Posts Tagged ‘outsourcing services’

Ukraine: an Emerging Software Outsourcing Destination [Presentation]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Softheme is at the top of the list of competent players in the Ukrainian market of outsourcing services. This market is growing constantly and the number of companies and employees involved in this sphere change with every year. To keep you in touch with the latest facts, we’ve updated our presentation about Ukraine being one of the best emerging software outsourcing destinations.

Cost Saving Remains Top Outsourcing Benefit

Monday, September 27th, 2010

outsourcing-benefit A survey has found high levels of satisfaction with third-party IT providers.

IT is still saddled with the role of cost-cutter in the business, a new report on outsourcing has found. A poll of senior business executives reveals that most Irish firms are achieving cost savings of between 25 and 39pc by farming out parts of their IT to external providers.

The report by the consulting and outsourcing firm Version 1 also identified other benefits of outsourcing, such as improved responsiveness and reliability of service, access to expert skills and the ability to take advantage of industry best practice.

Irish organisations have mostly increased their levels of outsourcing in the last 18 months and the findings suggest that trend is set to continue at least until the end of next year. The recession has inevitably led to restructuring, with many organisations looking for ways to strip out costs.

In the current economic climate, CIOs and CFOs need at least to be able to answer the question “why not outsource IT?”, according to Brendan McGettrick, enterprise director with Version 1 and co-author of the report.
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Biggest Mistakes Made in Outsourcing Deals

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Both the client and the vendor tend to make a lot of serious mistakes in outsourcing deals, especially when trying to cut costs. In this article we are going to have a look at how lack of innovation and productivity gains, as well as culture conflicts, can bang up an outsourcing contract. Many of the eloquent signs have more to do with the customer’s organization than the outsourcing services vendor.

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Softheme: Christmas Discounts on Software Outsourcing Projects

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Holidays are not necessarily the reason to freeze business activity. With Softheme you can get a unique opportunity to use holiday season as the chance to warm up your business and streamline IT costs.

Each year Softheme prepares special Christmas offerings to make working with us for our clients more enjoyable. During previous several years more than 10 new customers signed deals with Softheme on the holiday season and received good discounts on our software outsourcing services.

This year Softheme grants customers and prospects a 5 to 10% discount on the first month of service for deals signed between December 10, 2009 and January 10, 2010. This is a great offering for all software outsourcing projects and a perfect way for businesses to decrease their IT expenditures.

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Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Recently, the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) with the support of Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) has issued the annual research “Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review”. The main ojective of this document containing 49 pages is to provide the holistic view on the potential of the CEE region as a global cluster for provision of nearshore IT outsourcing for the Western European countries and for offshore IT outsourcing for the North American market.

About the IT outsourcing study

The research examines key development indicators of the IT outsourcing market in the 16 countries of the Central and Eastern Europe region including market value, number of professionals, number of IT companies providing outsourcing services and market rates. “CEE IT Outsourcing Review” includes the detailed country profiles, experts estimations on the outsourcing market development during the recession period, their opinion on new tendencies and forecasts for the market recovery, profiles of the leading outsourcing companies in the region.

What is notable and also pleasing is that the research provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. (more…)

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