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Outsourcing is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that is often made to lower costs or focus on competencies. Due to the nature of programming, the outsourcing of software development has evolved more rapidly than other areas of job outsourcing.

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Which is Best? Inhouse Versus Outsourcing Web Hosting
By : NeoSpire Published Date: Sep 01, 2009
How can a company decide what the right decision is when it comes to outsourcing? A growing percentage of companies are reaping the benefits of leveraging technology to streamline business operations and automate their business processes to create greater efficiencies by turning to outsourced web hosting. In today's economy, more and more small to medium sized businesses with no IT staff, or an already over-burdened IT staff, are finding there is no other choice. However, even with companies that have the resources necessary to host their own websites are looking to outsource their hosting needs. For these companies not resources, but the issue of ensuring that the hosting environment is secure, reliable, and scalable is why they look towards outsourcing. Learn the pros and cons of outsourcing and how NeoSpire can help.
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Speeding the Search for Offshore Developers
By : Accelerance Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Companies exploring offshore software development often find an overwhelming array of options. For example, is India the best choice? What about China, Russia or Brazil? Time, distance and language barriers also make it difficult to assess the quality of offshore developers. How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring?
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3 Key Chapters from the Award-Winning Book 'Software without Borders'
By : Accelerance Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat."  They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.
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The Next Generation of Software Development
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Oct 11, 2007
This whitepaper asserts that moving to the next generation of software development and sourcing requires moving from art to science. Given how dependent we are on software as a foundation for every product and service, anything less creates a climate of risk, uncertainty, and unjustifiable costs that undermines our ability to compete in a global marketplace.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Doug Gold, CFO of CoreObjects
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 19, 2007
Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.
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Building Software in a Flat World
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 19, 2007
Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Rusty Weston of Global Services Magazine
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 18, 2007
Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development.
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Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 18, 2007
This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected—on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Thomas Koulopoulos, Author of Smartsourcing
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 17, 2007
During this podcast, you’ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry’s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine.
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Dana Gardner Discusses Developer Productivity with Greg Burnell, CEO of 6th Sense Analytics
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 17, 2007
Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.
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How General Mills Transformed Its Business With SAP
By : SAP 2 Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
Learn how General Mills Inc. sought and engaged SAP Custom Development to enable mass status change in their existing mySAP Product Lifecycle Management application, and thus to help them modify their product specifications in the most efficient, effective, and reliable way.
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Procurement Outsourcing: The 10 Things Companies Really Want to Know
By : ICG Commerce Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
This paper draws upon recent discussions with dozens of companies that are exploring outsourcing services. Jason Gilroy and colleagues draw upon their years of procurement expertise to provide answers to common questions surrounding the outsourcing of procurement services.
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Winning outsourcing strategies: How to increase value and reduce risk
By : Quocirca Published Date: Oct 29, 2008
Outsourcing is a strategy increasingly being used by organizations to reduce costs and increase value. Outsourcing, however, has its risks. As organizations look to push out more of their custom software application development needs to outsourcing partners, careful planning is required in terms of building stringent software security requirements into contracts and creating a process and metrics to ensure that those requirements are met. This report examines outsourcing practices from 200 of the largest organizations in the UK and the US and provides pointers as to how the most experienced outsourcers are putting in place effective processes to drive the risk out of outsourcing.
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Domain Focused Independent Testing
By : Thinksoft Published Date: Dec 03, 2007
This white paper acts as a tool, for CEO's and Business and IT heads, helps reduce application deployment risks and costs. This paper attempts to establish how outsourcing test services to an independent domain-focused specialist company can substantially mitigate deployment risks. Business users are assured of receiving reliably better quality application well within cost and time budgets.
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Primer on Outsourced Software Testing
By : Thinksoft Published Date: Nov 13, 2007
This guide/primer serve as an introductory how-to guide on outsourced software testing for business heads as well as software project managers. It first places testing within the content of total product life cycle and then describes the sequential stages within testing program, and how these stages can run parallel with the other development stages.
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Sarbanes-Oxley and Its Impact on IT Outsourcing
By : OneNeck IT Services Published Date: Aug 24, 2007
The nature of corporate accounting and financial controls has forever been changed by Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. This white paper discusses the ripple effect of the Act on the IT outsourcing community and the new responsibilities and ethics that rest on companies, both public and private, that entrust all or part of their IT environment to an external third party.
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SOA Test Methodology
By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Jul 18, 2007
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today's organizations. Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts to implement your SOA.
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Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner
By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Jul 05, 2007
This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to those who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA.
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Torry Harris Business Solutions
Software Development Survival Guide: 5 Steps from Chaos to Control
By : SoftLanding Systems Published Date: Dec 04, 2006
This white paper describes five practical steps that you can take to make your development process more predictable and reliable. By following his five steps, Paul maintains that you can build better software more quickly with less cost and less risk.
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