It is now available to any service provider seeking to host outsourced business-to-consumer direct selling commerce solutions for medium and large enterprises. Enterprises can regain some control over cost and usage they lost as computing became...
He said: "By 2004 European enterprises will consider offshore sourcing as one of the top strategic sourcing options and by 2006 the US and Western Europe will cease to be the only IT superpowers. India will match the US and Western Europe as an IT...
This distinguishes the process from outsourcing of what is now termed 'on shore' outsourcing, words used to describe variously outsourcing of services in the same country or within the US Western Europe.
The prospective operator of the service seeks to win the service and in consequence gain the economies of scale where similar outsourced services and processes are being operated for similar enterprises.
Whatever the approach - in-house or outsourced - flexible working can offer some softer financial advantages more in line with cost avoidance. This means enterprises also have to factor their employees' welfare into the financial equation by...
Christopher Linfoot, IT director at LDV Vans, also pointed to the benefits of the so-called 'near-shore' locations. IT here is outsourced and partially offshore, but not to a big six player, with the offshore element in Spain, not India.