IT Outsourcing News

A lot of companies have worked with an outsourcing partner to decrease the number of shortcomings that occur, reduce costs and restructure procedures. These advantages have already made certain impacts on various operational processes of many organizations. Outsourcing was once actually limited to some functions in a business’s supply chain and to manufacturing as well. [...]

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Offshore Software Development and the Cost of Quality Offshore software development helps enterprises across the U.S and European countries save 70% of the development cost. While outsourcing gives significant low cost advantage, it is important to know that these savings can actually cost enterprises in millions, if they ignore quality. Every year due to quality [...]

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There are more viable offshore outsourcing destinations than ever before — a great boon for IT leaders seeking new sources of talent, language capabilities, nearshore support, and risk diversification. But IT organizations can no longer afford to take traditional view of outsourcing location assessment. “The maturity of global delivery models also continues to increase, and [...]

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IT outsourcing has become increasingly integral to building and operating the enterprise IT environment, but many IT services customers remain frustrated with their results. Part of the problem may be a lack of understanding by the outsourcing customer about their actual level of maturity in IT outsourcing, says Wolfgang Benkel, principal analyst in Forrester’s IT [...]

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For entrepreneurs that are building their business on the internet, the main question tends to be whether or not there are benefits to outsourcing. Let’s just take a quick look at a few now, then we will go into more detail later: 1. Outsourcing is a powerful way for expanding your online company with minimal [...]

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Outsourcing is the process of using offshore firms to do work that is usually done within the company. Small businesses regularly outsource important work, generally because they do not have any other choice. Large businesses also outsource to save money. As a result, an entire industry has evolved to cater to the companies’ outsourcing requirements. [...]

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We offer seven more bits of wisdom accrued over nearly 20 years. 1. Expand Your Horizons Once upon a time, India was the only destination for offshore IT work. And it remained the premier location–in terms of maturity, skills, and scale–for years. But, as the offshore pioneers learned the hard way, geographic diversity is important. [...]

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There are numerous incentives as to hiring a technical support team out of office, the most commonly cited and least of which is cost-effectiveness. Outsourcing IT services may be cheaper in select cases, but a far more compelling reason comes down to that of productivity. Emil Isanov, CEO of Etech 7, a managed IT services [...]

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In the final segment of a panel discussion with senior technology executives, Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard focused again on the increased importance of risk sharing between companies and their IT vendors. Karlgaard asked if current conditions had made risk sharing a necessity in client-vendor relationships. “…We’re in this economic world where it’s very risky,” Karlgaard [...]

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Keep the work local and spend the extra money or send it overseas and get near the same value at a lower price? For many budget-conscious CIOs, the latter makes sense. But that doesn’t mean offshoring isn’t a panacea for cost-constrained IT department; it can involve risks and potential long-term downfalls when it comes to [...]

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