Comments on: Best Outsourcing Companies

By: Kane

Kane — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:30:55 +0000

Nope but their rates are CRAZYYYYY high for the services they’re offering. The owners must be making a killing. $10 for hour for a VA? You can get damn good ones for 1/3 of that.

By: Abi

Abi — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:49:17 +0000

Poor communication is the biggest challenge in outsourced software development – European IT Outsourcing Intelligence Report 2011

This just aggravates when culturally different teams work togather and are geographically distributed.

One of the biggest thing to address here is the requirement communication. Software business requirements typically include user interface and underlying business processes. User interface is visualized as screen prototypes and business processes as flow diagrams.

You can use http://www.10screens.com to define user interface and underlying business processes in a single space leading to robust business requirements.

By: JI

JI — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:02 +0000

I would rather have more control over the whole process of software outsourcing and I also prefer to have an enterprise type of support to an application. This is why I generally prefer outsourcing companies over freelancers, companies which give you the best transparency. I chose this option and I am outsourcing Java development to a Java Outsourcing company that has one of it’s development offices in Poznan, Poland. Polish developers are very smart and communicative.

By: Avi

Avi — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:31:54 +0000

Have you tried DeskElf.com? While you don’t get to (or have to) sort through dozens of freelancers, they have a strictly manages team, very accessible and very affordable. Check it out.

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:28:08 +0000

The best resource for outsourcing companies if you have the right network would be Linkedin, you do actually find good processes there. I’ve actually acquired some of our processes from linkedin. I’ll name a few companies below might be helpful;

Arrowsol8 (www.arrowsoleight.com)
Have a number of complaints posted but we’ve been working with them for quite some time and have not had any issues with them whatsoever. Prompt with payments, as long as you are doing what they are telling. Mostly have a paid by the hour formula.

Cyberonium: http://www.cyberonium.com
Good for outbound campaigns.

Dynamic Impact;
Good for US outbound campaigns, we’ve worked with them off and on, if you make the sales as guided there will be no issues.

By: dannybuntu

dannybuntu — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:55:19 +0000

I do freelance on a part time basis and I will agree with Jenny that oDesk is the best. The screening process is more rigorous and the applicants are more serious. Come to think of it, I haven’t taken a job for a month now. Busy with creating my baby.

Suffice to say that I learned from my past masters.

By: Jenny Franksford

Jenny Franksford — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:10:00 +0000

I’ve been using Elance for the last few months and while the site is easy to use I haven’t been super impressed by the quality of the applicants for the jobs I post.

I agree with 1337 above that oDesk is the best I’ve used so far.

By: 1337

1337 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:13:45 +0000

Cool, good solid list ya got there. I’m a fan of oDesk as well. They definitely seem to have the upper hand over the other sites, mostly because they don’t charge a regular fee for members, just take a commission on work done.

Also I like being able to see the history of what the outsourcers were working on. That’s a really impressive feature.