- an Introduction to our Outsourcing Services

Web Network has designed the outsourcing services to give your organisation the best advantages of price, quality and service. We focus on the offshore development of your projects and operate different modes of project development, depending on your requirements to deliver quality products consuming very little of your organisation’s resources.

Here, we will discuss some of the important points in connection with the offshore Outsourcing services provided by us. Mostly the offshore developments are provided from India, which is known to have a vast pool of High Quality, English speaking, Technical competent and world acclaimed Human Resource.

* Why choose offshore development?
* Offshore Project Development with us
* Why outsource?
* Your benefits
* Outsourcing and India
* Disadvantages and Potential Problems.
* Ideal projects
* Who can outsource
* How we manage outsourcing
* How we set up the outsourcing process to avoid common pitfalls
* Our rates
* Why Our Rates Are Low?
* What you can expect
* What we expect from you
* Ready for outsourcing?

Why choose offshore development?

1. Easy availability of a pool of qualified and experienced manpower.
2. Significant cost savings, up to 80% in certain cases. The service providers focus on their key area of competency, which they can do better, and more cost effectively.
3. You can avoid expensive new recruitments and local consultants and instead use low price consultants in the offshore company.
4. You can concentrate on your core competencies by releasing resources for high value-added and priority work. This allows you to delegate technical, tidies, research or routine tasks to the offshore development team.
5. The offshore development team can add significant technical knowledge, in some cases. You get the advantage of the skills developed by the offshore development team, during their various development assignments.
6. Temporary peaks and one-time projects
7. Manpower is available at short notice and without increasing long-term commitments.
8. Outsourcing helps your organisation become more efficient, flexible and nimble.

Offshore Project Development with us

Web Network can provide you with different modes of Offshore Project Development services. These are

1. Project outsourcing
2. Project Development Team in our office
3. Project Development Team in separate offshore office

In all the cases, we provide the team members, the infrastructure and Communication set up for you to have a smooth and efficient functioning of the whole outsourcing process. We also provide mechanisms for uninterrupted communication, management and monitoring of the development process.
Project Outsourcing

We set up a team of project members according to your specifications to complete a specific project. The team is set up exclusively for your project. After the project is over, you can assign them another project, or the project members become part of some other project, after completion of your project.

Providing Team members in off shore office.

We provide persons with required skill and experience to work for you in an offshore office (in India). We provide the infrastructure and manage the person or the group of persons working for you. We can provide a single person or a group of persons.

These project developers will be working in one of the offices of our offshore development partners. We can provide your team members with a separate office if required. This is particularly suitable for medium (to large) team sizes.

You communicate with the members and team leaders and managers in the group through Internet and telephone and you get the reports and deliverables through Internet. You also get periodic reports from the office of our offshore development partners and also from us regarding the recent status of the project, progress, delivery schedules, etc. You can set up the proper management hierarchy and procedures in the group.

You can choose the duration, size and working hours of your Project Development Team.

1. Duration: Few days to very long term

2. Working hours: Full Time, Part time. Casual

3. Team Size: small (1 to 10 team members) to Medium or Large groups.

We keep a track of the whole Project Development Process and inform you of contingencies needed, any change in plans, etc.
Why outsource

Outsourcing allows you to focus on your core competencies and relives your organisation from regular development or regular testing and monitoring. Because of these advantages, outsourcing has caught up the world like a storm and it is there to stay. You get the best resources at the least cost and with the advantage of hiring and firing at will.
Your benefits

The rewards are huge for firms with established or emerging market for their products. Every production worry is the worry of us and you are free to manage your core regular marketing, client support etc.

1. No need to manage Project Development Manpower.
2. Significant cost savings, up to 80% in certain cases.
3. You can avoid expensive new recruitments and local consultants and instead use low price consultants available with us.
4. You can concentrate on your core competencies by releasing resources for high value-added and priority work. This allows you to delegate technical, tidies, research or routine tasks to us.
5. Our offshore development team can add significant technical knowledge to your organisation, in some cases. You get the advantage of the skills developed by the offshore development team, during their various development assignments.
6. It is easy to manage temporary peaks and one-time projects.
7. Manpower is available at short notice and without increasing long-term commitments.

Outsourcing and India

India has the largest English speaking labor in the world and is one of the most cost effective sources as regards labor production. The official statistics of availability of skilled labor in India is mind-boggling. Just to mention a fact there are 100 thousand graduate engineers and 10 thousand graduates in medicine turned out by Indian universities every year. And most of them are looking for brighter opportunities and willing to learn new cross-disciplinary subjects and techniques. There are also another thousand odd accountants, professionally qualified each year from the Indian institute of chartered accountants. The latest in the list is the number of experienced bankers and other professionals who have taken to voluntary retirement in search of challenging career with the advent of e-commuting and the opening of offices in India by major multi national companies. Software education is the primary concern of all Indian universities and more than half the technically qualified persons are in the software industry.
Disadvantages and Potential Problems.

Despite the advantages mentioned above, there are many disadvantages to off shore Project Development outsourcing if not properly managed. The following is a list of the Potential Problems. Please refer to the page - "How We Manage Your Outsourced Projects - Avoiding Potential Setbacks" to know more about how we recognize and manage these problems for the smooth functioning of your Project.

1. Communication
2. Cultural Differences
3. Time Difference
4. Skill Mismatches
5. Insufficient or Unclear Specifications
6. Insufficient or Unclear Reports
7. Quality discrepancies
8. Inflexible Management
9. Differing Methodologies followed in development
10. Security of intellectual property
11. Inappropriate control over the Project Developer
12. Inappropriate control over the Project Development Process
13. Project Developers leaving the Project

Ideal projects

We carefully analyse your requirements before taking up any off shore Project Development assignment. Not all projects are ideal for outsourcing. In general we do not take up projects that involve proprietary knowledge, which cannot be safeguarded with agreements.

Ideal projects for outsourcing include the following list. Please refer to our Services page for the details of the services we provide and the Outsourcing Services page for a more comprehensive list of outsourcing services we can provide for your organisation.

1. Software Product Development

2. Software Product Maintenance

3. Software Product Testing

4. Software Product Installation Program

5. Software Product Documentation and Help Files

6. Software Platform Porting

7. Software Component development

8. Application and Database conversions

9. Transition of legacy systems to client/server;

10. Y2K and Euro conversion, double byte character conversion for internationalisation.

11. e-commerce projects

12. Web Development

13. Web Site maintenance

14. Web Site content development and management

15. Graphics Designing and Development

16. CAD Designing and Mechanical Engineering Drawing

17. Architectural Designing

18. Archi CAD and Documentation

19. Moss and Civil Engineering Drafting

20. Office Administration Work

21. Data Entry

22. Documentation

23. Internet Marketing

Who can outsource

If your organisation is wishing to benefit from the following, then you can outsource your projects to us:

1. To focus on your core competencies by freeing up your resources.
2. To take advantage of the cost effective and abundant labor in India.
3. To keep a standby team for parallel development for redundancy.
4. To avoid the hassle of employing project members for immediate and short term projects.

How we manage outsourcing

We have our sister concerns in India in the fields of Software Development, Marketing and Outsourcing Management. We also have strong tie up with other Marketing, Management and Development companies in India, who help us to provide a trouble free support to the outsourcing needs of our clients. To know more about how we manage outsourcing, refer to "How we manage Outsourcing".
How we set up the outsourcing process to avoid common pitfalls

We have taken comprehensive set of measures to avoid the potential set backs in off shore outsourcing. Pleas e refer to the page - "How We Manage Your Outsourced Projects - Avoiding Potential Setbacks" to know more about how we recognize and manage these problems for the smooth functioning of your Project.
Our rates

We have very low rates compared to that of Countries like USA, Australia, Canada and many European Countries. Our rates compare favourably with the prevailing trends of the industry. We match the prices in genuine cases. Please contact us, to get a quote for your needs.
Why Our Rates Are Low

We have understood the power of outsourcing that has enabled us to develop a management model, making our rates really low. Some of these are:

1. Salary and other wages are very low in India.
2. Our Development Infra structure is being used more than 20 hrs a day, since the development facility and resources are being used for organisations from different time zones, worldwide.
3. Our offices are run as virtual offices as far as possible.
4. We outsource majority of our office work to Indian partners
5. We choose partners who are established Project Development Organisations and are capable of passing the cost advantages, resulting from the above, to our clients.

What you can expect

We have adopted many methods and procedures for the smooth and efficient running of your Projects. You can expect the following from us:

1. Periodical reports
2. Professional on site inspection and quality control
3. Strict adherence to work schedules
4. Expert assistance at your end to conform to the methods and procedures adopted in your organisation (for e.g.: any particular methodology like RUP or some custom methodology followed in the SDLC (software development life cycle) of a software company)

What we expect from you

With your wholehearted support we can make your projects cost effective, high in quality and technically superb. For this to happen, we expect the following from you:

1. Give us your contact person.
2. Choose the best members, for off shore development team, to suit your organisation’s work culture.
3. Do a regular analysis and follow up action on the reports and deliverables given to you by us and your off shore Project Development Team.
4. Agree to a time for regular discussion and evaluation. This is fixed after consultation with you, and can be changed to suit your time and other resource constraints.

Ready for outsourcing?

Start your projects now. Contact us immediately to get an obligation free quote. Read about the Process we follow to know more about how we get your outsourcing projects successful.