Gartner has lately warned ISVs that utilize outsourced software development from being focused on costs exclusively. According to their predictions, business disruption in about 30% of outsourcing deals will be observed through 2012 due to an excessive cost reduction focus. Moreover, based on the data from the recent study, Gartner has concluded that more than [...]

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Hi again!
Don’t you think we could talk about governance of outsourcing contracts and projects?
According to Forrester, there is a strong correlation between the satisfaction with an outsourcing contract and the governance of that contract, as opposed to how well one picked the right vendor in the first place.
Forrester and Everest Group experts incline to the [...]

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Despite the hard times, there is an optimism in the sphere of development outsourcing about the raise in IT deals, driven by enterprises searching to improve efficiency and cut costs. The character of those deals will change in favour of short-term deals rather than long-term contracts, according to Gartner.  However, customers in their cost-cutting haste [...]

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If continue talking about outsourcing trends, then some words should be said about such phenomenon as rightshoring, which starts gaining its popularity.
Is it a new type of outsourcing, like offshoring, inshoring, nearshoring? Well, not exactly. In fact, rightshoring is an approach to outsourcing which lies in finding a mix of off-shore, in-shore, and nearshore outsourcing [...]

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Recent sad events related to terrorist attacks and admissions of fraud raised new questions about the level of clients’ protection in companies providing offshore software services, and about a contractual protection existing for such cases. In revisiting the suitability of contractual protections, sourcing teams also should revisit existing approaches adopt new strategies for emerging threats [...]

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