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It’s obvious that lots of companies can minimize their development costs via offshore outsourcing. Thus usually one of the main criteria for choosing an offshore destination is price. Don’t you think this is a mistake?
If you seek a successful offshore outsourcing engagement, you must think of the results you want. You should pick a vendor that matches you in size or the size of your projects. It’s worth paying attention to developers’ abilities, skills and experience; put emphasis on people rather than on specific requirements of your project.
As for Murano Software, we are quite effective at cooperating with small and mid-size companies that are innovative. We provide our clients with dedicated teams of talented and creative problem solvers who are able to realize the client’s ideas successfully.
In our opinion, the best offshore effect occurs when the finished software product delivers the full functionality required to meet the needs of the client and it is delivered on time and on budget without any unexpected changes in the process of the development.
To get the desired offshore effect, you should enhance your in-house IT-team by engaging the top specialists in the world. Therefore ask for resumes, don’t be immediately concerned with how quickly a project can get done. Ask for company hiring policies and strategy. And finally, you’ll benefit from having access to a diverse talent pool that can quickly fulfill your requirements and deliver the quality software products and achieve better ROI.
This past weekend we celebrated our 5th anniversary. It has only been a few years but they have brought us some great results. This year Murano Software seriously grew up, we contracted with many new clients, opened our fourth development center and tripled the number of developers we have! We have received positive references from our clients and that constantly inspires us to learn, improve and make every effort to deliver quality software products.
The celebration was held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia (for your information: that was a hosting city for G8 Summit-2006). We had a great time with our colleagues from all of our development centers. For many developers the chance to meet in person was especially valuable as they work together in virtual teams. There was no discomfort between people who reside in different cities; it felt like we work in neighboring offices. We are proud to feel like we are a well-built team!
Some of the activities that made our celebration memorable are diving, paintball, boat racing and a festive picnic. The event truly inspired us to go on doing the best job we can to make Murano a leader in the software development field.
The Russian government has made several important steps towards strengthening the position of Russia as an outsourcing software development destination in the global market. We are proud to announce that our software development export is now seriously supported:
- More highly skilled technical resources will be available for us to assemble our most talented teams on a long-term basis. An IT-park was created in St. Petersburg at one of the technical universities (Murano Software’s main software development center is located there).
- We will be able to take advantage of tax privileges and quote you prices that are extremely competitive within the world market. According to the law on tax incentives that was signed by the President of Russia on July 28, 2006, the taxation will be reduced for companies that export software development products. Murano Vice President, Andrew Filev took part in the preliminary stages of creating this law.
- The government created quite a number of resources this summer that support software development outsourcing companies in Russia: the Federal Agency for Information Systems, the Federal Agency for ICT Export Development and the Federal Fund for Technology and Innovations. The Federal Fund will be allocated 1450 million rubles (equivalent to about 55 million US dollars) of Federal budget money and by 2010 the fund should be capitalized privately. The agencies are intended to provide a high level of integration during the installation and implementation of ICT in the executive branch and provide informational, analytical and marketing support to the IT product and services promotion in the global market.
While anyone can discuss and evaluate the possible impact of government support, we are going to take advantage of these valuable opportunities so we can constantly improve our services for you!
Customers expect that software development outsourcing companies employ efficient methods of communication. As we say, outsourced software development doesn’t have to be a struggle, and clients should have the opportunity to take advantage of all outsourcing benefits.
Communicating via Instant Messaging is widespread; moreover it is an essential part of your relations with offshore software developers for discussing details, controlling the development process and exploiting the benefits of agile software development methodology.
To overcome the time differences, the offshore software developers that you contract with could shift their working hours. This makes online communications via IM possible and provides both parties with convenient timing arrangements. As a company focused on outsourcing, we hire technical professionals with a good knowledge of English. You, your IT director or your entire in-house IT team can collaborate or keep track of development achievements (depending on your needs), both verbally and in writing, via e-mail, MSN, Skype, NetMeeting conferences, the telephone and so on.
Of course, it could occasionally happen that you hear English spoken with an accent or that you may not be able to stay in contact with developers throughout your working day because of the time difference. Obviously we don’t dispute that these are points you have to be aware of when engaging in offshore outsourcing. We don’t hesitate to raise these issues, as we know that for our clients, location is not the essential factor in their decision to contract with us. Our clients contract with us primarily due to their interest in cooperating with experts in custom software application development.
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