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Organizations have, over the years, adopted a diverse mix of offshore options. These
options have mainly been either a selective offshoring and/or an Offshore Development
Center (ODC) with focus on a single- or a multi-vendor approach. Todate, the predominant
drivers for offshorization has been cost, quality, easier access to required technical
talent, faster ramp-up and accelerated delivery.
However, any offshore strategy formulated around achieving these benefits, has been
adding little or nothing when it comes to ensuring the alignment of IT with business.
Various industry research estimates that 80% of IT budgets go into maintaining existing
applications, leaving only 20% for new projects. In addition, economic and regulatory
frameworks over the last few years have resulted in several emerging challenges
for organizations. Such dynamic considerations have made it imperative for them
to assess the financial viability of their IT portfolio. With most organizations'
applications being supported from offshore, it is very important to have business-IT
alignment as a part of their offshore strategy. In addition, the selection of an
appropriate offshore engagement model also becomes a key issue as organizations
go forward on the Transformational Offshoring Path. Though traditionally organizations
have been concentrating on ODC as the only possible solution, there has to be a
focus on other engagement models (like BOT, JV, Captive, etc.) as a part of their
evaluation process.
ESS has been instrumental in developing long-term offshore strategies for their
large customers. Based on our experience of setting-up and managing large ODCs for
clients, our involvement has been right from the conceptualization stage. ESS
plays a major role in developing the transition roadmap to enable effective implementation
of a long-term offshore strategy.
Our Offerings
ESS's Offshore Advisory Services can help you develop an effective offshore strategy
with key focus on the following issues:
Selection of an appropriate Offshore Engagement Model
Identification of Offshore Candidates
Identification of transformational application candidates in the early stage of the offshore planning process
Identification of SLAs and metrics (including ROI and Application Value) that need to be monitored throughout the relationship
Defining an appropriate transition and transformation roadmap
Addressing the change management.
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