Many companies that have outsourced their IT are dissatisfied with the service provided by outsourcers, but few are likely to stop the practice altogether, opting instead to renegotiate current contracts.
New research indicates that companies providing IT products and services will continue to increase their use of outsourcing agreements in order to lower overhead expenses.
Australian companies are slowly but surely outsourcing more of their programming projects to countries like India but this could mean better jobs for Australian coders, according to the AIIA.
As one analyst group predicts a boom in outsourcing, another says that few firms are prepared to hand over the security of their IT systems.
A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
As one analyst group predicts a boom in outsourcing, another says that few firms are prepared to hand over the security of their IT systems.
A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.
Employers expect to hire fewer IT people between July and September than they did the previous quarter, according to the latest TMP/Hudson Global Resources survey.
The CIO of Government defence contractor BAE Systems talks about moving the company to an insourcing solution.
Four out of five outsourcing deals will be renegotiated during the lifetime of the contract, because many deals have been too focused on cutting costs.
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