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Online Experience Specialist at Canon Europe
29 June 2007 12:48pm
Hi. I am currently thinking about having my website developed in India and I'm looking for guidance/advice about things I should think about when outsourcing to India. Does anyone know of any good sites that provide advice about this? Many thanks Rob
Director at Lobster Web Design
29 June 2007 13:14pm
Hi RobForest,
I cant comment on Indian companies but I have been outsourcing some aspects of our work to an Australian company that has a development facility in Indionesia and its worked out really very well.
I've been using them now for almost two years and have no complaints whatso ever. Their rates are probably a little higher than some but you get a reliable service which i think is so important when you're dealing with overseas companies.
If you send me an email i'll give you the contact details of the guy who runs the company.
Russell Davies
Web Design Cardiff
Director at GSQM
01 July 2007 07:51am
Hello Rob Forest, we have presence in Singapore , Australia and India. If you require any project to be done, look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Gary Gopi (gary@gsqm.com)
Web Practice Leader & Founder at effbis
02 July 2007 13:20pm
Hello Rob,
Quite frankly there should no difference in your evaluation/selection process. However, since we are in the business of helping companies to choose their technical infrastructure/integration partner, I know by experience that the evaluation is quite often very weak.
Here are some of most critical aspects to cover.
1) Evaluation/Selection Process
- Get a project plan with a minimum of assigned person days per task. Double-check how real this plan is by calculating the ratios of spec/dev/testing. Determine, if the development company is more on the “object re-use”, configuration or pure custom-development side and pick the one which best suits the nature of your site.
- Investigate how they ensure the quality of their deliverables (e.g. get their quality plan/process or in absence ask for their testing plan)
- Require some sample source code to verify how structured/commented their source code is to avoid a “lock-in strategy”.
- Ask for references for your domain and clearly investigate what their contribution was (e.g. just HTML coding, which is quite often the case vs. taking a design out of Photoshop and implementing it versus a full Web agency approach such as design and coding).
- Drill down on their real skills. Historically, Indian based companies are pure software companies and claim to develop Web sites as well, which in some cases is really not the case (e.g. they just do the HTML/JAVA coding but if they need to use TABLES to layout a page you sometimes hit their limits). Hence ask for their team’s CV, so that you can check their skills.
2) Development Kick-Off
- Hand-over a complete set of functional specification (at minimum stripped pages/mock-ups and functional description)
- Explain the specification set to them and take your time. Be as transparent as possible and strengthen the areas, which are critical for your or where you see some challenges
- Check 1 week later, if they have any open questions regarding the specification set. Indians tend to be very polite and say sometimes to fast “Yes, I understood it…”. So try to establish a productive and transparent communication.
- Verify that the project plan, resources, quality plan, etc are similar to the ones provided during the evaluation process.
3) Development Process
- Request weekly status reports on Fridays (e.g. at least “This weeks achievement”, “Next Weeks Plan”, “Issue List”)
- Conduct weekly status conference call on Mondays
- Plan for solid testing on your side and about 2 iterations to sign-off the site
- Add about 20%-30% on their workplan to be on the secure site for the launch date
Depending on the nature of your site, I may can recommend you an Indian based company, which is very committed. Just email me at nbuerki@effbis.com
Nicolas Bürki is the founder of www.effinfo.com, a European Web-Advisory research company. effinfo advises companies to design, develop and maintain Web sites, Intranets and Portals from an strategic, organisational, usability, accessibility and information architecture perspective.
On 12:48:39 29 June 2007 RobFrost wrote:
Operations and Development Director at Objective Computing
03 July 2007 13:43pm
Hi
I am intruiged as to why you are thinking about going to India?! Have you had quotes from UK companies which are too expensive? or lack of skills? or timescale issues?
Do you have a specification on what you want developed that you can ask people to quote against?
Cheers
Rob
Managing Director at Fusis Group
03 July 2007 13:51pm
Rob,
Where are you based in the UK, we are close to Heathrow in London and have development facilities in Sri Lanka and India. If you wish to avoid the hassle of difeent tim zones and non referencable clients, give us a call on 0845 9000 375. We build UK sites and develop large backends.
Cheers
Amit
On 12:48:39 29 June 2007 RobFrost wrote:
Director at Avington Systems Ltd
03 July 2007 16:32pm
On 12:48:39 29 June 2007 RobFrost wrote:
Hi Rob - have you considered China? If you can let me have a spec I could get you a quote that should amaze you. They are hugely creative and very competitive.
ePurple Media
09 July 2007 14:17pm
Hi,
We are an online marketing company registered in UK and we have our back offices at India and it is exactly for this reason we have very competetive prices. u can email me at maureen.young AT epurplemedia.co.uk
Regards,
Maureen
SRV
03 August 2007 09:38am
Manufacture of POTATO Flour / POTATO Powder
About Project
Setting up of a unit for manufacture of potato powder
About Product and its use:
Potato powder is increasingly being used in a variety of food preparations like snack foods (Mc Donald, Pringle, Haldiram namkeens etc.), soups, curries and other dishes as a thickening agent. Its use at present is mainly in hotels, restaurants, but acceptance in household is growing due to its inclusion in items like ready to cook soups, dals, curries, etc.
Market Potential:
The potato powder is supplied in bulk to the manufacturers of the various snack food items and restaurants/ hotels. The major demand is in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Nagpur, etc. The demand is much more than the supply at present and is likely to grow with the increasing popularity of the snack foods and other items where potato powder is used as input. There is good potential for its export also.
Production process and technology:
Procurement of potato -> Washing -> Cooking -> Pulping -> Drum drying -> Potato Powder -> Packaging -> Marketing
By-Product
The plant and machinery can be used for producing other products like fruit powder, tomato powder, etc.
Key risk factors:
Availability of adequate quantity of suitable chip varieties, which are used for powder making (like Kufri Jyoti, Kufri Chipsona) is the major factor which could affect the project.
Availability of alternatives to potato powder for thickening like tapioca, corn starch etc., could affect the market of potato powder adversely. However at present there is no problem
Quality control and Statutory Requirements
The unit need to obtain a licence under FPO 1955 from the Ministry of Food Processing Industry
Clearance from State Pollution Control Board
Capacity of processing raw material (potato):
a) Indigenous technology - 32 MT/ day of potato for 90 days per annum.
b) Imported technology - 96 MT/ day of potato for 90 days
Capacity utilisation is assumed on 90 days basis as the storage facilities for these varieties are not commonly available. However, capacity utilisation can be increased if the existing cold storages are modified suitably with an additional investment of about Rs 2000/ MT.
Potato powder recovery: 17% of the raw material.
Cost of raw material (potato): Rs 2500 per MT,
Sale price of powder: Rs. 55000/ MT. to Rs 60000 / MT (depends on market)
Power requirement:
a) Indigenous technology: 40 HP
b) Imported technology: 60 HP
Water requirement:
a) Indigenous technology: 1,50,000 litres per day.
b) Imported technology: 5,00,000 litres per day.
Project Cost (Rs lakh)
1
Land & Land development (3 acre land)
18.00
2
Building (Processing unit, office, lab, utilities, servant quarters etc.)
40.00
3
Plant and Machinery
(Including pulping unit, potato boiling unit, drum dryer, DG set, boiler and miscellaneous equipments)
400.00
4
Misc. fixed assets (includes electrical installations, water and sanitary equipments, steam line, laboratory instruments)
50.00
5
Technical know-how fee and training
25.00
6
Preliminary & Pre operative expenses.
10.00
7
Margin money for working capital
13.16
8
Contingency
10.00
Estimated project cost
566.16
Investment :
Rs 5 Cr for the production of 90 MT / day
OR
Rs 2 Cr for production of 32 MT/ day
ROI:
47% to 50% / year
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Please note:
· These project reports contain general guidelines for the promoters of new projects.
· They are based on small factory considerations. Bigger manufacturing units will obviously entail higher costs than indicated in these reports.
· Cost of land (or rent for buildings) mentioned in each of these reports is only indicative. This is because the cost of land (or rent) varies from place to place, and also depends on the incentives given by the industrial development authorities in the state or zone concerned.
· Costs of machinery mentioned in the reports are rough estimates and are only indicative of machinery manufactured and/or procured within India.
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