• Growth in Indian IT services exports to slow down, says Nasscom

  By John Ribeiro | 09 February, 2012 22:57

  Growth in India's exports of IT services, business process outsourcing and related services is forecast to drop to 11 to 14 percent in the Indian fiscal year to March 31, 2013 from an estimated 16.3 percent in the current fiscal year, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) said.

• Outsourcer Cognizant posts strong revenue and profit growth despite uncertain market

  By John Ribeiro | 09 February, 2012 01:43

  Cognizant Technology Solutions posted strong growth in revenue and profits in the fourth quarter of 2011, indicating that a few focused players continue to grow, even as demand for offshoring is flat because of uncertain economic conditions.

• Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 04 February, 2012 09:09

  The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas. The offer was made during a live online town hall after the engineer's wife questioned the government's policy concerning H-1B visa workers.

• H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 03 February, 2012 23:14

  H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.

• U.S. firms should disclose offshore hiring, says lawmaker

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 02 February, 2012 08:58

  WASHINGTON -- A newly filed U.S. House bill would require that U.S. public companies disclose the number of workers they employ in the U.S., and the number that work overseas.

• Don't mess with Texas: Lessons from IT outsourcing disasters

  By Stephanie Overby | 05 August, 2010 05:04

  Two weeks ago, the CIO of Texas penned a seven-page letter outlining the chronic failures of the state's nearly four-year outsourcing relationship - a deal the Texas governor had briefly suspended in 2008 citing service delivery problems that he said put the state's agencies in danger.

• IT Outsourcing Activity Remains Sluggish in 2010

  By Stephanie Overby | 23 July, 2010 00:59

  The outlook for the IT outsourcing market is not unlike the outlook for the economy as a whole: It's "unusually uncertain," to use U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's words.

• How IT Outsourcing Customers Can Test Cloud Computing

  By Stephanie Overby | 20 April, 2010 06:08

  Aspects of cloud computing have been available to-and rejected by-IT outsourcing customers for years, from hosted applications to on-demand hardware support. But as the breadth of the cloud has expanded to include a growing number of software-, platforms- and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings that can be quickly deployed as needed with low management overhead and little vendor interaction, the temptation to move away from traditional IT services provisioning is mounting.

• Cloud Computing Shakes Up Traditional IT Outsourcing

  By Stephanie Overby | 12 April, 2010 05:44

  For all the vagaries of IT services, traditional IT outsourcing has always been quite tangible--servers, data centers, networks, specifications, man-hours, lines of code. The rise of cloud computing, however, is changing all of that with flexible, asset-free IT services available on an as-needed basis for more aspects of enterprise technology.

• Outsourcing: Prepare Now for Anti-Offshoring Laws

  By Stephanie Overby | 18 March, 2010 07:22

  Whether any future U.S. jobs bills will contain anti-offshoring measures remains up in the air. But outsourcing customers don't have to wait to protect themselves from potential protectionist legislation.

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