We partner with technology / consulting companies to deliver value to the end clients. We do not directly work with user industry, as we believe that our partners are in best position to understand their needs and can service them the best.

Over the years, we have worked with companies having varying needs and with diverse working arrangements. Based on this experience, we have developed three working models, at least one of which should match your requirements with or without modification.

Our commitment to "partnership" model of working starts from your first contact with us. It will be our top management, that will interact with you, address all your solutions and work out a win-win formula to team up as partners.

We study your current business and solution delivery model and suggest places where we can fit in to improve your cost efficiency. This can be any place in your Software development cycle.

We even map our quality and documentation systems to that of yours, so that your project, marketing & management teams experience seamless integration of our teams working with you. Thus all documents / communication you receive from us will be in YOUR format.

Fixed bid projects

Probably the simplest way to get started with us. Jus give us the project specifications, your delivery and budget expectation. We come back to you with our fixed bid for the project with defined specifications. Additional charges for any work related to additions or changes in specifications are quoted in man days. Iota ensures that a defect free delivery is provided before the deadline. The payments are based on milestones namely basic design, detailed design, prototype/screen shots, module wise on delivery and after successful client testing. This model essentially transfers the risk of cost overrun from the partner to iota. Recent study shows that the overall cost of fixed bid projects given to iota ranges from 40% to 60% of the project if it is developed in house by the partner. Please feel free to send specifications for your proposed projects to verify the fact.

Man-months based project billing

For partners willing to deal with the uncertainties themselves, and for projects where specifications are not very clear for each phase of the project, this option works out better than fixed bid projects. The partner identifies the project type and provides the specifications to iota, and also outlines the team size and skills required to be deployed for the project. A project manager, interacts with partner keeping him updated about progress. The project management setup is flexible and the partner can get involved into it at a level desired by him. Billing is done on weekly basis based on the resources allocated to the project. The resources allocated to project can either be used for the offshore work and can also travel to partner's place or partner's client's place for onsite work.

Dedicated offshore software development setup

For partners having a very high volume of software development work every year, and for those who would like to have a direct control over there team, iota acts as a facilitator to setup a dedicated software development team, infrastructure and take care of all administrative aspects in India. The partner directly works with team, decides the jobs to be allocated and projects to be executed etc. In nutshell, it is like having a subsidiary for software development in India for which all administrative matters are taken care of and the partner has to concentrate only on project execution through a project manager. This kind of service requires an initial setup charges and monthly fixed charges for all the services provided. The same setup can also be used to source programmers or consultants for onsite assignments. Training of such personnel on partner's proprietary technologies can be carried out before This works out to be most economical and flexible option for high volume of software development. The setup can further grow into a joint venture company, if the partner is keen to have a financial participation in the venture.