If you believe that domain-specific expertise of a supplier is important or necessary for your outsourced project to succeed – you are right. And wrong.

Right, because understanding of the domain by engineers working on a solution for you can make the whole lot of difference between an on-target application that end users want to use, and just another meaningless tool.

And wrong, because too many major suppliers claiming experience in your exact business domain would actually staff your group with junior people who never did anything like what you need. Offshore software outsourcing is an agile and challenging industry having many insider’s secrets. In fact, suppliers often cannot reuse any of the software or designs they mention to you as their domain expertise, because they must protect their previous clients’ Intellectual Property Rights. Also, with very high and increasing turnover of developers which reaches 30% per year at most offshore suppliers (Edvantis being a rare exception), there are good chances that every engineer who participated in the domain-specific projects you are shown has left this supplier company by now.

Edvantis knows this and we have a proven process of ALWAYS ensuring that leaders of your dedicated team deeply understand your business goal before software engineering starts.

Your organization probably has own flavor of a software methodology, and your in-house engineers will resist an outsourcing provider’s attempt to “upgrade” your processes to own RUP-based, CMMI compliant methodology – for supplier’s convenience but at your expense. Sometimes what an offshore supplier can teach your technical groups is really beneficial for your business in a long run, but oftentimes it just hinders your project until this particular window of opportunity closes, and the outsourced project turns into plain waste of your money.

The Edvantis Way^SM features a separate procedure of defining how heavy the methodology of your project should really be to achieve the best outcome value for your money.

Matching a customer’s and supplier’s order of magnitude is important. If you decide to start small while trying offshore outsourcing with a supplier employing thousands of engineers – be prepared that you’ll get less attention than other accounts involving a hundred of offshore resources or more. Good resources are always limited, and if a provider considers you as small, its economics may require your account to take the largest risk of being staffed with and managed by less experienced people. A major supplier is often forced to allow some 50% success/failure risk on emerging accounts like yours - but you can’t. You need your offshore pilot to work well the first time, or you’ll loose your business opportunity, your investment, and your faith in this business model.

Seek a candid outsourcing service supplier who will share own experience and work with you to implement what your business really needs now. Edvantis’ first and topmost value is integrity and fairness to its clients. We’ll advise you on how “offshorable” your task is and, if we together decide that it makes business sense for you to proceed, we’ll maximize the return on your investment into the software project you place with us. Contact us now at and we’ll talk more about how The Edvantis Way^SM matches your need.