IT outsourcing
Seems like IT offshoring has become a usual thing for the majotiry of busnesses. The annual survey of IT budgets and technology trends by the Society of Information Management (SIM) found that 65% of companies use it for some aspects of their business. The survey covers CIOs and senior IT leaders at 275 companies mainly from the USA.
The main outsourcing destinations are: India (58% ot those who use outsourcing), China (10%), Mexico (7%), Western Europe (6%), Eastern Europe (4%), Philippines and the Caribbean (4%), Russia and Brazil (both 3%), the survey said.
Another good news is that IT spendings are not being cut. This year 83% of respondents claim that their IT budgets were equal or greater than the preveious year, and 85% have respective plans for the next year 2012. According to the survey, cost reduction is the last among the CIOs’ priorities. The reason is simple - companies want to leverage IT to reduce overall costs, instead of cutting it to achieve relatively insignificant saving.
The top priorities for IT managers are: business agility, business process management, IT strategic planning, IT reliability and efficiency, enterprise architecture, security and revenue-generating IT innovations.
The figures provided by SIM survey once again acknowledged that IT outsourcing is a good way to cope with the challenges facing IT leaders. We believe that in the future the percentage of those who outsource will become even greater and reach 80% in the next few years.
You can learn more about other findings of SIM survey on Computerworld.
Web developer’s community is actively discussing the new approach of Mozilla, where it delivers a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks. The main issue is compatibility of the popular add-ons like FireBug, FireShot, PixelPerfect, SeoQuake and others with the newer versions, that may lead to certain troubles in website design and development. At present moment all these important plug-ins work rpoperly only with Fireforx 3.6. That’s why the news that version 3.6 of the world’s most popular browser won’t be supported after the next Firefox release does not add optimism. 
As you know, last weekend was rich in opportunities for IT specialists to meet and learn something new during three important industry events.
