| Tripod's Offshore Development Center provides
you with access to a large pool of highly skilled technical
and business resources at a competitive price point. Business
leaders and IT managers realize that in today's "Flat
World" the use of offshore resources for software development
and management is not an option, rather it is a requirement
to remain competitive. While the primary benefit of offshore
outsourcing remains the cost arbitrage against onshore development
costs, a number of factors determine an organization's ability
to reap these benefits.
These factors include:
• Skills and structure of the offshore team
• Size and duration of the project
• Process used to execute the offshore development project
Shortcomings in one or more of these areas will significantly
impact the saving achieved by offshore development by different
companies.
We provide the following services through our Offshore Development
Center:
Outsourced Application Development and Maintenance
Our SDLC process is built to account for distributed teams
and supports joint development between our customer team,
Tripod's onshore team and the offshore teams. During the Reveal phase
of the T3 Breakthru Approach™, distributed development
teams also ensure that crucial milestones and system requirements
can be delivered in a staged and iterative cycle of development
and testing that build towards final project completion.
This allows us to undertake the development and maintenance
of business-critical software systems and deliver desired
results consistently.
Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)
Our BOT service allows companies to minimize the risks associated
with offshoring. We build an offshore delivery capability
that is customized for our clients, operate them as an
extension of your organization, and provide the option
to eventually transfer ownership of this offshore development
team to you. Stringent recruiting standards, a rigorous
training regimen, and real life project-based mentoring
are used to build and retain a skilled team at the Offshore
Development Center.
Offshore outsourcing with Tripod allows our clients
to:
• Expand pool of skilled resources
• Scale efficiently
• Leverage round the clock develop/maintenance cycles
With Tripod you get the best of both worlds – cost
savings of offshore outsourcing and the quality of service
of an onshore service provider.

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