Consist Offshore Services

In brief

With Consist Offshore Services we offer our customers offshore cooperation with our sister company Consist Argentina.

Consist Argentina is a partner company directly associated with Consist Germany, both with a sound financial basis. According to the Gartner survey, Argentina is one of the top 30 countries for offshore services, particularly because Argentina displays cultural and linguistic affinities with Western industrialized countries and a similar understanding of quality.

Application scenarios

For companies to use IT offshoring successfully, they need to make the right choice of the topic to be outsourced and the expertise involved. However, what is often underestimated in terms of its significance for the success of IT offshoring is that a certain level of maturity is also needed, in respect of a process-oriented approach and a constructive cooperation culture amongst the staff working at the interface with the offshore partner.

Consist Offshore Services are particularly appropriate for the development of individual software and for clearly structured support topics – such as those in system operations – which are characterized by recurring tasks.

Consist Offshore Services: The lower risk offshoring alternative

Against the background of increasing global competition – currently aggravated by the strained worldwide financial and economic situation – a lot of companies have trouble keeping pace with market dynamics and find themselves at the mercy of huge cost pressure. This creates a driver for outsourcing, especially as (in the Western industrialized countries) there is a structural tendency towards over-expensive production.

For this reason, the companies of the future are turning more and more to global business models, and offensively opting for flexible and extensive cooperation with partners for their operational tasks, especially those of a technical nature, while they themselves increasingly take over the strategic and controlling activities.

Amongst the numerous outsourcing options, IT offshoring in particular is often discussed along with the enormous cost saving potential it offers. With Consist Offshore Services the use of international location advantages is combined with a clearly structured and comprehensive management approach. This ensures that you not only benefit from the cost-effectiveness of the service, but also obtain the desired quality within the set timescale. 

By using Consist Offshore Services you can successfully benefit from the opportunities offered by IT offshoring and at the same time minimize the risks of the traditional offshore approach, in relation to:

• Control and coordination with the offshore partner, which is characterized by a culture of close and constructive cooperation due to our corporate partnership with Consist Argentina.
• Achievable and nonetheless attractive savings potential through the involvement of Consist Argentina resources.
• The security offered by German cooperation/project agreements with Consist as a privately run company with a solid financial basis
• Consist’s many years of experience as an internationally proven IT partner for integration and individual solutions.

 
In the traditional offshore approach, the benefits achieved by involving a service provider from a location with extremely low wage levels (usually Asia) are often outweighed by the highly obvious consequences of passing the order on to a partner who is neither calculable nor controllable. Ultimately major financial risks for the fulfillment of the order arise, due to the additional costs of the project activity or management, limitations in terms of quality or functionality, and also shifting deadlines. 

In order for our Consist Offshore Services customers to derive maximum benefit from our bestshoring concept, it is crucial that our customers operate within a culture of cooperation, in other words the staff involved in offshore projects need to have a positive underlying attitude to offshoring and must be suited to working internationally on a partnership basis. 

Transparent offshore costing with Consist Offshore-Services 

The project is costed on a hybrid basis, taking account of the cost of Consist Germany, the cost of the bestshoring partner, and also the coordination input from Consist Germany for the entire project. This means that customers of Consist Offshore Services are sure of the following advantages:
 

• Cost savings due to lower hourly rates,
• Risk minimization due to the transparency of the costing, because the input involved in calibration, coordination and familiarizing the bestshoring partner, which is often underestimated and often not even included in the cost, is clearly identified,
• Flexibility with the option of running the contract (agreement with Consist Germany) either on a time spent basis or as a fixed price project.

The particular benefits of our offshore cooperation with Consist Argentina

Our Consist colleagues from Argentina and our Consist staff members in Germany complement each almost totally other in terms of both their specialist and content skills (e.g. sector expertise or service portfolio coverage) and the critical success factors for offshoring (such as proximity to customers, German legal certainty or costs) as shown by the following graphic:

Consist Argentina is based in Buenos Aires, the most European city in Latin America, whose culture bears the stamp of the countless immigrants from Europe following both World Wars, including many Germans, who nowadays live in Buenos Aires as the second generation, often with joint citizenship.

With an investment volume in the educational sector which is comparable to that of Germany, the University of Buenos Aires for example is of a similar standard to that of the University of Hamburg. As a result Argentina achieves almost Western standards of education and thus has highly qualified IT staff of a comparable level, whose mentality is substantially closer to that of Germany than that of their colleagues in Asia.

As an economic region, Argentina offers a financial infrastructure which compares with that of Europe: Being a democratic, presidential federal republic Argentina is politically stable, the economy – equipped with an ultramodern ITC sector – is growing, and unemployment is falling (<9%).

Why not put Consist Offshore Services with Consist Argentina to the test? Our German cooperation and project management offers you the benefit of more than 35 years of experience and competence as an IT service provider, together with our first-class expertise in a large number of our own complex, technically high-grade developments.