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Towa Software Partners with GoodFirms to Enhance Nearshore Software Excellence

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Towa Software Partners with GoodFirms to Enhance Nearshore Software Excellence

In an exciting twist for the technology industry, Towa Software and GoodFirms have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at boosting excellence in nearshore software development. This alliance promises to transform the technological landscape by delivering innovative solutions and accelerating global business growth.

Mexico City — Towa Software, a pioneer in nearshore software development, is thrilled to announce its new partnership with GoodFirms, a renowned B2B research and review platform for IT service providers.

Adrian Lopez, CEO at Towa, stated, “This partnership reflects our commitment to providing top-tier software development services and expanding our visibility in key markets. GoodFirms’ recognition amplifies our capabilities and dedication to excellence.”

Samasti Jain, Senior Account Executive at GoodFirms, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, “We are excited to welcome Towa Software to our community of high-quality vendors. We look forward to promoting Towa’s profile through our platform and assisting them in reaching a broader audience.”

As part of the collaboration, Towa Software will integrate a GoodFirms badge on their website, symbolizing the mutual commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

GoodFirms will assist Towa with dedicated profile analysis to ensure the company’s offerings are effectively communicated to potential clients, enhancing both reach and engagement within the industry.

GoodFirms is the most trusted US based B2B review and rating platform that helps buyers make informed decisions by providing detailed insights into IT companies and software solutions. The platform assists IT companies and software vendors boost user acquisition, market share, and brand visibility. GoodFirms currently features 130,000+ companies & software, 60,000+ verified reviews, and 2500+ validated surveys and resources.

About Dale Ventures- Dale Ventures, dale.com, is a global venture capital and investment holding group based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for its investments and acquisitions in various industries, with a focus on technology-driven companies. Dale Ventures actively seeks opportunities to support and grow innovative businesses that have the potential for significant global impact. The Dale Ventures headquarters in Dubai serve as a hub for operations and strategic decision-making.

About Arcadier Arcadier, arcadier.com, stands as the pre-eminent e-commerce platform specialising in online marketplaces, garnering multiple prestigious awards for its innovation. Operating in over 170 countries, Arcadier has established itself as a leading force in e-commerce by empowering large enterprises, SMBs, governments, and start-ups to effortlessly and economically develop their own customised online marketplaces under their own brand.

For further information about the Towa Software and Arcadier Markerplace platform partnership and other initiatives from the company, visit – https://towasoftware.com/. Towa Software Inc. can also be found across social media, including Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Towa Software Inc.

Towa Software specializes in creating robust software solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses across North America. With a focus on innovation and efficiency, Towa Software is dedicated to helping businesses achieve their technology goals through high-quality, tailored software development services.

About GoodFirms

GoodFirms is a Washington, DC-based B2B research company that offers a transparent and reliable platform for IT service and software firm ratings and reviews. GoodFirms helps service seekers identify the best business partners to meet their requirements.

TOWA SOFTWARE INC.

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September 20, 2024 0 Comments by Jose Angel Valadez

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Changing Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: Step-by-Step Approach for Winning

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Changing Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: Step-by-Step Approach for Winning

Software Outsourcing: Switch Vendors correctly to your needs.

Are you stuck with the Status Quo, in your current way of doing software development? Should you consider a software outsourcing partner? And should you partner with organizations in India, Ukraine, Colombia, Argentina, or Mexico? It could be holding back your progress. Towa Software offers a seamless transition process with their Agile Nearshore Teams from Mexico, designed to ensure smooth collaboration, innovation, and scalability.

This article discusses the reasons why switching providers may be necessary and how Towa’s 3-step Transition Plan ensures a successful handover without disruption.

Why Should You Consider Change?

You may outgrow your current outsourcing partner for several reasons:

Misalignment of Priorities: As your business evolves, you might need a partner with expertise in modern technologies like machine learning, blockchain, or cloud computing, and a stronger grasp of methodologies like Agile and DevOps.
Communication Challenges: Clear, fluent communication is key to success. If language barriers or miscommunication are impeding progress, it’s time to explore other options. With Towa’s bilingual teams fluent in English, this challenge is eliminated.
Quality Concerns: If you’re facing missed deadlines, poor code quality, or technical debt, your current provider may not be delivering the excellence your business needs.
Scalability Issues: As your project scales, you need a team that can grow with you. Towa’s nearshore teams are flexible and highly scalable, ready to meet your growing business demands.
Cost Optimization: While some outsourcing partners may seem affordable, hidden costs such as project delays and rework due to quality issues can inflate your total expenses.
Security Concerns: Meeting compliance requirements like HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 is crucial for many businesses. If your current provider lacks these standards, it’s a good time to reconsider your options.
Cultural Fit and Proximity: Cultural misalignment can lead to inefficiencies and frustrations. Towa’s teams offer cultural compatibility, proximity to the U.S., and a short 3-5 hour flight from major U.S. cities, ensuring smoother collaboration and visits.

The Cost of Not Changing the Status Quo

While switching providers may seem daunting, staying with the wrong one can have significant hidden costs:

Stagnant Innovation: A partner who isn’t up-to-date with the latest technologies and methodologies could limit your ability to innovate.
Decreased Efficiency: Miscommunication and poor workflow management can waste resources and delay projects.
Compromised Quality: Accepting subpar work leads to technical debt, security vulnerabilities, and unhappy customers.
Team Frustration: A strained relationship with your provider can demoralize your internal teams, decreasing overall productivity.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: Don’t let past investments hold you back. The long-term costs of staying with an ineffective partner could far outweigh the benefits of switching to a better one.

Towa Software’s 3-Step Transition Plan for Success

Towa Software has developed a proven 3-step transition process to ensure a smooth handover when switching providers:

1. Pre-Transition Preparation and Assessment

This critical first step ensures that any potential technical or operational inefficiencies are identified and resolved early on.

Stakeholder Engagement: We conduct in-depth discussions with your team to understand project history, objectives, and challenges.
Codebase Evaluation: Using a combination of automated tools and manual review, we assess the current state of your codebase, identifying areas of technical debt or potential improvement.
Documentation Review: Gaps in existing documentation are identified to facilitate onboarding.
Technical Audit: We analyze your project’s architecture, code quality, and security to establish a roadmap for success.
Operational Workflow Analysis: Our team reviews your development, deployment, and quality assurance processes, optimizing them for best practices in agile development and CI/CD workflows.

2. Knowledge Transfer and Team Alignment

The success of any transition relies on effective knowledge transfer and team alignment. Towa Software focuses on ensuring minimal disruption to ongoing projects.

Shadowing: A senior Towa engineer is assigned to shadow your internal or outgoing teams to gain a thorough understanding of project intricacies.
Active Engagement: We actively participate in the development process to address any gaps and ensure smooth knowledge transfer.
Workshops and Training: Our team hosts transition workshops to share knowledge and align on best practices, ensuring seamless integration of Towa engineers.
Comprehensive Documentation: We collaborate with your team to audit, update, and organize all critical documentation, reducing ramp-up time for the new team.
Clear Communication Channels: Dedicated communication channels on platforms like Slack or Teams ensure continuous alignment and problem resolution.

3. Team Rightsizing and Performance

This phase focuses on establishing the optimal team structure for your project, ensuring long-term success.

Team Composition: We assess your project’s current and future needs, designing a flexible team structure that scales with your business without being overly complex.
KPI Development: Together, we define key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the project’s progress and measure the success of the new partnership.
Ongoing Monitoring and Feedback: Real-time monitoring systems are implemented to track performance and identify areas for improvement.
Continuous Feedback Loop: Regular review sessions ensure ongoing alignment, promoting continuous improvement and addressing any challenges proactively.

Towa Software's Nearshore Advantages

Towa Software’s nearshore teams offer several key advantages that set them apart from other providers:

Proximity and Time Zone Alignment: Working with a nearshore team in Mexico means you share the same time zones, reducing the delays and miscommunication that can arise from working across different time zones.
Fluent in English: All of Towa’s engineers are fluent in English, ensuring clear communication and alignment with your business goals.
Short Flight Times: With a 3-5 hour flight from most U.S. cities to Mexico, Towa’s teams are easily accessible for in-person meetings and team-building sessions.
Cultural Compatibility: Mexican culture shares many similarities with U.S. work culture, fostering better collaboration and understanding.
Engineering Excellence: Towa applies the best software engineering methodologies, including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, and test-driven development (TDD), to deliver high-quality solutions.
Compliance and Security: Towa adheres to international security and compliance standards, ensuring your projects meet regulatory requirements.

A Proven Path to Success

Towa Software has successfully helped many organizations transition from their previous outsourcing vendors to our nearshore teams, resulting in improvements in project timelines, quality, and cost efficiency.

We understand the complexities of switching providers, and our tailored 3-step approach minimizes disruption while maximizing results.

Our teams not only help you transition smoothly but also set your project up for long-term success, using industry best practices and a deep understanding of your unique business needs.

Let’s Talk

If you’re considering a change or want to explore how Towa Software’s Agile Nearshore Teams can enhance your software development projects, we’re here to help. Contact us to discuss how we can facilitate a smooth and effective transition for your business.

Curious to see how we can deliver results for you?

September 13, 2024 0 Comments by Jose Angel Valadez

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AI-Powered Project Planning Tool: The Future of Software Development

For software development projects, having a clear project understanding is the key element for project success. Technology is evolving the way we operate in many ways and others we cannot yet imagine.

Our innovative AI-powered Project Planning tool streamlines the project brief of software development projects by utilizing a generative AI-tool as a conversation asking questions to determine project scope, user stories, and tech stack and project plan.

For software engineering teams, having a clear project path, with prioritized user requirements is essential for achieving time-to-market goals. Working with an experienced Project Manager and Business Analyst is the traditional way of starting many projects. Now with the advance of AI, we can leverage foundation models to improve, speed up, and enhance our capabilities to achieve new levels of performance.

Whether you are looking to build web, mobile, blockchain, or other domains, this tool provides a comprehensive analysis of resources, tech stack, user requirements, components diagrams, and overall requirements and specifications to build your app, in minutes get a value of over 100-80 hours of work, and get a sense of the project plan, timeline, and costs.

This tool empowers you to get a clear understanding of your project’s requirements from the outset, allowing you to make well-informed decisions when selecting the right outsourcing company based on the necessary skills and expertise.

The Impact of AI on Software Development Planning

Traditionally, project estimates relied on past experiences and historical data, often leading to inaccuracies. AI, however, enhances precision by analyzing extensive datasets to generate more accurate predictions.

By integrating AI into the planning process, our tool quickly adapts to the complexity of a project by evaluating variables such as scope, required technologies, and potential risks. This results in planning are based on data and tailored to the unique challenges of each project.

Moreover, AI’s capacity to learn from every project it analyzes ensures that our tool continuously improves, delivering increasingly refined project briefs that enable confident planning and resource allocation.

This AI-driven approach is particularly valuable for projects with a high level of uncertainty or those involving new and emerging technologies.

Introducing AI-Powered Project Planning Tool

How this Works: A Conversational Process

Our AI-powered project planning tool streamlines the project brief process through an intuitive conversational system. It starts with a friendly “Hello,” and guides you through a series of AI-driven questions. These questions are crafted to understand the complexities of your project, including desired features, technology stack, and specific functional requirements.

As you provide answers, the AI dynamically adjusts subsequent questions to explore the details that influence the project plan further. You can also attach files or provide descriptions to enhance the process. With each interaction, the tool refines the technical specifications and delivers a customized estimate of the resources, technical skills, and estimated time needed to develop the project app to life.

“We’re excited to collaborate with customers to help them plan and define better MVPs, and define user requirements in a clear and concise manner, this tool is a breakthrough” Adrián Lopez, Customer Success Director at Towa Software a nearshore excellence company.

‍Project Brief: Scope, Requirements, Tech Stack and Planning

Our tool offers more than just a project brief; it acts as a comprehensive guide through scope definition, requirements gathering, and tasks for your software development project. By carefully analyzing your responses to the AI’s questions, the tool generates a detailed Project Requirement Document (PRD) that encapsulates your project’s core needs.

This document is vital as it establishes the foundation for a successful development process, detailing the necessary features, tech stack, and milestones.

Based on the PRD, our tool delivers an accurate time and cost estimation, factoring in the project’s complexity and the required expertise. Whether you’re developing a web, mobile, or blockchain application, our tool ensures you have a clear understanding of all aspects needed—from time estimate to specialized skills—to complete your project efficiently and cost-effectively.

What Comes After the Project Brief is Done

After using our advanced tool and obtaining a comprehensive Project Requirement Document (PRD), the next step is to engage with our experienced team at Towa Software Nearshore Excellence to discuss the finer details of your project. We carefully consider all the information provided by the tool and align it with your unique business needs, including budget, deadlines, goals, and other crucial factors like business culture and existing tools.

Refining Project Plan: With the PRD in hand, our team at Towa leverages their expertise to refine the project plan and discovery phase, tailoring it to your project’s specifics and business requirements. Our goal is to deliver a mutual understanding of the project scope, third-party integrations, and expectations to be more accurate, for the successful execution of your project.
Creating a Definitive Development Plan: After refining the project plan, we use the updated data to craft a definitive budget plan. This plan outlines the specifics of our development approach, considering your project’s unique requirements and business context. Our plans are designed to be flexible and adaptable, ready to meet the dynamic needs of your project.
Aligning Business Needs with Project Requirements: Our team excels at aligning the provided information with your broader business context, considering factors like your financial plan, timeline, and objectives. We ensure every aspect of your business, from its culture to its tools and goals, is considered, making your project not only cost-effective but also highly relevant and valuable to your company goals,

Remember, our relationship starts with the Project Scope. We’re here to accompany you on every step of your project’s journey, ensuring each phase is meticulously planned and executed to meet your specific goals.

The Value of Trusted Partner

Addressing the Big Question: How Much Does It Cost To Have a Nearshore Team?

Every tech leader needs to evaluate where to remotely have their technology, cloud, and software engineering teams. You might say “Going to Asia is a cheaper choice, but a risky one since the time difference and culture are far from America”. Another alternative is Eastern Europe but same logic, is less cheaper but also has a 7 to 8-hour difference.

Right now, the hottest place to land a Team is in Mexico, close to the USA, with a similar culture, hard-working professionals, a large pool of talent, good universities, and proximity.

The AI-driven query process considers every aspect of your project, from the initial concept to the desired functionalities and the technology stack. It then synthesizes this information to offer a clear view of the necessary investment in terms of time, resources, and manpower.

With this app, you can build a project plan, and you can approach scoping your project with a new level of precision, ensuring that your financial planning is based on solid data. This not only helps in setting realistic expectations for stakeholders but also aids in making strategic decisions about resource allocation and project management.

The project plan allows you to engage in informed discussions with potential partners, helping you assess their suitability based on your project’s specific requirements. By beginning with a clear understanding of what your app needs, you can establish a partnership grounded in mutual understanding, increasing the likelihood of a successful project outcome.

Collaborate with Towa to not only harness the insights from our AI-powered tool but also to take advantage of our expertise in refining your project scope, required budget and crafting customized development service proposal. Together, we can transform your vision into reality, delivering innovative software solutions that propel your business forward.

Gaining a clear understanding of your project’s needs from the outset is essential for choosing or even switching to the right outsourcing partner. With a comprehensive estimate that clearly defines the project scope and requirements, you can confidently approach outsourcing companies that align with your specific needs. This ensures that you partner with a team that has the right expertise and is well-prepared to tackle your project’s challenges.

Towa Software expert support

We understand the struggle of finding the right software development partner to build your service or solution.

We’ve heard countless horror stories about developers who disappear, endless late-night conference calls with offshore teams both in India and Eastern Europe, and the frustration of dealing with low-quality code, missed deadlines, and poor communication.

We built Towa Software to raise the bar on Nearshore Software Excellence, solve these problems, and offer fanatical customer support.

We provide highly trained, senior Engineering Warriors™ who are eager to collaborate, communicate effectively, and build quality software that drives your business forward.

Curious to see how we can deliver results for you?

September 13, 2024 0 Comments by Jose Angel Valadez

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