Mastering the Art of Outsourcing
The increased level of complexity associated with distance results in an increased management overhead.
The management of processes and communication needs to be more disciplined and sophisticated. ANSIS has developed its software engineering methodologies with this requirement in mind.
Our project management systems and processes are geared towards coping with geographically distributed project teams, consisting of engineers from the client company and the members of the ANSIS development team.
The Advantages of "Near-Sourcing"
Near-Sourcing really means that you reap the advantages of outsourcing without exposing yourself to the full risk of Outsourcing.
Central Europe is one hour away by airplane from most destinations in Western Europe. Besides its geographical proximity it also features a cultural proximity, which helps in reducing a great many communication mistakes within project organizations.
This means that with near-sourcing you can keep in touch with the programmers on an individual level, which with outsourcing to India or China is much more difficult to achieve.
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"Hungarian software programmers are not the cheapest when dealing with the most simple, well-defined programming tasks.
They do, however, excel when given creative freedom, and are great at finding out what a product can do. Hungarians are great at generating ideas, and then creating the product.
Hungarian software engineers are often the creators of the idea itself. Things are quite different in the United States, where software design and coding are separate tasks. These tasks are more integrated in Hungary."
- Gabor Bojar, GraphiSoft