services
Brightgrove has the flexibility to offer a broad array of solutions, ranging from small one-time projects to large, complex offshore operations with dozens of full-time employees.
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The Virtual Captive business model is ideal for companies that want to set up offshore software development facilities for long term needs, or launch an IT business startup without having to commit the time and resources required to set up and operate a legal entity of their own.
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Time and Material is the best choice for those R&D projects where the overall amount of the required development effort cannot be predicted in advance, or where the business requirements for the software being developed are frequently changed during the development process. |
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A Dedicated Team is a group of developers with a set of specific skills who meet the project and business requirements and are based at our offshore production center. A Dedicated Team works as a natural extension of your own IT department following your processes and best practices. It understands the nature and specifics of your business and duly responds to the frequently changing requirements.
A Dedicated Team can be available to you for a fixed monthly fee.
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Fixed Cost is usually applied when you have budget limitations and you want to have a fixed scope project implemented within a stable business environment. In case you do not have any clearly defined requirements or technical specifications, Brightgrove can assist in developing them for you. We have extensive experience accurately estimating the development effort and delivery schedule and can be of great help in ensuring all your needs and budget expectations are met. |
virtual captive
The Virtual Captive business model allows you to retain managerial control over the offshore development process while utilizing the resources and expertise of the service provider. Overall, virtual captives are ideal for companies that want to set up long-term offshore software development operations without having to commit the time and resources to set up a legal entity of their own.
The Virtual Captive business model combines the strengths of both the offshore captive center and dedicated team models. A captive center is an extension of the parent business that the parent business builds and manages entirely on its own. A virtual captive, on the other hand, uses the readily available expertise and resources of the service provider while enjoying the benefits of an offshore captive center, such as the managerial control over the staff selection, risks, and performance.
We leverage our expertise of the local market to create a pool of candidates whom you will have the possibility of screening personally. Once the manpower is in place, we will simply set up the workplaces and equipment. Everything, from the recruitment process to the operational management will be handled jointly with you. This can prove highly beneficial for larger-scale projects that require attention to detail and thorough mitigation of the risks involved. After the operation has proven stable and productive, you can completely take over the management of the captive entity.
Benefits:
- Readily available infrastructure
- Control over the operations and staff selection
- Fast ramp-up time
- Fully transparent pricing
- Management fee separate from the individual operational agreements
- More flexible work hours of the offshore staff
- Secured intellectual property
- Risks shared between the service provider and the client
- Expansion contractually encouraged
cost structure
For the Virtual Captive and Dedicated Team models, Brightgrove offers a very simple and completely transparent cost structure. The monthly fee per full-time employee (FTE) is calculated using the following formula:
Monthly cost per FTE = (salary and benefits) + administrative overhead
This simple cost structure gives you full control over the costs, as well as the possibility of negotiating the amount of the employee compensation and benefits directly with the candidates prior to their employment with us. This removes immediately the most damaging of all conflicts of interests arising in the outsourcing industry: the provider hires the people offering them the lowest possible wage and then bills them out at the highest possible rate.
The administrative overhead includes the costs associated with the following activities:
- Operational management, network and IT administration
- Legal and accounting support in compliance with the Ukrainian Law and tax regulations
- Infrastructure, including office space, workstations, secretarial services, PC repairs
- Staff management, coaching and supervision
- HR and recruitment activities, including advertising, pre-screening, interviewing
- Startup support and consulting about the best existing practices for managing remote development teams
dedicated team
A Dedicated Team is a group of developers with a set of specific skills who meet the project and business requirements and are based at offshore production center. A Dedicated Team works as a natural extension of your own IT department following your processes and best practices. It understands the nature and specifics of your business and duly responds to the frequently changing requirements.
A Dedicated Team can be available to you for a fixed monthly fee.
The Dedicated Team model is the most popular one, as it allows you to set up a dedicated offshore operation with the minimum risks. We establish software development teams in Ukraine to enable our customers to work directly with the developers, thus reaching the highest level of productivity possible.
We leverage our expertise of the local market to create a pool of candidates whom you will have the possibility of screening personally. Once the manpower is in place, we will simply set up the workplaces and equipment. Everything, from the recruitment process to the operational management, will be handled jointly with you.
Benefits:
- 40-60% cost savings compared with onsite development
- Increased productivity and team efficiency compared with the traditional outsourcing
- Effective adaptation of your development processes and best practices
- Dedicated team members always available for communication. Elimination of the cultural gap, the highest possible level of collaboration
- Full control over the operations, staff selection and development process
- Transparent pricing
- Availability of the required infrastructure, rapid scaling and startup
- Full protection of the intellectual property rights
project based model
A profound knowledge of the domain, technology expertise, the best-in-class processes and a proven track record of successful delivery enable us to work using a project-based model, thus sharing all the development-related risks with our clients.
As part of this project-based model, Brightgrove provides a full cycle of software development services that can be tailored to meet your specific business needs. We offer the Project Based model based on both the Fixed Cost and Time and Material cost structures.
Time and Material is the best choice for those R&D projects where the overall amount of the required development effort cannot be predicted in advance, or where the business requirements for the software being developed are frequently changed during the development process.
Fixed Cost pricing model is suitable for projects with a known scope, or those projects where changes in the business environment do not affect the project's functionality. In case you do not have any clearly defined requirements and technical specification, Brightgrove can develop it for you, accurately estimating the development effort and delivery schedule and meeting all your needs and budget expectations.