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Are you considering offshoring your IT development?

As an IT executive or manager, it’s very likely that you’ve come under intense pressure to cut costs—and of course your workload has not decreased. In fact, you are probably being asked to do more with less. In an effort to address your IT Development workload with decreased budgets, are you considering sending work offshore?

Have you correctly assessed the RISKS of offshore development?

The trend towards offshoring is reversing as many companies are finding out the hard way that this approach has actually increased costs.

-> Read article in NY Times on concerns over Offshoring

The lack of project control, inconsistent development practices, security issues, language and cultural differences, training, and time zone complications all contribute to the hidden costs associated with sending work offshore.

And if the project fails, that’s the biggest cost of all, both to the bottom line, and to your career!

What is the alternative?

Offshoring may not be the panacea that some thought. The problem remains the same: How to reduce IT development costs while maintaining high quality. Let us suggest an alternative that will keep the work in this country.

Whether you call it “In-sourcing”, or “Onshoring”, or just “Good business sense”, we know that it is possible to develop cost effective, high quality custom IT solutions without having to send the work off-shore.

Let CDA’s two-phased “Onshoring” approach solve your problem.

One of the most significant problems with offshoring is that the software requirements and analysis have to be precise or the developed software will fail to meet business expectations. Also, if the software is not designed well, it becomes a maintenance nightmare.

CDA has a two phased approach that directly addresses these issues. In the first phase, our experienced consultants will use a combination of on-site visits and off-site work to develop a robust and detailed set of requirements and analysis deliverables that precisely identifies what needs to be built, as well as an estimate of how much it will cost. Based on this analysis you can make the decision to have CDA continue with the project in Phase II, develop it internally, cancel the project, or perhaps just table it for a while.

In Phase II, CDA will provide you with a fixed cost bid to develop the system Onshore, keeping the costs competitive with offshoring.

How can we be competitive with Offshoring?

Creative Design Associates (CDA) is able to provide competent, highly experienced, professional analysts and programmers at rates competitive to those offshore, while offering the advantages of “close to home” control, a reliable, steady work force, and a level of expertise unavailable offshore.

Distributed Development

We call it Distributed Development. We have IT professionals working all over the country who have exactly the skill set needed to develop a high quality solution. We can match our associates skills with our clients’ exact needs, without having to send them all over the country. This keeps costs down for us—and for our clients. With today’s technology, we are able to work smarter in a distributed development environment which allows us to compete with offshoring. We use WebEx and other technologies to enhance our communication within CDA and with our clients, without having to incur the travel costs often associated with outsourcing. The end result is quality service to our customers with consistent, professional work at competitive rates.

The assistance you get from CDA can make the difference between the success or failure of your next development project.

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