With the slow down in the IT Industry globally, every software company is looking for means to maintain the competitive edge by cutting costs without compromising on productivity, quality and deliveries. It is now time to explore the possibility of transcending geographical barriers and exploiting the favorable man-hour rates in regions like India and other Far-East Countries.

Asteroid Solutions is currently working on both partial and fully outsourced projects for companies based in the US and UK. In the case of partial outsourcing the system analysis, architecture, project management and SQA is still exercised from the USA. It is the coding that is outsourced to us at Asteroid here in India. Asteroid deploys Project Leaders (at times even Project Managers), Programmers and Junior SQAs at our Indian Offshore Development Centre (ODC). This business model has been successfully implemented for over 2 years and we have an extremely satisfied client base who have partnered with us to evolve this model.

Outsourcing can be done in 2 ways:

• The complete project can be outsourced on the above lines with a project-based cost.
  
  
• You can hire Engineers / Designers, Team Leaders, Project Managers, SQAs etc. from Asteroid on a monthly basis. This would be more appropriate for projects which are of longer duration and an ongoing nature.