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While nearly every industry has increased its use of third-party service providers over the past few years, some have been more reluctant than others to utilize offshore companies. Government agencies until recently avoided working with offshore vendors due to concerns over negative political fallout and the possible exposure of sensitive data.
In a 2005 study, the […]

Misery loves company. You may be tired of reading about companies cutting their IT budgets. Well, believe me, I am tired of writing about it.
But I just read an excellent article in The McKinsey Quarterly (free, but registration required) that echoes the theme of a Computerworld piece I wrote about in March: Companies that slash […]

There appears to be good news and bad news for Indian services companies in Forrester Research’s new spending report, which I just wrote about yesterday.
Demand for outsourced services seems to be growing, found Forrester, with 45 percent of respondents planning to increase their use of applications outsourcing, 43 percent expecting to boost their use of […]

Wow, am I ever starting to feel like the bearer of bad IT spending news. Hot on the heels of my post from last week about a CIO.com survey showing a growing number of tech executives planning to make spending cuts is a new spending report from Forrester Research that shows cuts are already under […]

Yes, the economy stinks. The U.S. unemployment rate hit 6.1 percent last month, its highest level in five years, reports The New York Times. It’s not exactly comforting when one presidential candidate’s top economic adviser says, “We should be prepared for the worst.”
And sadly, the tech industry isn’t impervious. On Friday, I wrote about yet […]