Archive for September, 2009

Outsourcing Will Continue to Grow in 2009

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

According to the latest statement of Gartner, the world’s leading information technology market research and advisory company, outsourcing is expected to continue its growth in 2009 despite the global economic downturn.

“Although things look gloomy for the larger global economy, the outsourcing market represents a dichotomy: on the downside, organizations’ cost-cutting outsourcing strategies may negatively impact market growth, but at the same time, the upside is that outsourcing will be adopted by more organizations to help them work through financial and competitive challenges,” said Gartner representatives.

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Higher Educational Institutions in Kiev, Ukraine

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Ukraine has always been unrivalled for the high level and strong traditions of its education. Along with other sciences, over the past several decades Ukraine has been providing a rich selection of qualified and talented Information Technology (IT) professionals for leading businesses and organizations both local and abroad. All this is possible due to an abundance of educational institutions highly accredited in IT sciences presented across Ukraine, with most establishments located in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Below you will learn about the Kiev’s main educational institutions providing training of professional IT personnel and the IT Majors they offer.

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Cloud Services: Convenient for Small Business

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Recently, in the IT outsourcing world a new trend called “cloud computing” is gaining more and more popularity. This type of service implies that a customer stores his business data on remote servers of a service provider accessing the data via the Internet. So, why is using a cloud service beneficial?Cloud computing

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More Tips on Successful IT Outsourcing

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Outsourcing has already proved its position as a powerful business strategy for costs reduction and enhancement of business processes efficiency. Sometimes IT outsourcing projects happen to fail delivering expected results or they simply fail as a business strategy. Yet, this is not an index of any drawbacks in the outsourcing model.

While all projects are affected by external forces, special attention should be paid to internal processes of any project. Among the common reasons of IT outsourcing projects’ failure is insufficient control or lack of communication with the outsourcing service provider, unclearly defined core goals and objectives of the project, etc.

In an IT outsourcing project, when something goes wrong, it is critical to recognize early warning signs and take appropriate measures to correct the situation. If not recognizing the problem and correcting the situation, a customer should at least close the project in order to avoid losing too much money.

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Global IT Services: Growth in 2008

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

In 2008 the global IT services market experienced growth due to an increased number of firms using solutions such as the outsourcing.

The new research from Gartner, the world’s largest technology business research authority, revealed that worldwide IT services revenue increased to the total of $806 billion last year as compared to the $745 billion recorded in 2007.

The researchers for Gartner’s worldwide IT services group stated that in 2008 IT services companies experienced eight months of normal operations while the remaining four were impacted by the global crisis.

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