Process followed by offshorbean.com

PROCESS >> UNDERSTAND

Analyze outsourcing decision:
Following are the typical questions you must answer to understand the viability of outsourcing:

Process

	Understand

	Decide

	Measure

Q	What are your current Profit Margins? This usually involves understanding what percentage of order value are you able to retain as pure profit. This usually involved looking beyond salary bills to things like performance bonus, 401(K), infrastructure costs which your company has to pay. offshorebean.com helps you cut the costs by as much as 60% by allowing you hire and control the required manpower directly.
Q	What is the type of application you are working on? offshorebean.com cannot help you in case you develop mainframe based applications or other similar complex systems and legacy systems. We are most suitable to work with if you need applications to be developed in PHP/MySQL, ASP/.NET/SQL Server or Visual Basic based platforms. We can help you with Web Technology / PC , Desktop Application / Client Server.
Q	What tools does your organization require to build the applications? You need to understand whether the application can be built using standard tools available in the market or does it requires special or customized tools to develop the application. If replicating the development atmosphere is mandatory and its too costly then it is advisable to do the job in-house. offshorebean.com has all major development tools in Microsoft as well as in open source areas to support all major development needs. However we do require the client to provide you licenses to any software that needs to be purchased for the development. Moreover, we clearly communicate what tools and hardware platform the developers are working on.
Q	What is the general deadline does your company offers to clients on bug fixes? You need to understand that the developer/designer will be assigned to work for you for 8 hrs a day and there is a time zone difference between you and our development centre based in India. So if you generally need bug fixes in real-time i.e. in US Daytime then choosing offshorebean.com might not be a feasible solution for you. You need ensure that the you give as at least a day to fix the bugs (which is the least deadline even the highest priority bugs have). If your organization is not fixing bugs over phone calls then we are a match.
Q	What kind of progress updates do you offer to the clients? Do you have need to give continuous updates during daytime or the updates are scheduled to be given once or twice a week to the clients. This again has to do with point 3 : If your clients calls you 20 times a day and asks you for updates then it is best to do it in-house. We prefer a more structured development process where the update is given only once or twice a week. (Note: The developer/designer gives you progress updates on the task assigned once at the end of each day).
Q	What impact does a general project have on your business? There are several things to be considered here : Does your company takes on a lot of projects where any single project forms only a part of the whole business? Are you making enough profit by doing the projects in-house ? You can save costs by working with offshorebean.com for projects whose ROI has been rejected internally Does your department has the capacity to handle the project in-house ? offshorebean.com is the solution for you if you expect a upsurge in projects and see that your organization staff is falling short to meet the pressure.
Q	What is the impact of this on overall revenue? offshorebean.com helps you in generation of more revenue as you offload other tedious activities to us and concentrate only on bringing more clients to your business.
Q	How large do you think this applications are? Are the applications too large requiring large project management efforts or is there are generally small application with a deadline of less then six months? The problem with outsourcing large applications is the precious time that is required in knowledge transfer and setting up of infrastructure.
Q	How complex the application are? Are the applications dependent on a lot of custom components that your company has already built. In case the work needs to be done using in-house components which you feel is unique to you business and you feel insecure about sharing it then its better not to select offshorebean.com. offshorebean has an information protection policy in place to guarantees that any details/codes etc provided by you are never circulated outside the company.
Q	Do you have continous flow of work? offshorebean.com is suitable for you if you have projects that require people for atleast three months or if you have a continous flow of small to mid-size projects. Answering the 10 questions above will give you a fair idea of whether this service is for you. Even if you are already outsourcing projects at $10 per hour then too we can help reduce costs by 22.5%

	Next Step : Decide