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China provides an excellent supply of low-cost outsourcing resources. A well-defined development specification is important when working with Chinese vendors.   You also need to be cautious of protecting your intellectual property, as the Chinese market has limited IP protection.  Finally, there may be a language barrier in working with Chinese vendors. 

Members of the Accelerance Global Partner Network (GPN) from China have been thoroughly screened and vetted.  References have been carefully checked as well as proficiency in spoken and written English.  The GPN member has agreed to strict intellectual property protection requirements.  You can be confident when working with an Accelerance Partner.

Working with outsourcers in China  – Pluses

China is a good location to consider for low-cost software development, if you have a well-defined product specification.  However, as copyright and intellectual property protection are not well regulated, you want to be sure your software will be of limited use in the Chinese market. For example, an Accelerance client is using a vendor in China to help create mortgage processing software sold in the U.S. The risk of someone being able to make use of such software in China is slim.

Some Chinese vendors are investing in CMMI certification as a way to compensate for the fact that they are less proficient in English than vendors in some other countries. If you want a high CMMI certification, Chinese vendors should be on you list.

A presence in the Chinese market is usually required if you plan on selling your software or other products there. If you build a subsidiary in China, your own operation with your own Chinese staff, you can then also hire your own engineers for software development.

Working with outsourcers in China - Minuses

If you need to collaborate frequently in spoken English, it will be a challenge to find a Chinese vendor that is easy to work with. However, the Accelerance Global Partner Network screening assures you of an English-speaking contact.  

If your product is not yet clearly defined and you will rely on the outsourced vendor team to help with product specification, user interface, and quality assurance, China will not be your best location.

If your software has value in the Chinese market, and if the idea is easy to duplicate, be very careful in approaching outsourcing to China. Ultimately, the safety of your software comes down to the integrity of your vendor. Unless there are other compelling reasons to outsource to China, most people will go elsewhere where IP protection is well regulated and enforced.

China is many time zones away. There is overlap with the late afternoon and earlyevening on the West Coast of the US.  From the East Coast, you are 11 time zones away (12 when the U.S. is on daylight saving time). Be prepared for flexible working hours when you need to communicate with your Chinese vendor in real time.

 

Accelerance Global Partners in China

The member directory below lists Accelerance global partners alphabetical by company name.

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Country

Expertise

Accelerance Global Partner

 

Accelerance Preferred Partners

 

Medium sized vendor with 50 to 500 developers

 

Software Products

What their references say...

Outsourcing Argentina
Argentina

Outsourcing China
China

Technology
Industry
Argentina Partner #1 - Mendoza, Argentina & Donghai, China

Argentina Partner #1 provides Smart-shore Solutions by leveraging the benefits of near-shore through Argentina as well as offshore through its Delivery Center in China.

Argentina Partner #1 provides its engineers with more training than any other outsourcing company, thus ensuring their skills are up to date and aligned with what our clients need now and in the future.

This partner offers a complete outsourcing solution including Software Development, Quality Assurance, Graphic Design as well as Remote IT Support Services.

 

 

Medium sized vendor with 50 to 500 developers

 

IT Software Projects

Software Products

What their references say...

 

Outsourcing China
China

 

Technology
Industry
China Partner #1 - Hangzhou & Shanghai, China

China Partner #1 is a specialty outsourcing company dedicated to serving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. Since 2006, we have served many SMEs in a wide-range of industries and built strong expertise covering industries such as Telecommunications, Advertising, Computer Games, Mobile Applications, IT development, Translation and Publishing, Animation, CMS and Ecommerce, among others.

Our top notch technical resources coupled with a culture of innovation allow us to collaborate and innovate alongside our clients, in order to develop unique business solutions for end users and for our clients’ target markets. Our mobile practice and online analytical practice are among the best in the world.

Our US-based client engagement team will work with you on requirements, design and delivery, as if we were a part of the client’s own in-house capability. Then our internal quality control and customer interaction processes guarantee our work meets your expectations while ensuring superior customer experience.

With our extensive experience from serving a wide variety of clients, we understand that each SME has different requirements. Therefore, we are able to accommodate a range of solutions, whether it is deploying our resources on a project-by-project basis, building a captive team for you or facilitating partnerships with other large scale outsourcing providers offshore.

 

 

Large Partner with over 500 developers

 

Software Products

What their references say...

Outsourcing China
China

Technology
Industry
China Partner #2 - Shanghai, Beijing & Qingdao, China

China Partner #2 is a Silicon Valley based outsourcing company. Its key differentiators are:

  1. We are headquartered in the USA, and manage our projects from the USA, from legal, business and technical perspectives. It makes the overall communication much more efficient.
  2. Whenever possible, we work for a fixed price; your costs are always under control.
  3. We understand software development
    • Our developers master the latest programming languages and techniques (mobile platforms, .NET, J2EE, LAMP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe, etc.)
    • We use Agile development techniques (SCRUM)
    • We report our progress daily (stand-up meetings) through wikis, blogs and VoIP
    • We have over 900 engineers in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao and soon Chengdu).

 

 

Medium sized vendor with 50 to 500 developers

 

Software Products

What their references say...

Outsourcing China
China

Outsourcing Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Technology
Industry
China Partner #3 - Hong Kong, China

China Partner #3's experience in software development is extensive. Over the past decade, we have successfully delivered a variety of projects for small and large-scale clients, helping them to achieve their business objectives in a timely manner. The value that we have contributed to our clients has had a huge positive impact on our development, and helped us to build a strong reputation and gain credibility in the software outsourcing industry. Most importantly, we are committed to providing your organization with the level of expertise and capability that enables you to roll out quality, cost-effective products.

China Partner #3 specializes in developing Client/Server, Distributed and web-based applications. Our core competencies include software design, development and quality assurance.

At China Partner #3, we feel that defining strategic team relationship is the key to delivering quality custom applications for North American and European clients. Whether your primary goal is cost saving, parallel development or risk mitigation, our engineering and business team will work hand-in-hand with your core management team to ensure that we share identical objectives and remain focused on achieving your overriding targets.

As one of only a handful of SW-CMM Level 3 certified outsourcing companies in China, we understand the importance of well-defined development processes and transparency within our project team. Our internal software engineering process group consists of highly experienced project and quality managers who drive the evolution and continuously remain abreast of the project status.

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