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    With IT outsourcing and offshoring on the rise, technology professionals in Australia have been forced to upgrade their skills and turn to industry certification to stay ahead. But are they on the right path?

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    The Nine Network's chief information officer believes his expert internal staff are better at delivering cost-effective ICT services compared to offshored or outsourced consultants.

  • Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

    IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems

  • Qantas offshores to India, 340 jobs gone

    Qantas will cull 340 technology jobs over the next 15 months as it offshores applications support and maintenance to Indian services companies Satyam and Tata Consulting.

  • Further offshoring for IT inevitable: NIIT

    Australian enterprises will increasingly have to engage offshore technology providers to offset declining population growth, according to Arvind Thakur, the CEO of Indian offshoring specialist NIIT Technologies.

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    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".

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    The ATO's decision not to offshore software development is a much-needed reminder that despite the technical wizardry of remote/teleworking and the costs benefits of India, simple face-to-face communication can never be bettered.

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  • Nine Network: In-house ICT 'significantly' cheaper

    The Nine Network's chief information officer believes his expert internal staff are better at delivering cost-effective ICT services compared to offshored or outsourced consultants.

  • CSC Australia CIO speaks out

    Emily Richmond-Jones discusses CSC's internal IP telephony project, Oracle to SAP migrations, as well as her vision for bringing more women into the IT industry.

  • Gartner: Outsourcing contracts often revised

    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.

  • IT department headed for extinction?

    As the world's environment changes, scientists are becoming increasingly worried that large numbers of species will become extinct. Could this also happen in the corporate environment?

  • 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.

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