ITO https://savvycomsoftware.com Fri, 10 May 2024 07:05:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://savvycomsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Logo-SVC-White-1-120x120.jpg ITO https://savvycomsoftware.com 32 32 Top 4 challenges of IT Outsourcing to a non-English country https://savvycomsoftware.com/blog/it-outsourcing-to-non-english-country/ Fri, 10 May 2024 10:19:17 +0000 https://preview.savvycomsoftware.com/?p=6493 IT Outsourcing has emerged as a lucrative opportunity, particularly for software development companies, with many major organizations enlisting skilled specialists from abroad to handle services not available domestically. Countries like China, India, Vietnam, and others where English isn’t the primary language have witnessed a surge in outsourcing demand, primarily due to cost-effective labor. However, is this burgeoning market truly a haven for software development companies based in non-English speaking countries?

1. Significant language and cultural disparities

One barrier to an effective outsourcing experience is the very real difference between a typical employee in the U.S. and even the best offshore personnel. There are significant language, cultural and educational disparities between the English-speaking countries and the developing countries where outsourcing projects are often sent. These disparities have a marked impact on the ability of many offshore teams to fully understand the nuances of a project and to execute effectively.
While some software engineers may have learned English and been trained in their areas in English, they may still not understand English colloquial terms or design concepts that are, in fact, foreign to them. The difference in culture and upbringing can also be an issue, especially if they know English only in technical terms.
In some cases, companies will have an employee whose first language is English working with the staff on-site in that country in order to resolve any communication issues. This person can be the translator, so to speak, when questions arise or to be sure that ideas are conveyed clearly. Yet, not many companies are likely to hire them only for communication issues.
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The differences in language and culture between English-speaking and non-English countries are important barriers that you need to consider before choosing an IT Outsourcing service. (Source: Internet.)

2. An extremely difficult working environment

Despite the fact that outsourcing can often provide quality labour at a drastically reduced cost, there are sometimes moral issues that accompany this type of labour.
Software development service providers offering IT Outsourcing often operate on a non-24/7 basis, potentially hindering their success if they cannot provide timely assistance to clients. Consequently, employees engaged in outsourcing projects may find themselves facing unfamiliar overtime demands, also known as OT. In cases where projects fail to meet client expectations, overtime becomes a routine necessity. Workers may also endure exceptionally long workweeks, up to eighty hours per week, including weekends due to timezone disparities. Additionally, the demanding workloads frequently spill into employees’ personal lives as they strive to meet deadlines.
This has a significant impact on health, family and social relationships. Spending most of their time to complete the tasks has them no time left to take care of themselves, not even their close relationships. Working overtime might gain a large amount of money, yet, some shameless companies do not pay adequately for OT. It is definitely something to consider when it comes to making long-term working decisions for people who want to be a part of this industry. Supposed they choose to barter time for money, how long would they stick to the job that exhausted them?

3. Security and trust issues with IT Outsourcing to a not native-English agency

When you outsource your IT to a third-party, you depend on them to comply with security and regulatory measures. Cloud computing services share their resources with other tenants. This sharing helps to save on costs and makes the IT scalable, but it does mean that other companies will be using some of the same servers and the same devices. This creates security concerns that need to be addressed, especially if the company has strict compliance requirements.
Some IT outsourcing companies in non-English countries are unreliable partners, because of the conflicting situation and political in their nations. For example, Ukraine is in a state of war, and it has a serious governability problem. This fact carries with it a number of implications to Ukraine’s capacity for sustainable infrastructure use. Hackers and spies are everywhere. What company would put its intellectual secrets in a harmful way, just to save a few bucks in the short term? Internet infrastructure is not as good as the EU, US, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and other English-speaking countries.
Hence, to choose an IT Outsourcing company that can assure your security requirements, remember to check out their background, certificates such as ISO 27001:2013 (as Savvycom achieved) and do not forget to ask them to sign on the NDA (non-disclosure agreement).
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Never forget asking for NDA before discussing your ideas and projects. (Source: Internet.)

4. Quality of work could suffer if you do not assign tasks to a reliable agency

All of the benefits that come with outsourcing jobs to a foreign country go away if the quality of the work is not up to your standards. When IT outsourcing to a non-English country, most of them might locate really far from you. A contract would be signed through emailing, Skype without seeing who the third-party company really is.
Taking India for instance, if you look at the number of outsourcing companies in India, you will have your head reeling. There are too many of them, while only a few of them provide quality work. If the quality of work must be at par with your expectations and business goals, don’t simply go by what their websites say. What is on the social network might be exaggerated to attract more clients.
One must always discuss the quality requirements before agreeing to a software outsourcing relationship. If you do not receive the expected quality, then there must be some avenue of rescue that you can follow to ensure the problem gets fixed. Without these protections, the outcome for specific tasks may be quite underwhelming.

5. How people in Savvycom overcome IT Outsourcing challenges?

Founded in 2009 and run by Ms Van Dang – a brilliant and ambitious businesswoman, Savvycom has steadily grown and become a trusted partner with worldwide companies and organisations.
Since our potential clients are international, Savvycom is one of the first IT outsourcing agencies in Vietnam using English as our official language at work. As a result, we are positively confident to comprehend your ideas and transfer them into a satisfactory product in numerous fields. Many of us had the chance to work or study overseas, therefore, we fully competent in working in different times zones globally and can account for fluctuations and time shifts. With 92% of returning clients, Savvycom has strived constantly to delivery more mobile applications worldwide.
In terms of working culture, building a strong relationship among members not only as co-workers but also as good friends is also an important thing to increase our teamwork ability as well as understand each other’s strength. Therefore, we can determine and arrange the best match developers for clients during the projects. Applying Agile method in all departments is a way to reduce a lot of operation costs in Savvycom. Agile software development methodology is strictly used in Savvycom software producing process to make sure that every in-charge persons can get involved and distribute their comment and ideas to improve the quality of the software products.
Although the IT outsourcing to a non-English country issue will be argued back and forth until the technology is no longer relevant, Savvycom has steadily improved the working environment of the employees to deliver more successful applications to clients. What seems to be trendy in business strategy isn’t always a good strategy, especially in the non-English country. However, with all of our achievements working with over 100 international clients, we believe that every dollar spent on outsourcing at our company will worth.

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Savvycom makes the 5th entrance into Vietnam Top 50 Leading IT Companies https://savvycomsoftware.com/blog/savvycom-makes-the-5th-entrance-into-vietnam-top-50-leading-it-companies/ https://savvycomsoftware.com/blog/savvycom-makes-the-5th-entrance-into-vietnam-top-50-leading-it-companies/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:16:13 +0000 https://savvycomsoftware.com/?p=10499 savvycom_top50leadingITcompaniesVN

Savvycom received the award for excellence

With the disruptive development of human life comes the aggressive uprising of technology. This industry of nonstop innovation and breakthroughs in Vietnam witnessed a growth rate of 30% approximately, with 2018’s revenue reached 99 billion USD. On top of that, the top 50 IT Companies alone, including Savvycom, contributed over 31 billion USD – accounted for 31% total revenue of the category and created more than 184,000 jobs nationwide. 
Ever since the award was founded in 2014, Savvycom has made a continual win in 4 years. Following such spectacular milestones, in 2019 Savvycom was once again listed as the leading IT service business in the ITO line due to our impressive growth and significant achievements.
Having arrived at the top 50 for 5 times in total, Savvycom understands our great responsibility to further Vietnam IT industry. The strong commitment of the company to the mission has been proven through the many efforts to be at the front line of the innovation battle.
In the term 2018-2019, Savvycom has successfully launched and fostered the AI Lab, a result from the friendship with University of Engineering & Technology, which specializes in the research and development of Artificial Intelligence applied in software development processes. 
Also in this year, Savvycom initiated various strategic collaborations with both domestic and foreign strategic partners such as Apple and CY Global to bridge the gap between companies as well as promoting Vietnamese innovative relationship with global partners – stepping closer to the ultimate goal of “Making the world a better place”.
In the face of Savvycom’s relentless development, Ms Van Dang, Savvycom’s CEO said: “With the goal of making Vietnam become an emerging destination for innovation on the world map, Savvycom always has a high appreciation for values of professionalism, strengthens the services, becomes long-term strategic partners and simultaneously establishes a strong IT community in Vietnam. In addition, the company also strives to build an international network that not only expands the horizon of business opportunities but also creates a resourceful learning circle among leaders across various fields of business.
In the spirit of mutual benefits and collaboration, Savvycom wishes to go partners with more and more companies in a wide range of industries including IT, Healthcare, Education, Finance, and Logistics to keep up with the 4.0 industry revolution movement.”
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Savvycom and the top 50 leading IT companies in Vietnam

Founded in 2009 by Ms Van Dang – a talented and ambitious woman entrepreneur, Savvycom has marked its 10th year dedicating to be a trusted partner to international enterprises and organizations, aiming at the global goal in the field of software development services. 
After 10 years of continuous development, Savvycom has listed itself on Clutch’s Top 30 Global App Developers, Top 25 IT Outsourcing Companies and made it to #6 among the best B2B companies in Asia in 2018. 
Ms Van Dang, CEO of Savvycom, is also one of the speakers at TEDx and many other national and international events, listing herself at no.3 of Top 15 Global Leaders must watch in 2017 on Forbes.
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