Software Development Outsourcing Services

The Essence of Software Development Outsourcing

With software development outsourcing, you delegate the responsibility for all or a part of software development activities to a vendor. It helps cover the lack of internal resources or expertise to support your business growth and digital transformation initiatives.

$98 billion

forecasted growth of IT outsourcing market size during 2020-2024

~5%

expected CAGR of IT outsourcing market by 2024

Benefits of Outsourced vs. In-house Development

Up to 30% software quality increase

due to access to the top technology skills and development best practices.

Up to 40% development speed increase

due to plugging into established and field-tested agile processes of a vendor.

30% decrease in development costs

due to no need for hiring, onboarding, and training new employees.

Vertscend as a Software Development Outsourcing Company

Vertscend has been rendering software development services for 32 years. We’re a US-headquartered company with the development centers in Eastern Europe and EU, catering for both software product companies and non-IT enterprises. Our quality management system proved by the ISO 9001 certificate allows us to implement projects on time, on budget, and according to customers’ quality excpectations. You can find testimonials of our customers here.

Looking for a Reliable Software Development Partner?

Consider Vertscend . We’re driven by our customers’ business success and offer efficient development and fast time-to-market due to:

A pool of 700 IT specialists, including business analysts, project managers, technical architects, developers, QA engineers.
Agile development for a streamlined software delivery, and evolution based on real-user feedback.
DevOps practices (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, application performance monitoring) to ensure high software quality.
Cloud-native architectures for easy software scaling and microservices for enhanced software maintainability.

Outsourcing Models Vertscend Offers

Staff augmentation

Outsourced developers work remotely together with your in-house team and are managed by you directly.

Key benefit: Filling in the skill and resource gaps within your development team.

Dedicated team

An outsourced team covers a part of the development project and is managed by a vendor’s PM who regularly reports to you on the progress.

Key benefit: Expanding software development capabilities and minimizing management efforts.

Full process outsourcing

A vendor sets up the development process and takes full responsibility for the project and all related risks.

Key benefits: Released time to focus on core business activities, streamlined development and reduced costs of the project due to a vendor’s expertise.

Doubt whether to Outsource Software Development?

We can review your situation and prepare a feasibility study with the TCO calculation.

Our Industry and Domain Expertise

Industry competencies:

We develop industry-specific software for over 30 industries. Click the icons to see our projects in the particular industry you’re interested in.

How to Ensure Efficient Software Outsourcing?

Test a vendor’s expertise in practice

You can launch a small pilot project or PoC to get an objective understanding of a vendor’s competencies.

Control outcomes

Sign a service level agreement (SLA) with a vendor that outlines expected timelines, deliverables, quality requirements, and responsibilities for project-related risks.
Decide on a KPI system to monitor the project’s health without being over-involved in the process.

A sample KPI system:

Establish a communication structure

Decide what resources you’re ready to dedicate to collaboration with a vendor, and establish clear communication flows regarding different aspects of the project.

Our approach to collaboration:

Ensure security of outsourcing

Sign an NDA with a vendor to guarantee the confidentiality of your business-sensitive information and intellectual property rights over the project deliverables.
Check that a vendor has relevant security measures in place to protect your data (such as IDS/IPS, DLP, SIEM, and others).

Note: Being ISO 27001-certified, we assure the safety of the customers’ information we access during the cooperation.

Our Software Development Process

We can take over all or a part of software development processes in a chosen project or cater for every project within an IT project pipeline. With our outsourcing services, you start using internal resources more efficiently and access world-class technologies without hiring and training new employees. You can learn more about our development approaches and common project stages here.

The Stages of Our Outsourcing Service

1. Analysis of your initial request

We process your RFI or RFP and prepare a tailored proposal on our services.

2. Discovery: analysis of your software development needs and service planning

We estimate your project scope and the required resources for it, and prepare a development plan with time and budget estimation, and an outline of our approach to its successful delivery.

3. SLA negotiation

We prepare and negotiate a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with a suggested KPI system to measure efficiency of our cooperation. Afterwards, we sign a contract.

4. Knowledge and responsibility transfer

We study your requirements, existing code and coding rules, code repositories, infrastructure, test documentation, process descriptions, etc. We implement CI/CD pipeline, if required, or integrate into your existing processes and proceed with any necessary responsibility transfers.