Balancing = Resources + Skill Set + Schedules + Cost
One of the most challenging aspects of achieving and maintaining business success is developing a flexible approach to personnel management. In order to remain competitive, your organization has to be able to adapt to emerging market changes.
No one likes to lay off staff, but the unpredictable nature of the dynamic, ever-evolving market landscape sometimes requires it. Conversely, recruiting candidates with appropriate skill sets and experience and bringing them up to speed can be a daunting and time-consuming proposition that ends up diverting much-needed resources from your core mission.
Outsourcing companies like Mantra are accustomed to handling multiple projects simultaneously, and thus can manage staffing capacity in a highly efficient manner. If you don't need our developers’ services anymore, we simply reassign them to another project. You sidestep the costs of recruitment and training and avoid the legal liability associated with terminating on-site employees.
In short, outsourcing with the Mantra team transforms your IT budget from a fixed to a variable budget line item, allowing your organization to remain lean, nimble, and flexible.
Experience
Industry experts have identified three broad categories of IT expertise:
- Business Analysis: Knowing how a business works and how software can improve operational efficiency.
- Technical Skills: The practical know-how necessary to install, use, and maintain IT systems and equipment.
- Project Management Skills. An understanding of what has to happen in order to complete a project on time and on budget.
Depending on your organization’s core competencies, you may be good at all three of things or at none of them. Similarly, IT outsourcers’ skills and abilities in these categories may vary considerably. Because the market is fragmented, it can be difficult to judge quality unless you have a first-hand testimonial attesting to an outsourcers’ talent
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Alternately, you could hire a consultant who can assess the outsourcer’s suitability for your project, or contract with the outsourcer to collaborate on a short pilot project. If you are considering entering into a long-term relationship with an outsourcing partner, either of these options may be a smart investment before making a final decision.
Flexibility
Offshore software development is synonymous with flexibility. Even if you’re facing a large project with a limited timeline, you can use offshore programmers to limit the number of new employees and administrative support personnel you’ll need on site. With just a phone call, Mantra can instantly double the size, strength, and efficiency of your software development team. You’ll reap all of the benefits of a vastly expanded staff with none of the long-terms costs or personnel management hassles.
Cost Benefits
As a business model, it’s hard to beat the cost benefits and ROI of offshore software development. Whether your organization is an industry leader or a new entrant in the market, outsourcing makes financial sense. Established companies can make the most of drastically reduced labor costs, and start-ups can make their VC funding stretch much further.
Mantra’s vast accumulated experience and proven track record bolsters our confidence that we can pass the same cost benefits we’ve delivered to our past clients on to your organization.
Independence
Opting for offshore development offers your firm another major advantage: independence. Most software vendors or investors cannot conduct independent analyses of their own or their competitors’ products. Mantra not only performs a full range of development work, but can also obtain the competition’s software to conduct evaluations for our clients. This ability allows us to ask the questions you want answered in a discreet and confidential manner.
