This summary wants to introduce the reader to the concept and benefits of Nearshoring and in special to the concept of realizing complete projects on a near-shoring basis. While offshore development has already been for long years a widely accepted concept throughout the world for realizing certain tasks in the development and maintenance of IT systems, services have been delivered by teams that were staffed in locations which promised to be less costly than the locations where the services were needed. Most famous countries for offshore service delivery are India, China or the Philippines.
Nevertheless, our approach for solutions and support for SAP CRM, Business Intelligence, Technology and System Integration does not include just the mere offering of implementation capacity but the more important participation of our very experienced Senior Solution Architects that bring in all their knowledge to build you a robust, well performing and long-lasting solution for your business needs, guiding the implementation team to make the project a full success and being delivered in the agreed times.
Near shoring and its key factors
The principle of Project Near Shoring, as Cubexx is understanding it, is based on two main figures.
The first important figure is the Business Expert, who represents the eyes of the team on site and who is your unique point of communication. This figure possesses an excellent understanding of your business and its processes and will quickly understand in detail your requirements. These requirements are then translated to a formal functional specification, the business blueprint.
The second important figure is the Solution Architect, an expert in the solution component. Together with the business expert he will design and guide the technical realization and team. Depending of the scope of the project, both figures can be enhanced in terms of number of specialists that are participating. But in all cases they will interact very closely in order to bring the agreed requirements to a solution that will satisfy your needs, guaranteeing a very formal approach in terms of requirement specification, solution design and documentation.
The main benefits of Project Near Shoring
Cubexx can offer you experience, technical knowledge, industry know-how, best practices, for you transparently combined in a single figure which will work closely together with you. Working with us on a Near Shoring basis will allow you to win in the following points: 1. Cubexx can offer you highly experienced solution architects for the areas of Business Intelligence, SAP Technology and System Integration and CRM. Their combination of knowledge and efficiency will give your projects the necessary base to be a robust, flexible and easy to maintain in the future. They all dominate English, German and Spanish. Please convince yourself and have a look at our references or request exemplary skill profiles. 2. We can offer you surprisingly competitive rates compared to the rates of countries like Germany, United Kingdom or Switzerland. We can combine this advantage with consultants with experience, knowledge and flexibility. This is possible because of our efficient internal structure and the fact that our service delivery center operates from Spain, the country with an excellent ratio in IT seniority and cost. Large international corporations like Siemens, British American Tobacco, Holcim and others run their Shared Service Centers of application development and maintenance successfully in Spain. 3. If the physical presence of an expert other than the business expert is of need or of interest for tasks preferably being realized onsite like project kickoffs, steering meetings, Going Lives, etc, the required consultant will happily come over to your site. Please do not forget that we talk about Near Shoring, not “Far” Shoring. The close distances and the liberal visa regulations within the European community allow quick displacements giving you again flexibility and execution capacity. 4. All technical infrastructure required or recommended by us will be provided upon request and at no additional cost, from VPN to remote desktops, internet telephony, tablets, etc. All you need to allow us is accessing you. 5. You add an additional cost reduction because of the highly reduced travelling expenses as the vast majority of the involved parties are already onsite, virtually. In addition, you do not need to provide a workspace for the consultants. 6. The quality of the result is higher than in hurrying onsite projects due to the methodology of work necessary of making near shoring a success. We want our customers to return to us because they want to return, not because they have to return.
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