When it comes to a mobile development businesses are considering to do it in-house or outsource. This presentation is about advantages and disadvantages of in-house mobile development and outsourcing mobile development. Interested to work with us? Drop a message sales@triostudio.com Business mobile application development is not an easy thing, so it is worth to learn more about it. The presentation will definitely help you to decide what is better and what issues you will face in mobile development business.

1. Why it is better to outsource
mobile development?
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2. In-house or outsourcing?
In modern world of portable devices, the companies and individuals are struggling of
mobile applications which are aimed to do their life easier and work effective. That is why,
PC software vendors, global and local businesses are seeking to develop their own
applications which will solve the issues of their employees and clients.
But, having an idea, even well documented idea, is not enough to make an app real - the
developers needed.
That is why, the company should choose what is better for them: in-house
development or outsourcing?
In this small presentation we have decided to look through both ways and help you to
decide which of them will be cost-savvy and profitable for you and your business.
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3. Issue:
• You need to develop mobile application
• You don’t have specialized expertise in-house
The question raises:
Hire new staff or find experienced 3d party company?
So what are advantages and disadvantages of in-house mobile
development and outsourcing mobile development?
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4. In-House development
Pros Cons
 Easy communication and
coordination
 More affordable developers
 Deep understanding of company
and its business needs
 Full control over project and timing
 Ability to change priorities and
resources when needed
 Security: no risk of lost or leakage
of company confidential information
 Difficult to find good experienced
mobile developers
 Costly to attract and recruit them
 Costly to train novice developers
 A lot of time needed to see results
 Difficulty in training. Investments in
training can be lost, if developer
decide to leave the company
 Risk of poor or slow performance,
due to inexperience
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5. Outsourcing development
Pros Cons
 Faster results due to experience of
outsourcing team
 No unknowns – proven team with
track record and customer
endorsements
 Costs and delivery dates are known
 No upfront costs to recruit and train
staff
 No risk of lost of critical project
phase
 Innovative technical solution, which
makes app more competitive
 Application from developers with
deep domain expertise
 Potential lack of communication
between you and the team
 Potential lack of deep
understanding of your business
domain
 Difficulty in management of remote
team (time differences)
 Risk of continuous dependency (if
you are planning to update your
app)
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6. As a result we get:
• Hiring new or novice mobile developers is high risk strategy, but outsourcing developers can
harm as well, if they don’t understand your business needs.
• Technical innovation is critical, if product and service depends on changing app market, so you
are in need of real experts.
• Mobile expert onsite hiring is expensive and time consuming task, finding outsourcing partner will
take less time and for almost no investments
• High cost training of new specialists as well as no guarantee if they succeeded, in need of
experts in your domain (reducing risks of inexperience and lack of understanding by outsourcers)
• Security – based on our experience this issue is the most common when you are going to
develop business mobile application, which must interact with your company server. Usually
companies choose in-house development to bypass the issues that may occur, but if you need
the app ASAP you may consider to outsource it. That is why outsourcing partner should have a
deep experience in the server integration and not to specialize in stand alone apps. Also your
provider should have deep security expertise and have knowledge of MDM,MAM and BYOD
policies
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7. Industry Numbers
According to the latest statistics by Zendprise (www.zenprise.com)
about 81% of companies are developing or going to develop custom
mobile applications. And, not looking at how strange it may sound, 40
% of them are going to outsource apps, and 40% are going to build
them in house.
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8. What will save us money?
Well, it quite depends on the type of business you are running. If you are planning to
launch application for the market it is better to choose professional and sign NDA with
them. But if it is application for your business needs and will be used only by staff and/or
your clients you may consider to start on-site development.
It is quite clear that the cost of in-house development will be much more higher,
comparing with outsourcing. For example, to hire one developer will cost you more then
5 000 USD monthly, and you will need a team of 5 or 10, depending on your
requirements and time frames, also you will need to train them which is about 2000-5000
USD for one developer. So totally you will need to spend minimum 50 000 USD monthly
for your team. And the project will last for 6 months including trainings and risks, so it will
be more then 300 000 USD.
What about outsourcing? Well the scenario is much more better: if you have a large
project it will cost you 100 000 -150 000 USD to be completed in 3-4 months. You are not
paying for training, office, devices – you only pay for code and design. Sounds better, I
think!
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9. So what to choose?
Well, if for your business it is first mobile project you should choose
outsources of course: to get experience, to learn how it works, what
resources needed etc. And to save time and money.
Also you should at least outsource scope and technical design, since
for newly created team it is time-consuming and really painful process.
There also some cases we have mentioned before, when outsourcing
is better.
But if you are planning your mobile business you should hire your own
developers or at least dedicated team to work for you.
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10. Decided to OUTSOURCE?
Choose your best mobile development
partner!
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Get your mobile project done fast!
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