Software Outsourcing has quietly developed rapidly in China over the past few years. It is not like an Internet company, but in the state of "making a fortune. There are many enterprises specialized in software outsourcing in Xi'an, most of which are concentrated in the area of high-tech zones. Most of them are small and medium software companies.
These small and medium-sized outsourcing software enterprises do not have any mature theories and models. They can only be used for projects, but are in a rush to complete the process.
Xi'an is geographically inland compared with Shanghai and Hangzhou, which has a great impact on outsourcing projects. Generally, projects in Japan, Europe and the US would rather be handed over to enterprises in Shanghai and nearby regions than to enterprises in Xi'an, because the distance is relatively long and project management and communication are not convenient. Although Xi'an's labor cost is relatively low, the communication cost has offset its advantage.
Although many colleges and universities exist in Xi'an, Shaanxi is also known as a "big education Province", Xi'an is actually a talent education base in other provinces. A large education province trains talents for others. Xi'an graduates, especially outstanding students, have gone to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and other places for development. In fact, there is still insufficient talent reserves in Xi'an. Taking PHP talents as an example, there is a large gap in enterprise demand in Xi'an, but there are serious shortage of talents produced by colleges and universities, and the talents trained by some training institutions are also transferred to the aforementioned developed regions.
In Xi'an, language and cultural barriers have become the weakness of software outsourcing. The current software outsourcing business mainly involves projects in Japan, Europe, America and other countries. Dalian's outsourcing to Japan is very developed by taking advantage of its advantage of a closer neighbor with Japan. The English environment in South China and Shanghai may be superior to that in Xi'an. For example, for a North American project, all technical documents are in English, and all the documents are sent via emails in English when communicating with the customer. The technology itself may not be very difficult, but due to the difficulties in communication, this causes pressure on the project progress.
The relative closure of Xi'an has also led to its technological and conceptual backwardness. Currently, software outsourcing projects are generally developed based on a platform for secondary or later development. However, we generally do not have active contact with popular software platforms and technologies in other countries, no one dared to give us a chance to study and do not work during the software sending test. It was actually taking the customer's project for an experiment, and people had a high risk.
Our outsourcing companies in Xi'an are all small and medium-sized companies, and their management is generally chaotic, which has become a defect. During the investigation, the contractor asked us to provide some documents such as success stories and coding specifications. However, we may ignore these documents and the results may not be given project opportunities.
Since we want to be an industry, some of our supporting items have not yet been truly operational, such as industry organizations and technical training support. In short, there are still many things to do.