Posts Tagged ‘vendor’

Biggest Mistakes Made in Outsourcing Deals

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Both the client and the vendor tend to make a lot of serious mistakes in outsourcing deals, especially when trying to cut costs. In this article we are going to have a look at how lack of innovation and productivity gains, as well as culture conflicts, can bang up an outsourcing contract. Many of the eloquent signs have more to do with the customer’s organization than the outsourcing services vendor.

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Top5 questions when choosing an outsourcing vendor

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

When customers select an outsourcing partner, they don’t do it blindly but rather make a carefully weighed decision basing on some conclusions. These conclusions are usually made after a vendor answers certain questions. So, here is the list of things companies usually what to know when seeking an outsourcing partner (may be interesting and useful for both parties):

1. Does the service provider have experience in similar projects? Positive and negative experiences are equally useful for making a decision. To learn this customer needs to share relevant information with other organizations.

2. Does the vendor use the quality management system? Since customers are worried about the quality of the end product, this is one of the most important questions for them. The customer might need to give the vendor a personal visit in order to inspect the company.

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Offshore, Nearshore, and What, Rightshore?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Since Softheme always keeps an eye on what is going on in the world of outsourcing, we couldn’t pass by one of the latest popular outsourcing solution trends called “rightshore”. Promoted by such outsourcing giants as Capgemini and Lionbridge, this type of service offers an approach to outsourcing alternative to “good old” offshoring and nearshoring.

In general, rightshore approach still does include offshoring and nearshoring models. However, the core of this solution is providing the ideal combination of outsource locations (on-site, offshore, and nearshore) for each customer’s individual project basing on analysis of project-related factors. Service providers claim that rightshore solution usually requires four steps to identify the right-shore location for any particular engagement. Here is the short description of those:

Why Outsourcing to Ukraine

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Today moving part or whole of company’s IT services to offshore zones is becoming a global tendency for many businesses. It is a matter of fact that already a considerable number of companies worldwide either actively use outsourcing or plan to outsource their technology services in the future. While many corporations set their choice on Asian offshoring companies, Softheme recommends outsourcing software development to Ukraine and suggests the outsourcing model we have come up with during our work experience.

Addressing to us, our clients seek an outsourcing partner who can not only help them to reduce their IT costs, but also help them to make use of technology advances to deliver more effective IT that evolves in line with their business needs. During the years of our diligent work, we have developed a simple outsourcing model which offers a number of benefits to our customers and enables us to deliver a very competitive level of services to our clients. The model that we offer helps customers to cut costs, reallocate their capital to other business segments, focus on core business, reduce time-to-market, and get access to skilled and inexpensive IT resources.

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