Drew Robb's article from "Information Week" magazine explains both mentioned reasons. Click here to view selected fragments from this article.

Basically, offshore development is about reducing the costs usually involved with your development operations by contracting highly specialized personnel located in a low-cost environment, such as India. Lower development costs imply a smaller price for your product / services, and a better position on the market for your company.

It is no wonder many companies all over the world have embraced the concept of ERP software supporting their business processes and even bought and installed new packages,which changed their organizational structures in order to adhere to the functional design of ERP systems. Those companies have achieved a significant increase in productivity and effectiveness as well as savings in payroll expenses. An annual growth of 30-40% in new ERP installations is expected over the next 10 - 15 years.

Ans: We can explain you the whole development methodology in detail through our offshore development methodology white paper (it's a separate document by itself, and please request us to send you a copy of it). However it's not a whole lot different from any other outsourcing project.

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by sending you the last versions of the programs being developed. Normally we do this by-monthly, but we can reduce the time interval between two consecutive "deliveries" if the circumstances require it by means of the time sheet reporting system. Programmers access this system online to record all the time they spend on projects. You can also access the time sheets based on a user name and password we supply to you

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Our standard method for project tracking and handling issues and request for change is the web-based project management software iManagement. In order to track progress in nearshore / offshore software development projects we can use weekly project status reports, reports on demand or we can use the method / tools preferred by you. Data may be transmitted via email, fax or telephone.

General communication between AROBS and its clients is done via e-mail. Each message gets sent to the task developer, the expert in the field (i.e. database expert, GUI expert, business module expert, etc) and the project supervisor. Each type of mail has a specific response time interval (i.e. 1 hour for a production bug, 2 days for design analysis).

We regard quality as the most important aspect of our activities. Hence, we take all the necessary steps to ensure we deliver products of the highest quality possible. To do so, we rely on a testing department which we can scale up or down, based on customer requirements. We are committed to providing you with a bug free code.

Just for the sake of jumping on the bandwagon, we can offer you the following popular slogan to describe our pricing: "with AROBS you are getting the greatest value for any dollar you pay". Depending on the salary levels from your local markets, you can save up to 50% of the total labor costs by enlisting our service. We are not promising the lowest rates available because such an approach signals low quality.

Russia has a 40-year history of manufacturing computers and producing original software for them. For many years Russian universities put into the market more and more high qualified IT professionals to satisfy the growing needs of military enterprises and research institutes in human resources. Political and economical changes of recent years caused serious production cutback in many branches of industry.

From our experience, the right size for a nearshore / offshore software development project profitable for both parties is over 3MM. The cost reduction benefit from nearshore / offshore outsourcing is of course in proportion with the project size. Volume benefits appear in case we set a framework for repeated project for the same nearshore /offshore partner because the costs of setting up the partnership and communication are one-time costs.

In project based collaboration, ensuring dedicated resources is a key element for short reaction time. This is implied in the nearshore / offshore dedicated team nearshore / offshore collaboration. In both cases, the reaction time is one of the level of service terms agreed upon before the start of the nearshore / offshore collaboration and has to be convenient for the client as well as for us, ensuring the productive work of the nearshore / offshore development team.

To coin a popular phrase in describing our pricing: "with Digitella you are getting the greatest value for any pound you spend". Depending on the salary levels for your local market and platform, you can save up to 60% of the total labour costs by enlisting our service. We do not promise the lowest rates available because such an approach signals low quality.

The offshore development methodology does not change, whether the development is done domestically in the United States, Europe or any other part of the world. Our team works with an industry standard offshore development methodology. You will be in direct communication with the project manager who will track your project through all the phases of development, from needs analysis, requirements documentation, prototyping, development, testing, release, business practice integration and support.

New 2004 figures from the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat show the number of people in the world is expected to rise by 2.6 billion, from today's 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion in 2050. Almost all growth will take place in developing regions, where population is expected to rise from today's 5.3 billion to 7.8 billion, according to World Population Prospects. By contrast, developed countries' population will remain mostly unchanged, at 1.2 billion.

The offshore development team is based in India and can develop the highest quality sites at a price considerably cheaper than in the UK . Many major technology companies outsource projects to offshore development centres in India for this reason and the fact that the IT education in India is probably the highest quality in the world. Companies that also outsource to India include Microsoft, Oracle and IBM to name just a few.

We have own development centre in New Delhi, India and we do not sub-contract. This is basically to safeguard the interest of our clients/partners and also to have a greatest control over the processes, people and projects.

Requirement analysis. Our representative(s)/partner(s) or our CTO/CEO will discuss with you in person to make sure that we understand what you want and what we are going to do. A talk over the phone will do for a very small project (say a small static web site). test. Besides test on our own, we may ask our client to test our software to get early information of our work in long distance.. Deployment. Either remote installation or installation locally in the US by our representatives/engineers.

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China has the second largest internet population in the world. Currently China has 137 million Internet users according to China Internet Network Information Center, and the number is still growing exponentially. China will soon surpass US in terms of its Internet users. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Chinese will outrank English as the most used language on the internet by year 2007.

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