Overview

Agrata Solutions maintains an Offshore Development Center (ODC) in India essentially to provide cost-effectiveness to its Partners and Clients around the globe. Agrata’s approach is to have a pool of specialized multi-disciplinary resource available to its Clients on a dedicated or as-needed basis. Agrata organizes and manages the team, supervises the project life cycle and constantly trains and keeps the Team updated with the latest development concepts and technologies. Agrata maintains the intellectual talent to meet the explicit business objectives and growing needs of its individual Client. Agrata’s ODC acts as a virtual extension for the Client.

Why Outsourcing to India ?

Outsourcing brings strategic value to companies through :

• Reducing costs – transforming fixed costs to variable costs providing operational flexibility
• Access to expertise – of outsourcing partners many of whom offer domain competencies
• Focus on core business – a firm’s executives are freed to focus on building and strengthening their company’s core business
• Increased operational flexibility – allowing organizations to better adapt to market changes and customer demands
• Improved service quality
• Ability to scale – rapidly to match a company’s growth

The strategic value to a company lies in its ability to have world class service, operate through best practices without having to make significant investments and manage processes internally or increasing headcount and fixed costs.

Approach

Agrata’s Outsourcing Approach are designed to assist you get the best out of your Offshore Outsourcing experience by using best practices. This Approach is continuously refined based on inputs from the “Best Practices” sessions held with the various clients.

Opportunity Analysis

A good Offshore Outsourcing strategy begins with the analysis of risks and rewards of outsourcing specific IT functions of your organization. While developing a strategy, we take into consideration the following:

• Identify your key business objectives
• Identify, select, prioritize IT functions
• Determine what skills to keep in-house and what to outsource
• Risk and reward evaluation
• In short, we help you determine if outsourcing is right for you and if so, how Agrata can help you in going offshore.

Offshore Implementation

After understanding the business drivers, needs and requirements, Agrata will develop an Offshore Solution for the Client and present it as part of the formal contract. After identifying which of your IT functions are most suitable for outsourcing, our experts will help you:

• Develop a comprehensive action plan
• Determine how to move forward with speed and confidence
• Master Professional Agreement sign-off
• Statement of Work sign-off
• Skill set requirements and resource sign-off

Migration Strategy

Working offshore is totally different ball game, new rules, new issues and new risks. It is very important that you understand these challenges and have a plan to conquer them. Our expertise in this domain assists you with:

• Developing a comprehensive offshore migration strategy
• Organization structure
• Modifying existing processes to support the new arrangement
• Knowledge transfer
• Environment replication or transfer
• Talent Sourcing
• Offshore communication process and channels
• Offshore transition task management
• Transition is the time when your IT department is the most vulnerable. We ensure smooth transfer.

Governance Strategy

Governance is the key to a successful outsourcing initiative. Governance in an outsourcing setup involves putting a monitoring and evaluation program in place and deciding on various performance levels and deliverables to be measured. Our experts work with you and your team to develop monitoring and evaluation programs that best suite your business environment. We help you identify area of potential improvement, take certain proactive measures and derive an action plan for the future.

Agrata has a proven Value Addition Model that defines a steady progress from being just a development partner to a business partner. As the relationship evolves, Agrata gains sufficient knowledge about the Client’s products and services to identify and implement improvements proactively. Agrata adds further value to the projects from the extensive experience in developing the best solutions. At the highest level, Agrata works with Clients to achieve their business objectives.