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Keeping Offshore Development on Track

Overview The siren song of big cost reductions will continue to lure businesses toward offshore outsourcing. Those that donÂ’t manage the process carefully will continuously risk running aground on the rocks of disappointment. Hidden costs can sap the savings from offshore initiatives whether the remote teams are a companyÂ’s own employees or those of an external service provider. This document shows how to keep Offshore development on track.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	VA Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2003	Downloads	12
Format	White Papers
Topics	Outsourcing, Strategic Planning

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Russia bids for offshore outsourcing top spot

IT is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Russian economy with 25 per cent annual growth and the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications claims the country's offshore outsourcing market will be worth $2bn by 2007.

Channel:
Offshoring

Two-thirds of banks shun offshore outsourcing

But the worldwide study of 400 IT directors by analyst Datamonitor found those banking firms which have already used offshore outsourcing are planning to increase the scope of it and extend it to more complex and core financial services processes.

Egypt touts itself as next offshore outsourcing hot-spot

Egypt is making a pitch to be the next offshore outsourcing hot-spot, claiming that its foreign language skills and low labour costs put the country in a strong position to compete with India and eastern Europe.

IT jobs 'not hit by offshore outsourcing'

More IT jobs are available in the US today than at the height of the dot-com boom despite the impact of offshore outsourcing, according to a new study. The wide-ranging research by US IT industry body the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM...

Channel:
Offshoring
Tags:
acm,
offshoring

'No link' between IT job losses and offshore outsourcing

Automation of tasks has had more impact on IT job losses than offshore outsourcing to low-cost locations such as India, according to a study be the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

UK firms to drive offshore outsourcing boom

Demand for offshore outsourcing services among UK and European companies is set to increase by 50 per cent per year over the next two years, according to Gartner. Globally the analyst predicts the number of organisations doing offshore outsourcing...

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Publisher:
EMC

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Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

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Publisher:
EMC

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