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20 July 2009 Saving costs in the crisis changes the provision of consulting services pliXos enables the online analysis of global sourcing IT projects Munich, 20.07.2009 – External consultancy services have not only been subject to negotiation in many companies since the economic crisis. While some companies (e.g. Telekom) have only recently reduced the earnings... Continue reading Saving costs in the crisis changes the provision of consulting services

14 April 2010 Free guideline on standardized implementation of outsourcing projects (DIN SPEC 1041) A panel of experts from different companies has developed as part of a DIN SPEC procedure practical guidelines and procedures for the management of outsourcing projects. The result is now available online (in German). The DIN SPEC 1041 can be downloaded... Continue reading Free guideline on standardized implementation of outsourcing projects (DIN SPEC 1041)

21 July 2009 Collaborative Open Source software development Collaborative Open Source software development means that a consortium of companies jointly develop software. The software is developed under an Open Source license and is available to all consortium members free of charge. The Open Source Business Foundation and pliXos support the collaborative open source software development through... Continue reading Collaborative Open Source software development

2 April 2009 IT services from India: Successful off-shoring by leveraging opportunities and avoiding risks Article in the magazine “Unternehmer Edition” 05/2008 The purchase of IT services from low-wage countries like India are the logical continuation of the division of labor. The development, maintenance and testing of software are typical services that are outsourced. For... Continue reading IT services from India: Successful offshoring by leveraging opportunities and avoiding risks

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10 June 2009 IT Management of the future – way out of crisis Participation in the congress “IT Management of the future – way out of crisis”, Hamburg on 1 and 2 July 2009 The Focus congress’ “IT management of the future – way out of crisis”addresses the challenge of  developing an competitive IT environment in times... Continue reading IT Management of the future

17 April 2009 Global Sourcing and the industrialization of software development Paper presented at the Software Engineering 2009 (SE2009) on 4 March 2009 The need to optimise the globally distributed software development has increased in recent years. In addition, global sourcing as a form of a global resource management in regard to resource availability and... Continue reading Global Sourcing and the industrialization of software development

14 May 2009   Global sourcing of software development – a review of tools and services Participation in the “3rd International Workshop on Tool Support Development and Management in Distributed Software Projects (REMIDI’09)”  in conjunction with the “4th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE2009)”, Limerick, Ireland, 13 July 2009 Software services in a globally distributed... Continue reading Global sourcing of software development – a review of tools and services

23. July 2010   It is getting serious about outsourcing productivity! (in German) On 10.08.2010 a kick-off meeting will take place in Munch to establish a working group on “Benchmarking of IT services” under the umbrella of the European Outsourcing Association Germany e.V. The objective of this group is to develop models and procedures for... Continue reading It is getting serious about outsourcing productivity!