Offshore Delivery Model

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In Offshore Delivery Model, the entire project is accomplished at the service provider’s offshore development center, which is located in a different country. The client will be dealing directly with the offshore team. The service provider will have no face-to-face interaction with the client during the entire process once the initial interaction with the client regarding their requirements and expectations is over. Of course as the project progresses, both the parties will be communicating regularly through other means of communication so as to clear off any doubts that may arise.

The offshore software delivery model is preferred where the project is well planned in advance to its commencement and the service provider’s offshore development center team has a clear understanding as to what the client's needs are. Also the client should be very clear about what they expect and it should be conveyed in clear definite terms to the service provider. The level of fluctuations in the client’s requirements is expected to be minimum in this type of model. The clients prefer to go for the offshore model when their project is long termed and voluminous.

Offshore Outsourcing is again the best option when the client expects to have a series of IT projects, critical to achieve its business objectives, to be done at an affordable cost. The offshore development center can have a dedicated team catering specifically to the client’s needs; thereby enabling the service provider to provide the best possible results as expected by the client. The outcome of such an arrangement will be in perfect compliance to the client’s anticipations.

In cases where the client wants a particular application developed, which caters to a specific task of that client alone, then it’s better to go for Offshore Outsourcing Delivery Model. This model will facilitate the service provider to go for the number of trials involved therein and then hand over the final product to the client. The client will not have to bother about the risks resulting from trial testing within its existing setup.

Advantages of Offshore Delivery Model:

• Reduced Costs: Advantage of low labor cost, which will be reflected in drastic reduction in the overall costs.



• Excellent Results: Clients can get high quality work from the quality offshore resources.



• No extra Expense: Client doesn’t have to worry about the infrastructure needed to complete their task.



• Access to the Most Optimal Resources: Client can have access to the best possible technology, skilled manpower and equipments, depending on their budgets.



• 24/7 Productivity: Project is not affected by time-zone difference.

Since there is no presence of the service provider at the client’s site, in the offshore model there is always a possibility of communication gap between the client and service provider, which may lead to some misunderstanding. Here the level of risk involved is also high as if any disaster strikes the offshore development center or the offshore center faces any problem then the progress of the project would be interrupted resulting in delay of project completion.

However, before deciding to adopt the offshore delivery model the client needs to be aware about certain offshore outsourcing issues, which have to be taken care off. In addition to this, before selecting the service provider certain points need to be evaluated before deciding to go for a particular offshore vendor.

Learn about Onsite/Offshore Software Delivery Model in the next section...