Advantages

When looking at offshore development, companies have traditionally had to choose between setting up their own captive operations and utilizing traditional outsourcing firms. Both models have limitations and risks, especially in context of core R&D and Product Development activities.

With regard to captive operations, these include:

• High upfront costs of setting up operations in a new geography
• Risks and costs related to local tax and legal compliance
• Corporate overhead burden, especially in case of subscale operation
• Difficulty in attracting the best specialized talent due to lack of familiarity and name recognition in a new geography

Traditional outsourcing is inevitably associated with:

• Vendor lock in and lack of knowledge development inside the company
• Lack of predictability in execution, scope creeps, budget overruns
• Inconsistency in operational and development processes
• Significant misalignment of interests between client and vendor, competition for the best talent

In particular, traditional project outsourcing is ill-suited for core product development activities.

Mirantis Product Development Center (PDC) model breaks the above paradigm by effectively combining the advantages of in-house and outsourced development while eliminating risks associated with those models.

By setting up, staffing, hosting and program managing client operations, Mirantis allows its clients to accommodate a multitude of development needs in a consistent predictable manner.

In effect, Mirantis provides the client with high quality, efficient and fully integrated offshore operation while significantly reducing the risks and costs associated with starting and running own organization.

The benefits of the Mirantis PDC model include:

• consistency of development processes and operation procedures; predictability of results
• shorter time to market for new products
• IP security
• variabilization of development costs
• knowledge accumulation and best practices leverage