Why Outsource?

Outsourcing is an indispensable strategy in today’s fiercely competitive environment. Offshore partners can help your company stay competitive and ensure continued success. With the right outsourcing strategy, your company can:

• Reduce and control operating costs
• Offload non-core tasks to focus on strategic company functions
• Free-up internal resources
• Acquire personnel with specialized skills that aren’t readily available locally
• Spread out operational risks
• Improve time-to-market

But if improperly done, outsourcing can actually hinder your success. According to Gartner (a technology research organization based in Connecticut), of the companies using outsourcing:

• 75% do not use an outsourcing strategy
• 50% express dissatisfaction but continue to increase their outsourcing budget
• 80% renew outsourcing contracts in spite of experiencing dissatisfaction.

Gartner also finds that:

• 3 out of 10 large service-providers will go out of business in the next five years
• 20% of a company’s annual outsourcing budget goes toward managing outsourcing vendors
• 10% of companies that suspend outsourcing will experience inadequate budgeting to rebuild internal competency

Growth Acceleration Partners helps your company maximize its resources and attain a competitive advantage through a sound outsourcing strategy. We begin by carefully analyzing your business and its strengths and weaknesses to fully understand it and uncover outsourcing opportunities that align with your productivity and profitability goals. Based on this knowledge, we put together and manage an offshore team optimized to meet your specific needs.

Who We Are

We are a part of Growth Acceleration Partners, a United States company with offices in Austin, Texas, and San José, Costa Rica. Our global engineering staff is highly trained and well-versed on the industry’s best practices. Our management team, located in Austin, possesses extensive experience in global agile-style project-management methodologies. Our approach is to know the business and needs of our clients intimately to formulate a sound outsourcing strategy. We will form ideally suited teams consisting of local project managers and offshore engineers to deliver exceptional outsourcing value to your business.

Our Engineering Staff

Our primary development center is located in San José, Costa Rica. Because we have extensive operating experience with the highest-quality offshore providers in the world, we can also access teams of the best engineers in Eastern Europe and in other areas of Latin America. We have special relationships with providers in Serbia and Romania.

Skills and Technologies

Our global engineering staff offers a full spectrum of diverse, high-demand, specialized skills, including:

• Java/J2EE
• Jakarta/Tomcat/JBoss
• .NET/C#
• Windows Mobile
• DB2/MVS
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MySQL/PHP
• LAMP in general (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)
• Web 2.0 - AJAX, Atlas, Ruby on Rails
• Flash/Flex/Actionscript
• WinRunner

We have special domain expertise in: Banking, Inventory, Document Management, Workflow, Network Management, Medical Diagnostic Equipment, Animation, eCommerce, Content Management and much more.

Why Growth Acceleration Partners

There are inherent pitfalls when outsourcing to India. The twelve-hour time zone difference makes agile-style development and conference calls extremely difficult. In addition, there are safety and security issues, vastly differing business cultures, and high turnover rates requiring additional time to bring onboard and train new engineers. These factors often lead to quality problems, missed deadlines and cost overruns.

Growth Acceleration Partners' value proposition ensures the ideal marriage of your outsourcing needs with offshore partners that work to help you meet your quality, productivity and profitability goals.

Our Value Proposition

We are not bound by geographical constraints and limited skill sets. Most other outsourcing providers tend to specialize in a limited set of technologies and draw their talent from single locations. We have our own development center plus global relationships with the best-qualified engineers with the most up-to-date skill sets and development experience. In sum, when you partner with us to meet your outsourcing needs, you enjoy:

• Top quality – Our clients always have access to the best trained engineers.

• Total security – Our development center and partners are located only in countries that honor all international agreements regarding trademarks, copyrights and patents.

• Cost effectiveness – Because of the relationships we’ve built with our partners, we have access to the best engineers at competitive rates and we pass the savings on to our clients.

• Tight project management – Our experienced Project Management Team is located in Austin, Texas, so our clients can easily arrange a face-to-face meeting with their Project Manager on short notice.

• Unhindered communication – Not only are our Project Managers just a local phone call away, but our global engineering staff is made up of technologists who speak fluent English.

• Co-development timeliness – Different time zones are not an issue for us. We normally work on US time zones so that you can always access our team when you need them.

• Full commitment – Your success is our paramount concern. To this end, we strive to earn your trust by building a relationship based on a total understanding of your business and your objectives. Only then can we build your offshore team with the technical expertise to implement even the most complex solutions, while delivering on time and within your budget.

Getting Started

Let us discuss how Growth Acceleration Partners can provide your company with outsourcing for higher-quality and better-value software and application development and testing. Get acquainted with our architects and project managers and let us put together for you a proof of concept as the first step toward a lasting and beneficial relationship. Call us (512.431.2193) or contact us by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .