Salesforce Development: Getting more bang for your buck, without getting lost in translation

Every business wants to get more bang for their buck when it comes to their bottom line, and your IT department can be one of those costs that adds up quickly.

Delivering enhancements through a Salesforce implementation Partner is definitely the Rolls-Royce of development. You have access to the best architects, project managers, developers and other governance resources and you’re dealing with a crew that delivers Salesforce enhancements at a professional level for a living. They’d be great at it or they’d go broke pretty quickly.

Having an internal team can see things turn around quickly, with less effort and explanation and although internal staff are per-hour far more economical than full-service implementation projects, the costs can add up. This is particularly the case if you are going to invest in high-level Salesforce resources to ensure you have good governance while continuing to build and don’t want to end up with a sprawling mess of code that conflicts with itself and gets in the way of future features.

On the other hand, hiring offshore/ international contractors can often be a cheaper solution but you find yourself having to explain things in detail, fixing more bugs than you would experience with an internal team, sometimes running into problems with connections and languages etc. These international teams are also notorious for not providing good governance or architectural guidance, that’s usually something you would want to provide and then use them to execute.

But what if you could have the best of both worlds?

For UK businesses, there is a solution that you might not have thought about before - going offshore to Australia. I mean, we were originally an English colony, maybe it’s time we were put to work?

All jokes aside, Australia and the UK are far more similar than either of us would admit. The Australian legal and business foundations literally ARE the UK legal system and so when we’re discussing business processes, taxation, compliance, government etc, we’re very-nearly on the same page. For example, you guys call it VAT and it’s 20%, for us it’s GST at 10% but a very similar system.

When we engage it’s much easier for our team to embed with yours, so you can feel you’re executing as if you have in-house Salesforce experts who understand your business like you do.

Additionally, our team includes a top-certified Salesforce Application Architect with over a decade’s experience in executing projects at every level from configuration and development all the way through to project management and enterprise architecture. We also have top-certified Senior Developers and Project Managers. In other words, when you engage with us you get a full team with architectural oversight and governance as standard.

So how do we work?

We deliver projects and support engagements with customers around Australia and internationally. Our business is fully-remote.

This means our teams are already fully established for remote-work patterns including Agile Sprint ceremonies, daily stand-ups for coordination, project management software you will have access to for managing your project or support tickets, GitHub repositories for DevOps/CI/CD, digital signature tools for contract execution/ amendment etc.

Every engagement we have is billed at a weekly rate for development and includes as standard; the time required for your project manager to run the team and communicate budget and burndown, an Architect overseeing the build choices and advising the developers, and of course the actual development efforts. As you can see, the items that go into making that a high-quality service are considered standard, included in the price. With us, you won’t pay extra for management or governance.

Want an IT structure that works for your business, while keeping things lean and saving on the overheads?

SolArch is a boutique Salesforce development company focused on top-level technical advisory, architecture, execution and nimble support. We are based in Australia with onshore resources, servicing clients in Australia and further afield including New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.

Learn more today by emailing daniel@solarch.us or send a private message via LinkedIn.