Released on = March 6, 2006, 11:18 pm

Press Release Author = Dmitry Dolgorukov

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = ITRANSITION WELCOMES YOU TO THE "NEARSOURCING".

Press Release Body = This article gives the answers to the following questions:

 What is nearsourcing?
 How could you benefit from nearsourcing your projects?
 What is Itransition nearsourcing interaction model?

The most typical things discussed while talking about outsourcing are not just cost
savings but their balance with risks and implicit costs caused by resource drains
like language barriers, end-user feedback integration problems and flexibility with
project schedule and control.

Nearsourcing concept is a natural blend of "nearshore" and "outsourcing" concepts.
The processes taking place nearshore are considered to be similar and easier to
control. The similarity of the processes is due to cultural likeness such as
languages, structures of business processes, quality standards, management tools,
legal issues and easy communication. Higher level of control is achieved with
minimum time zone differences and close location, variety of communication tools
available and additional costs savings due to close geographic locations).

Nearsourcing concept reveals obvious benefits based on both risks alignment and
traditional advantages of outsourcing business model. This concept provides
favorable conditions to establish sophisticated and interdependent relationships
with vendors. Thus, following Gartner's materials, these \"enhancement\" and
\"frontier\" relationships are typical for the maturity phase of IT outsourcing. The
new businessmodel implementation results in reduced management costs for remote
projects and keeps the project flow tightly within time and budget frames.

Nearsourcing concept is the working business model at Itransition Software company.
Itransition nearsourcing interaction model offers flexible conditions for our
partners. Every project starts with business analysis: either offsite or onsite,
when business analysts gather requirements and prepare a complete specification
based on thorough analysis, which allows following "fixed price" approach and
illuminating all kinds of bottlenecks during posterior development process. An
assigned project manager runs the project from start to finish, from resource
assignment to the final release stage. Itransition' specialists use all the modern
communication tools to be able to follow customer needs, speak customer's language,
collect and share user community feedback. Moreover, there are several cases, when
required specialists in 2-3 hours time traveled onsite to Western European clients'
offices to discuss the current issues during face-to-face meeting. On the other
hand, Itransition' customers travel on-side in order to visit the development
centers and control the process personally when required, and it only takes couple
of hours.

Thus, Itransition nearsourcing concept has proven itself as an efficient model for
such companies as Genesys Conferencing, Cimage Novasoft, Gerber Technologies and
others.

Contact Itransition for nearsourcing

Itransition Software
web: www.itransition.com

About Itransition Software Company: Itransition has been working in IT outsourcing
industry since 1998. We provide nearshore IT outsourcing and custom software
development services for e-business, banking and finance, healthcare,
telecommunications and other domains. Among our clients there are both SMEs and
Fortune 1000 companies. Itransition employs more than 250 specialists experienced in
Java, MS .Net, SalesForce and MS SharePoint platforms. Itransition has established
partnership relations in more than 15 countries including Japan, UK, France,
Germany, USA.



Web Site = http://www.itransition.com

Contact Details = Minsk, Belarus
Phone: +375 (17)2226 108
d.dolgorukov@itransition.com