While offshore manufacturing is increasingly common, service industries can also benefit from offshore outsourcing. In some instances, cost is reduced while customer service has improved. Still there are challenges in the transition.
The main obstacles that need to be addressed revolve around language and communication, expectations of contracted work, and cultural differences. For purposes of this [...]

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The AEC Business Trends Survey 2007 conducted by Zweig White identifies the four main challenges facing leading AEC firms today: lack of qualified workers, overall performance of the US economy, providing necessary training and profitability. Smooth, dependable and customer-oriented operations is a key part of the financial equation, this is where AEC firms need to [...]

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Before you consider offshore outsourcing, it is prudent to review the challenges that may be encountered. The risks include cultural differences, communication, quality measurement, managing specifications, security, and organizational issues.
Cultural differences can cause risk when you presume that your culture does things the right way and that other cultures do things the wrong way. Worse [...]

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Whenever the topic of Internet phone service comes up, I’m surprised to find that most people don’t know that they already have everything they need to save money on their phone bill using an Internet phone.
Fact is, you really only need two things:
1. A regular telephone
2. Broadband Internet access. [...]

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Many people do not have any imagination about VoIP. The task of this article is to consider what is VoIP at all, its technologies, software and billing.
What is VoIP?
This abbreviation means Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP technologies include different technologies that give us possibility to use IP networks for voice applications of various types. For [...]

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Nowadays, I am being asked this question with some regularity — “Salaries are raising fast in India; does India still make sense as the outsourcing destination?”
Current Indian salaries for developers are in the range of US$15K to $20K. Silicon Valley salaries for similar skills are in the range of $60K to $90K. When you add [...]

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Software development process is a really complicated and long-lasting procedure. People think that technical expertise is the only one thing that is necessary for software development process and for its successful ending. However, that is not really true. If you have your own company and you want to get profit from it and, consequently, to [...]

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DESPITE the Philippines is considered as one of the third largest English speaking countries in Asia yet the report released by the US State Department, in its “2007 Investment Climate Statement” this month cited that the “English language proficiency, while still better than in other Southeast Asian nations, is declining in the Philippines.”
This report is [...]

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