The term “offshore development” in the IT world describes the business of outsourcing software programming and engineering services beyond national boundaries. The three most common justifications for offshore development are cost effectiveness, internationalization and inadequate supplies of domestic resources.

Cost effectiveness is the traditional reason for offshore development. Low-level tasks such as coding and software testing can be performed in developing countries at ten percent of the domestic cost.

There are three models of offshore software development:

• Ownership: A company sets up a partially or wholly owned subsidiary in an “offshore” locale to directly hire programmers for software development.

• Onshore-Offshore Staff Supplementation: Programmers are sent to the client’s site temporarily to perform programming services, either as direct hires or through a contractor.

• Contracting: A company contracts an “offshore” company to provide specific software development services.

Horizon Companies focuses only on the first two forms of offshore software development. Trans Horizon Consulting Ltd., located in Mumbai, India, is the offshore arm of Horizon Companies. Together, these two firms have met a number of criterions for effective off shore development practices:

Technical Skills, R&D Experience and Education: For decades, Indian universities have traditionally produced top-quality engineers, programmers, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and other technical professionals. Horizon and its offshore partner Trans Horizon have the infrastructure for tracking and securing these budding individuals early in their professional careers.

Experience in management of the offshore software development processes: Horizon Companies has spent years building and refining organizational structures to ensure consistency and quality of its software development processes. Experienced managers from top management to junior project managers, who run our offshore software development centers, have established processes and methodologies for managing the remote development efforts.

Language: All of our software professionals speak English.

Bandwidth Costs: India has comparatively low bandwidth cost, an essential factor for communication with offshore development teams.

Marketing capability: Horizon Companies has established itself in the US market as a premier information technology company. Its U. S.-based sales and marketing teams are responsible for promoting Horizon’s services and development capabilities for clients both in the U.S. and overseas.

Highlights of Off Shore Development

• Outsourcing appropriate development pieces can bring significant cost savings.

• Local interface, Global delivery—Horizon US interacts with the US customer, thus alleviating any inconvenience or control issues associated with shipping development overseas.

• Project status is available to the U.S. customer anytime during normal business hours. We follow a 24-hour development cycle.

• Horizon U.S. maintains a development/testing team in the US to ensure accurate project status at ALL levels.

Services Offered

• Code development

• Turnkey solutions with combination of on-site and off site teams

• Conversions and migrations

• Routine system maintenance

• Testing