You can use this website to get detailed information about hundreds of top offshore software development companies, to search for the best offshore suppliers for your specific development project, and to learn more about all facets of the software development process. If you are already familiar with the website, please access the desired section by using the navigation menu on the left.

The purpose of this page is to describe the four major sections of the OSD Resource Center:

• OSD Supplier Directory
• Find the Optimal Supplier (i.e., search the supplier database)
• Learning Center
• OSD Resources

OSD Supplier Directory

Description: The Offshore Software Development Supplier Directory lists over 650 of the top custom application development companies from around the globe. Many of them have received the highest evaluations using the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model and/or ISO 9000:2000 standards from independent audits. More companies are being added weekly.

Features: The companies in the OSD Supplier Directory are presented in alphabetical order. Each company listing contains a short overview of the company's software development services, contact information (mail, telephone, fax, and e-mail), website address, and usually the name and contact information of their Director or Vice President of Sales or Business Development. Users can sort the companies by specific offshore country and search the Directory by the company's name or portion of its name.

Access: Access and use of the OSD Supplier Directory is free to all users.

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Find the Optimal Supplier

Description: If you have a software development project in mind, then use the OSD Resource Center's search capability to find your optimal partner. Incoda Corporation has compiled the only comprehensive database that allows online screening of hundreds of companies to identify those software development companies that meet or exceed the criteria you specify.

Features: The search capability allows you to select one or more criteria and designate the values or thresholds that you desire. Twenty search fields cover criteria such as:

Size and Revenue Metrics

• Total revenues
• Annual revenue growth rate
• Export revenues
• Number of employees (FTEs)
• Number of software developers
• Number of software development projects completed in the most recent year
• Percent of revenues by selected industry
• Percent of revenues by selected customer geographic region

Areas of Expertise

• Architecture expertise
• Development environment expertise
• Language expertise
• Component technology expertise
• Database expertise
• Operating system expertise

Quality Levels and Certifications

• SEI’s CMM level
• ISO 9000:2000 certification
• BS7799 and ISO17799 certification

Other

• Location of offshore development center (country)
• Year established

Find the Optimal Supplier lets you identify those software development companies from around the globe that meet or exceed your exact project requirements!

Once you've found one or more companies of interest, you can purchase the companies' detailed profiles. Detailed company profiles are available for every offshore software development supplier in the database. Here is an example of a Company Profile for Persistent Systems, Ltd. (Pune, India), one of the companies in the Incoda Supplier Database. Click here or on the image to the right to see their full report.

Access: Access and use of the "Find the Optimal Supplier" search capability to find the number of suppliers that meet your specific criteria is free to all users. Detailed Company Profiles of the optimal suppliers identified can be purchased online. See the FAQs for more information.

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Learning Center

Description: The Learning Center provides short educational modules on a variety of offshore outsourcing topics. The modules are taken from Incoda-authored white papers and published articles. The exerpts include our perspectives, best practices, lessons learned, and primary and secondary market research on offshore software development.

Features: Online content, exhibits, and relevant website links. Current educational modules:

• Present an overview of the offshore software development (OSD) market for IT and IT-enabled services,
• List the benefits and challenges of offshore software development,
• Describe several OSD delivery models,
• Identify four key differences between local and offshore software development, and
• Compare the leading OSD countries.

Access: Access and use of the Learning Center is free to all users.

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OSD Resources

Description: If you need more information about outsourcing your software development project, then visit the OSD Resources Section for the answers to all your offshore otusourcing questions. The Resource Center contains a variety of “best-of-the-industry” materials on outsourced custom software development. The materials and website links were chosen to be directly relevant to the decisions you need to make—from deciding whether to outsource your project, to identifying and selecting an offshore company, to managing the project and accepting the final deliverables.

Features: Resource materials are available in one of three formats: as files available for immediate downloading, as links to files available for downloading from other websites, and as links to related websites.

Resource materials are grouped into five categories:

I. Business Justification for Outsourcing

• Executive Overview: Outsourcing
• Outsourcing Rationale

1. Business Strategy
2. IT Strategy
3. Financial Strategy

II. The Process of Outsourcing

• Approach
• Criteria for Selecting an Offshore Software Development Company
• Legal Issues and Contract Management
• Best Practices

III. Software Development

• An Overview of Software Development Methodology
• Best Practices in Project Management
• Best Practices in Quality Management
  • CMM and CMMI
  • ISO 9000 and 9001
• Software Development Metrics and Benchmarks

IV. Profiles of Leading Offshore Software Development Countries

• Comparison of Leading Offshore Locations

V. Outsourcing Resources

• Websites
• Publications
• Information Providers

Access: Resource abstracts and links to external websites are free to all users; PDF file downloads require user registration.

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A complete listing of all the materials available on the OSD Resource Center website can be found here.

Have questions? Please see the FAQs.

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