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Offshore Development Center team at Tuscan Digital in Dubai

Offshore Development Center

A dedicated engineering team in Chennai that we build, staff and run for you, managed from Dubai. You own all the IP, and you can take the centre in-house whenever you're ready.

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Overview

An offshore development center gives you India's scale and costs while you keep the control you'd have over an in-house team.

Offshore Development Center team at work

Your own engineering team in Chennai, run by us and managed from Dubai. You keep full IP ownership and can take the centre over later.

We set up a ring-fenced team that works only on your products, with your tools and your engineering standards. They sit in our secure Chennai office, and your account lead is in Dubai, only 90 minutes behind.

Recruitment, office space, infrastructure, HR, payroll, compliance and retention are all on us. You decide the roadmap and own the code. If you later want the centre under your own legal entity, we'll transfer it.

Dedicated ODCBuild-Operate-TransferSecure facilitiesDelivery governanceIP protection

What's included

What we offer

Choose one of these or combine several into a single managed engagement, sized to your stage, tech stack and budget.

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Dedicated ODC Setup

A ring-fenced team with its own workspace and toolchain, set up to match how your engineers already work.

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Build-Operate-Transfer

We build and run the centre, then move the people, assets and processes into your own company when you decide the time is right.

03

Secure Infrastructure

An access-controlled office, managed devices, VPN, data-loss prevention and a network kept separate for your projects.

04

Talent Acquisition & Retention

Ongoing hiring, clear career paths, learning budgets and engagement programmes that keep good people from leaving.

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Delivery Governance & PMO

Agile delivery management, agreed KPIs, monthly business reviews and regular reports from our Dubai office.

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Compliance, IP & Data Protection

Contracts, NDAs and technical controls that make sure your intellectual property and data stay yours.

Why Tuscan

Why teams choose us

These are commitments we build into how we scope, staff and run every offshore development center engagement.

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Lower cost

Total engineering cost can be up to 60% lower than hiring the same team in the UAE.

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To operational

Most core teams are up and productive four to eight weeks after sign-off.

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Time-zone gap

Chennai is 90 minutes ahead of Dubai, so your teams share almost the whole working day.

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IP ownership

Everything the team creates belongs to you from the first day.

Process

How it works

Four steps from the first conversation to results you can measure.

Step 01

Blueprint

We plan the team structure, skills, tools, security needs and reporting, and price out the ramp-up.

Step 02

Build

Office setup, infrastructure and hiring happen in parallel. Your leads interview and sign off every engineer.

Step 03

Operate & scale

We run HR, facilities and delivery management, and the team grows as your roadmap does.

Step 04

Transfer (optional)

Under BOT, we move people, contracts and assets to your own company in a planned, step-by-step handover.

What ODC teams build

What ODC teams build

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QA & testingDevOpsERP & CRMSupport & maintenanceEmbedded & IoTQA & testingDevOpsERP & CRMSupport & maintenanceEmbedded & IoTQA & testingDevOpsERP & CRMSupport & maintenanceEmbedded & IoTQA & testingDevOpsERP & CRMSupport & maintenanceEmbedded & IoT

FAQ

Offshore Development Center FAQs

Answers to common questions about our offshore development center services in Dubai and the UAE.

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What is an offshore development center?

An ODC is a dedicated team in another country that works only on your products. It differs from project outsourcing because you direct the work and own everything it produces. The partner looks after hiring, office space and day-to-day operations.

Why Chennai for an offshore team?

Chennai is one of India's biggest tech talent hubs. It has strong engineering colleges, solid IT infrastructure and only a 90-minute time difference with Dubai.

What is the Build-Operate-Transfer model?

Under Build-Operate-Transfer, we build and run your centre, then transfer the team, assets and processes to your own company after an agreed period. It's a lower-risk way to end up owning an offshore subsidiary.

How small can an ODC start?

Most centres start with five to ten engineers and grow from there. We size the first phase around your roadmap and budget.

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Related services

Many clients combine services. These work well alongside offshore development center.