Strategy

Outsourcing. Contracting to an outsourcing service provider is the quickest way to go offshore, because you don't have to hire and train workers or rent an office and set up your own infrastructure. With a consulting company, the hourly rate can be higher but the overall cost less. They're not your team, but you can stop relationships more easily if you need to. So, the overal quality and reliability of service is higher.

Outsourcing to an established IT Consulting company could be a good first step in your offshore strategy. Your company needs to prove that offshore outsourcing will work for you. And the best approach is to outsource first.

Many US companies decide to outsource offshore direct without knowing the issues that must be considered. Some established companies are going directly offshore without even thinking it through.

There is a lot of pressure on the CEO and CTO to have a well defined plan. What we see is that many companies outsource offshore without defining any long-term plans.

HMS' offshore outsourcing model for offshore software development guarantees cost savings up to 50% within the first 12 months and with productivity increases. Our established software development processes, a strong portfolio of reusable frameworks, time zone advantages and experienced project teams combine to deliver expected business success to our clients.

HMS currently has fast growing Offshore development center employing experienced software engineers. The depth and breadth of our industry and technology expertise allows to offer offshore outsourcing in the areas of infrastructure outsourcing, applications outsourcing, R&D outsourcing.
With state-of-the-art communication facilities and infrastructure, our offshore Outsourcing center works as a virtual extension of our client's development environment providing 24x7 service.

HMS parent company, National Systems, (based in Texas), supports Executive, Account and Project Management functions as well as high-level System Architecture and specialized consulting and deployment services. Most software development work occurs in HMS' state-of-the-art Offshore development facility in India.

Model

For projects that are less than 4 calendar months, HMS usually delivers services completely offsite. For longer agreements, our consulting team typically use a mix of offshore and onsite consultants depending upon project requirements.

Taking advantage of the quality and costs of offshore software development, HMS delivers solutions using onsite/offsite development model where certain phases of the project lifecycle are done with direct client interaction and the execution of pre-defined design specifications is performed by offshore team.

At least one local Project coordinators is usually onsite during the design phase of a project to interact with the client and fully understand and develop requirements and specifications. Most of these engineers return during the development period and for most of this phase the team is concentrated offshore although an onsite coordinator from HMS stays with the client. HMS usually uses a small team of onsite consultants to deploy a solution.

By following most popular software development methodologies, we are able to drive project through all required milestones. Depending on the requirements of your project, we will begin in one of the following stages:

Analysis- Our US based project management team will work with you to develop documentation on the scope and requirements of your project.

Design - Working with our hand-picked offshore developers, we will develop the technical design specification for your project. The design documentation includes technology requirements, data modeling, object modeling, screen design, resulting in a blue-print for your project.

Development - Our US based project management team monitors daily the construction of your project, ensuring the quality of your project, as well as completion of milestones. You are kept involved in the status of the project, and as development progresses, have every opportunity to see and test the results.

Transfer- Your project goes through extensive bug testing and resolution. When satisfied, your project is deployed into your production environment

Dedicated Center

We offer to our clients best and affordable services in Offshore IT Outsourcing market - Offshore Dedicated Center in India (ODC). Boosting the scale of your IT development, ODC establishment will save you up to 60% of IT spending by cutting down employment costs, contract and project execution.

ODC is a dedicated, customized, and secure Software Engineering Center that follows client's practices, methodologies and culture.

         It is an extension of your organization in India leveraging vast resources of technically qualified and trained IT resources and established infrastructure available in India at competitive price. HMS ODC services help you to avoid concerns about incorporation procedure, or legal fees, payroll, legal compliance, long-term office leases, security etc, but full control over intellectual property generated without enormous investments. ODC means that you pay only for what you use - IT infrastructure, scalable technology resources, office administration, and no redundant expenses. Our customers manage ODC as their own IT department with internal development schedules and deliverables, thus minimizing possible business risks.

Why HMS ODC?

What are the advantages of ODC?

Currently a great number of international corporations are establishing their on-site software development centers in India for the unique value proposition it offers - leverage India's abundance of highly qualified IT resources available at a competitive cost. However, to set up your own Development center you would need to make long-term investments and deal with challenging issues of launching business in another country with different laws and regulations. HMS offers you better solution - immediate benefits of ODC without any long-term commitments or large investments. The main advantages are:

Focus on Core IT Competencies

Having delegated some of the projects to your ODC, you will have available more time and resources of your IT department to focus on its most critical and value-adding technology tasks. At the same time ODC will drive your IT spending cost down by approx. 60%. By having that, on the same budget your IT output will grow dramatically, benefits being directly reflected in the bottom line of your business.
Employment cost per U.S. software engineer is more then $ 100,000 per year (including operational overheads and employee benefits package including health insurance, 401k etc. Typically, a W2 salary of $ 60,000 results in more then $ 100 000 per year). Cost per ODC engineer (including salary, ODC facilities and IT infrastructure.) - $ 18 -22 an

Avoid Long-term Investments

Being actually a branch of your business in India, ODC does not require any long-term commitments or up-front investments. But it saves you from a continuous headache about incorporation issues, establishing IT infrastructure, legal fees, payroll, legal compliance, long-term office leases, security etc.

Lower Business Risks

Dealing with software vendors typically means spending much time on negotiations, requirements definition, and contract arrangements, which is usually associated with a great number of possible risks and project failures. Once you have chosen HMS as your reliable partner you will benefit from a continuous cooperation resulting in 40% savings in time on requirements definition, 50% savings in time on contract arrangements, and 20% savings in time on project arrangements, and a considerable decrease of associating risks.

Quick Investment Return

ODC delivers immediate returns. It has a quick effect on you bottom-line - without affecting the quality of the deliverable. Most ODC customers experience increased quality while enjoying reduced costs.

Full Operational Control

You manage your ODC as if it were your local IT division. You have your development schedules and deliverables which your ODC team adheres to.

Dedicated Development Team

Once a team of software engineers is assigned to our customer ODC, HMS doesn't change its structure unless there is a request to do it. This stability of the team ensures higher productivity and helps to maintain minimum learning curve for the company product development.

Established IT Infrastructure

HMS ODC is a dedicated office environment residing at our technology premises. Office infrastructure includes all modem facilities - computers, printers, scanners, fax machine, phone lines etc. You have every guarantee that only your team members have access to the work place, and network security is built into your ODC. To manage your remote team you are provided with a number of reliable communication services, including e-mail, secure ftp- and http-servers, multi-channel phone lines, fax, voice mail, and teleconferencing. You also get full administrative support.

Access to the Best IT Talents in India

HMS ODC offers a team of best-of-breed software engineers. Typically an ODC team can be gathered within a short amount of time. We build a ready-to-deliver team with just-the-right skills within two-four weeks, depend on customer requirements. This manpower is selected on the basis of your criteria, no matter how strict they are. Every team member is selected to meet our customers' strict requirements for relevant experience, domain knowledge, and educational background.

Flexible Pricing

HMS ODC offers a very customer friendly pricing practice with no hidden costs. You can choose among a variety of pricing models to suit your needs best.

Improved Product Release Time

Running a dedicated center you will save time and efforts by omitting redundant aspects of projects' initiation and management. Once you have established an ODC, certain unnecessary and typical project phases may be simply passed by freeing up your team's time and budget.