In order to save costs, some enterprises will outsource it personnel or it projects to specialized software outsourcing companies. When reaching cooperation, it is necessary to sign a software development outsourcing agreement with the other party. The more detailed the agreement, the better. This is mainly to avoid risks and disputes in the later period.
Although software outsourcing is convenient, it is not one of our own, so there are certain risks. In order to prevent accidents from affecting software development and enterprise operation, it is necessary to sign a software development outsourcing agreement, and both parties shall negotiate relevant regulations. The contents of the agreement shall include detailed functional description, delivery time, payment method, copyright ownership, rights and obligations of both parties, liability for breach of contract, penalty measures for breach of contract and other provisions.
Second, what risks can it outsourcing contracts avoid?
Signing a contract agreement with an it outsourcing company is mainly to avoid risks. The risks of information technology outsourcing mainly include:
1, avoiding information security risks
Any enterprise, especially the government, has business secrets. Many documents are confidential, and data is the biggest core confidential asset. Outsourcing IT systems, especially the construction and operation and maintenance of core information systems to professional IT outsourcing companies, how to ensure the security of these data? In addition to signing the General Agreement on IT Outsourcing Services, enterprises and IT outsourcing companies are also required to sign strict confidentiality agreements, strictly stipulate the scope, content and time of confidentiality, and even require IT engineers sent by IT outsourcing companies to abide by professional ethics.
2. Avoid service quality risks.
IT outsourcing services need to establish service standards, service contents, service precautions, how to sign contracts, how to set prices and how to check service quality, all of which need to establish standardized service standards. However, many IT outsourcing companies do not have clear service standards. Facing the uncertain service factors, it also brings uncertainty to the quality of IT outsourcing services.
3. Avoid other risks
In the process of it outsourcing, there may be risks such as complex IT management, lack of software, intellectual property rights, and even the risk of whether IT outsourcing service providers can provide services stably, which should be clearly marked in the software development outsourcing agreement.
For enterprises, it is not enough to sign contracts. If conditions permit, you can set up a knowledgeable CIO within the enterprise. This CIO should not only be good at dealing with people from IT outsourcing companies, but also have a good understanding of IT and project management. Only in this way can the decision-making power of informatization construction be firmly in the hands of enterprises themselves.