Working with Offshore Vs. Onshore Development Teams – Pros and Cons
The global advent of IT industry has indeed proved that the world is united and we belong to one family. Due to the progress of online based communication systems, business cross border transaction has become quite seamless. Now, people can sit and work at home, yet staying connected with the office. With this basic idea, offshore development centers have evolved. As the global consumers’ demands are rising for IT services, many onshore service providers have found it to be cost-effective to team up with offshore services. This relationship between offshore and onshore centers is often called as outsourcing.
Outsourcing has defined as the process of hiring another service provider to complete pending projects swiftly. It helps an organization in many ways. First and foremost, when pressure is mounting due to piling up projects, outsourcing brings the much needed relief. Furthermore outsourcing is highly cost-effective. Managing a team is a difficult thing and a matter of several expenses. You need to train your employees and you have to manage wages as well as fringes for them. Moreover, increase in number of employees also increases the use of resources. Outsourcing service to a professional service provider brings in relief from such expenses.
However, working with onshore team and offshore team has both pros and cons. Here in the following section of this piece of writing, we shall analyze those pros and cons:
Working with Onshore Unit
Working with onshore unit is orthodox idea and we are more used to it. Thus, a few companies find this to be safer than outsourcing. So, here are the pros and cons in detail for working with onshore units:
Pros:
- The biggest benefit of working with onshore team is that we are used to this system and thus we feel comfortable in such working system.
- Onshore unit can be managed easily and daily updates can be received without any flaws.
- Onshore unit can be trained as per the wish of business managers to perform precisely or accurately.
- Onshore team members can be hired by the business managers directly. Thus, best manpower can be chosen though interviewing sessions.
Cons:
- Drawback of onshore development team is that it puts extra burden on the businesses. Greater number of employees means better management systems and expenses. Managers also need to expense for infrastructural development to manage a big team. So in plain and simple words, working with onshore team is costly.
- There is threshold limit for working on the projects. Working with onshore units causes heaping up pressure or burden of the projects. Missing deadlines or client dissatisfaction causes negative publicity.
Working with Offshore Team
Working with offshore team has been the trend of this decade. Obviously plenty of advantages are there in working with offshore team. Here are the pros and cons:
Pros:
- Working with offshore team is cost-effective. You can conclude various projects with a handsome profits margin.
- Working with offshore team makes organization management process simpler and it restricts the companies to carry the burdens of over employment.
- Offshore teams are well trained to serve meticulous services.
Cons:
- Technical glitches and infrastructural drawbacks are considered as major problems with offshore teams.
- Communication is a problem in some cases, when it comes to working with offshore team.
To overcome these glitches, it is important to find a trusted and veteran offshore service provider so that seamless project management as well as development process can be obtained.
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