How Australian based IT teams can save UK businesses more money
There is a LOT of talk around economies and financial stability right now.
If you’re a UK business owner running on Salesforce you’ve no-doubt considered strategies to increase feature delivery and sharpen the bottom-line. And inevitably that conversation will involve discussions around off-shore/near-shore and the best mix of resources in project teams.
Usually when you think offshore you’re talking India, Manilla, Eastern EU or South America. And all these have the same issues traditionally: difficulties in language/communication and differences in business processes or experience. Just being direct, it’s easy to find an offshore resource with a much better hourly rate and good development, but you’ll almost always invest more heavily in managing and translating (both language and understandings). Some more than others, some resources more than another, but inevitably those are the challenges.
The dream state would be an offshore development team that was cheaper but where communications were as crystal-clear as if the developers were sitting in your offices. So basically a unicorn. Or maybe a kangaroo.
As a fully-remote business, 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.
So, what are the top 3 reasons to hire an Australian-based IT team?
1 - We understand your business (because it’s just like ours)
In every meaningful way Australia and England are incredibly close. Our legal and business systems share the same foundations (literally the same acts of law of the British Parliament), and when you explain a process or a point of view we get you and what you’re attempting to do with it, rather than just a literal list of verbatim build items.
Plus, who doesn’t love having an Aussie on the team!
2 - You won’t get lost in translation
Probably a million books, articles etc. have been written about communication and it’s no joke. There’s a difference between speaking a language well versus comprehending the story behind a requirement, a flat understanding of the words versus a deep recognition of the concepts and intentions around the idea someone is explaining.
Other than not being able to understand the cricket score if/when we ever lose the Ashes (which of course we will not be able to comprehend), we speak the slang, understand cultural and business implications and operate under similar business principles and markets, allowing us to better understand your company concepts.
It’s safe to say there won’t be any time wasted on repeating yourself.
3 - More money in your pocket
If you follow what is going on with the exchange rate you will already know that the Pound/AUD conversion will automatically mean more in your bank account at the end of the day. Plus, we include Project Management, Architectural advisory and Governance as standard on all our projects, included in the development rate. We don’t consider quality should cost extra and won’t charge for these inclusions.
So if you are a UK business owner who has been looking at ways to not only save money, but run a more efficient and effective business operation, this might be something you haven’t yet considered (but should!)
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.