The success of any offshore outsourcing project depends on many factors; one of them is how well the vendor understands the client's business process and can then convert it into IT solutions, thereby fulfilling the client's needs and requirements. .

In the past few years, Offshore outsourcing market has changed tremendously.  Today, offshore outsourcing vendors invest a lot for gaining domain and technical expertise and have succeeded in becoming leaders in many industries and technologies. This change in offshore outsourcing market has made the local consultancy augmenting offshore software development an integral part of complex offshore software projects.

Local consultancy has many advantages associated with it. For e.g., the client gets an opportunity to interact with the project manager. The project manager understands the business process, gathers all the requirements of the project and then communicates them to the staff of the offshore development center, with whom he is well acquainted. In addition, the project manager also provides advice to clients by telling them how to achieve their business objectives through the requisite technologies and how to implement these strategies. In addition, face-to-face communication involves non-verbal cues, which makes communication more effective. It also enables to establish high level of interpersonal trust The client feels more secure when he gets chance to interact with some representative from the offshore vendor, as these face-to-face interactions provide accountability. Also, such meetings can be used for setting up project goals, milestones, norms and standards for communications.  However, local consultancy has few hitches associated with it. Local consultancy adds to overheads expenditures like project management, travel expenses etc. Ineffective management of these overhead expenditures may lead to cost escalation, and so the offshore outsourcing engagement may prove to be a costly affair.

HyTech Professionals LLC is a software outsourcing company. We bring in local consultancy to understand the client’s business needs and also to ensure seamless communication with our offshore development center in Noida, India. Our US based project manager ensures that risks associated with offshore development are minimized, and accountability is increased.