NEARSOURCING VS OUTSOURCING 

The concept of outsourcing cannot be ignored whilst speaking about IT. Outsourcing is about deploying distance specialists for low cost. The interest towards offshore sourcing is growing, due to the fact that companies want to cut down on IT expenses. A considerable amount of SME should be able to profit from outsourcing strategies, which enables them to focus on their core business.   Nevertheless outsourcing is not without risks, risks which diminish the added value of outsource service providing versus the added value of deploying a local IT partner.  This risk consists of the following. Distance, if something goes wrong, there is nobody to speak to in person; Juridical risk, how can you sew an enterprise from India? Ethics, What about human rights and environmental laws? Communication. The English language skills of a developer are sufficient, however you don’t understand him.

NEARSOURCING 

A nearsourcing strategy gives the same possibilities as an outsourcing strategy with regards to cost, but brings more possibilities for SME. But what are the advantages of nearsourcing to the Transylvania region in Europe? These advantages are about a unique mix of knowledge, culture and proximity.

KNOWLEDGE

Excellent skills, a lot of graduates from the technical university, vivid and good programming skills. Long working experience for Dutch and other European Enterprises, combined with good and relevant language skills such as  English, German, Hungarian, French, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, but also English and Dutch. All our consultants possess the relevant certificates and diplomas.

Sapientia Consulting   Postbus 2492 5202 CL  ’s Hertogenbosch   

T: +31 (0) 73 6233833 F: +31 (0) 84 8304217  

Info@sapientia.nl   K.v.k. Oost–Brabant  14080692

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION

Communication goes beyond the first level of vocal expression, which is mostly in English. On our website you have certainly noted that we mention the region of Transylvania all of the time. This is for a certain reason. Transylvania is a region in Romania that clearly distinguishes itself from the rest of the country, due to the fact that Transylvania still belongs to the European culture and not the orthodox culture to which the rest of Romania belongs. This is reflected in work ethics, keeping promises and punctuality amongst others.

 

PROXIMITY

Proximity is not only reflected in excellent technological infrastructure such as fast internet connections, or a flying distance of less than two hours to the Netherlands. Proximity is also maintained through a smaller legal distance, because the same European juridical framework is used as in the Netherlands. Also human rights and environmental protection standards are subject to European law.  To summarize, due to the fact that you stay within the European Union you risk exposure is minimized. If you choose for Sapientia Consulting you do business with a firm that has its seat in the Netherlands.

 

 

* Capability Maturity Model Integration.  This is a structure, which allows for a categorization of the professionalism of developing software products.

OUTSOURCING OF NEARSOURCING  ?

In the table below a comparison is made between the advantages (+) and disadvantages (-) of outsourcing and nearsourcing 

 

MORE INFORMATION ?

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