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Unlock the Potential of IT Software Development and Staff Augmentation through Rural Sourcing
At QAT Global, we offer a unique approach to IT software development and staff augmentation through Rural Sourcing – A US-based Alternative. With our expertise and access to talent in rural areas, we bring together the best of both worlds – the advantages of outsourcing combined with the benefits of local resources.
Rural Sourcing, also known as onshoring or domestic sourcing, involves sending work to service providers in rural locations where the cost of living and operating expenses are lower. It is a cost-competitive alternative for companies that want to avoid the negative aspects of offshoring to India and China.
QAT Global’s rural sourcing centers leverage best practices for remote service delivery to create large, highly integrated centers of expertise, customized and dedicated to specific client domains. The centers combine expert resources, service delivery best practices, mature infrastructure, and flexible engagement models that best fit the needs of your enterprise.
Types of Projects We Can Help With
Why Rural Sourcing With QAT Global
Our Commitment to Quality
Simply put, we are committed to delivering highly flexible and trusted quality solutions, meeting expectations, and satisfying clients. Our rural sourcing model takes people with the skills and experience you need and places them in rural development centers. This leads to a stable workforce with experience in exactly the IT areas you need. At QAT Global, you get a custom team that meets your needs.
Outsourcing in the Heartland of America
QAT Global can help your company power through the age of information with our broad spectrum of software solutions using our rural sourcing services. By covering the entire software development cycle, we can take an idea and develop it into an integrated finished product. In contrast, we can also coordinate with your company’s existing software team to provide only needed services, such as efficient development or independent quality assurance testing. Our experts will work with you to leverage the software services that will best advance your company toward its goals, and our integration of rural sourcing ensures that the services provided fit your business needs.
Rural outsourcing provides the same basic benefits as other outsourcing arrangements: ready access to technological expertise and resources that the client lacks internally. By locating in domestic rural locations, clients get the value of a local provider combined with the advantage of lower-cost labor outside large metropolitan areas. Cultural compatibility, similar time zones, and proximity to clients make rural outsourcing an attractive option.
In general, the value proposition of rural outsourcing is that clients pay lower prices for IT services than ITO services based in urban areas; and clients receive a better service experience than offshore outsourcing. Transaction costs are significantly lower compared to offshore outsourcing. Price-wise, rural outsourcing offers prices that are 20-40 percent less expensive per hour than urban rates in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago.
Benefits of Rural Sourcing
Established as an attractive alternative to high-priced Metro consultants and Indian and Chinese offshore software development, Rural Outsourcing provides the following benefits for customers seeking software development and quality assurance:
- Lower costs: 20-40% lower cost basis than metro U.S. areas: lower rent, employee cost-of-living, and other overheads
- Better collaboration: 2-4 hour time differences, English speakers
- High-quality talent: Tap into a pool of skilled IT professionals in rural areas who are dedicated to delivering exceptional results.
- Cultural compatibility: Experience a seamless integration of culture, work ethics, and communication styles for smoother project execution.
- Scalability and flexibility: Easily scale your team up or down based on project requirements, allowing for greater agility and adaptability.
- Increased knowledge retention: below-industry attrition, centralized facility
- Established partnerships with local universities for continuing education, training, and providing students with technical job opportunities
- Low rates of attrition in family-friendly communities.
- Time zone proximity: Enjoy the convenience of working with a team located in a nearby time zone, promoting effective collaboration and communication.
Rural Sourcing Services
Web Development
Focusing on an Agile development methodology, QAT Global supports clients by building new applications; supporting/enhancing existing applications; and re-platforming antiquated systems onto more robust, cloud-based, scalable platforms with our rural sourcing services. This Agile methodology and approach to developing, along with leveraging our onshore model, have enabled our clients to double productivity rates and keep costs in line with previous offshore alternatives. We also deliver custom-built, enterprise-scale mobile applications that deliver immediate ROI to our clients.
QAT Global’s developers are proficient in the latest technologies and platforms, including .NET, J2EE, PHP, iOS, Objective C, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML5 and other emerging mobile tools.
Application Development
Focusing on an Agile development methodology, QAT Global’s rural sourcing services support clients by building new applications; supporting/enhancing existing applications; and re-platforming antiquated systems onto more robust, cloud-based, scalable platforms. This Agile methodology and approach to developing, along with leveraging our rural sourcing model, have enabled our clients to double productivity rates and keep costs in line with previous sourcing alternatives.
Testing
We partner with you to ensure your mission-critical software assets and systems are stable, functioning properly, and delivering the level of quality expected by your customers and internal users. You can have the right people doing the right work at the right price.
Drive out cost and increase employee satisfaction by keeping your employees focused on development and delegating quality assurance to our cost-effective testing services. Testing is our focus. We do the extensive QA work many developers dislike and avoid. We provide the needed expertise and management skills to do the job right.
QAT Global’s testing services include ERP Testing, Security & Privacy Testing, Automated Testing, Script Use Case Development, Script Use Case Execution, Usability, and Documentation. Our testing practice combines superior testing services with the SCRUM and Agile development methodologies.
Through our reliable, efficient domestic sourcing model, we can provide superior testing services that enable a faster go live without sacrificing quality. QAT Global can do this by providing a flexible service offering that allows for testing during the entire development of the project or once a project nears completion, whichever the client prefers. This flexibility gives our clients the comfort of knowing that their product will work the first time while minimizing business risk.
QAT Global’s Other Rural Sourcing Services
Our Clients select QAT Global to assist in managing the costs and complexities of supporting and enhancing enterprise applications. At QAT Global, we believe that a nimble approach to placing experienced professionals close to the problem is the most cost-efficient way to get the optimal return on your systems investment.
Our flexible model allows clients to select the best approach to meet their specific needs. Our engagement models range from fully outsourced support with SLA- driven management to flexible hour blocks for a specified period. In some cases, QAT Global’s clients retain a portion of their COE capabilities “in-house” but complement their staffing with QAT Global expertise. QAT Global provides the additional support necessary to reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while maintaining high customer service levels. QAT Global also enables our clients to focus internal resources on new projects while we maintain the production system.
QAT Global’s developers are proficient in the latest technologies and platforms, including .NET, J2EE, PHP, iOS, Objective C, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, JavaScript, HTML5 and other emerging mobile tools.
Front-End: JavaScript, Jquery, AngularJS, BootStrap, KnockoutJS, HTML
Back-End: Java, C#, PHP, Spring, MVC, Spring Security, MyBatis, SQLServer, Oracle, Postgres, MySql
Tools: Eclipse, SOAPUi, several database workbenches, ANT, Maven, SVN, GIT, Cognos
Rural Sourcing:
The Cost-Effective
Alternative to Traditional
IT Outsourcing
from QAT Global
Agile – The New Delivery Standard
Agile is the new delivery standard. And successfully delivering from a remote project center is the highest standard not often achieved. At QAT Global, we’ve been delivering agile projects remotely for over ten years. From mobile application development to global deployments, including Java, CA Gen, Business Intelligence, and e-commerce, we’ve delivered agile On-Premise and Cloud-based solutions. Today, 80% of all QAT Global’s engagements are agile and successfully executed from our project centers, with little or no onsite resource presence. This means you can accelerate delivery schedules and keep your costs to a minimum while preserving the knowledge of your application in one central location. Agile and QAT Global’s rural-based sourcing options create a powerful solution for today’s time-to-market and technical resource demands.
Rural Sourcing Pricing – Cost Savings From the Heartland
By City Savings Comparison
The cost of resources based out of a rural sourcing location like Omaha, NE, offers substantial savings over large cities yet delivers all of the benefits of onshore resources. Clients in these large cities enjoy not only these cost savings but the conveniences of minimal time zone differences, no language barriers, IP protection, and more.
City | Average Team Salaries Compared to Omaha from Salary.com |
Average Federal Labor Rate Adjustments |
Potential Savings From Omaha, NE Rural Sourcing |
---|---|---|---|
New York | 24.57% | 28.72% | 20-30% |
Chicago | 12.07% | 25.10% | 10-25% |
Boston | 16.67% | 24.80% | 10-30% |
San Jose | 29.17% | 35.15% | 20-40% |
Washington DC | 15.81% | 24.22% | 10-25% |
Rural Sourcing Pricing for Software Development Teams
Rural sourcing teams include the same types of team members as any other software development team for a project. These team members include:
Sample Teams
To provide you with a comparison point, we have put together five sample team structures to illustrate the typical average hourly bill rate involved with project types. As you can see, the number of resources required per developer type varies by project.
Typical
typical average bill rate
per hour
- Architect
- Project Manager
- Lead
- 2 Senior Programmer Analyst
- 1 Programmer Analyst II
- 2 Programmer Analyst I
Premium
typical average bill rate
per hour
- Architect
- Project Manager
- Lead
- 2 Senior Programmer Analyst
- 2 Programmer Analyst II
- 0 Programmer Analyst I
Large Project
typical average bill rate
per hour
- Architect
- Project Manager
- 1 Front End 1 Back End Lead
- 6 Senior Programmer Analyst
- 2 Programmer Analyst II
- 2 Programmer Analyst I
UI Team
typical average bill rate
per hour
- Architect
- Project Manager
- 1 Front End 1 Back End Lead
- 6 Senior Programmer Analyst
- 2 Programmer Analyst II
- 2 Programmer Analyst I
Testing
typical average bill rate
per hour
- Architect
- Project Manager
- 1 Front End 1 Back End Lead
- 6 Senior Programmer Analyst
- 2 Programmer Analyst II
- 2 Programmer Analyst I