Posts Tagged ‘outsource location’

Ukraine Ranks 11 in the List of TOP20 Outsourcing Locations

Friday, October 15th, 2010

ranksAccording to the 2010 Global Services 100 list, Ukraine is 11th among 20 leading countries in the area of IT Outsourcing and High Tech Services. Ukraine is the first among Central and Eastern European countries ahead of Russia, Belarus and Poland in this list. The GS 100 list is annually compiled by Global Services in association with NeoAdvisory, a consulting and advisory company.

Similar result are shown in the catalogue of IT outsourcing providers from Central and Eastern Europe (the project of Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association).

This year more than 150 companies participated in the annual survey and analysis of the global ITO-BPO industry. The companies were asked to share detailed information through an online survey which contained over 200 data inputs and qualitative parameters. The GS 100 model for analysis includes such criteria as management excellence, customer maturity, global delivery maturity, and breadth of services portfolio.

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Offshore, Nearshore, and What, Rightshore?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Since Softheme always keeps an eye on what is going on in the world of outsourcing, we couldn’t pass by one of the latest popular outsourcing solution trends called “rightshore”. Promoted by such outsourcing giants as Capgemini and Lionbridge, this type of service offers an approach to outsourcing alternative to “good old” offshoring and nearshoring.

In general, rightshore approach still does include offshoring and nearshoring models. However, the core of this solution is providing the ideal combination of outsource locations (on-site, offshore, and nearshore) for each customer’s individual project basing on analysis of project-related factors. Service providers claim that rightshore solution usually requires four steps to identify the right-shore location for any particular engagement. Here is the short description of those:

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