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The Horrors Of Off-Shoring
White Papers In this webcast, you will learn HIPAA, GLB, and Sarbanes-Oxley mandates for organizations that outsource and off-shore, three key data security issues to consider when off-shoring, and five absolutely critical "must dos" for organizations...
[August 6, 2007, 0:00]
AA Rules Out Off-shoring Move
Talkback It's good to see at least one UK company putting service over cost savings. I'm yet to have a 100% satisfactory experience of dealing with an Indian call-centre, with most encounters being frustrating at best.
[August 22, 2005, 11:56]
AA Rules Out Off-shoring Move
News The AA is to cut 100 jobs but has ruled out moving work overseas to India as part of the restructuring of its insurance call centres - aimed at saving the motoring organisation £12m per year. The AA said it expects the cuts in management and...
[August 19, 2005, 17:00]
Job Ads Suggest Netscape Regeneration
Talkback AOL has been off-shoring to Bangalore, India for a while. I have a word of caution for companies thinking of off-shoring to Bangalore. Although many companies are off-shoring right now, it remains to be seen if this trend will continue for the...
[May 2, 2004, 1:05]
Offshoring To India May Already Not Make Financial Sense
Talkback The cost of off shoring to India is very often seen as a purely financial decision based on cost per head of replacing employees within the UK. This is not however the true cost of off shoring with many bean counters in the UK and elsewhere failing...
[September 26, 2007, 13:44]
Smoke And Mirrors
Talkback With increasing off shoring once you get the right skills, those that need you have found a cheaper overseas supplier. Just look at real salaries, I've known office workers getting paid more than the IT guy who is telling them how to use the system.
[May 23, 2007, 15:47]
Not Just My Experience
Talkback The consensus amongst most of the people I know is that off shoring does adversely effect quality to some degree and in too many cases to a great extent. Off shore companies are simply jobbing shops when all is told and want to get software out of...
[September 27, 2007, 20:53]
How To Survive As An MSSP
White Papers Advances in remote communication technology and reliability (for example: Internet, VPNs, VoIP, QoS), coupled with the growing political and commercial access to technically-literate developing countries, allow larger and more aggressive providers...
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Judge Rules DVD-copying Program Is Illegal
News The ruling, which had been pending since arguments last May in Illston's court, goes a long way toward shoring up Hollywood's weakening digital copy protections for its profitable DVD business -- even while potentially eliminating one key driver...
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
IT Project Portfolio Management And The Application Life-Cycle: Understanding The Market And Enabling IT/Business Coordination
White Papers This is a must read for IT leaders tackling the strategic and operational challenges of IT business alignment, off-shoring, outsourcing and regulatory compliance. Borland is pleased to offer you a free copy of IDC's latest white paper.
[March 8, 2006, 23:00]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback You thought off-shoring was a problem: America has just blown off the other foot and hobbled its whole IT industry by giving the playground bully a pat on the back, and exrtra "pocket money". Without them, this cannot happen - and we're far better...
[October 8, 2004, 16:02]
IT Project And Portfolio Management And Application Life Cycle: Understanding The Market And Enabling IT/Business Coordination
White Papers This is a must read for IT leaders tackling the strategic and operational challenges of IT/business alignment, off-shoring, outsourcing and regulatory compliance. Today, Global 2000 organizations are striving to gain strategic advantage and...
[February 13, 2006, 23:00]
The UK's Real Missing Skill: Imagination
Leader This time it's the British Computer Society (BCS) and Lancaster University crying foul over the decline of the local software industry with the usual suspects in the frame: a lack of young people studying computer science, the spectre of off...
[July 6, 2006, 13:10]
Outsourcing 'not Something To Get Excited About' - Analyst
Talkback Given that traditionally the largest users of Outsourcing, Out-tasking and off-shoring are large corporates and members of the Finance and Insurance community one would assume that they all have operations in the Southern hemisphere so they must...
[January 12, 2004, 9:23]
Outsourcing Conference Draws Protests
News Picketers held signs that read: "Stop Off Shoring! A two-day conference instructing companies on moving technology jobs and other work overseas drew picketers, in one of the first San Francisco Bay Area protests over a growing trend that's shaking...
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
UK Police Help Fight Outsourcing Cybercrime
Talkback Now the Metropolitan Police and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) have joined forces to set up a working party to tackle the increasing threat of global cyber crime especially in off shoring companies.
[July 13, 2005, 7:35]
CIO Salaries Soar
News India remains the number one location for off-shoring operations, although Brazil, Romania and Vietnam also play a role. Chief information officers are enjoying a bumper payday, with average salaries up £20,000 since last year.
[October 23, 2006, 8:20]
Argentina: More Near-shore Than Offshore
News What factors have contributed to turning Argentina into a potential off-shoring destination? How would you answer the claim that the very economic and political instability in Argentina that has driven down wages and made you an attractive off...
[July 27, 2004, 16:10]
Sony Ericsson Ups The Ante For Mobile Gaming
News The mobile phone industry is using games as a way of shoring up handset sales and network revenues, which have shown signs of levelling off. Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is aiming to make its latest mobile phones more viable as a gaming...
[May 13, 2003, 15:25]
Is IT A Good Career Choice?
News When you see the off-shoring trend continuing, and you see research from Gartner that predicts that by 2010, the number of IT staff in the profession will fall by 15 percent, it makes you wonder if there really will be opportunities out there for...
[August 3, 2005, 11:30]
