Offshore
Offshore
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Sofmen uses a unique on-shore and off-shore strategy which provides the best of both worlds: onshore communication and understanding with the benefit of off-shore cost savings. Sofmen operates a fully employed team in India keeping project management and customer processes local while off-shoring development components. Sofmen has a fully dedicated T-1 and maintains a detailed knowledge-base to ensure information accessibility. We use local processes which bridge the culture gap so our customers’ projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the precise specification required. Sofmen hires top developers and puts in place career-paths so our retention rate is over 90% per year. Our dedicated staff are provided with cross training, benefits and growth opportunities that keep our recruiting ranks full, allowing us to scale for large projects. Technologically, Sofmen’s T-1 line combined with a full network infrastructure helping. In the IT services industry human capital and subsequent performance is everything. Sofmen uses a very unique and high-end resource model to deliver customer projects on-time, on-budget and at the precise specification. Sofmen maintains a 90% employee retention rate both in the U.S. and off-shore. This high retention rate is an indication of many factors where Sofmen’s employees feel that Sofmen is a great place to work. Sofmen uses a hybrid model where customer-facing and project management personnel are based in the U.S. while developers and engineers are based in Sofmen’s India headquarters. Sofmen deploys a United States style of management and work throughout it’s off-shore teams since 2002. Sofmen staff are equipped with technology in the office, at home, and while mobile. The ability to interact with Sofmen’s staff during extended hours reduces the time zone problem which is a very common challenge with US/offshore projects. With Sofmen’s infrastructure the time zone problem is reduced so projects are completed more quickly and accurately. Sofmen’s India headquarters is located near no less than 50 engineering colleges. Therefore, Sofmen has a continual flow of very high quality talent from which to choose allowing Sofmen to scale using highly capable technical teams. Finally, Sofmen is able to keep project costs low with the ability to deploy 3 offshore resources for the price of 1 U.S. resource. Sofmen Organizational Structure. Sofmen uses a three tier technical human resources structure:
This structure allows Sofmen to be very effective on projects and allow career-paths keeping employees happy. All technical staff at Sofmen have Master’s Degrees in computer science and proficient in one or more programming languages. In addition every employee must have a strong understanding of databases and how to use a variety of different software frameworks. This means that Sofmen technical staff are deployable on any project. All Sofmen technical staff go through a minimum of six months of training before being deployed on a customer project. This allows Sofmen technical staff to understand Sofmen’s technologies best practices before working on customer projects. Training includes Sofmen teams are motivated allows Sofmen to scale by applying almost any employee to almost any project. This means that Sofmen meets customer commitments and goals. Technical teams at Sofmen:
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