| In recent times India has become a hub of offshore development. Sapphire has successfully handled offshore projects from International Clients, with its Technical and Managerial Expertise. Sapphire also renders its Offshore Services for maintenance of the existing projects. Sapphire follows proven Quality and Project Management Standards and has requisite infrastructure to support Outsourcing. Sapphire is committed to provide its clients with cost-effective solutions in Offshore Software development and web site designing, ensuring client satisfaction. Sapphire provides excellent offshore web and software solution in India. The list of happy offshore clients is a testimony of the success of Sapphire in this area. |
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Being the world's second highly populated country, human resources are a boon by itself. Just as the Gulf is renowned for its natural resource of crude oil, and South Africa for its diamonds, India is proud of the abundance and easy availability of its highly qualified and technically skilled English speaking computer professionals; who are key to success in the field of IT outsourcing to India.
Sapphire Software Solutions has the luxury of having a large pool of highly talented Technical and Management Professionals because of two world-renowned educational institutions (NIRMA Engineering and Indian Institute of Management (IIM)) situated in the city of Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad is also a hub of IT Education with more than 20 IT educational institutes. |
| Cost efficiency of IT outsourcing |
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Significant cost saving can be achieved by IT outsourcing to India, owing to the wide gap between the personal costs in India and that of the developed countries. Offshore outsourcing to India offers considerable economical benefits for those who are prepared to exploit the advantages of outsourcing.
Sapphire Software Solutions being located in India, provides economical solutions for Software development, Web development, and web-design development. It has clientele from various countries such as USA, UK, Canada, Australia etc. |
| Standard quality that firms doing IT outsourcing |
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The Indian companies involved in IT outsourcing in India provide high quality work, meeting international standards and complying with the ISO & SEI-CMM standards. Three out of every four SEI-CMM 5 companies worldwide is located in India. Thus India promises quality - IT outsourcing in India as it has the potential to furnish these services perfectly.
Sapphire Software Solutions uses the ISO Documentation and Procedural Standards. We also follow Software Development Life Cycle as stated in the Rational Unified Processes (RUP). |
| The reliable communication facilities |
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Excellent telecom, ISP, and cellular networks are available in all cities & towns in the country. India prides in the reliable satellite and submarine communication links that facilitate good band connectivity with the rest of the world. Thus companies engaged in IT outsourcing to India, can be in touch with the vendors without any connection hurdles. This plays a significant role in determining the success of offshore IT outsourcing to India.
Sapphire Software Solutions has very reliable Internet connections from famous ISPs. We have IP phones so calling international is very cost effective for us. |
| Technical and Services benefits in IT Outsourcing |
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India's technologies offer excellent software solutions which include E-commerce, Business Process re-engineering, System Migration, Maintaining Legacy system and System integration. India prides in outsourcing facilities that are required to compete with others; which is yet another reason as to why the world prefers IT outsourcing to India. Geographical location of India is ideally suitable because of the time difference of 12 hours with USA. Work happens on a 24-hour basis in our software outsourcing centers. Last evening's problems actually get converted to this morning's solutions.
Sapphire Software Solutions has office hours of 9:00am to 9:00 pm in the night Indian Standard Time effectively overlapping with the morning and evening hours of USA. |
| Galloping growth in Indian economy |
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The service sector in India contributes 51% of the GDP. Computer software export was prominent with a growth rate of 40%-50% per year during the 90's. India being the second largest software exporter in the world its large business houses and public sector units are growing steadfastly towards raising economic growth. |
| Stable government facilitating IT growth |
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India has a stable pro - IT government whose policies, economy, GDP growth, taxation, power, telecom, industrial parks & special zones have been helpful in improving the infrastructure as well as communication. The government proves to be a great support for software firms by further providing all the basic facilities required for an outsourcing company to flourish thus playing a major role in contributing to the success and well being of IT outsourcing to India. |
| Indian government policies |
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IT is regarded as one of the top 5 priority industries in India. IT is a part of the national agenda, and policies are framed so as to obtain maximum benefit out of IT outsourcing to India.
The liberalization and deregulation initiatives taken by the government are aimed at supporting growth & integration with the global economy. These reforms have enabled the entry of foreign companies to the Indian market. FDI investment from NRI's including Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCB's); owned by the NRI's are warmly welcomed in India.
The new National Telecom Policy has invited private participants to the Indian telecom sector. |