You just don’t want to make a mistake when you hire an IT partner. You need breadth and depth of experience and up-to-date, cutting edge skills, along with soft skills and leadership for projects. You need delivery models that are flexible for onsite, offsite or hybrid delivery.
Every business has an IT team (or at least one IT pro on premises). If you are a start-up, your IT pro may have other tasks to perform and if you are a small or medium sized business, your IT team is probably overwhelmed with your growing need for hardware, network, support, reports, database management, and other tasks.
I’ve got a friend who is often frustrated by vendor services and his frustration does not come from the fact that his expectations are unreasonable. His frustration comes from the fact that the vendors his business engages often misunderstand the needs of a public sector company or a government agency type of business. Private business is one thing! Public sector and government agencies is quite another thing. There are different compliance issues, regulations and standards and these are not negotiable!
Perhaps your business has a great idea for a software application. That app may represent a product extension, another channel through which to market products or services, a game to compete in the gaming and entertainment industry, a reservation system, an information or media application or any one of hundreds of other ideas.
The National Dairy Development Board promotes finances and supports producer-owned and controlled organizations across India. Its programs and activities are designed to strengthen farmer cooperatives and to support national policies that are designed for the growth of these institutions. The NDDB site and team provides information for consumers, dairy farmers, cooperative and engineering services, sector analysis and studies and more. The client wished to upgrade and improve its technology and tools to support the NDDB team and its stakeholders and information consumers. The project requirements included a Fund Management system, integration with other NDDB systems, crucial analytical tools, financial systems with budget allocation and utilization tools and other features and functions to support the organization.
When your business needs custom software development, it may be tempting to turn the project over to in-house IT but you may want to reconsider this option before making your decision.
A technology partner is a crucial member of your enterprise team. You can and should use a trusted partner for offshore software development, custom software development, software application development, software product development, mobile app development and more.
Technology is tough! How do you do it all? Even if you are a technology company or a technology consulting firm, you will find that you have to focus on one or a few core competencies if you want to ensure that you have the latest skills and knowledge in that one area or in a few areas or about a few products or services (if you are lucky).
We all hate those products and services that are designed as ‘cookie cutter’ with the assumption that the service provider just KNOWS what you need and will deliver that to you without any consideration for your actual requirements or the fact that your requirements may differ depending on the day, situation or location.
OK, I’ll admit it. Last week, I nearly got kicked out of a nice restaurant in the city. Why? Because my friend, Lucy was telling me about her company’s business decision to build a software product, and she said this, “Our team can handle it. We do application development all the time.” That statement was all it took to drive me over the edge. Call me crazy, but I have lived through enough so-called software product development projects to know that, without the right team and skill set, the project is doomed to fail. No, I am NOT being overly dramatic!
