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Offshore Outsourcing
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ALSO CALLED: Outsourcing, Offshore, Global Sourcing, and Offshore Development Services
DEFINITION: Offshore outsourcing, a type of business process outsourcing (BPO), is the exporting of IT-related work from the United States and other developed countries to areas of the world where there is both political stability and lower labor costs or tax savings. Outsourcing is an arrangement in which one company provides services for another company that could also be or usually have been provided in-house.
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Organizations today are using offshoring and outsourcing to reduce operating expenses. These 3rd party vendors need remote access to your network. You need to know exactly what they are doing and make sure they meet security and compliance policy.
Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009
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Software development work is increasingly being off-shored or outsourced as companies try to reduce costs in efforts to remain competitive. However, these solutions have issues and challenges that can ultimately end up costing a company more money in the long run.
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING DEFINITION (continued):
Offshore simply means "any country other than your own." The Internet and high-speed Internet connections make it possible for outsourcing to be carried out anywhere in the world, a business trend economists call globalization. In general, domestic companies interested in offshore outsourcing are not only trying to save money in order to be more price-competitive against each other, but also to enable them to compete with businesses in other countries.Critics of offshore outsourcing worry that if too much IT-related work is farmed out to other countries, home-grown IT talent will "dry up." They
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