Technical Issues with Offshore Outsourcing Software Development Company

Posted by Congruent on September 9th, 2016

Offshore software development is a good way for companies to save money and time when having a new software product developed for their operations or for their customers. Outsourcing software development ensures a higher-quality product that is fully customized according to your business needs. However, you must be careful when outsourcing software development to make sure that you can avoid the biggest technical issues associated with this kind of project. Here are tips to consider to ensure the creation of a good software product and get a seamless service when outsourcing software development to an offshore company: 

Be sure it is an experienced software development company – It must have highly referable clients from around the world and it must have at least two decades of experience in successful offshore software development for those clients.

Look for specially tailored services – Seasoned software development companies are flexible, and this lets them provide a good number of services to suit every requirement. You should be able to rely on them for product development, application support and maintenance, custom application development for your end clients, and legacy application migration. This way, you do not have to look for and hire other companies. 

Consider a company that can provide special services – Software development is a highly specialized area. Only seasoned and highly trained experts can re-engineer applications, provide multi-tenant SaaS app development and cloud consulting, and develop software and apps using HTML 5 or Microsoft Azure. 

Learn about their strategy – A good software development company has a proven method for working with offshore clients. This shows that they understand the importance of delivering the best value for your business that exceeds your expectations. From the start, you can already learn about how the company works when they present their company and their capabilities according to your needs. From there, you can assess if they are worth hiring and if they can indeed help with your software development needs.

Make sure they are easy to talk to – Communication is one of the keys to solving the biggest technical issues with offshore software development companies. Hence, make sure that you are hiring specialists who are easy to contact online or offline. 

Look for known certifications – Any software development company must be a Microsoft Gold partner in application development and a silver partner in collaboration and content. Microsoft Gold certification should prove that you are working with highly skilled and fully trained software developers who can provide a wide range of services. 

About The Author:

Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Congruent, and Microsoft Gold certified partner has been providing software development services to its global clients since 1994. The operations are supported by our large offshore software development centre in Chennai, India. Congruent customers include a wide range of companies, from a Start-up solution provider, ISV's to enterprise clients like 3M, Premera Blue Cross, and Council on Foreign Relations, Glasstech, Maldives Airport and many more.