Offshore outsourcing will continue to grow as a "labor arbitrage" model until 2008/09. META Trend: During 2004/05, outsourcing will divide into commodity and transformational services.

There are many matters to consider when setting up an offshore outsourcing deal-scope, location, roles and responsibilities, service levels, governance plans and price, just to name a few.

The key to survival for offshore services firms in the long term depends on having a balance between traditional outsourcing and cloud-based products, according to Gartner.

Offshore outsourcing refers to IT services a client receives from resources — labor, infrastructure or capital — that are located abroad, said Debashish Sinha, a principal analyst at Dataquest.

Offshore outsourcing will continue to grow as a “labor arbitrage” model until 2008/09. META Trend: During 2004/05, outsourcing will divide into commodity and transformational services.

Those management policies have aided in the development of several successful offshore outsourcing projects, mainly with Headstrong, an IT consulting and services company based in Fairfax, Va ...

In a report last week, the Framingham, Mass., research firm said offshore outsourcing is the dominant trend in the IT services industry, with 42% of the application management contracts now having ...

Outsourcing helps control capital outlay, especially in the early years of operations. IT services make up fixed costs for companies that do not outsource.

He was still 100 percent correct. As an economic phenomenon, the outsourcing of services is really no different than trade in manufactured goods.

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