If you are considering engaging an offshore IT consulting partner, you will want to carefully assess the experience of the service provider and ensure that the business model, methodologies and skills of the business and the team are what you need to achieve a successful outcome.
The Client is a UK and India based cognitive automation product and operational consulting firm, and one of the fastest growing companies in the Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) & Automation domain. Its proprietary product delivers NLP and Automation programs to the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) industry.
If your business needs help with technology, it may be because your IT team is too busy to take on a one-time project or it may be that your team does not have the specific skills required to complete the project you have conceived. Perhaps your business is just getting started and does not yet have the IT team it needs to do the work. Maybe yours is a software business that needs a partner to help develop a software product for market or to add functionality and services for existing clients. In short, there are many reasons, a business might reach out for help.
The Corona Virus (COVID-19) has taught us many hard lessons, not the least of which is the importance of being prepared, the importance of anticipating what may be just around the corner, and the importance of being able to theorize, hypothesize and predict. All of these skills are amply supplied by data scientists and analysts. But, in today’s world, it is crucial to prepare and educate the average business team member to improve data literacy and engage in digital transformation (Dx). As the idea of data popularity becomes more mainstream, and team members and industries embrace data sharing and fact-based decision making, our understanding of looming issues, collaborative possibilities and possible solutions to address these issues will improve and so will our response time and efficacy.
When a business contemplates a new software product, software re-engineering or any type of large infrastructure and technology upgrade or migration, it is hard to know where to begin. There are so many factors and types of technology involved in the business landscape and your internal IT team may not feel prepared to take on a large scale review or upgrade or a totally new type of project that requires cutting-edge skills. Perhaps your team feels capable of taking on the challenge but lacks the resources and the time to get the job done. What happens then? Typically, the business puts off the project and suffers the consequences with increased downtime, costly patches, missed opportunities for increased revenue and other negative impacts.
The Client is a longstanding, local service provider for home services in Canada. Its business includes activities range from quoting and bidding services to scheduling, monitoring and managing services through to project and support completion. The Client business supports home and property owners in Canada.
You started your business with high hopes and you find that you have more ideas and more plans for expansion and growth than you can handle with your existing skills and team members. If you are a start-up or an entrepreneur and find yourself in a constant state of creation with little to no resources to make your dreams a reality, you might want to consider a technology partner.
Don’t Give Up On Your Business Goals: Staff Augmentation Can Help
If you don’t have an IT team for your business, or if you have a team but they are always swamped, you are likely to be frustrated by the fact that you can’t plan any new projects, whether they are for infrastructure, software for business, support and maintenance, integration of software solutions, analytics initiatives or Software Product Development.
If your business has ongoing IT projects or support needs, or you are considering a development project for a software product or software application, mobile application, maintenance and support or any other technical project, you may not have the IT resources or skills to get it all done while still attending to your daily issues.
When you need more help than your IT resources can provide, you might consider partnering with a business that offers IT staff augmentation. Whether your team is bogged down with day-to-day projects, or they simply don’t have the skills to work on a custom software development project, you can expand your resources and get the short-term or long-term support you need with the right IT consultant.
