By Brenda V.

As you all know, Microsoft just recently release the Windows Phone 7 as a mobile platform that is to compete with other mobile platforms like the iPhone. However the Windows Phone 7 is a different kind of phone, designed to bring together all that users care about most in a very easy, intuitive and fast way. This directly affects small to large businesses with the need to improve their productivity, be more efficient and above all to be responsive to their customer’s needs to be able to stay in the market and fight the competition.

No matter if it’s a product or a service that you are offering, this is an era of mobile phones, just look around you. Are you ready to follow the wave?

These are the main 5 reasons why you should consider outsourcing your windows phone 7 development initiatives (and why it would be a great idea to outsource it to a nearshore software development firm): 

1.       Be ahead of your competitors.

Every company wants their products or services to be ahead of the competition, however to achieve this is very important to be one step closer to your customers, to achieve this, you should ask yourself the following questions: Are your products compatible with your ideal customers and their changing IT needs? Are your products giving them what they want plus giving them an added value?

Also remember that mobile applications and development are here to stay, the increasing use of smart phones has created a huge market demanding better and more efficient applications.

2.       Make a difference by offering your applications on mobile.

Did you know that most male smartphone users, almost 45% of them use them to aid in their business? And that the sales in smartphones have been increasing their yearly sales up to 15% yearly?

It’s the era of the smartphones and with them, the area of the mobile application development. See what product or service is your company offering and think… How can I offer my service to my end users though a mobile application? Do you have the answer? Then you should definitely give us a call and don’t wait for your competitors to release a CRM application to keep track of new leads while on the field.

3.       Don’t hire new staff just for one application.

If your business is a not a software development company then outsourcing your project work is the best way to go, don’t bother hiring people and augmenting your staff just to develop a couple of applications for your services. Don’t take the risk of adding overhead to your business for a project that might last a couple of months, instead outsource your project work.

4.       Leave the work to the experts.

Focus on your core competencies, keep focus on your business’s main activity and reduce the costs of not knowing how to manage or handle a software development team, you will always be able to control operations have a flexible staff at hand and reduce your project risks. Leave the work to those who are experts in developing mobile applications.

5.       Cut costs while having an overall controllable process.

Don’t risk your project and your money, outsourcing will give you a great flexibility; transfer the associated risk of the project work to a company that knows how to handle the technology. Also forget about the significant cost produced by the extra staff and fixed costs. Find a company that will give you a competitive advantage while reducing your operational costs but that will also have an open communication channel that will give you the confidence of working with them as an outsourcing firm for your windows phone 7 development.

Notes: http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/wireless-mobile/smartphone-statistics.htm