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Sandy Hook Software Corp.'s strengths include design, development and deployment of customized Web Applications, Client/Server projects and Desktop systems.
There are three basic ways we can work with you:

1.) Onsite Contracting
2.) Offsite Outsourcing
3.) Onsite/Offsite Combo

Onsite Contracting

If your needs require onsite personnel, then talk with us about bringing in one of our specialists so as to strengthen your in-house technical team. True, some companies prefer to "grow their own" team members, but for those who don't have the luxury of time for this "growth" process, bringing in a seasoned professional is a classic no-lose deal.

Furthermore when the economy is uncertain (like now!) having a contractor (vs. an employee) on staff can be a good way to protect yourself, legally, due to the potential liability you could incur if you were to terminate an employee who decided to sue you, claiming, for example, that you were exercising "discriminatory behavior" against him/her. (Hey, it's a very real issue!) Such liability is nonexistent for contractors.

Lastly, if you're dead-set on having full time employees, one of our contractors could act as a hold-over for you until you can find the full-time expertise which you need.

Offsite Outsourcing

Sandy Hook Software offers fixed-price contracts on software which it develops on an outsourcing basis. Actually, fixed-price outsourcing makes Sandy Hook Software Corp. stand in a small group of professional software development houses in the consulting business. In case you haven't noticed, the vast majority of "consulting houses" throughout America do not offer fixed-price quotes on software projects. So what's the tradeoff for you? Financial control - and it's you who's in control!

Fixed-price contracts put all of the pressure on us to perform efficiently for you. Wouldn't you like to be relieved of having to "mother hen" your contractors - making sure that they're really working on your project, and not just taking life easy, all the while: racking up the hours on your tab? Sure you would.

And by the way, before you get too serious about signing up an overseas outsourcing house, please think through what you're doing, carefully. While it's true that some companies have found a way to make overseas contracting houses work for them, these are generally the Fortune 500 companies. Due to the sheer financial muscle of these American mega-corporations, their foreign outsourcing partners will drop everything so as to make them happy - and who could blame them? Problem is: if you've signed-up with one of these overseas outsourcing houses, too, and if you're not representing a mega-corporation, you may be the one who ends up on their "back burner". To make things even more tense for you, even a fixed-price contract, if signed with an overseas company, could be hard for you to enforce, because after all, if your project does run late (or if the finished product doesn't work right), and if you just can't seem to come to terms with your foreign partners, are you going to fly over there and try to take them to court in their own country? And you know that these foreign outsourcing houses have already thought this whole thing through; they know how hard it would be for you to "get" them, if push-came-to-shove.

Onsite/Offsite Combo

This is our recommendation for offering you the biggest bang for the buck. This takes the best from each world - onsite and offsite work.

In the Combo plan, we'll send an analyst to your site so as to meet with your key players - management, technical people, end-users, and possibly others - maybe Q.A., Customer Service, etc - so as to ascertain your requirements - both those you already know about and those which, perhaps, you haven't yet nailed down. The analyst's goal will be to develop a written specification of your requirements. You'll review that specification and approve/disapprove of it as you and the key people in your organization deem appropriate. The analyst will make successive iterations of specification, until you and the people in your organization "buy off" on the specification as being indicative of what you really want to build. At this point, the written specification belongs to you; it's the "deliverable" from Sandy Hook Software Corp. to you. For this analysis phase, we'll charge you on an hourly basis, because you so-control the analysis phase that we can't realistically estimate how long it will take.

Once you have the written spec in your hands, you can ask us to "bid" on its implementation. Actually, you could ask anyone to bid on it, but hopefully you'll favor us! And you should, because we'll then provide you with an aggressive fixed-price quote on the work. From here on in, your money people should start smiling again, because with a fixed-price quote against your own specification, you are in total control of the project, even though it's being done by "outsiders".

For more details, please write us at: sales@sandyhook.com

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