When we need to repair shoes, we normally go to a professional shoemaker unless we’re shoemakers ourselves. Likewise, if we need custom-tailored software, we can take the long and the hard road of in-house development, or trust a professional software development provider to build a solution for our business-specific needs.
Although some companies choose to go the hard way, the benefits of outsourcing software project development to a specialist provider onshore (within own country) or offshore (overseas) are numerous: