Onshore vs. Offshore Salesforce Development: How to Hire Developers

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Onshore vs. Offshore Salesforce Development
How to Hire Developers
Any kind of service from experts tends to have
layered challenges, but more often than not, the
benefits definitely outweigh those. Such is the
matter with Salesforce development. Salesforce is
a sufficiently complex system to configure and
work with. The result of using Salesforce is, of
course, phenomenal. Salesforce is, as usual, the
1 CRM used across the world. So as a business,
if you are willing to take on the challenge of
migrating your systems and workflows to
Salesforce tools, you know the reward will be
worth it. Now, of course, there is no one way to
go about this. There are several Salesforce
experts that can help you with your project. But
the true question is about compatibility. Who is
the perfect developer or team for your project?
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• Here are a few questions you can ask yourself
  before setting about to look for a team
• Do you want to migrate all your business
  processes to Salesforce at the same time?
• What is the requirement of your department that
  this migration will most impact?
• How much money are you willing to invest for this
  at a go?
• Do you have an expert or team in-house that will
  be able to take up the migration?
• Do you have the bandwidth to onboard and train
  team members for this project?
• Do you work well with external teams?
• Once you have some answers to these questions,
  you will be able to proceed easily.
• Ideally, whenever you are uprooting your current
  systems to a new one, you should first do a
  recon of your organization. Which teams need it
  the most? Then compartmentalize which
  departments get the first updates. After all, it
  is a new process and tool, and you need to check
  the organizational adoption rate and behavior to
  judge if they are ready for it.
• Next, you need to figure out how much you are
  willing to invest in the project. For such a
  complex tool, of course, development comes at a
  high cost. But this question is better answered
  in combination with the ones after it.
• There are multiple types of Salesforce
  development services available. You can opt for a
  completely in-house development, an external
  development team, or opt for a hybrid
  development approach where the external team does
  the implementation, but the training and
  post-development support is taken up by the
  in-house team.
• Lets see the major differences between onshore
  vs. offshore Salesforce development.
• Inhouse vs. External Salesforce Development
  Inhouse Salesforce Development

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• In-house team is already a part of your current
  process, so they are also comfortable
• with the entire organization, so compatibility
  will not be an issue.
• An in-house Salesforce development team will cost
  significantly lesser.
• You will not have to onboard a whole new team,
  saving countless hours and effort on your part.
  Not to mention there will be no need for more
  real estate for additional team members, no need
  for more equipment, and so on.
• Compared to this, heres how it can go with an
  external team
• No need to manage external team members, so you
  are free to focus on your regular tasks while
  the Salesforce developers take care of the
  development.
• Since external Salesforce developers have worked
  with multiple organizations, they have more
  experience for what an organization in your
  industry may need, therefore providing a much
  more assured path for growth. They will not only
  solve current challenges but also work on
  future-proofing solutions for you.
• Apart from that, because they have worked with so
  many different organizations of varying sizes
  before, they are also good at collaborating with
  your in-house teams to get the project sorted.
• You will not have to traditionally onboard them,
  as they will have their own protocols and
  methodologies to follow for development and team
  management. They will also have their own
  equipment and workflows.
• All you have to do is ensure you communicate
  consistently with them, so there are no gaps and
  surprises once the deliverables are done.
• We have some experience in being a great external
  team. We can truly be your technology partner
  for Salesforce development! Lets talk more about
  it.
• But even with external teams, there are two
  options
• Onshore vs. Offshore Salesforce Development

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• Onshore Salesforce Development
• They are still an external member, but you can
  onboard this team in your office, so there is
  that much close association with them.
• Your investment will have to include all the
  onboarding processes you do with your employees
  since they will be working out of your campus.
• If they are from another country, you will have
  to take up all the required legal
  responsibilities to hire them, including but not
  limited to a work visa. You might have to
  provide accommodation
• Offshore Salesforce Development
• Offshore Salesforce development team is perhaps
  one of the most flexible teams to work with. Of
  course, since they have plenty of experience,
  there is no challenge in terms of work
  requirements.
• Your investment is significantly lesser since you
  dont have to onboard them in the office or,
  really, even in the same country.
• They are self-managed, so you dont have to use
  effort to manage them. All you have to do is
  ensure that your teams work well with them, and
  thats all. They can take over the
  responsibility of the technology needs, and you
  can focus on your core business and operations.
• They are timezone aligned with you, so you dont
  have to worry about having to wait to
  communicate with them every day.
• And lastly, the third approach would be to opt
  for a hybrid development process so that an
  external team does your Salesforce implementation
  or development and the staff training and
  post-development support are taken care of
  in-house.
• Since Salesforce evolves constantly and is quite
  layered, this eliminates the support and
  training costs that you would have to pay the
  external team.

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In the end, the most flexible and affordable
option is perhaps to go with the
offshore Salesforce developers. They will work at
your convenience, have a varied experience, and
cost significantly less, monetarily as well as
logistically. CRMJetty has talented Offshore
Salesforce developers with over 16 years of
experience working with various types and sizes
of industries. You can check out our Salesforce
prowess on our website and know more about our
Offshore Salesforce Development services. To set
up a conversation, please contact us. Original
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