Outsourcing is undoubtedly the best way to cut down big time on costs while utilizing best technological platforms. However, there is a common hurdle while hiring someone on board, choosing a professional web development company and a freelancer. After this discussion, you will be able to make your mind regarding what option to prefer when you plan to outsource your IT projects.
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The major problem you encounter while dealing with freelancers is transparency lacks to a great extent since they are located at a place out of reach, or in a completely different region altogether. Since you have no information whatsoever regarding their experience, delivery, or qualifications, it is difficult to monitor them constantly. It is more like a gamble here rather than a conscious approach.
With a professional company, things are pretty easier. Since they have a physical setup in place with stakeholders, infrastructure, technical team, and more, you tend to gain more trustworthiness into the company.
Freelancers are not very professional when it comes to meeting the project deadlines on time. In fact, they won’t respond to phone calls, emails, and in any other ways.
This is not the case with a brick and mortar company wherein there is an unbreakable agreement between two parties. The agreement is enforceable making it evident for both parties for binding to the agreement in fear of the penalties involved. Additionally, in absence of resources, freelancers take much longer to complete the same project.
This is not the case with a brick and mortar company wherein there is an unbreakable agreement between two parties. The agreement is enforceable making it evident for both parties for binding to the agreement in fear of the penalties involved. Additionally, in absence of resources, freelancers take much longer to complete the same project.
Working with a company is way costlier than working with individuals since a company involves a team of experts working on your project. However, the expenditure within a company pays off in long run, since there are no major risks involved even in most complex scenarios. While freelancers come for cheap, but they do accompany too many project hurdles resulting in long term disasters.
Because a project is protected by a warranty period, you can demand the professional company you have hired, to work on the left out aspects. In fact, the company will do rectify the issues still under the warranty period, to keep the reputation intact. Even as far as the confidentiality goes, the privacy issue is dealt through a confidentiality agreement. Herein, sensitive data is protected by the hired company, so that project details are not leaked to anybody.
With freelancers, there is no such agreement, and hence data privacy is a big issue under scrutiny. Since there is no agreement, there is always a risk involved with sensitive information getting leaked out to someone else or competitors.
Years of experience play a critical role in accomplishing big when it comes to technicalities within your projects. For problems to get solved faster, experience involves tackling all kinds of situations in a rapid manner, especially in terms of wide technical expertise.
Working with a professional company means you are employing a team of expert designers and developers that add something to the table bringing in more knowledge and skill set.
A professional company has the right kind of infrastructure and people to provide an ongoing customer support even after passing on the product to the clients. Freelancers lack the right kind of setup and hence it is not possible for them to provide ongoing maintenance.
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As per the thorough discussion we had above, a professional company has more or less same advantages as that of freelancers. However, there is just one disadvantage associated with hiring a professional company, compared to a number of disadvantages with freelancers.
Hence, if cost factor is not a major issue, hiring professional company is an ideal approach; whereas, if finance is a major concern, it is a wise approach to opt for freelancers.
Harshal Shah is the CEO of Elsner Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He has an overall experience of more than three decades in the IT industry. His area of interest lies in writing interesting pieces of content mostly on topics relevant to different types of CMS platforms. He wants to ensure that readers get acquainted with multiple web development tools & techniques so that we are able to build a technology-driven world for the future.
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