Is Off-shore Outsourcing for
Data Conversion High Quality and Reliable?
Forrester, Inc. describes how one-third of senior decision-makers at 145 firms now use offshore
providers for data conversion, with 88% of that group rating their supplier’s value for money as
“somewhat or much better than” their US counterparts. In addition, the Forrester research report has found that respondents rated off-shore companies'
providing data conversion quality and timeliness as being superior to onshore competitors at 71% and 67% respectively
– a surprising and significant finding which reinforces the increasingly commonly heard marketing line that outsourcing clients
for data conversion “go for price but stay for quality”.
Why is Off-shore Outsourcing for Data Conversion Cost-Effective?
The technological change in data
conversion, has been the rapid improvement in scanning technology over the past five years or so, (which has made scanning more competitive and reliable), coupled with huge increase in the capacity of data comms
bandwidth. The most important data conversion commercial change relates to the cost of bandwidth, which has fallen dramatically.
You should expect to save between 50% and75% of your data conversion costs when moving to offshore processing, depending upon your existing cost base, application, turnaround requirement and volume. There have been examples where clients have saved 90% of their existing cost, although this is unusual.
How fast is Our Data Conversion Turnaround?
You may be surprised to learn that real time data
conversion direct access keying is now being offered although 24/48/72 hour turnaround is more the norm. As a rule of thumb, the quicker the turnaround, the more you can expect to pay for the service.
Where are the Data Conversion Offshore Outsourcing
Centers?
Mostly in the Indian Sub-continent and the Philippines. Both locations boast large, well-educated,
English-speaking data conversion workforces, rapidly improving infrastructures and a strong work ethic.
Is the Work Done in Grass Huts?
All right, it might not be expressed in that manner, but the thought certainly does exist in the back of some minds. The facilities we use are just as ultra modern as those you could find in the United States, western Europe of Japan.
Is this a Data Conversion Sweat Shop and/or child Labor?
DDC only employs college graduates in the main, however a minimum age of 18 with a high school diploma is acceptable for lower level
data conversion employees. The industry tends to attract a relatively high caliber of
data conversion staff, who are inclined to remain with their employers for long periods of time. The same cannot always be claimed on-shore.
Data Conversion and the DDC Group
