| Success of the Business is lot more dependent on | | | | But when they go with Time and Material, chances are |
| usage of Right Technology. Usage of more advanced | | | | that customers will end up paying lot of money and |
| Technology will help Business to grow faster than their | | | | also they won't be able to budget properly as they will |
| competitors. And to save money on technology | | | | get Invoice at the end of month. |
| investment, not only giant players but small and | | | | So, best thing for customers is to use new concept |
| medium sized organizations have also adopted the | | | | and that's Monthly Fixed Billing. Customers can pay |
| concepts of offshore outsourcing. | | | | fixed cost for very high level estimates and after that |
| Due to IT outsourcing, India is becoming one of the | | | | they can negotiate with customers for a Fixed Monthly |
| major IT Hub of the world. All of a sudden all most all | | | | Cost. Since, there's a fixed cost, customers don't need |
| the companies of USA, started talking about Offshore | | | | to worry for Hrs at all. They don't need to track hrs. |
| Software Development to save the cost. One can find | | | | They need to just keep their eyes on Project Plan. If |
| lot of software development companies in India and all | | | | things are not going well or as per project plan, just put |
| over the world and of course only few of them are | | | | a co-ordinate with IT Partners and get it done the job |
| providing Quality Custom Software Development from | | | | which is good for their business. |
| Design to on-time delivery. | | | | Most of the time, customers don't know ANYTHING |
| To develop a new Software System, lot of things | | | | about Database which is key part of new system. It's |
| comes in mind like Price, Quality, onsite / offsite, etc. | | | | very important that IT Partner must have good |
| and it's very important for Company to spend | | | | Database Expertise. Less knowledgeable IT Partner or |
| reasonably good amount of time to find out the Right | | | | Developer will make your system which works great |
| Company who understands Customer's long term goal | | | | initially but as Database size grows, the performance |
| and work with customer to achieve their goal. For | | | | will impact like anything and which might cost to |
| small & mid-size Companies, it's a lot bigger | | | | Companies like anything. If the system is online and if |
| challenge to hire and retain good IT People. Luck | | | | users are not able to use the system, Company will |
| Companies may be able to find good IT individual at a | | | | loose not only business but also reputation and it's very |
| reasonably good price but chances are there that | | | | difficult to predict the real loss. So, best thing is to |
| those good people may not be there where | | | | make sure with IT Partner about their Database |
| companies need them. So, the best thing is to | | | | expertise and keep on checking Database Design |
| outsource IT Services. So, in that way, Companies | | | | periodically. |
| don't need to worry about hiring, retaining & | | | | It's very easy to find Rapid Developers but very very |
| training of IT personal. | | | | difficult to find Rapid Developers with Excellent Testing |
| Many times, you will come across with IT Partners, | | | | Abilities. If the IT partners didn't follow Standard Testing |
| who start advising you without listening to you and | | | | Procedures like Peer to Peer Testing, User Testing, |
| that's a very scary situation. You look for Partner who | | | | Integration Testing, etc., this may impact over all |
| listen, who understand and make it work rather than | | | | implementation schedules. If the system is bigger, then |
| keep on advising you – don't do this and don't do | | | | it's very important to use Testing Tools like |
| that. Those IT Partners will take you where they can | | | | LoadRunner, Win Runner, QTP, etc. This will help |
| make more money. For them, your business interest is | | | | company lot and will avoid possible issues. |
| less important. | | | | Once the new system is ready and if it's a web |
| Generally, customers don't want to compromise with | | | | based, please make sure about Hosting Server. Many |
| Quality but many times, cost is very important for | | | | times, small companies don't need big servers at all. |
| them too. The job of finding the Right IT Partner is lot | | | | Initially, they can go with any reliable and affordable |
| tougher when Quality and Cost - both are very | | | | Hosting Company. In that they don't need to worry |
| important. Many times, IT Partner might ready to | | | | Server Maintenance, FireWall, Back up, etc. Just by |
| provide their services at an unbelievable low price with | | | | paying very very low price, Hosting Company will take |
| quality assurance. But only few can be proved right | | | | care of it. Once the business grows, Company can |
| and it's very important to bank on Right IT Partner. | | | | spend some more money to have their own Servers. |
| Even working with so called Big 5 Companies, is not | | | | VIPSha, Inc., San Diego based technology services |
| that easy too. Sometimes they will suggest ideas | | | | Company, is having proven track record of Quality |
| which might resolve your short term issues but in a | | | | Software Development at an unbelievable low price. |
| long term, you will realize that it was a blunder mistake | | | | VIPSha was founded on the principle that success is |
| and it might take lot of money to fix it. So, always | | | | derived from delivering high quality service while being |
| spend lot of time before selecting your IT Partner. If | | | | responsible, flexible, and innovative. VIPSha invests in |
| possible talk to their references and ask about what | | | | people and resources with a single goal: To provide |
| challenges they had faced and how their IT Partners | | | | their customers with the highest quality service in the |
| resolved those complex business issues. | | | | most responsive manner. |
| Another important thing for Customers, whether to go | | | | VIPSha's consultants listen to what customer say and |
| with Fixed Cost / Time & Material. Most of the | | | | work with them to understand the problem before |
| Customers and particularly small customers feel that | | | | suggesting a solution. VIPSha strongly believes "We |
| Fixed Cost is the best option for them. But that may | | | | Succeed when our Customers Succeed". |
| not be true. When they are going with Fixed Cost, their | | | | VIPSha has significant experience in .NET, JAVA, PHP, |
| IT Partners will set lot of Boundaries and most of the | | | | ColdFusion, SQL Server, PeopleSoft, SEO, etc. They |
| time they won't go beyond and above those | | | | are having very specialized Business Model for |
| boundaries. So ultimately, business suffers lot for that. | | | | start-ups & small companies. |