Bamboo's Services
What should you be looking for when procuring a range of services from an outsourcing company? Should be be looking for a supplier which can provide a single service well? Or should be be looking to procure a wide range of services from a single supplier in order to reduce the costs of managing your vendors and the associated contracts?
While both approaches have their adherents, boutique providers often fail in complex deployments due to the failure of attracting the necessary skills to complete all phases of the project. While the "one stop shop" often fails to provide a consistent quality amongst the offered services, and in many cases is simply providing a menu of poorly integrated, often conflicting range of skills and services.
The trusth is that the secret to success in complex deployments and application development projects is to chose a vendor that offers an underlying framework upon which it provides a wide range of services. The framework approach ensures that
- The offered services are fully integrated and leverage a common skill base
- Costs are managed appropriately as all skills are known in advance and are fully utilised
- New services can be defined and offered quickly and retain the level of integration of all previously offered services
- There iss a common, well defined set of methodologies for progression from one service to another
- Quality is maintained
- You continue to procure from a single vendor
Bamboo provides the benefits of both a boutique vendore and a "one-stop shop" by developing and offering services and solutions based upon the Bamboo Services Framework
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