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Market & outsourcing watch 2010

 
 

Find papers, articles, opinions - developed by EuroITX.eu and others  - as well as news and links on ICT and off-shore outsourcing market development in Europe and globally.

May 2010

Why Adopt Nearshore Agile Development?

 Nearshore Agile development is a relatively new, yet effective Outsourcing 2.0 trend, able to better meet with the challenging requirements of today's high-tech environment compared to traditional offshore waterfall development.

Current BPO Industry Trends 2010

 The years that have gone by have been defining moments in many ways for the economies in general and the BPO services in particular.

Outsourcing Best Practices are Changing

 In outsourcing, "best practices" are a method, procedure, activity, technique, or process known to produce desired outcomes. Who deems them to be the "best?" Often, it's an industry or association regulation or recommendation.

Sri Lanka eyeing IT outsourcing from SMEs in Europe

 Following the toes of its neighbor India and the Philippines, Sri Lanka is also endeavoring to become an important destination for IT and ITeS services.

1st Quarter 2010 Global Outsourcing Trends

 Today’s outsourcing strategies require knowledge of the competitive advantages of various locations for outsourcing service delivery centers.

IT Outsourcing: 3 Reasons Your Vendor Won't Innovate

 Internal IT organizations choose to outsource for any number of reasons: to cut costs, improve service, increase efficiency.Internal IT organizations choose to outsource for any number of reasons: to cut costs, improve service, increase efficiency.

BioIT World - Europe

 Data sharing, linking data sets, accessing data, and archiving in collaborative environments are creating new challenges for informatics and software experts across the drug discovery and life science industry.

Will Offshore Providers Start Providing Onshore Services?

 Indian outsourcing companies are responding to a growing sentiment that some business and IT processes should stay onshore.

Contract Value of IT outsourcing grows 43 percent in Q1

 The IT Outsourcing market witnessed a robust sequential growth

Global Sourcing Strategies: Location, Location, Location

 An effective global sourcing strategies requires far more than focusing on labor rates and labor arbitrage.

IDC predicts growth for European IT Outsourcing

 According to the leading indystry analysts the International Data Corporation (IDC) demand for IT outsourcing services in Europe will experience a stable growth in 2010-2011.

UK's Conservative view on offshoring worries IT

 The newly formed coalition government in the UK is reviewing at least six outsourcing contracts

European bloc will remain major outsourcing market: Nasscom

 Germany is the largest IT market in the pack, purchasing over $36 billion worth of IT services, followed by Switzerland ($7 billion) and Austria ($3 billion).

NASSCOM to shy away from terms like outsourcing, offshoring

 Gains from exports notwithstanding, India's IT industry lobby group NASSCOM is shying away from using terms such as "offshoring" and "outsourcing" in view of its apparent "negative connotations" in some of the mature markets

Can China catch India without a Y2K?

 Can China be as big as India in the IT offshore services space without a Y2K moment?

10th Annual European Shared Services and Outsourcing Week 2010

 With projected growth rates exceeding nine percent, back-office functions are driving steady growth in Germany's business process outsourcing industry (BPO).

Offshoring has lost meaning, says Nasscom

 The Indian IT industry, thrived by utilising its offshore (read in India) capabilities to get a cost advantage and make over $50 billion just by exports. But neither are IT services companies in India nor their clients keen on using the word offshoring given the politics associated with the word in the world market, according to software body Nasscom.

NASSCOM deck on the Germanic report

 Indian companies earning less than USD 2.6 Bn from this region across the IT, BPO and engineering services space
 
     
   

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