Outsourcing is very profitable for business. But certain risks and difficulties can arise when concluding contracts and further use such services. Outsourcing is believed to reduce costs and allow organizations to focus on running the core business. Therefore, the rapid development of the IT outsourcing market is mainly due to the fact that outsourcing allows companies to reduce indirect costs. However, not everyone agrees with this. According to various studies, no more than 75% of companies believe that the use of outsourcing has enabled them to achieve significant savings. Recently, in Europe, around 40% of telecommunications companies have left out outsourcing services. Because of the problem. And there is non-compliance with the price / quality criteria.
What is game development?
Many gamers enjoy playing games after the match and demanding more from the developer, but don’t know how long to make a video game. Depending on the size of the project and the complexity of the implementation of its individual components, the production of one game can take several months. Or can grow into years of hard work.
That is why developing video games is Titanic’s work that is even more difficult than making films. The process is complex and demands attention.
To reduce costs, the last two options are usually used in 2D art outsourcing.
The transition to the development of outsourcing games is a rather complicated process. It can last more than six months. Therefore, customers must be patient. Because during this period it is necessary to manage both of them to build various technical processes. He can convince his own personnel that the transfer of several functions to special companies – outsourcing. And it’s actually needed.
The main problem
One of the most common difficulties during the transition to IT outsourcing is that many corporate customers do not consider risk and difficulties. They might wait for them. Because all outsourcing processes have not been studied in detail in our country, there is a high probability that different companies will repeat the same standard errors. And, maybe, the most serious of them is an approach that is unable to be responsible for the ins and outs of delegating the responsibility for the maintenance of IT infrastructure for third party organizations.
In general it is accepted that the main task of the transitional period is:
Change the company’s information system service conditions;
“Acclimatization” personnel with their new study and rules studies;
Prescribe all processes and regulations for interaction.
All this might need a lot of effort. And this must be taken into account when deciding to use a comfortable and profitable option. This helps to solve the problem of technical support for information infrastructure.
Therefore, it is necessary to plan the transition itself in advance. It must be literally from the moment when it was decided to transfer certain tasks to profiled companies. This is due to the fact that if not, client company employees will not be able to be quickly involved in the process. This will have a negative impact on the effectiveness of cooperation with outsourcing companies. Also affects project time.
Possible solutions
To alleviate transition difficulties, you can manage customer service. This helps increase the effectiveness of relations with IT service providers. This is the body in customer companies responsible for relationships with contractors. Difficulties often arise at all because of outsourcing errors. But because of the inability of the client to manage the process. Therefore, customer service is made – as a link between customers and outsourcing organizations. It is also involved in setting assignments for it. Thus, the success of IT outsourcing implementations in the company as a whole can depend on efficiency
