Ukraine-based software engineering company Softheme estimates the potential of the national outsourcing market and recommends businesses to outsource their IT development projects to Ukraine.

Today moving part or whole of company’s IT services to offshore zones is becoming a global tendency for many businesses. It is a matter of fact that already a considerable number of companies worldwide either actively use outsourcing or plan to outsource their technology services in the future. While many corporations set their choice on Asian offshoring companies, Softheme, a Ukrainian software outsourcing company, recommends outsourcing software development to Ukraine and suggests the outsourcing model they have come up with during their multiyear experience.

“Addressing to us, our clients seek an outsourcing partner who can not only help them to reduce their IT costs, but also help them to make use of technology advances to deliver more effective IT that evolves in line with their business needs. During the years of our diligent work, we have developed a simple outsourcing model which offers a number of benefits to our customers and enables us to deliver a very competitive level of services to our clients,” states Softheme COO Irina Tsulaia. “The model that we offer helps customers to cut costs, reallocate their capital to other business segments, focus on core business, reduce time-to-market, and get access to skilled IT resources.”

According to Softheme, reduced expenses are the primary benefit of the company’s outsourcing model. The latter helps to save up to 30 – 40 percent on production costs and is essential when the lack of resources in a local market is critical. When outsourcing a customer gets an instant access to a skilled IT resource base experienced in the development and maintenance of complex software systems vital for the business. Moving IT offshore will also save costs on administration, equipment, infrastructure and other resources and let the company allocate capital to other spheres where it is more needed. All the customer will have to do is to properly organize monitoring and managing of an offshore unit by an in-house team.

Focusing on core business is also one of substantial benefits offered by Softheme’s model. Regardless of what products or services a company provides, outsourcing its technological part of business will ensure more focus on customer service improvement and business development while the outsourcing partner will apply the best of its experience and expertise to manage the IT needs of the customer. Moving technology services overseas will also let the customer reduce time-to-market and launch the product or service ahead of competitors due to off-the-shelf development resources and infrastructure ensured by the outsourcing provider. Thus, the benefits offered with Softheme’s outsourcing model can help any business to not only become cost-effective but also to deliver fast solutions to the market.

“We have clients in our roaster who started with a team of 2-3 people in the past and grew their teams up to 8-10 people over time due to the benefits they received from using our outsourcing model; and today we can say for sure that those customers who once stepped on the outsourcing path never step aside due to being completely satisfied with the results they get,” explains Ms. Tsulaia.

While recommending outsourcing IT parts of business to offshore companies, Softheme suggests outsourcing software development to Ukraine. During the past several years outsourcing services market in this country has experienced approximately a 40 percent annual growth surprising with its stability. Today outsourcing accounts for more than 70 percent of software development work in Ukraine and can be anything from web and application development to quality assurance and testing projects.

“Customers come to Ukrainian outsourcing companies because they pay here much less for the high quality work than they would pay in the U.S. or Western Europe. Our country has all the components needed for growth such as wealthy intellectual capital and proximity to the West. Taking into account all the potential as well as the high annual growth rate, we believe Ukraine can become a real competitive force for such major outsourcing markets as China, India and Russia in the nearest future,” summarizes Vadim Sharko, CEO of Softheme.