienced, or


2. You've been burned at least once and are fed up with “going it alone,” and “learning the hard way.”

Either way, you're looking for a reliable partner to guide you through the minefield of selecting the ideal offshore outsourcing vendor for your situation.

Someone with the technical and business expertise to:

• Quickly pinpoint your business objectives,


• Expertly match your criteria to a world-wide list of pre-qualified vendors in just days—NOT months,


• Assist you in making a smart, profitable & safe selection


• Deliver the guidance you need to quickly ramp-up your offshoring

And ideally you'd like to have it all 100% guaranteed or your money back , no questions asked. Good news. Accelerance provides just that.

With more than 25 years experience in outsourcing, software development and turning start-ups into multi-million dollar companies, anticipating and meeting your needs is our specialty. You see, we've been where you are. We know:

• You want to save a MINIMUM of 50% by hiring offshore resources to supplement your in-house staff.


• You can't afford to assign someone at $120 an hour to spend 6 months looking for the right partner, and


• You need a quick solution to choose your perfect vendor within days or even hours

What Our Clients Say

“The outsourcing partner we found through the Accelerance Outsourcing Jumpstart service has successfully finished our initial project and we've now re-launched our website and programs. The website they built for us was exactly what I spec’ed out. Their abilities and prompt response to my never ending inquiries have really forged a great relationship between both our companies. We're getting ready to start on the second phase of development in the next few weeks. Again, thank you for guiding me in our outsourcing endeavors!”
Vince Turk,
Directory Manager,
Find White Papers, Inc.

“By working with Accelerance we were able to save many months in the search process for a highly capable outsourced development team." 
Mark Miles
CEO
BARIDATA

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“Using an Accelerance team let us get started with outsourcing immediately and with confidence. Working with Accelerance enabled us to save time and meet our critical product deadlines.”
Richard Shoenhair,
VP Product Development,
REDmedic, Inc.

Avoid These Critical Mistakes That Could Cripple Your Company

Mistakes like:

• Hiring a team that told you they were solely dedicated to your project, only to find out they've over-extended themselves to multiple clients.
  
• Hiring a “body shop,” a vendor that charges you for a room full of programmers without “adult supervision.” So you end up managing and directing them yourself.
  
• Putting off developing and communicating IP protection policies and procedures until it's too late, thereby jeopardizing your trade secrets.
  
• Failing to provide adequate specs, resulting in unusable software.
  
• Neglecting to choose a team with a full-time English-speaking liaison who can communicate effectively with you and the outsourced team.
  
• Choosing a vendor with a great price and solid skills, but with too many cultural barriers to be able to deliver a proper user interface.
  
• Finding the “perfect” team only to discover they regularly lose engineers because of high attrition rates, dramatically delaying the completion of your project.
  
• Having to work long, odd hours because you've chosen a vendor whose time zone directly conflicts with your preferred working hours.
  
• Failing to use a bug tracking system to keep track of defects, issues and enhancement requests.
  
• And so much more.

Think This Can't Happen To You? Think Again.

Perhaps the mistakes you've just read through seem basic, even elementary. Perhaps you're as thorough, cautious and intelligent as they come. The question is, “Is that enough?” Because it wasn't for Jeff Shules (names changed to protect the unfortunate).

“When I met Jeff, not long ago, he was a VP of Engineering who had spent 5 painstaking months (at about $15K per month—his salary at the time) making 9 site visits in 3 countries to select an offshore outsourcing vendor and he still got screwed.

He investigated India, China and South America, seemingly leaving no stone unturned. Jeff ultimately selected a US-owned outsourcing vendor with an operation in China. The vendor was in the process of acquiring a second team of programmers who were perfect for Jeff's needs.

His company drafted all the necessary paperwork, closed the deal, and then the nightmare began. When the vendor's acquisition of the second Chinese team fell through, a junior team from another operation was assigned to Jeff's project.

The junior programmers' English skills were limited, making communication difficult and inefficient. Their programming skills were worse. Their day-to-day activities had to be closely monitored and the source code was reviewed daily.

And because of the 16 hour time difference with China, managers in the US spent many late nights emailing detailed instructions (even pseudo code) and answering questions by phone when it was daytime in China. Severe morale problems emerged in the US staff, made worse by the fact that they didn't believe outsourcing was a good idea to begin with. Missed deadlines and extreme employee frustration eventually elevated the issue to the board level.

Executives from the American office of the outsourcing vendor “parachuted” in to help fix the problems. And after a long 6-month learning curve, the Chinese team finally became more efficient.

But the damage was done. Within two months, Jeff was gone. Despite his careful research and painstaking attention detail, he made a critical outsourcing mistake and quickly found himself resigning from the company.”

"Steve's reputation and Accelerance's credibility and track record made them the obvious choice for us. We used the Accelerance Outsourcing Jumpstart service to quickly source a great-fit outsourced team. The very first Accelerance team we interviewed was the best fit."
Ted George,
Co-founder and CTO,
Blujacket

"We needed a high-quality, reliable outsourced team for product upgrades, bug fixes and enhancements, and we needed them fast. Accelerance quickly delivered a team of outsourced programmers who were up and running in a few days and are providing excellent and reliable results."
Burke Franklin
Founder and CEO,
Jian
(project-specific software tools including award-winning BizPlanBuilder®)

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"We worked for several months to complete our product specification and prototype. At our original burn rate we realized funding would run out before the product was complete. Accelerance really helped us succeed by completing our specification and developing the product on-time and within our budget. There was no way we could have done this without an experienced and low-cost outsourcing firm like Accelerance. The Accelerance development team met each and every milestone, even with us throwing in a few changes along the way..." -
Andres Amaya,
CEO,
Protobuild

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The Scary Statistical Truth

I'd like to tell you this is a rare occurrence, but the truth is…it's not. In fact according to studies conducted by organizations like the Sand Hill Group, Gartner Inc., and the Software & Information Industry Association the number of executives citing:

• Product-quality problems rose from 24% in 2003 to 37% in 2006


• Communication issues rose from 44% to 53%


• Difficulty in hiring the right outsource team increased from 48% to 56%


• Concern about intellectual property theft increased from 24% to 31%, and


• Cultural misunderstandings increased from 16% to 21%

How Can You Avoid These Disasters While Benefiting From The Tremendous Advantages Of Outsourcing?

How can you gain the competitive advantage and accelerate your time-to-market with a quality product while reducing costs?

By choosing a qualified resource to do the dirty work for you— 100% guaranteed or your money back. At Accelerance, we've cracked the code to successful offshore outsourcing —with an extensive list of pre-qualified, pre-screened vendors who've passed a strict qualification process. We are not an “old boys” network or a company run by relatives back in “the old country.” We are a team of highly trained technical and business experts ready and waiting to connect you with your next outsourcing success.

Only Accelerance delivers the solution small and medium-sized businesses need to maximize time, money and resources in the search for global software development solutions.

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To your success,

Steve Mezak, CEO