Sapphire knows a thing or two about software development. Having developed our own suite of successful software products and tools, we have leveraged our experience and expertise to provide quality development teams to our clients.
We are all faced with ever increasing competition and the drive to reduce costs and maximize profits. How do you meet the challenge of completing software projects in the face of a shortage of skilled resource and escalating costs?
Many companies offer the development of software projects using resources but these do not offer you the flexibility and control that you often need.
- Do you frequently use expensive contract IT staff?
- Do you need to increase your IT team periodically for specific projects?
- Do you have a backlog of IT development due to lack of resource or budget?
- Are you struggling to find the right skills at the right price to enable you to develop your ideas?
If you answer yes to any of the above then read on!
How does it work?
What do we do?
What you do?
Why Sapphire?
Savings
How does it work?
We work with you to identify your requirements by:
- Defining the team in terms of number of people and skills
- Creating a short list of suitable candidates for your final approval
- Agreeing on a team leader
- Recruiting, providing all office facilities and setting up your team - ready to start.
What do we do?
For your single monthly fee:
- Recruit suitable staff. The staff can be under a month to month contract, yearly contracts or project durations contracts. The choice is yours!
- Provide office, computers, plus replication of your infrastructure if needed.
- Provide internet (high bandwidth); telephone.
- Pay staff salaries.
- Provide office benefits such as holidays and sick pay.
- Handle all local bureaucracy and tax issues.
- Provide administration and supervision.
- Provide weekly or monthly timesheet reporting.
What you do?
We set up the team - you manage the Project and provide the work for your team and pay a single monthly fee against a UK invoice - that's all you need to worry about!
Why Managed Development Services?
Sapphire considers each client to be our partner in the recruiting and development process. We listen to our clients and take a personal approach to customizing each team for the client's staffing and development need. Sapphire works quickly and with the highest degree of quality, so each client can maximize opportunities in their industry.
Check out our case studies to see how we have helped solve the resource problems of other companies.
Our facilities provide access to low cost, highly skilled individuals. They give you:
- Access to Computer, Mathematics and Science graduates from some of the best academic universities in the world
- World class skills in Java, C++, C#, VB, .NET, Access, HTML/XML, MS SQL, Oracle etc
- An incredible work ethic and a desire to succeed.
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view a sample CV of one of our candidates.
Savings
Whilst the quality of staff and skills are amongst the highest in the world, cost savings can be substantial too. This is illustrated in the following:
Let's assume you have a new software development project and you estimate you will need additional people.
Team of 4 programmers + 1 Team Leader. Employment and contractor costs compared to one of our worldwide locations over a 6 month period.
Please note: Example costs are for comparison purposes only and actual costs may vary dependant upon skills required.
SAVINGS OF UP TO 80%!
Over the last 4 years Sapphire has established and refined an innovative resourcing model that offers you unrivalled flexibility and control over your own highly skilled technical team - all for a single monthly fee.
And all this is available to you with minimum commitment, NO capital outlay and most importantly substantial cost savings of up to 80%!
Traditional project based outsourcing doesn't give you the flexibility you require and with a third party involved you are always one step removed from the development process. This can increase the risk of project overruns and often doesn't realize the anticipated cost benefits.
Sapphire's unique features put you in control of a world class development team which gives you the lowest cost solution to your software development needs.
Our software development estimated price calculator tool will guide you in building your own development team.