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  • Offshore outsourcing anger will ebb in 2004: Gartner

    The backlash against India caused by outsourcing will fade away in two years, according to analysts from IT market research firm Gartner.

  • Offshore outsourcing: friend or foe?

    A necessary evil or one that must be stopped--the debate over offshore outsourcing is hotting up and a conclusion could be near, but what is the right answer?

  • Analyst plays down offshore outsourcing impact as tension rises

    A leading Asia-Pacific tech analyst claims the outsourcing of information technology and business processes offshore is "not something to get overly excited about," despite increasing international controversy over the migration of jobs to lower-cost countries.

  • Outsourcing guides see green offshore

    The U.S. economy remains in a slump, and that's exactly why Atul Vashistha is smiling.

  • Offshoring on the rise: Meta

    The average enterprise will offshore around 60 percent of its application work by 2009, according to IT research group Meta. The figure will reach that point after escalating by nearly 20 percent annually each year through to 2008.

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  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    The elbow that drained Adelaide

    Has Australia entered a new era of mature engagement when setting requirements for outsourcing deals? Should Australian banks create regional IT hubs rather than offshore? And what could have happened to drain Adelaide's Torrens River weir? All these questions and more are answered in Patch Monday.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Offshoring agony

    We need statistics and commentary from analysts to reinforce the bleeding obvious because we seem quite capable of utterly ignoring it otherwise.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Benefits of offshoring to New Zealand

    Ever outsourced to a vendor with fantastic technical capability, but major management issues?

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Saying ta-ta to software development

    Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Insourced offshoring

    With all the debate about the merits of offshoring and the politics that go with it, few IT managers will stand on a soapbox and declare its benefits. But Baker and McKenzie's Martin Telfer is one such soul.

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  • Analyst plays down offshore outsourcing impact as tension rises

    A leading Asia-Pacific tech analyst claims the outsourcing of information technology and business processes offshore is "not something to get overly excited about," despite increasing international controversy over the migration of jobs to lower-cost countries.

  • Outsourcing headed for decade of change: Gartner

    The practice of outsourcing will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next ten years, according to Gartner analyst Rolf Jester, who adds that offshore outsourcing will just be one of many adjustments.

  • Offshoring: An irresistible force

    Offshoring seems like such an irresistible force, but in the not-too-distant future, much of the work that is pushing offshore will be eliminated altogether by continual improvements in software technology.

  • Offshoring: A view from both shores

    Wipro CEO Vivek Paul ponders the implications of a US that graduates more sports therapists than engineers.

  • Australia overreacts to Indian outsourcing: Gartner

    The level of outrage over the outsourcing of software development to India is disproportionate to the effect it is having on the local industry, according to analysis group Gartner.

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