London Nov. 7, 2012
Colabpro today introduces a new result guarantee to its software development clients
Colabpro, a European IT services consultancy, today introduced a new and unique result guarantee for its software consulting services, to the market. The guarantee is designed as an outcome based fee structure, where the level of remuneration is determined by reaching set improvement objectives between Colabpro and it clients.
"We have seen outcome based contracts as a key to align business objectives between clients and suppliers for a long time." said Anders Ingerstedt, Founding Partner of Colabpro. "By applying the same logic to our own professional services, we incentives our self to work harder to reach the agreed objectives and we share a portion of the risk with our customers."
A unique result guarantee
"We guarantee that we will reach the agreed targets, or we will not be able to bill the outcome based portion of our fees." continues Anders Ingerstedt. "We strongly feel that this is a move in the right direction, intensifying the collaboration between the stakeholders by aligning objectives and do away with traditional, effort based fee structures that might not end up in any result at all. If we fail we have our own skin in the game." said Anders Ingerstedt.
About Colabpro
Colabpro is a European professional service consultancy that delivers significant improvements in IT projects by optimising software delivery and services. Colabpro combines its Sourcing Service with Software Development Strategy Advice, Project Governance and Support along with Agile Implementation and Coaching.
Colabpro is based in London, Brussels and Stockholm.
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Contact:
Anders Ingerstedt
Colabpro Outsourcing Ltd.
+32 (473) 180057
anders@colabpro.com
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London July 19, 2012
Colabpro provides IT resources and consulting to German telesales leader Max ASP regarding new eCommerce platform for the South African market.
Colabpro, a European IT services consultancy, today announced the cooperation with its new client and partner Max ASP, a high performance telesales company based in Ulm, Germany.
Max ASP has invested in the development of a new eCommerce platform that will initially be launched in South Africa providing a new and unique alternative for South African consumers to purchase products over the Internet.
Colabpro has provided its cost free sourcing service from the Colabpro Xtnd portfolio and helped Max ASP to select a supplier and fit a team to match Max ASP’s business and technical needs. Colabpro also provides agile training and support of implementation for the project.
“We are very pleased with the speed and quality of Colabpro’s selection. We are confident that we now have an IT partner in place that can provide us with the skills and resources we need to make our investment a success,” said Adam Lamont-Brown, founder and CEO of Max ASP. “Our strategy is not build up a large internal IT department but instead to focus our efforts and skills on what we know, how to create a smart and commercially effective eCommerce portal that integrates perfectly with Max ASP’s expertise in the telesales and Call Centre area.”
"By supporting our client with advice and training of how to use agile methodology for project planning and distributed development we believe we significantly can help to reduce risks and cost." said Anders Ingerstedt, Founding Partner of Colabpro. "Our aim is to help our client to turn the project into a commercial success by managing the relationship with the IT partner and to provide the needed support for running the distributed project team in the best possible way"
About Max ASP
Max ASP is a high performance telesales company targeting Mid and Enterprise markets for its clients. The focus is identifying and winning new business, optimising market coverage and driving sales organisation efficiency. From the state-of-the-art Trading Floor facility Max ASP deliver B2B lead generation and sales coordination, field sales qualified appointments and transactional BPO telesales programs with highly qualified sales people and best-in-class sales training, sales business process and performance management.
Max ASP is based in Ulm, Germany and Midrand, South Africa
About Colabpro
Colabpro is a European professional service consultancy that delivers significant cost savings in IT projects by helping clients to establish true partnerships with vendors based in low-cost, near-shore regions. By offering delivery services from Colabpro Xtnd, a unique portfolio of selected vendors, establishing employment of agile principles and aligning the parties' business objectives, Colabpro creates true financial benefits for its clients and its vendors. Colabpro combines its free Sourcing Service with IT Outsourcing Strategy Advice, Project Management and Monitoring, Agile Adoption, Training and Advice.
Colabpro is based in London, Brussels and Stockholm.
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www.colabpro.com
twitter.com/colabpro
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Contact:
Anders Ingerstedt
Colabpro Outsourcing Ltd.
+32 (473) 180057
anders@colabpro.com
Adam Lamont-Brown
Max ASP GmbH
+49 (178) 2999021
adam.lamont-brown@maxasp.com
www.maxasp.com
London July 9, 2012
Colabpro announces a ground breaking approach to the software development and IT consulting markets. Colabpro Xtnd
Colabpro, a European IT services consultancy, today announced the creation of a new and ground breaking approach to gain true cost-efficiency from IT outsourcing to low-cost regions.
With the growing demand of IT services in Western Europe, it is increasingly difficult to find cost-efficient and skilled software engineers. Small and Medium Sized companies in Europe are also turning to low-cost markets for staffing IT projects increasing the demand. Eastern and Central Europe has become an attractive alternative to the more traditional outsourcing destinations of Asia and particularly India.
With more than 1,000 firms established in the region selecting the right partner based on true capabilities and experiences is increasingly hard and often falls back on lowest price, which can be unpredictable. When the process goes wrong planned cost savings vanish rapidly. Colabpro is today announcing a solution to this problem named Colabpro Xtnd.
Colabpro Xtnd is a portfolio of pre selected and hand picked IT consulting and software development partners in Eastern Europe located within and outside of the EU. Colabpro Xtnd partners have contracted Colabpro to sell and market their full range of services and to represent them, non-exclusively, as their local client relationship representative, with the ability to offer further value added services aiming for maximising customer satisfaction. Colabpro Xtnd today includes 5437 employees in 40 East European locations. In the initial design, Colabpro’s research established a rigorous selection process gathering bench marking data in order to provide clients with the best possible partner match available on the market.
“Too many IT outsourcing projects fail because of weak partner selection. Combined with poor scope control due to misalignment of financial objectives, the buyers suffer as do many of the truly skilled service providers from the East, being pressed for lower prices despite high quality ambitions. Buyers of IT services can, with confidence, turn to us for help and advice to find the best IT provider matched to their business needs. We have invented a business model that makes it possible to offer a sourcing service free of charge to our clients,” said Anders Ingerstedt, Founding Partner of Colabpro. “Our aim is to establish long term partnerships based on continuous delivery of high-quality and cost-efficient services through our selected partners. By selecting the right partner, establishing the correct contractual framework and project methodology, costs can be dramatically cut, often by more than 50% when compared to the use of local IT service providers in Western Europe.”
"Our on-boarding process is unique and only allows for the vendors with proven capabilities within their specialised fields" said Guntis Urtans, Founding Partner of Colabpro and responsible for Vendor Management. "We have chosen to work exclusively with near-shore providers that have strong agile and international engineering practices, since we know that this combination provides the highest ROI for our clients."
About Colabpro
Colabpro is a European professional service consultancy that delivers significant cost savings in IT projects by helping clients to establish true partnerships with vendors based in low-cost, near-shore regions. By offering delivery services from Colabpro Xtnd, a unique portfolio of selected vendors, establishing employment of agile principles and aligning the parties' business objectives, Colabpro creates true financial benefits for its clients and its vendors. Colabpro combines its free Sourcing Service with IT Outsourcing Strategy Advice, Project Management and Monitoring, Agile Adoption, Training and Advice.
Colabpro is based in London, Brussels and Stockholm.
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For more information:
www.colabpro.com
twitter.com/colabpro
facebook.com/colabpro
Contact:
Anders Ingerstedt
Colabpro Outsourcing Ltd.
+32 (473) 180057
anders@colabpro.com
