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Outsource Vs Offshore: To Outsource Software Development Or Not?

Outsource vs Offshore: To Outsource Software Development or Not?

While the guidelines in the previous blog, Outsource vs Offshore: What Do You Need to Know Before Involving 3rd Parties in Your Business, generally still stand when discussing software development outsourcing, there are many more particular situations in software engineering that we have had experience navigating to a successful degree. To be more specific, in the […]

4 Ways to Make Global Delivery Projects Run Smoother

With the globalization of products and services in today’s business environment, many project teams find themselves in a decentralized execution model with their counterparts located in multiple locations worldwide. To ensure a smooth process from start to finish, there needs to be established guidance at the beginning of a project for all parties involved – […]

Outsource Vs Offshore: What Do You Need To Know Before Involving 3rd Parties In Your Business?

Outsource vs Offshore: What Do You Need to Know Before Involving 3rd Parties in Your Business?

?As startups or enterprises grow, they often find themselves in the tight spot of needing more bandwidth to handle their business. At this point, companies are forced to make a decision of how they want to continue, ie: outsource vs offshore. For example, a savvy entrepreneur might decide to hire extra resources, directly increasing head-count, or […]

The Solution To The Current H1b Visa Restrictions For Tech Companies Is To Shift From Outsourcing Towards 'nearshoring'

The Solution to the Current H1B Visa Restrictions for Tech Companies Is to Shift from Outsourcing Towards ‘Nearshoring’

For decades, H-1B visas have been one of the cornerstones of the traditional “IT outsourcing” business model. In many ways, the possibility of legally sending workers to the US has allowed Indian firms to offer an enticing service: the client gets to work face to face with less expensive engineers that are authorized to temporarily […]

Why Working With Your Nearshore Service Vendor Is Critical To Minimize Team Attrition

Why Working With Your Nearshore Service Vendor is Critical to Minimize Team Attrition

Many companies find it strategic to partner with an offshore software vendor to lower costs and increase their engineering bandwidth. They often are excited to begin work once they find an offshore vendor that offers both good value and technical skills. Yet, to their surprise, once work commences the initiative crashes and burns when the […]

Should I Prioritize On Price Or Prioritize On Value When Looking For An Offshore It Services Partner?

Should I Prioritize on Price or Prioritize on Value When Looking for an Offshore IT Services Partner?

Many clients look to software outsourcing as a way to get a better bang for their buck. Because of price differentials between global economies, this is clearly one of the advantages of offshoring IT services. However, there are probably tens of thousands of companies globally whose prices will beat your local market rates (especially if […]

Perficient Latin America Ranked As A Top Developer For Latin America, .net And Java

Perficient Latin America Ranked as a Top Developer for Latin America, .Net and Java

We are honored to announce that Clutch, the go-to resource for buyers and sellers for software and professional services has recently named Perficient Latin America as a Top Software Developer in three of their key leaders categories: Latin America, .Net and Java. Clutch helps companies identify service providers that meet their business and procurement needs […]

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The Makeup of an Ideal Global Delivery Service Team

Outsourcing IT projects has become the norm on most of the projects that I have worked on lately. Either the offshore team belongs to the client, or Perficient provides the offshore team to help with the implementation. I have also received all kinds of feedback from customers (past and present) with respect to working with […]

I Need An Offshore Software Development Partner. Should I Opt For Asia Or Latin America

I Need an Offshore Software Development Partner. Should I Opt for Asia or Latin America?

For many years, India has been the most popular “outsourcing” or “offshoring” software destination. This has been fundamentally due to price, as well as to the availability of software engineers in this gigantic country (and is partly also motivated by the successful diaspora of Indian talent into the US, which creates networks and connections with […]

Optimizing The Total Cost Of Ownership On An Outsourcing Software Development Project Part 2

Optimizing the Total Cost of Ownership on an Outsourcing Software Development Project Part 2

In the first part of this article, we reviewed the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) and outlined five key variables that determine the TCO for software development projects: Process, Quality, Risk, Productivity and Cost. Each of these variables is critical to keep in mind when selecting a nearshoring or offshoring vendor. In this article, we will review the remaining three variables […]

Should I Use A Traditional Rfi / Rfp Model To Select A Nearshore Or Offshore Outsourcing It Vendor?

Should I Use a Traditional RFI / RFP Model to Select a Nearshore or Offshore Outsourcing IT Vendor?

As a nearshore IT firm, we often get many requests to participate in an RFI / RFP project. At a first glance, and RFI / RFP process looks like a structured, disciplined and fair methodology to choose a vendor, but in the final analysis, in our opinion and experience, it produces terrible results for the […]

The Key Attributes For A Successful Outsourcing Software Vendor Relationship

The Key Attributes for a Successful Outsourcing Software Vendor Relationship

Your relationship with an outsourcing software vendor might be one of the most important ones when they work on key projects or technologies for your company. Nurturing a good relationship is never a static formula as all projects and relationships vary greatly. However, during our 30 years’ experience in the software development industry working as […]

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