Software Development Outsourcing Services

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With 34 years in IT and great passion for innovations, ScienceSoft designs, builds, tests, supports and evolves software for businesses across 30+ industries.

Outsourcing Software Development Company - ScienceSoft
Outsourcing Software Development Company - ScienceSoft

Software development outsourcing means trusting some or all development processes to a third-party vendor while staying in control of the project at large. ScienceSoft helps companies from 70+ countries bridge the gap in in-house IT resources and reveal up to 1.5–2.5x reduction in development costs.

  • $98 billion

    forecasted growth of IT outsourcing market size during 2020-2024

  • ~5%

    expected CAGR of IT outsourcing market by 2024

Our Outsourcing Models and Costs

Our experienced talents with all the required skills join your in-house team to work on the project under your direct management.

Key benefit: Promptly filling in the skill and resource gaps in your team will speed up the project progress.

ScienceSoft’s team covers a part of your project (e.g., back-end development, QA) and provides regular progress reports. You determine the level of your managerial involvement.

Key benefit: You expand your software development capabilities and minimize management efforts.

Full process outsourcing

We set up the development process from scratch and take full responsibility for the project risks: from timelines and budget to the final software quality.

Key benefit: Reduced project costs, streamlined development, and released time to focus on core business activities.

To get a clear view of each outsourcing approach specifics, check out the detailed outsourcing models comparison table prepared by ScienceSoft’s consultants.

ScienceSoft's Head of PMO with 20+ years of experience

To choose the right outsourcing model, we recommend to assess the current in-house team composition and key project priorities. For example, if you lack expertise in a particular field, we can offer you a dedicated team to take over a part of a large project. If you need just a few specific talents, we can augment your team with our top-flight experts.

Full software engineering outsourcing helps out customers that have little or no experience in similar projects or those who are overloaded with other projects in the pipeline.

The following are key cost factors that influence the total cost of software development outsourcing:

Hourly rate for outsourced talents. Depending on the outsourcing region, average rates vary greatly.

An outsourced team’s performance.

The length and specifics of transition to another outsourcing vendor (if needed).

Get Timelines and Cost Estimates for Your Project

ScienceSoft’s experts can help you accurately plan your development project by calculating the budget and timeframes required to complete it.

The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of the Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2023

For the second year in a row, ScienceSoft USA Corporation ranks among 500 American companies with the highest revenue growth. This achievement is the result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and create best-value solutions that meet and even exceed our clients’ expectations.

Industries and Domains We Are Well-Versed In:

Industry competencies:

We develop industry-specific software for over 30 industries. Click the icons to see our projects in the particular industry you’re interested in.

Domain expertise:

Below you can find the most popular software types we deliver. Click the cards to explore the dedicated pages.

How to Outsource Software Development Safely and Efficiently?

Test a vendor’s expertise in practice

You can launch a small pilot project or request a proof of concept (PoC) to get an objective understanding of a vendor’s competencies.

Control outcomes

  • Sign a service level agreement (SLA) with a vendor that outlines expected timelines, deliverables, quality requirements, and responsibilities for project-related risks.
  • Decide on a KPI system to monitor the project’s health without being over-involved in the process. Here, you can find other KPIs 

Check a ScienceSoft's Sample KPI System 

A sample KPI system:

A sample KPI system

Check other KPIs we use to control project health.

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Establish a communication structure

Decide on the resources that will be involved in the project on your side and establish clear communication flows with the vendor’s team for each aspect of the project.

CHECK A SAMPLE APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION

Our approach to collaboration:

ScienceSoft's approach to collaboration

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Ensure security of outsourcing

  • Sign an NDA with a vendor to guarantee the confidentiality of your business-sensitive information and intellectual property rights over the project deliverables.
  • Check that a vendor has relevant security measures in place to protect your data (such as IDS/IPS, DLP, SIEM, and others).

Note: Being ISO 27001-certified, we ensure the security of the data entrusted to us by our customers.

Benefits of Outsourced vs. In-House Development

Software quality increase

By outsourcing to IT professionals experienced in your target industry, you gain easy access to their expertise and best practices, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality software.

Reduced costs

Outsourcing an entire team of experts from a reliable vendor is significantly cheaper than hiring, onboarding, and training your in-house developers.

High scalability

You can quickly upscale and downscale an outsourced development team to meet your specific project needs and only pay for the resources you truly need.

The practice that powers most businesses

According to Deloitte, 70% of companies outsource software development for cost reduction.

Why Choose ScienceSoft as Your Outsourcing Partner

  • Since 1989 in software development and IT consulting.
  • Over 3,600 successful projects for 1,200+ clients.
  • Hands-on knowledge of 30+ industries, including healthcare, BFSI, manufacturing, retail, logistics, oil & gas, and telecoms.
  • A full-scale PMO, 500+ developers, solution architects with 9–20 years of experience.
  • Regulatory experts on board to ensure compliance with regional and industry-specific regulations: e.g., GDPR (for the EU), PDPL (for Saudi Arabia), HIPAA (for the healthcare industry).
  • Strategic partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, and other global tech leaders.
  • Quality-first approach based on a mature ISO 9001-certified quality management system.
  • ISO 27001-certified security management that relies on on comprehensive policies and processes, advanced security technology, and vigilance of our IT professionals.

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Software Development Process with ScienceSoft

We can take over all or a part of software development processes in a chosen project or cater for every project within an IT project pipeline. With our outsourcing services, you start using internal resources more efficiently and access world-class technologies without hiring and training new employees. You can learn more about our development approaches and common project stages here.

The Stages of Our Outsourcing Service

1. Analysis of your initial request

We process your RFI or RFP and prepare a tailored proposal on our services.

2. Discovery: analysis of your software development needs and service planning

We estimate your project scope and the required resources for it, and prepare a development plan with time and budget estimation, and an outline of our approach to its successful delivery.

3. SLA negotiation

We prepare and negotiate a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with a suggested KPI system to measure efficiency of our cooperation. Afterwards, we sign a contract.

4. Knowledge and responsibility transfer

We study your requirements, existing code and coding rules, code repositories, infrastructure, test documentation, process descriptions, etc. We implement CI/CD pipeline, if required, or integrate into your existing processes and proceed with any necessary responsibility transfers.

5. Service delivery

The core stage that may include, depending on your needs:

  • Business analysis.
  • Architecture design.
  • UX/UI design.
  • Project management.
  • Programming.
  • Software testing.
  • Change and risk management.
  • Software integration.
  • Software deployment.
  • User training.

We provide weekly and/or monthly performance and progress reports.

6. Service evolution

We provide our recommendations on possible improvements in development and QA processes quarterly and further implement them.

Core Technologies We Use

We Eagerly Put in Use IT Innovations

Click the cards to find the detailed description of our capabilities with each technology.

Consider Professional Software Outsourcing Services

New application development

ScienceSoft’s experts will delve into your business needs, design a secure software architecture, create an engaging UX/UI, fully develop and test your software. We work in short iterations and deliver new app features every 2–6 weeks. Upon the successful launch, ScienceSoft is ready to stay with you for long-term software support and maintenance.

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Evolution of existing software

With long-standing expertise in modernization of complex legacy apps and IT infrastructures, we’re ready to help you create a robust software evolution strategy. Reach out to ScienceSoft for cloud migration, digital transformation, implementation of advanced techs (big data, AI/ML, IoT, blockchain), or any other IT-related service.

Outsource evolution

Success Stories by ScienceSoft

Let Us Shoulder Your Software Development

ScienceSoft is eager to become a part of your success story and boost your business growth with state-of-the-art IT solutions.

Please briefly describe your software development needs, and our rep will get back to you within 30 minutes to discuss the optimal cooperation modes.

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