Outsourcing is a strategic move that allows a company to concentrate on running the business. But why go for offshore services? The answers came from Software Outsourcing Summit 2002 held in St. Petersburg. These are:

Cost advantages
Making up for skill shortages
Time to market
Quality of service

Technohaven Company Ltd. an ISO 9001 certified software company with its development center in Bangladesh, has resources to address your IT & BP outsourcing needs.

What offshore services?

Centered primarily on the following services:

Application development
Legacy extension
Data/code conversion
Migration
Package implementation
Application integration
Application maintenance and upgrade

We offer helpdesk management and also call & contact centre services as well as business process outsourcing (e.g. insurance claims processing, airlines mileage account maintenance and others)

For a comparision of development costs, see the following table:

** This is about 25% more due to the partial cost of client's premises/hardware/software, overhead costs and other hidden costs.

Our Methodology
Technohaven has a well-defined model for its outsourced project development process using a combination of onsite, offsite and offshore processes. This combination offers high quality, cost-effective service to clients who also benefit from the significantly lower costs of offshore services combined with local project management.

Typically, the outsourced development process consists of the following phases, which could be scaled up or down depending on the size of the project.

The outsourcing methodology has the following phases:

Feasibility Analysis and Project Agreement
Detailed Analysis/Planning
Technical Design
Setting up Offshore Environment
Development
Linkage and System Testing
Offshore Acceptance
Service and Support

Why choose Bangladeshi service development centers?

Political Stability:
It has a democratic and stable political system. No ethnic or religion based troubles since its independence in 1971. It is a member of Commonwealth, SAARC, BIMSTEC and other global forums.

Government Support:
Bangladesh Government gives highest priority to software development and services sector. The government imposes no tax on hardware import and allows tax holiday to software firms. It enables us to provide services at a very low cost while maintaining high standards.

Educational system:
Bangladesh colleges and universities follow British and American education system. The country has 19 state owned and 51 private Universities. The education system provides grooming to thousands of future ICT professionals.

Related Cost Advantage:
The average entry salary of a 4-year Computer Science graduate in this country is US$130 per month. This provides unique cost advantage over other regions.

Availability of Skilled Human Resources:
The country produces 5,500 Computer Science graduates and 13000 computer diploma holders. Besides 2,500 graduates return to the country after completing computer science graduation from USA, UK, India, Singapore, Thailand and other countries. Supply is more than demand.

Software & hardware resources:
Bangladesh allows duty & tax free entry of computer hardware and all major vendors have sales offices in the country (IBM, Dell, CISCO, HP, Compaq & others)

Cultural issues:
Bangladesh is a moderate country with a liberal cultural attitude. It has a growing educated middle class that dominates the corporate sector of the country. Historically it is a peace loving land that accommodates peoples from diverse ethnicities for centuries.

Time zone:
Bangladesh is 6 hours ahead of GMT. That means it has average 12 hour time difference with USA (EST) and 5 hours with mainland Europe.