Outsourcing /Off Shore initiatives:

Outsourcing is not a new concept by any measure, and the more visible industry to have derived its benefits is the Software Industry. Software Outsourcing or Off-Shoring has been in practice between the West and India for over 2 decades now, and the fact that it continues its growth path is an indication that there must be a host of tangible and intangible benefits in it for everyone, especially any end client considering this option.

Some Strategic reasons to consider outsourcing...

Redefine & Energize your own Business Focus : Outsourcing allows companies to focus on their own business issues while leaving the routine or operation or even functional tasks to someone else, thus utilizing its core competencies in a more effective manner. Your own staff can be positioned for better utility within the organization while your outsourcing partner does the rest.

Have an added Infrastructure Base with minimal cost implications

Companies could often have infrastructure & resource limitations thereby restricting their own abilities to take on more work, new work, or technically innovative work within current arrangements. Large cash outlays for short or undefined project work are not feasible. Outsourcing allows for these barriers to be broken via Remote Teams and Infrastructural arrangements. Partnering with an organization with these capabilities offers access to added resources, new technology, tools and techniques that the organization can look toward while pursing its own growth & business initiatives.

Reengineering Benefits

Outsourcing is also a by-product of business process reengineering. It allows an organization to immediately realize the vast benefits of reengineering, and by having an external arm take care of this normally complex process in a more cost and time efficient manner.

Risks Reduction & Adapting to markets

with new technologies on the block at an accelerated frequency, it is simply impossible for any organization to “ stock up” on all these skills and also have the ready-knowledge base to cater to market needs. There are risks also attached to this. When companies decide to outsource they become more flexible, less exposed and better able to change or adapt to changing market opportunities and situations.

Improve your bottom-line without compromises on work deliveries!

There are Strategic economic gains in the outsourcing process, and these clearly translate to better bottomlines for companies, and hence better value for its stakeholders. Work deliveries can not only be held, but enhanced via the outsourced function, and the larger benefit would be a global competitive position for companies who outsource.

...also consider these Tactical reason for Outsourcing

Addressing One Time Applications Requirements:

Often there are Applications that need to be developed or enhanced for a specified time only but this requires high technical resources at one point of time, future re-use is unpredictible. For this the organizational options are to ramp up/ ramp down in a relatively short notice, encounter huge administration hassles & certainly enter into an expensive exercise. Outsourcing offers the best answer to this. Orion has successfully taken on such work, e.g. Y2k Renovation, Mainframe Migration [ IDMS/ADSO to AS400] etc.

Reduction in Or Control of Organizations Operating Cost

Outsourcing helps reduce or bring in control of operating costs for logical reasons. By outsourcing, and relying on Orion’s lower cost structure, the benefits are apparent. Industry reports and surveys speak of a reduction/saving of between 15-40% depending on certain parameters through the outsourcing route.

Easy Operational Ability

Typically companies seeking to expand their operations, especially into a new geographic territory, outsourcing is a viable and practical alternative as opposed to building the needed capability from the ground up.

The Rationale of considering the Off-Shore Delivery Model

The offshore software delivery model should be considered where the project is well scoped / planned in advance to its commencement and the service provider’s [Orion in this case] offshore development center team has a clear understanding as to what the client's needs are. The level of fluctuations in the client’s requirements is expected to be minimum in this type of model, hence the plan would work fine. The clients should also go for the offshore model when their projects are long termed and voluminous.

Orion’s offshore development center operates on the principle of dedicated team catering specifically to named client’s and projects, thereby allowing for a transparent, efficient & measurable 2-way arrangement to ensure tracking & deliveries. Furthermore, all such arrangements are offered at affordable costs with the built-in element of security & quality concerns.

Some Advantages of our Offshore Delivery Model:

	Good Education system & foundations
	Large number of Technical Institutes and Training avenues
	Largest English speaking base
	Attractive Cost structures
	Virtual 24 x 7 working advantage
	Vast multi-Talented Resource pools
	Good Government Policies in place

The Orion Advantage!

	Transparency in working with all clients
	High Quality Resource pools in place
	Quick Ramp-up ability
	Ability to assess new projects and provide quick turnaround times to queries
	Direct involvement of top Management to ensure pro-active actions on all issues
	Teams in place with currently popular and widely used technologies
	Global experience of serving varied clients in varied Domains
	Ability to consider additional investments [ such as Co-Development Ventures] should such inquires arrive
	Good work environment coupled with good HR Practices for employee continuity and growth
	Above average reward structure for staff thus reducing the attrition rate to negligible
	Cross training initiatives for staff for preparedness for future leading edge technologies
	Economical costs offered to clients for any type of off-shore/outsourced advantage

With this, Orion Software Services welcomes you to Partner with us for your outsourcing and off shore needs!