We at K-Soft, look at ourselves as a partner to
our clients and not just another vendor.
In the new economy, we realize that customers are
increasingly demanding the flexibility that best
serves their unique business requirements. We provide
the option of selecting a combination of business
models to suit various phases of a project cycle.
We leverage our global delivery capability to offer
services “on-site” at the client’s
very own premises or “off-shore” at
our world-class software development facilities
in India. Offshore Strategic Sourcing with K-Soft
is very different from traditional outsourcing models.
With K-Soft, you don't give up control and you can
dramatically reduce your costs and IT headaches.
K-Soft's approach to outsourcing can also substantially
improve IT effectiveness and help organizations
achieve strategic business goals.
Hybrid Model
Very often it becomes necessary to undertake a major
portion of a project on a Fixed Price basis and
at the same time deploy resources on a Time and
Materials Pricing basis. We call this the hybrid
model. Adopting such a model enables the client
to maximize their budgets without compromising any
aspect of the project itself.
Needless to mention here that
this model too can be Onsite, Offsite, Offshore
or any combination of the same.
This model is used when client
wishes to work on fixed price model and when the
project scope is not detailed enough to enable
us to estimate the effort with accuracy. Based
on the initial concept note we define a short
initial.
Fixed-Price Model
Our fixed time, fixed price model offers
customers a low-risk option and can be employed
when the scope and specifications of the project
are reasonably clear. This model guarantees on-time,
on-budget delivery of projects. Deliverables,
Costs and Timelines are clearly defined in the
Fixed Time/Fixed Price model. In fixed time, fixed-price
engagements.
K-Soft follows a phased approach
that includes scoping, development, implementation
and business support. Combining the fixed time,
fixed price model with our solutions center, we
can offer customers a tremendous advantage on
the cost front.
This model works best for -
Customers with well-defined requirements and project
schedules. Under this option, the customer pays
a pre-negotiated fixed price for the complete
project, which in turn is linked to well-defined
deliverables. For any change in scope a predefined
fixed hourly rate agreed at the initial stage
of start of project is paid. For any changes there
is a standard change request procedure that is
followed for which we have structured processes
in place.
Time and Material Model
When scope, specification and implementation plans
of a software development project are not easy
to define at the outset, Time & Material Model
becomes an attractive option. Under this model,
you pay as per use of the hourly development efforts.
Under this mode we define the business model and
work hand in hand with our client for execution
of end-to-end project. At times once the scope
is frozen the time and material project also gets
converted to the fixed price model. We have very
strict project management and reporting practices
whereby task sheets are generated on a daily /
weekly basis for each of the developer on the
project.
In this business model, K-Soft
forms project teams with the required team members,
project managers, equipment and infrastructure
based on project requirements. Customers pay a
monthly charge based on the size and composition
of the team. This model offers the flexibility
to balance team size and project workloads. Most
of our onsite services (unless it is part of a
fixed time, fixed price project) are delivered
using this business model. K-Soft could bid for
partial phases of a project on a fixed time, fixed
price basis and the remaining parts on a time
and material basis. In such engagements, the Client
has complete flexibility in using our associates
in tasks that match their area of expertise.
K-Soft provides knowledgeable, skilled, motivated,
energetic and competent consultants who work seamlessly
as part of client teams to provide quality solutions.
Our consultants are handpicked after assessing
their technical, communication and interpersonal
skills. We keep our consultants on the cutting
edge of information technology by providing them
with ongoing advanced training and skill-building
workshops.
Dedicated Development Center
Model
A Dedicated development center, which is
an extension of the customer's software engineering
facility, is popular among customers, who are
looking at long-term gains from offshore outsourcing.
In this model K-Soft Techno
Labs
reserves resources, equipment and infrastructure,
exclusively for the customer. Whilst such a model
a terms_conditions is normally for a pre-determined minimal period
of time, it allows the client to leverage the
talent pool of K-Soft, the cost effectiveness
of such an offering and superiority of our Project
Management.
We jointly identify and define
the team along with our customer and have full
transparency, access and control on the team along
with our customer whereby the dedicated team works
as extension of the customers' development team.
We have successfully implemented this concept
for more than 40 software product companies across
the globe thereby enabling them to obtain a sustainable
advantage over their competition and providing
them possibilities of supernormal savings in their
development costs.
We partner with our clients
to invest in replicating their IT environments,
training our teams, setting up communication &
security systems and integrating our development
processes with theirs to ensure that the offshore
team is an efficient and seamless extension of
the client's development facilities. We also invest
in creating a pool of additional resources who
can be used to augment the team at any time.
Add to this a system that optimizes employee productivity
and charges Clients attractive long-term rates
and you can realize what we offer to our clients
on a long-term basis.
In India, we can establish and manage dedicated
offshore development centers to develop IT solutions,
maintain legacy systems, and provide 24-hour,
on-call support.
This model works best for -
Software product Development - Usually this model
works best for software product companies for
whom we setup end-to-end development and support
facility thereby working as extension of client’s
team.
Existing overseas Software development
houses – we setup extension of client teams
in India for IT companies globally. In this model
also we work with a dedicated team.
Dynamically Changing scope requirements
– for clients who are in dynamic industries
and scope of work keeps on changing even while
we develop the application this model works best
as we don’t go back and forth for every
change request that gets specified.
For clients who wish to associate
with us long term this is the best model where
savings to the range of upto 70% on costs can
be achieved by adopting this model. |