Selecting Offshore software vendor

Consider following criteria while selecting offshore vendor.

- the vendor's core business should fit your outsourcing needs
- always prefer response through RFP
- ask for alternate solution in case the vendor can suggest better solution than you may know due to there expertize in the business
- ask for key profiles
- reference to similar projects executed
- if vendor proposes to develop skills as per your requirement than do ask for ramp up and implementation plan for the same..

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Factors for Offshore Success

The key factor to offshore success is to have a well defined plan with flexibility at lower levels and it should not only be designed to keep control over the cost but also keeping in mind other business drivers.

• identify the constraints that can be solved using offshore services
• analyze the different offshore models to select vendors to suite your requirement
• hire expert with intense offshore experience to mitigate risk
• the strategic plan should clearly indicate the achivement of business goals at each stage of offshore initiative

Failure to offshoring is not always a vendor fault, but we need to analyze and make expectations clear with vendor before outsourcing to him.