Offshore Programming - In Country Project Management
In today's networked word, the choice of your software development team is possibly your most important business decision. Software maintenance and development consume a sizable portion of most business budgets. But the intangible costs can be far greater and represent the difference between a well run company aware of its customers'needs and responsive to them versus a company with wasteful processes, poor inter-company communications and a degrading relationship with its customer base.
The rationale for going offshore for your development needs is simple and very persuasive. At comparative skill levels programmers in places like India, China, Russia or Eastern Europe can be hired at at one-fifth the hourly costs of programmers in the US or Western Europe.
Yet there are equally cogent reasons for staying "in-country". Software development in other countries often is performed under laxer supervisory standards and not subject to the same tough security procedures that govern locally. Who knows who else is looking at your core business data? This can expose a company to severe liability risks. Worse, it can mean that the technology lead over competitors that has taken years to acquire can evaporate overnight. In cases of disputes with your software development company, it is far better to be dealing with a local jurisdiction.
At Akulink, we offer companies the best compromise. Project development, customer interaction, and project supervision are performed in the United States and handled exclusivley by Akulink, a US-based corporation. Most of the "nuts-and-bolts" work of the software projects is handled by our programmers in India, China and Bulgaria.
We believe this approach offers our customers the best of both worlds. Greatly reduced costs, but tight security and easy management controls.
Our software approach is to divide the work into a series of distinct components - then to apportion the development of these components to our software development teams abroad. These offshore programmers work independently of one another and are often unknown to each other. Core access to the unified body of code is limited to our chief architectural team in the US. This means that your exposure to security breaches is limited. It also means that a US corporation is ultimately liable for the security of your project.
Meanwhile, the person most knowledgeable about your software is not a person three time zones away who lapses into Hindi in times of pressure! It will be one of our chief architects here in the US. This is the person who has crafted your software architecture and ensured that the components perform to measure and mesh seamlessly. This is a person who will have sat down with you and become intimately familiar with your business processes and organizational constraints.
If this approach makes sense to you too, call our CIO Serge d'Adesky at 305-446-4986 today.