Outsourcing work approaches: Custom Remote Team

A custom remote team is a software development outsourcing approach whereby the provider, after developing a deep understanding of the customer’s specific needs, forms a hand-picked team of developers, managers, testers and designers whose skill-set is a perfect match with those needs. This specialized team works as a natural extension of the customer’s local staff, putting their expertise at the customer’s disposal. Such teams often become acutely familiar with the customer’s goals, business values and corporate philosophy, since they can work together for months or even years. This approach requires the customer’s involvement at the project’s outset in order to ensure a strong bond is forged between the customer and the custom remote team.

In many years of experience, the Custom Remote Team approach has proven to be the most effective way for existing businesses and large tech ventures to outsource IT projects and fund them with raised capital. There are several advantages to employing a Custom Remote Team. For instance:

  • Since each team member possesses industry/technology-specific expertise, a Custom Remote Team quickly becomes a natural extension of the client’s internal team. By leveraging its specific experience in the client’s industry, a Custom Remote Team provided by an Offshore Development Center can add value to the client’s business metrics by offering keen insights on how to design a new solution or improve upon an existing one, as well as make suggestions on best practices.
  • A Custom Remote Team’s developers have accrued expertise in multiple industries, and some may be more knowledgeable in certain fields than others. This makes it easy for the provider and the customer to handpick a development team that’s a perfect fit for the client’s industry. This flexibility equates to a more efficient, less expensive development plan, and stronger provider-client relations.
  • Opting for a Custom Remote Team ensures peace of mind when it comes to estimating your monthly IT expenditures. This is because you can treat the Custom Remote Team members as if they were your own employees, and pay them a “salary” from a fixed monthly budget.
  • When you hire a Custom Remote Team, the upside is not that you’re buying a certain number of “outsourcing development hours”. Rather, it’s the team’s collective expertise and the harmony in which they work that compels the “reason for purchase”.

Since a Custom Remote Team already possesses considerable experience in the client’s industry and can therefore provide the kind of “product sourcing advantages” that would be impossible for an uninformed partner to access, a clear “path of understanding” is swiftly created between the client and the Team. Moreover, the Custom Remote Team is fully aware of the customer’s main business metrics from the outset, and is solely focused on delivering optimum value and money-saving opportunities. From a developer’s point of view, already being familiar with a customer’s business metrics means increased productivity, since the developer already understands the value of their software coding and the cost of any mistakes or oversights. The Custom Remote Team approach represents risk-sharing between two parties at its most efficient and effective!

Sibers’ Custom Remote Team

Since our founding in 1998, Sibers has assembled several teams of talented engineers and designers and seamlessly plugged them into pre-existing client teams to manage complex projects and achieve great things within a diverse range of company cultures. As your business matures, so too does our integration, which further expedites the achievement of goals and objectives. The more we learn about your business, the more effective we are.

We do our best work with clients who choose to make outsourcing an extension of their own team. For an overview of the processes we’ve developed to accomplish various client goals, please click here. And for several informative case studies, please click here. Who knows — maybe your company will be our next success story!

Featured case studies developed with Custom remote team approach

Pro Angler: Highly-Rated Fishing App

Canada

Pro Angler is a popular fishing app which allows its users to benefit from loads of tips and insights authored by local pro anglers from US, UK and Australia.

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Matisseo Photo Book Publishing Service

France

Matisseo is a popular French photo book publishing service. With Matisseo, a user can create, share and purchase photo books online. Sibers provided the client with four solutions: in-site photo book sharing and preview functions, an online photo book editor, an order processing system, and prepress automation.

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MOD-PAC: A Leading Packaging Manufacturer Seeks the Best Business Automation Solution

USA

MOD-PAC, a large and well-established manufacturer of custom folding cartons, services its many global customers from a 500,000 square‐foot production facility in Buffalo, NY. Sibers team has developed for MOD-PAC a comprehensive business automation solution with a vendor management inventory (VMI) system at the heart of it.

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Filmr: World's Most Intuitive Mobile Video Editor

Brazil

This classy project’s customers are two professional surfers — twin brothers from Brazil. Having loved surfing since they were kids, one sunny day they began capturing their runs on camera.

Twenty years later, in 2016, the brothers decided to create a video editing app of their own — not just for personal reasons, but also because it was a good chance to ride the wave of video content’s rising popularity, which incidentally is still rising as it replaces static images.

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HireWriters: A Freelance Marketplace for Writers

USA

While doing his business, our client, a talented engineer and entrepreneur, came across the problem of finding appropriate copywriters, thus decided to create the most convenient content marketplace ever.

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Web-to-Print E-commerce Solution

Australia

Founded in his rural garage in Australia, our client’s printing business has blossomed into a successful company with hundreds of partners and thousands of clients nationwide.

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Custom Operations and POS Device Management Systems for a Large Telecom Provider

Australia

Three years later, we’ve not only built a system that enables single sign-on for the company’s staff on a variety of websites, but we have also created a variety of tools, ranging from management software for business operations, to custom POS devices.

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Eyefi Wireless Memory Card

USA

One of the most rewarding aspects of being an outsourcing provider is watching a solution you helped create grow from a basic concept into a hugely successful application. One such success story is Eyefi, which has attracted thousands of customers worldwide and brought millions of dollars to its founders since its 2007 debut.

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Set-Top Box and TV Content Delivery Applications

Canada

Our client, a globally-active Internet and TV provider, offering channels packages for US, Canadian, European and Asian audience. He asked Sibers to build several digital tools for content delivery to end-users, as well as facilitate discovery.

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Connexiti: A Massive Financial Analysis System

USA

Connexiti is a massive financial analysis system that Sibers developed for a client which has since been acquired by Bloomberg L.P. The Connexiti platform allows its users to create customized portfolios, organize and upload company models and research, and filter and tag relevant news articles from thousands of global sources. This helps investors better understand money flows between companies on a global basis and make predictive stock calls.

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Logos3D: A 3D Simulations Engine

Netherlands

This project, which has won multiple awards and scholarships, was launched in the Netherlands by two brothers, who are the two biggest 3D technology enthusiasts we’ve ever met. As with almost every game engine, their offering, Logos3D, began as an internal project intended to help the brothers create their own games. Later it grew into a comprehensive proprietary middleware for creating lush, natural 3D virtual environments ideal for games, interactive simulators, and research tools. Indeed, Logos3D’s application field is very diverse.

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LCD-based Hotel Advertising System

France

Originally developed for one particular hotel chain, the system has since greatly expanded its global footprint, and the client now offers the application as an SaaS that’s used by multiple luxury hotel chains worldwide. The proof is in the pudding: statistics show a spending increase of 23% from each guest who receives personalized advertisements through the system.

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MoneyPen CRM and Job Management System

Australia

Our client was an Australian IT specialist tasked by his brother to automate the latter’s service business: electricians and plumbers. Due to excessive paperwork and a sub-optimal workflow, tradies jobs weren’t meeting revenue expectations.

Sibers multi-faceted solution automates a tradies service’s management and tracks all instruments and materials, whether in-facility or on a service car.

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Application for Teaching Sports Technique

USA

The solution, based on biomechanical principles, data mining, and statistics, provides athletes with a uniquely effective training tool that is now used in more than 70 sports facilities worldwide.

And in more good news, the training application was featured in The Washington Post, which wondered if the technology could help win an Olympic gold. It not only did just that, but also helped set a new world record!

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Clinical Trials Solution

USA

Our customer is a service and IT consultant for institutions and organizations conducting clinical trials and biomedical studies across America. Sibers was asked to develop a platform that combined the functionalities of medical data capture, biological samples, associated data storage and retrieval, and clinical trial management.

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Colorado Timberline B2B Garment Printing

USA

Colorado Timberline’s facilities are now shipping over a million units per year. Sibers’ platform has helped the company position itself among the custom apparel design field’s top players, turning it into a wholesale print-on-garment enterprise offering inkjet printing, sublimation, laser etching and embroidery.

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