Outsourcing

Posina Technology maintains an Offshore Development Center (ODC) in India essentially to provide cost-effectiveness to its Partners and Clients around the globe. Posina Technology approach is to have a pool of specialized multi-disciplinary resource available to its Clients on a dedicated or as-needed basis. Posina Technology organizes and manages the team, supervises the project life cycle and constantly trains and keeps the Team updated with the latest development concepts and technologies. Posina Technology maintains the intellectual talent to meet the explicit business objectives and growing needs of its individual Client. Posina Technology ODC acts as a virtual extension for the Client.

Outsourcing brings strategic value to companies through:

• Reducing costs -transforming fixed costs to variable costs providing operational flexibility
• Access to expertise - of outsourcing partners many of whom offer domain competencies
• Focus on core business - a firm's executives are freed to focus on building and strengthening their company's core business
• Increased operational flexibility -allowing organizations to better adapt to market changes and customer demands
• Improved service quality
• Ability to scale - rapidly to match a company's growth

The strategic value to a company lies in its ability to have world class service, operate through best practices without having to make significant investments and manage processes internally or increasing headcount and fixed costs. 

Posina Technology follows a high-touch strategy in managing the service delivery. A strong, proven client-vendor engagement model is the foundation for a successful offshore experience. Since each client has different requirements and expectations, it is important to plan in detail from very early on and clearly define roles and responsibilities.

Posina Technologies offers multiple engagement models to meet diverse needs of global clients. You can choose from any one of the generally accepted models below or a combination of them for different phases of your project. We can work with you to customize a model to address your specific need. An appropriate engagement strategy is based on a clear understanding of customer’s business drivers. Our model’s core focus is on the customer’s innate needs like:

• Flexible resource Allocation and management with no up front investment
• Handling future needs of the customer
• Increased project profitability
• Predictable support
• Fast Delivery
• High Quality
• Low Cost

Any of these pricing models can be applied to our suite of services in custom ways for convenience and best value for money.

• Effort based pricing or Time & Material
• Dedicated Development Facility or Retainer
• Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Model
• Project based pricing or Fixed bid.
• Offshore Development Center(ODC)
• Strategic Partner Model
• Milestone based billing

This engagement model is particularly useful in contexts where the projects are prone to specification and design changes midstream. This model gives customer greater flexibility in terms of developing the project specification on an ongoing basis and modifying the specifications based on the changing market needs.

In this effort based pricing model, the project cost is a function of the project execution time and the corresponding resources deployed.

This option works for clients who are concerned about progress in remote projects, milestones-based payment schedules reinforce progress monitoring. It helps justify payment based on achievable milestone and visible progress reduces risks.

Dedicated development facility or Retainership

A Dedicated facility is an extension of the customer's own engineering/development center. Through such dedicated facilities, we offer the best skill sets, resources, and flexibility and time-to-market advantages to the customers, taking all necessary efforts to protect the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the customers. All rights to the IPR developed in the Development Facility vests with the customer. The Dedicated Facility also provides a cost effective solution to customers requiring continuous offshore support. For such dedicated relationships, we also implement customer specific quality/process frameworks and teams are trained for the specific needs of a Client. The resources are paid on a retainer basis.

Posina Technology Build-Operate-Transfer model enables customers to rapidly start offshore operations and later transfer the offshore development center as their own subsidiary/captive center.

Posina Tech provides the following value proposition during each phase of the process:

Build: Setup the facility and infrastructure, staff the development center, and establish knowledge transfer. Operate: Manage the offshore organization: Program Management, Development, QA, maintenance, enhancements, and product support.

Transfer: Register a new offshore subsidiary for the customer, transfer assets, and handover operations.

The dedicated facility leverages Posina  technical infrastructure, processes and execution capabilities. The dedicated facility is staffed either by existing Posina  resources or by client's resources or by resources hired specifically for engagement or a mix of them all. Posina  has a well-defined mechanism for the smooth transition of the facility i.e its own captive center to the client.

Clients see the following benefits by working with this model:

• Faster Time to Market
• Lower Establishment Costs
• Option of owning the facility
• Process Expertise
• Risk Reduction
• Flexibility

Posina Tech approach to Strategic Outsourcing is relationship based, technology oriented, delivery focused, and knowledge centered. Posina Tech believes strong partnership with clients is an integral part for successful project implementation. Posina Tech offers a Strategic Partner Group (SPG) model that serves clients with an advantage of a dedicated facility for all their development and support needs using a combination of onsite and offshore resources.

This is usually a long term engagement where the customer shares "market value" created by the relationship. This model involves setting up of a dedicated ODC with a shared vision. The client assures work for a dedicated number of resources for a significant amount of time. The client would define the type of work it would outsource and the skill levels that the offshore partner should provide. The client would also project the resource ramp up required every quarter, if any. Posina Tech has a cost-effective offshore methodology, which can reduce client's development costs substantially.

The Offshore Development facility of Posina Tech is a virtual extension of the customer's operating environment in India. Posina Tech would provide dedicated facilities, a dedicated communication link and a dedicated Account Manager who would be responsible for managing the relationship. Both the client and Posina Tech would also establish "service levels" and monitor these regularly. Posina Tech has a proven track record of delivering such services to several customers worldwide using this model. It comprises of:

• Well-defined offshore development software facilities
• Dedicated hardware and software infrastructure
• Dedicated high-speed communication equipment
• Dedicated team of people for the ODC
• Physical and network security
• IP protection mechanisms
• Dedicated facility

Benefits of the ODC model for the client are that it:

• Allows access to a large and diverse pool of expertise enabling quick ramp up
• Facilitates dedicated software teams with long term focus
• Leverages on STPL’s project management capabilities
• Leverages on high quality software processes
• Provides ready to use infrastructure
• Enables knowledge retention
• Exploits time zone advantage
• Ensures cost effective model

Posina Technology delivers projects and solutions using a Global Delivery model that might involve using a combination of the various models described below. A Global Delivery model offers access to talent across the globe, scalability and flexibility (ramp-up and ramp-down) of project teams and cost optimization while not compromising on the quality of the deliverables. Onsite Model

The Posina Technology team is based on-shore at the client location during the project life-cycle. This model is employed when the scope of the project is not defined very well, with frequent anticipated changes to the scope and the need for a high degree of interaction with users. Offshore Model

The offshore model involves having the Posina Technology team working out of the offshore location in India. This model is effective in situations where there is a high degree of clarity on the requirements. This model is also typically deployed for maintenance and support activities. Hybrid Model

It is the combination of both onsite and offshore model. This is one of the most common models that is deployed and the various tasks are spread between the two locations.