Somewhere Steve Jobs must be smiling. As you may have heard, Adobe last week admitted defeat in its long-running battle with Apple over Adobe’s Flash technology. As Apple’s CEO, the late Jobs barred Flash from Apple’s iPhone and other handheld devices and famously wrote an open letter last year explaining why. Jobs complained that Flash…
The Top Benefits of Outsourcing Software Development In the past, companies normally hire offshore providers in order to outsource services related to non-critical business processes including customer support and contact marketing. Offshoring has been used also for labor-intensive projects because the labor costs in some countries are quite cheaper. However, a new trend is emerging…
Software development outsourcing has been around for many years. Still, it is worth starting with the basics—service models. There are different models you can use to outsource the development, testing, or maintenance of a software product, but they are all based on the three primary approaches: staff augmentation, dedicated teams, and project-based outsourcing. These models…
If I had to make a prediction about the future of software delivery, I would say that it will look a lot like it does now—but closer to perfection. Over the next five years or so, I expect the process of software development and delivery to be much smarter, faster and better because enterprises will…
There still aren’t enough tech workers, and enterprises are paying the price. The shortage of qualified IT workers has been an ongoing problem in the business world for many years already, and new research suggests there’s no end in sight. Twenty-five percent of projects today are abandoned as a result, and even those that do get…
Organizations are starting to use agile principles to reinvent the outsourcing selection process, with some excellent resultsOutsourcing IT is a $300Bn industry – and yet studies show that up to 25% of clients are dissatisfied with their suppliers. This is partly because selecting a supplier is a bit like choosing a marriage partner without the…
