Taskcity

From Wikicompany

Taskcity is a global company involved in IT outsourcing. Nearly three years old, Taskcity is a growing company on the cutting edge of IT development and innovation. With locations in California and Beijing, Taskcity utilizes and connects customers with over 50,000 highly trained and skilled Information Technology (IT) specialists from around the globe. Taskcity provides small businesses and individuals a platform to have their project ideas completed by IT professionals.

Taskcity's highly skilled force of IT professionals bid on projects posted on Taskcity's website. These user posted projects include everything from website design to iPhone app development. Users are provided the option of finding a programmer with a particular skill set or having Taskcity's management team select someone appropriate for their project. For programmer's, using Taskcity is an easy and quick way to find software development work. IT professionals can bid on as many projects as they like.

Taskcity Description

Taskcity is a platform for project outsourcing and providing the high quality project management services. Whether you are looking for trained professionals without exorbitant fees or just have ideas that you would like to bounce off of someone Taskcity offers you the ideal platform for doing so.

At Taskcity, you can post projects or ideas for others to see and bid on, or you can browse the fast growing pre-screened database of experts with the ideal skill set. The experts at Taskcity are typically Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME's), meaning that the quality and schedule requirements of your project will be met. The experts are not so small that they cannot handle large tasks, yet not so large that a project will get lost in translation. Unlike other outsourcing websites, Taskcity also offers project management services that help with smooth and fast completion of projects.

Another bonus feature of using Taskcity is the free consulting services they offer to their customers. Taskcity will help customers go through the database of providers and chose the best ones that will potentially be able to suit your needs. Also live consultants are available to negotiate the conditions of the sale between the provider and the buyer. This ensures that there is no fraud on either side and the project description and price are both clear and concise. These services are available to all users free of charge.

Project posting flow

The process to post a project on Taskcity is extremely simple. All an individual or company has to do is register with Taskcity by simply following the instructions on the website. Then make and post a project, wait for bids from the IT professionals, and then discuss between the buyer and provider the terms and details of the project that you plan on having completed. Then once the project is finished make a payment and give the provider feedback based upon how well they completed the project.

Project bidding flow

The process to bid on a projects is as equally simple. Again register as a user, then fill out your portfolio, bid on contracts, then once you win a bid work with the buyers to tailor the project to their needs. In order to be more likely to win bids providers must fill out the portfolio thoroughly. This is important especially when starting out when the individual or firm might not have much of a reputation. After more projects the provider will not only have more feedback but more work to put into their portfolio. So, theoretically the more high quality work a provider does the more projects they win and potentially the more money they make.

Taskcity Features

•Dedicated project management team to guarantee a hassle free experience.

•Extensive Pre-Screened provider database.

•Free online project management and QA tools.

•TaskPal, IT agent and online project manager.

What does TaskPal do?

Convert ideas to projects

TaskPal can take users' ideas and convert them into projects with accurate cost estimation.

Project management

TaskPal can provide professional project management services to help users monitor and control development.

Your Taskcity IT agent

TaskPal can be users' IT agent and manage the entire project.

Recommend IT expert

TaskPal can recommend and assist you in selecting highly qualified IT professional.

Tools available with Taskcity:

Project Milestone

Divides the task into user-defined phases that are paid gradually until work is complete. During the project process the buyer only has to pay for each phase of the project as it is completed. This protects the buyer against fraud and still compensates the specialist for work they have done.

Project Writeboard

Communicate with your specialist smoothly on our writeboard that records and tracks progress. Allows the buyer and specialist to stay in constant communication with one another. This is extremely useful for sharing ideas and making sure one another are perfectly clear on each other's viewpoint.

Project Log

Lets you see up to date information on the progress of your task. This allows the buyer to keep track of how much work the specialist is getting done, and also will reveal whether or not the specialist will be able to finish on the deadline according to the trends of his current working habits. Very useful for figuring out the work habits of a specialist a buyer might potentially be interested in working with in the future.

Projects File Management

Organizes all project files of any particular task Fantastic feature for the user or specialist who has larger projects with Taskcity. Project File Management keeps all the files pertaining to a project in one place so that when it comes time to continue where the specialist left off everything is exactly where he left them. This also then helps with keeping project preparation time shorter and more efficient.

What makes Taskcity competitive with other software outsourcing companies?

While Taskcity is a young company they have developed their website and overall business in a way that gives people many features that many other outsourcing companies might not. It is old and large enough to be safe, secure, and stable for any user. But still young enough to know what features to include, what innovations will set them ahead, and perhaps most importantly is the point that being young and agile in business is almost always a good thing when working in the constantly innovating high technology field.

Taskcity will not fall into the rut of thinking that their product is ever fully finished. Constant innovations and tweaks are being made everyday. This has ensured that Taskcity is and most likely always will be a company based around having the best innovations, that make the life of user's easier. Another huge asset to Taskcity is their bidding process. Instead of just settling for one price from a provider your not crazy about, users have the option to get a fair price from a highly qualified, and equally as agile small or medium sized IT business. Another advantage that Taskcity maintains is that they make it amazingly simple to just type in an idea and/or project.

Taskcity offers a service where they allow anyone who comes onto their website and simply type in an idea they have right on the main screen. From here Taskcity will contact the individual within 24 hours with how their idea can be turned into a project. Altogether Taskcity's seamless features, agility, and reliability give it's customers an outlet to acquire all of their IT needs.

Taskcity's 10 Beliefs

1.)We Believe in Technology

2.)We Believe in Outsourcing

3.)We Believe in Globalization

4.)We Believe in Win-Win

5.)We Believe in Collaboration

6.)We Believe in Cloud

7.)We Believe in Productivity

8.)We Believe in China's Tomorrow

9.)We Believe in Don't Be Evil

10.)And Lastly We Believe in YOU