Do You Plan To Outsource Software Development?

We Can Help You Find a Reliable IT Outsourcing Partner?

There are literally thousands of software outsourcing service firms in every corner of the world. You can easily become overwhelmed by choices and frustrated with vendors who say they can do anything, and for cheap.

Accelerance has created a network of deeply assessed and pre-approved partners focused only on delivering high quality custom application development services to clients in western markets. And Accelerance will help you select one that meets your business and technical needs, and in a time zone and a culture you can work with. There’s no charge to you for our objective and expert advice on software outsourcing. That’s because our partners pay Accelerance a fee to deliver them highly qualified client opportunities that are a perfect fit for their services, strengths and experience. This enables our partners to optimize their sales & marketing activity and offer you their services at very competitive rates. It’s a unique business model that gets you the software outsourcing guidance and results you need at no additional cost, and at much lower risk than doing all the ground work yourself.

Are You Not (Very) Technical?

Afraid an offshore vendor will snow you with the technical details? Especially if they are not living up to their software delivery promises? Yet many software outsourcing engagements are led by professional IT executives, project and program managers who are not technical experts. What’s the trick?

You don’t need a PhD in programming to successfully outsource your software development with Accelerance. After all, that is the point of outsourcing – to gain the technical expertise you need without hiring and managing individual programmers yourself. Accelerance partners will provide the technical expertise and software development skills you need while keeping you informed of progress. And Accelerance will follow-up with your regularly to make sure our partner is performing well.How Will You Manage Programmers So Far Away?

Language, cultural and time zone differences can make communication inefficient and inhibit the productivity of your outsourced programming team. Some estimate productivity is reduced from 20% to 50% when going offshore. How can you overcome these issues and get not only the software you need but also quality software that can actually be used?

When you outsource to an Accelerance partner you are not just hiring individual programmers. You are hiring an entire company that will provide and manage an excellent programming team that will collaborate with you. Detailed specifications can help, but are rare. Most Accelerance partners are also expert at Agile software development methods and will work with you on a daily basis.

Do You Only Speak English?

The inability to communicate because of the lack of language skills is one of the major concerns about software outsourcing. If you didn’t get around to picking up Russian or Chinese in your career or if you were just distracted in your high school Spanish class, you are not alone. How will you be able to communicate something as complex as software functionality and behavior to your offshore team?
All Accelerance partner companies hire bilingual engineers, architects and project managers. They communicate with clients in English by default, both in writing and verbally. Some clients will require excellent English skills from every engineer and we have partners who can provide a team with all English-speaking programmers.

Have You Struggled with Cultural Issues?

If you discovered that “yes” doesn’t always means yes and “no” doesn’t always means no when outsourcing to other countries then you have seen the impact cultural issues can have your software outsourcing.  Most Asian cultures are hierarchical and place a high value on respect for authority. As the client you are the authority and the boss. If you ask them to develop an application to do X they will try and do it even though they can see that Y is a better solution. But you didn’t ask for Y and it’s not polite to disagree, or risk making you look foolish for asking to do X to begin with.

Accelerance partners are well aware of these and other cultural issues that can interfere with accurate and meaningful communication. Many lead developers, project managers and company executives have spent time in the U.S. or other western countries and can cut through the issues and inhibitions quickly.

What challenges are you facing in getting started with software outsourcing? Call Accelerance to discover what works and what doesn’t, especially if you have had less than stellar results with your software outsourcing in the past.