Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Ci&T’s head of mobile strategy talks about how to deal with the many flavors of mobile app development.

 

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Black White Box 300x225 Outsourcing Clients Face Tough Choice: White Box or Black Box?By Dan Berthiaume

Most IT outsourcing and BPO relationships boil down to one of two models: staff augmentation or managed services. “Staff augmentation is where the client defines a specific skill and pays the provider based on the number of hours and days successfully worked,” explains Dave Borowski, senior associate of outsourcing advisory firm Pace Harmon. “There are service levels, but you still pay by the number of hours and bodies.”

And while staff augmentation is currently more popular with clients, particularly in the case of BPO, there is a shift toward more adoption of the managed services approach.

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By Dan Berthiaume

Maersk Maersk Counts on IT Outsourcing to Spur Growth, FlexibilityOperating in 100 countries and transporting goods around the globe, at first glance it would appear Danish shipping company Maersk Line is already handling all the cargo it can manage. But when Maersk determined that the volume of most of the goods it was shipping had not grown to full capacity, the company decided information technology outsourcing (ITO) would be a crucial part of rectifying the situation.

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NSHeadshotJan1812 2 300x154 Nearshores 2012 Outlook: Time for Industry to Stand on Its Own By Patrick Haller

With 2012 in full-swing, a critical look at what lies ahead for Nearshoring  is in order. With a shaky global economy, and some forecasts calling for a sluggish year in IT and BPO sourcing, this is no time to be complacent.  Whether it’s building solid skill sets, creating sufficient scale, matching client’s expectations, managing expansion, or doing business amidst social change and myopic political theater, providers have a lot to confront. We tapped some of the leading experts in the Nearshoring space for their answer to the burning question: What is the single biggest challenge you think the Nearshore outsourcing industry faces in 2012?

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By Bob Scheier 

IT outsourcing (ITO) vendors provide everything from application development and testing to remote management of customers’ data centers. As those customers adopt cloud computing (highly virtualized compute, storage and network capacity provided over the Internet) ITO vendors face both strategic threats and opportunities, according to a survey of 489 business executives conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) this spring.

New cloud competitors include IAAS (infrastructure as a service) vendors such as Rackspace, who sell server, network and storage capacity on an “as needed” basis, as well as vendors such as Dell and HP looking to move beyond product sales to higher-margin services.

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Mexico recently rose five spots to become the sixth-ranked country worldwide in A.T. Kearney’s 2011 Global Services Location Index, boosted by depreciation in its currency and “increased nearshoring sentiment in the United States.” Now the highest-ranked Latin American country in the index, wages in Mexico fell 18 percent in dollar terms last year “as it was buffeted by economic headwinds from the United States,” according to A.T. Kearney’s summary of the index.

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Many vendors still have ” significant gaps in cloud delivery platforms and skillsets”

By Dan Berthiaume

Infrastructure delivery based on the cloud has the potential to deliver enterprise-level value and flexibility that could lead to disruptive adoption by IT outsourcing customers. By improving utilization and eliminating excess capacity, Everest Group is among several leading industry groups that advise cloud infrastructure models can deliver significant cost efficiencies, particularly “hybrid” models combining the usage of public and private, dedicated clouds.

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IDB launches first loan program targeted at outsourcing services in LatAm

By Patrick Haller

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will provide a loan of ten million dollars, plus three million dollars that will be contributed by the Uruguayan government, in order to foster further development of the nation’s services sector. The IDB office focused on integration and the trade sector in the Southern Cone is based in Montevideo and this helped to promote the regular and fluid interaction between Uruguayan authorities and the IDB representative, and established a permanent dialogue from the very beginning of the loan process.

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newpicture Latin America: Richness and Variety of Region are Still Widely Misunderstood

Capobianco: Exporting is not the same as selling to internal markets

By Patrick Haller

South America is not a single country. Just like in North America, Asia, Africa and other continents, the cultural dynamics and considerations vary from nation to nation, and within the different regions of each country. Javier Peña Capobianco, General Secretary for the Asociación Latinoamericana de Exportadores de Servicios (ALES), and a lecturer on the subject of International Trade in Services at the Catholic University of Uruguay, helped explain some of the misperceptions and the rise of Latin American countries on the global stage.

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NEW YORK, Dec 16, 2010 — Nearshore Americas, the premier online source for professional outsourced services decision-makers, has announced an all-star speaker lineup at its Nearshore Nexus Conference, the first executive-level conference dedicated to the rapidly expanding Nearshore business services industry. Nearshore Nexus, taking place April 26, 2011, features Johnson & Johnson, Axis Capital, J. Walter Thompson, Capgemini and other top industry luminaries presenting valuable insights and practical use cases on nearshoring success.

RegisterNowButton1 Nearshore Americas IT and BPO Conference Nearshore Nexus Reveals All Star Speaker Lineup

Go to Nearshore Nexus Now to Register. April 26, 2011 at the Jersey City, Hyatt. Qualifying buy-side attendees are invited to attend free of charge.

Nearshore Nexus is the first event in the global outsourcing ecosystem, created to bring together senior technologists, CIOs, global sourcing decision makers, country representatives and select sponsors to explore the “New Axis of Outsourcing.” General session …

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