Software Development Outsourcing Services
With 34 years in IT and great passion for innovations, ScienceSoft designs, builds, tests, supports and evolves software for businesses across 30+ industries.
Alex Murashko
ScienceSoft's Software Development Director
Software development outsourcing means trusting some or all development processes to a third-party vendor while staying in control of the project at large. ScienceSoft helps companies from 70+ countries bridge the gap in in-house IT resources and reveal up to 1.5–2.5x reduction in development costs.
Our Outsourcing Models and Costs
Our experienced talents with all the required skills join your in-house team to work on the project under your direct management.
Key benefit: Promptly filling in the skill and resource gaps in your team will speed up the project progress.
ScienceSoft’s team covers a part of your project (e.g., back-end development, QA) and provides regular progress reports. You determine the level of your managerial involvement.
Key benefit: You expand your software development capabilities and minimize management efforts.
Full process outsourcing
We set up the development process from scratch and take full responsibility for the project risks: from timelines and budget to the final software quality.
Key benefit: Reduced project costs, streamlined development, and released time to focus on core business activities.
To get a clear view of each outsourcing approach specifics, check out the detailed outsourcing models comparison table prepared by ScienceSoft’s consultants.
What Outsourcing Model Should I Choose?
Answer a few simple questions and find out what outsourcing model best fits for your case.
Do you want to temporarily ramp up your development team with particular talents to accelerate the project pace?
Do you have in-house managerial competencies to coordinate and supervise the outsourced talents?
Do you plan to involve or already involved another third-party vendor in the development process?
Do you want the vendor to handle certain project aspects (e.g., only back-end engineering, QA, or data science) rather than a complete development scope?
Tell us more about your needs
Please answer at least one question to help us better understand your business objectives.
You can go with team augmentation
Looks like temporary team extension with the required skills is the most feasible option to meet your development needs. Turn to ScienceSoft if you want to quickly ramp up your team with all necessary competencies – we’ll send CVs of our best talents in 24H.
A dedicated team is your best fit
Looks like a dedicated team of domain-specific experts is the most feasible option to meet your development needs. Turn to ScienceSoft for a professional team with all necessary competencies to partially outsource your project – we are ready to start in just 1–2 weeks.
A dedicated team is your best fit
Looks like a dedicated team of domain-specific experts is the most feasible option to meet your development needs. Turn to ScienceSoft for a professional team with all necessary competencies to partially outsource your project – we are ready to start in just 1–2 weeks.
You definitely should consider full outsourcing
Looks like complete project outsourcing is the most feasible option to meet your development needs. Turn to ScienceSoft for a fully managed team of professionals with all necessary competencies to develop your solution end to end – we are ready to start in just 1–2 weeks.
To choose the right outsourcing model, we recommend to assess the current in-house team composition and key project priorities. For example, if you lack expertise in a particular field, we can offer you a dedicated team to take over a part of a large project. If you need just a few specific talents, we can augment your team with our top-flight experts.
Full software engineering outsourcing helps out customers that have little or no experience in similar projects or those who are overloaded with other projects in the pipeline.
The following are key cost factors that influence the total cost of software development outsourcing:
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Hourly rate for outsourced talents. Depending on the outsourcing region, average rates vary greatly. |
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An outsourced team’s performance. |
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The length and specifics of transition to another outsourcing vendor (if needed). |
Success Stories by ScienceSoft
Industries and Domains We Are Well-Versed In:
Industry competencies:
We develop industry-specific software for over 30 industries. Click the icons to see our projects in the particular industry you’re interested in.
Domain expertise:
Below you can find the most popular software types we deliver. Click the cards to explore the dedicated pages.
ScienceSoft's Practices to Ensure Software Development Success
In ScienceSoft’s projects, we guarantee software delivery on goal, time, and budget and care about the superior quality of solutions we create. You are welcome to explore the descriptions of project management and software development practices behind our success-driven approach:
The page showcases our scoping process from requirements engineering to feasibility assessment to scope change management. It also describes scope creep controls during Agile development.
We share the factors ScienceSoft’s teams consider to calculate costs and provide sample top-down and bottom-up estimates. The page also overviews our cost optimization best practices.
The page explains the quality controls behind our ISO 9001-certified management system and describes procedures specific to each SDLC stage. It also lists software quality and project health KPIs we use.
We describe our practices to establish a value-driven collaboration process and overview collaboration roles, models, and tools. You can also explore our knowledge management and sharing process.
The page outlines the data and assets we protect, presents our security team, and describes our ISO 27001-supported security management activities during the outsourced project.
Control framework
Explore sample software documents and reports we deliver across various SDLC stages. We also describe our change request management flow and steps to control and mitigate project risks.
The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of the Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2023
For the second year in a row, ScienceSoft USA Corporation ranks among 500 American companies with the highest revenue growth. This achievement is the result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and create best-value solutions that meet and even exceed our clients’ expectations.
Benefits of Outsourced vs. In-House Development
Software quality increase
By outsourcing to IT professionals experienced in your target industry, you gain easy access to their expertise and best practices, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality software.
Reduced costs
Outsourcing an entire team of experts from a reliable vendor is significantly cheaper than hiring, onboarding, and training your in-house developers.
High scalability
You can quickly upscale and downscale an outsourced development team to meet your specific project needs and only pay for the resources you truly need.
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The practice that powers most businessesAccording to Deloitte, 70% of companies outsource software development for cost reduction. |
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Software Development Process with ScienceSoft
We can take over all or a part of software development processes in a chosen project or cater for every project within an IT project pipeline. With our outsourcing services, you start using internal resources more efficiently and access world-class technologies without hiring and training new employees. You can learn more about our development approaches and common project stages here.
The stages of our outsourcing service
1. Analysis of your initial request
We process your RFI or RFP and prepare a tailored proposal on our services.
2. Discovery: analysis of your software development needs and service planning
We estimate your project scope and the required resources for it, and prepare a development plan with time and budget estimation, and an outline of our approach to its successful delivery.
3. SLA negotiation
We prepare and negotiate a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with a suggested KPI system to measure efficiency of our cooperation. Afterwards, we sign a contract.
4. Knowledge and responsibility transfer
We study your requirements, existing code and coding rules, code repositories, infrastructure, test documentation, process descriptions, etc. We implement CI/CD pipeline, if required, or integrate into your existing processes and proceed with any necessary responsibility transfers.
5. Service delivery
The core stage that may include, depending on your needs:
- Business analysis.
- Architecture design.
- UX/UI design.
- Project management.
- Programming.
- Software testing.
- Change and risk management.
- Software integration.
- Software deployment.
- User training.
We provide weekly and/or monthly performance and progress reports.
6. Service evolution
We provide our recommendations on possible improvements in development and QA processes quarterly and further implement them.
Core Technologies We Use
We Eagerly Put in Use IT Innovations
Click the cards to find the detailed description of our capabilities with each technology.