If your software development workload is growing and your managers are overloaded, or you need IT specialists with specific programming skills that are not easy to find, or you would like to decrease your development costs, then outsourcing of your software development is definitely one of the most effective solutions for your needs.
Software Development Outsourcing is an important and serious step but it definitely brings a lot of benefits. Here are the main advantages of outsourcing:

Access to a large pool of experienced IT experts
Outsourcing gives you an access to world class IT professionals who have gained a great experience with a wide range of tools and technologies as well as the best development practices and methodologies by working on a large variety of software projects.

Gives you an opportunity to concentrate on your business goals
Outsourcing gives you a strategic advantage allowing your internal resources to concentrate on your core business by moving the research and development tasks to offshore professionals.

Costs reduction
Outsourcing companies are mostly situated in developing countries were the cost of living is significantly less then in European Union or North America. Therefore, the price that customer pays to offshore development company is usually still less than just the net salary of the same expert hired locally. And comparison of the outsourcing monthly rate per person with the gross salary plus the overhead expenses shows that outsourcing allows decreasing the development costs for up to 50%.