Growing demand for offshore services in India is raising the cost of labour there, causing US firms to begin eyeing China, Romania and other options. But India has some tricks up its sleeve.
To ensure a buoyant job market, should the federal government be marketing Australia as an outsourcing destination?
The Indian outsourcing boom is slowing, with an influx of cut-price competition shrinking margins, lowering bottom lines and raising concerns about an apparently inevitable shakeout, says one research firm.
As demand for Indian IT services grows, finding talent will become increasingly difficult, according to a Tata Consultancy Services executive.
India's image as a paragon of outsourcing took a severe beating last week after revelations of offshoring jobs gone awry shook the entire medical fraternity in the UK. But this episode proved that offshoring as a short-term solution can be fatal.
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Wipro's Sudip Banerjee explains why many Indian companies fear being left behind by an emerging -- and less expensive -- China.
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For European businesses, Romanian IT workers are cheaper and have fewer cultural differences than in India--making the country the first choice for outsourcing, a report says.
Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development?
A top London lawyer has warned that the current trend of UK companies offshoring to locations outside the EU, such as India and China, does not absolve them from complying with their data protection obligations in the UK.
UPDATE: One of this country's leading IT companies is to be acquired by Indian software giant Infosys.
IT Minister Daryl Williams claims Australia is the "No.1 outsourcing destination and the best place in the developed world to base software development operations." Williams failed to look under the hood before making those statements, writes Fran Foo.
The enterprise software maker plans to double the work force at its two research centers in India, bringing the total to about 6,000 employees.
Charges that misguidedness, short-sightedness or even evil business leaders is behind the latest outsourcing trend is not true. And the solution to stop the practice is even less true.
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