Explanation for the terms that are used in the business process:

Lead – It is Data collected by Data Mining or Lead Generation. We see them as the future customer. The leads are contacted by the company representatives and they can be put into the status of First Contact (communication done). Once the communication is over the representatives screen the lead and pass it on for the next stage if the person is interested. The qualified leads move to the next category which is the contacts.

Contacts – Contact refers to the one who has work which you can do.

Account – Account is generally referred to the company or the institute where you have a group of contacts.

Potential (Deal) – The potential stage occurs simultaneously with the creation of contacts. After the contacts share their requirements and chances of their conversions increase they become potential.

Last stage- The last stage is determined on the basis of the quote that the company gives to the potential clients. They may be closed won if the client is satisfied with the quote or lost if the prospect is dissatisfied. They can also be in an intermediate state called the negotiation where the deal can go the either way i.e closed won or closed lost.

Game studios and agencies generally outsource both designing and development of a game concept. Now it becomes very difficult for a designer to understand and conceptualize a game idea/concept/theme through virtual chat/discussion with client sitting at different locations. The client has a clear vision of the final game output and hence it can be understood by the designers properly only if both sit together and finalize perfect designs by multiple trial and errors. If the client and designers are located in different countries and try to conceptualize the idea, it will consume a lot of time for just only understanding the exact game idea. Europe and America based designers have the best expertise in creative designs and can be utilized best as the local resources.

Once such designs are ready with the clients, they can outsource the entire game programming to Indian companies. This will reduce their cost to 60% and saves time too. Companies who provide game programming, also provide testing and maintenance services. OpenXcell has developed one educational game for its Canadian client, where he had all the designs ready to be developed. That educational app was built with minimum cost because the client had all the designs available and just had to pay for the programming of the game.

We can conclude the best suitable game designing and development process from the client’s perspective in 3 small steps.

1. Get your game designs ready by local expert resources
2. Outsource game programming to Indian game development service providers
3. Reap high revenue with minimum cost investment

Thus the Game studios and Game agencies should hire local designers for their mobile, pc and Facebook game ideas and outsource the game programming to  Indian companies to get expertise human resource at cheaper rate.

Below is the report which shows the ultimate result in terms of game success and failure on the app store considering the number of downloads. There are 2 scenarios.

1. The success/failure rate, if game studios have outsourced both designing and Programming.
2. The success/failure rate, if game studios have only outsourced programming.

The survey was carried out for total 200 game studios and game agencies located in top 5 game development countries.

Fatal problems of fixed price project model

Fixed price model comes with following limitations and problems:

1. The offshore company has to always over-price the development by considering the risk of changes at time of development.
2. It increases cost by including the effort of project analysis and quotation making which is billed to client in fixed price.
3. There is very high possibility of wrong estimation, which leads to re-pricing or project cancellation.
4. Pressure of completing projects into fixed price leads to lesser attention to details of requirement.
5. Fixed pricing compels offshore companies to make resource work on more than one project which decrease the efficiency of resources and finally leads to less attention to details.
6. Fixed price decreases the scope of consultation, suggestions and education provided to customer while development.
7. Offshore companies are less worried about the support and maintenance for projects done in fixed price.
8. Offshore companies losses flexibility of incorporating changes at time of development and force project to go on phase wise development.
9. Due to working of resource on multiple projects, the risk of missing the deadlines increases.

This all leads to development of poor software and dissatisfied clients in the end with no repeat business and bad reputation for offshore companies. So it is totally LOSE-LOSE condition.

Costs

Clients should focus on obtaining cost effective solutions rather than cost accommodative solutions. Indian developers who provide dedicated ‘hire developer’ model for development also allows the fixed cost model for particular projects. However it must be noted that hidden challenges with software development might occasionally require extra time to create a worthy application. This is a genuine problem and almost every development company faces it. It is thus advisable to go for dedicated hire resources for putting extra hours into development whenever needed.

Hiring dedicated developers from off-shore countries can also save you upto 60% on development cost and reduce the project lead time by 40%. In addition to that, clients can also save HRMS cost, administrative cost, infrastructure cost, accounting cost, legal cost along with zero employer liabilities.

Flexibility

Almost every offshore software development company provides you the benefit to handpick your dedicated hire team. You can create an optimum blend of experienced software engineers, designers and consultants that matches your needs as well as your budget. Off shore software developers can also guarantee scalability of the development team as per project work load and accommodate ongoing changes and effectively manage changing project requirements. Hiring dedicated developers also allows you to instantly hire and relieve human resources as per your project requirement

Additional benefits

Hiring an off shore software development company especially from India have other associated advantages. For example, Indian developers are highly approachable and possess excellent communications skills. Indian developers are generally bestowed with street smart programming and coding skills leading to creative solutions that make significant impact in the end of a project.

Process of hiring dedicated developers 

Hiring and creating your dedicated team is really easy.

• We will provide you CVs of relevant developers from which you can select and create your team
• You can run a free trial on a pilot project for one day. Some off-shore companies would allow you to interview your selected team and followed by signing a contract specifying the minimum hours of work.
• After all the formalities of the contract are met your project is initiated.

The fatal problems of fixed price model

Fixed price hiring renders a software development team to wrap up a project within the specified budget and during development it so happens that the outsourcing companies often come up with changes that requires developers to overwork. At times when the changes are huge or, if the price is too thin, developers pressured to meet deadlines, complete a project while compromising on quality. This leads to development of a poor application and enraged clients in the end.

Hiring a dedicated development team-the optimal solution

The process of hiring a dedicated team is simple and highly beneficial to both the parties. Let’s go through the steps of hiring a dedicated developer and its associated advantages.

Browse through relevant resumes- Get relevant resumes from the offshore Development Company and select appropriate candidates according to your project goals and complexities. This helps you to filter out unnecessary developers from your team, making it cost effective and manageable as compared to the fixed cost model.

Free trial for one day or interview for 30 mins-To develop or extend your faith the dedicated team can program/code a project given by you as a trial. You can also choose to interview your team and test their technical knowledge. The free trial/interview gives you the advantage to fine tune your development team. You can also swap developers during the process if you feel so.

Signing a contract and initiation – Most of the dedicated developers would require an outsourcing company to sign a contract guaranteeing a minimum period of work. At Openxcell, we require a minimum of 40 hours of development work. This affirms commitment from the outsourcing company leading to better development quality by the off-shore company. After the contract is done, developers immediately initiate your project.

Unlike fixed cost hiring, dedicated model allows you to expand your project scale in future along with the freedom to add more developers to your team. An efficient dedicated team is highly cost effective and meets your project objective in the end.

Fixed Price Model-

Fixed price hiring is when a client hires the software developer with a predetermined amount that he intends to pay as development cost. Fixed price hiring is only advantageous when clients have already dealt making similar software in the past and possess the minimal knowledge on development time and skills required to build the software. However, most of the time fixed price hiring proves inefficient as clients fail to foresee the challenges associated with building quality software and force the developers to finish it within the budget. This lackadaisical execution finally leads to sub-standard programming and a shabby application in the end. Fixed price model may look lucrative to save money but it has more chances to miss out attaining the absolute project goal.

 Time & Material Model-

Dedicated developers who work on hourly basis and follow the time and material hiring scheme are professional in nature and there are numerous advantages of this model-

• Time and material hiring is always advantageous to clients as they are not constrained by a fixed budget and that leads to winning application in the end.
• Most of the time it so happens that the clients come up with refined ideas for their software after the project is initiated. In such cases, dedicated developers will have no issues making the changes but developers hired under fixed price hiring will resist overworking as the compensation will be unjust.
• Time and material model also allows you to hand-pick your group of developers thus you can create your own group of developers with desired number of developers and skill set which can even cost lesser that fixed hiring schemes at times.
• Each version of software is followed by the next and dedicated developers who have had hands on experience developing the software can create newer versions in lesser time and can prove to be cost effective.

Apart from providing the flexible time and material scheme, hiring off shore developers over on-shore companies has other advantages as well. Off shore developers charge 60%  less than on-shore developers without compromising over the output quality. Off-shore developers in countries like India possess excellent communication skills along with state of the art infrastructure to support your projects. In addition to that, the companies are often relationship oriented which encourages a long-term association and its implicit benefits.

Your website must be unique

Just like fingerprints with every person, every business/company and its challenges are also unique. You must always understand that meeting these challenges require customized solutions that are crafted exclusively for your business. You cannot settle with standardized programming languages that do not meet your website requirements within a slim budget and that makes PHP come into the picture. PHP and its frameworks are highly scalable and developers can selectively choose modules that need to be integrated to your website, just the ones you require. No need to unnecessarily expand and make your website bulky and pay the development charges to add that bulk. The PHP modules in themselves are also customizable. So if you hire PHP developers from India who possess strong coding knowledge in general, you can get mind-blowing results with customized modules. Only thing that needs to be taken care of is- What are those functionalities you want your PHP website to perform?

Creating your desired team of PHP developers

PHP and its frameworks come with various modules that are function specific. Some modules augment content management, some create social network integration in your website while few can build an integrated E-store in your PHP website. Say, you want to create a mind-blowing E-store in your website to generate instant sales. In that case you can hire a PHP web development company that gives you the freedom to handpick PHP web developers that have extensive development and customization experience with E-commerce modules in PHP. If the company allows you with such flexibility then you can employ their PHP developers who are fundamentally specialized in E-commerce modules. This way you get cost effective solution as the development team is effective and gives what you exactly need.

Thus, it is understood that along with the robustness of PHP one must be able to hire PHP developers of their choice to remain cost effective.

Learning more on Facebook’s collaborative focus

Facebook has shown a meticulous and collaborative gesture by introducing social discovery for native android applications. This will allow mobile Facebook users to easily discover native android applications using social channels such as bookmarks, requests, news feed and so on. Facebook has already introduced this feature for web based apps available on the android store and it is already adding revenues to both sides. Along with end users of android, this is highly enthusiastic for android developers across the world who are likely to have a larger base of users to specifically target and serve their apps accordingly. Facebook on the other hand can prove to be a preferred distributor which Google can utilize to surgically target their android users with relevant app suggestions and can itself benefit through increased user activity.

Google’s social obsession

Google has kept a lackadaisical approach to blend HTML 5 into chrome. Chrome contributes to a major chunk of android users accessing Facebook on a daily basis. Google’s obsession to outdo Facebook with G+ still holds much importance apparently and to keep Facebook at bay, chrome is not going to see improvements with HTML 5 anytime soon. However, Google’s social obsession is not paying off and analysts have already started to speculate another social failure from Google.

The road ahead

Facebook’s dominance in social media is inevitable and as they march towards the 1 billion mark it is going to prove as an important asset for many industries. This also includes companies involved in development and trading mobile applications, who want to reach the most relevant cluster of users. On the other hand, Google with the 2^nd largest app store should improvise HTML5 5 in chrome and utilize Facebook to accurately segment its users. This will ultimately enhance the overall experience of an android user, generate revenues for Google and generate revenues for the android app development community. Instead of performing cosmetic surgeries on G+ to attract a few unfaithful lovers this looks better and COLLABORATIVE. What’s say Google??

Off shore development companies providing hire php developer services have also molded their php web development services with respect to a few critical factors which must be taken care of before you hire a development team.

Complexity of your requirements

Based on the complexity of your project the developer sets the development team. Often an experienced php development company like Openxcell employs php developers with varied experience. A complex project might require a team of 5 elite programmers while a bulky php site might require simpler coding which can be easily done by a team of 10 with fresh talent.

Your budget

All hire php developer scheme are also governed according to your budget. As budget varies from one client to another, php development companies including Openxcell has an active team of business analyst who provide insightful information to fine tune your budget. Companies also provide preset team structures that work with respect to specified time slots. These teams will dedicate ‘n’ number of hours on daily basis to build your project. The teams consist of varying number of php developers that are teamed up according to the specific needs.

General categorization and implementation of php modules for cost effectiveness

Generally php web development projects follow specific patters. Thus it is advisable to hire developers who have hands on experience with php frameworks such as Cake php and Zend php. These frameworks are object oriented and require lesser time in execution and thus save a lot on development costs.

However in midst of this storm of mobile app development, it’s not wise to get carried away with the cost factor alone. With focus on getting over the cliché of only being a low cost developer, a mobile app developer should foster an environment to effectively transmute the app idea and proving itself as a trusted developer

Before you hire mobile app developer of your choice consider the following-

Allowing clients to handpick their mobile app developers-

Challenges in developing mobile applications differ to great degrees with respect to the complexities involved. Some applications might emphasize upon complicated and tricky lines codes rather than great UI while few other might stress on richer social networking experience with the app.  The requirements of every app are unique. So, in case of a code specific app you can hire experienced developers who have strong coding skills while keeping the designing team a little lean and vice versa. This creates a better application and saves a lot of development cost as well.

Phone and Skype calling does not give a thinking space to brainstorm-

Let’s accept. Visual involvement is stronger and mightier. It’s not surprising to see the TV win over the radio or the indulging nature of Facebook that gives you a feeling of totality. In the same manner the daily reporting of ongoing projects via Skype and phone is monotonous. Without a visual or something tangible in your hands, you cannot really feel what the application is going to look like until it’s ready. However, if clients and the development team share a platform that supports a visually perfect environment to follow the project status and share ideas at the same time then each step of the development process refines your app idea and creates a powerful application in the end.

We have been using our Project management platform that allows robust and real-time interaction between clients and our developers. We feel that it’s just like a virtual brainstorming space which has lead to execution of some great app ideas.

Many sprint towards Indian mobile app developers with the tendency to save money. However to get the application you desire within a specified budget, transparency, flexibility and robust communication must be provided by the mobile app developer. It’s not only a low price tag that satisfies you in the end but the entire experience.