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Due to significant decrease in IT staff budgets, companies in Middle East are facing challenges in acquiring new technical skills says a report by ComputerWeekly.com. Will this set outsourcing business on a new horizon? It is a big question in everyone’s mind. According to report more than 50 percent of the organizations in Middle East,... Continue reading Reduced IT staff budgets in Middle East or a rise in IT Outsourcing?

The IT industry at present is one of the largest sectors in all major economies of the world. Reports by world’s leading information technology research and advisory company Gartner speaks about the rapidly growing IT industry witnessing great improvements on investments also. Developing countries like China, India have become most searched destinations for Outsourcing IT... Continue reading Multivendor Governance of IT Service Providers by B2B Marketplace: A glimpse of future IT Infrastructure

Data is already the most important asset in numerous organizations and its importance is constantly on the rise. Hence, an organization needs to be data driven. With the emergence of new technologies, the amount of data a company deals with has almost quadrupled, which makes it a challenge to keep all data in accessible form... Continue reading DATA DRIVEN SOURCING AND IT GOVERNANCE

Automation in outsourcing processes has become a quite familiar term in today’s IT industry, with the increase of productivity being one motivation. The losses that the outsourcers have faced over the years has led to the emergence of technologies which is about to revolutionize the world of outsourcing. One of such technology is robots. If... Continue reading Automation in Software Development – pliXos View

IT vendor services have evolved over the years and have become quite different from what it used to be 10 years ago. Important is to know how the future of IT vendor services would be 5 years from now. With the latest trends and developments in Outsourcing and Offshoring the need to select the right... Continue reading pliXos Views on Outsourcing Partners not just Vendors

The growth of outsourcing services has been tremendous throughout the 20th century. It has gained strong footholds in private as well as government organizations. Despite the many successful outcomes in outsourcing there have been some instances where it did not proved to be beneficial as per the expectations. A company has two choices for software... Continue reading Outsourcing Software Development to offshore talent: a way to get help or hurt?

Outsourcing can be defined as the optimum use of external resources to deliver activities which were originally performed by the internal staff. We all have heard the saying “Jack of all trades but master of none” which is very much true for any organization with a large scale of divisions. So if unique expertise is... Continue reading pliXos views on 3 R’s of Outsourcing: Reasons, Risks and Rewards

Outsourcing is a word we are all familiar with but governance of the outsourced projects came in much later. Why are some outsourcing relationships successful, while others struggle or fail? While these complex relationships require strong processes, skills and tools to succeed, outsourcing excellence depends on a governance operating model based on principles, rather than... Continue reading The E’s which matter in outsourcing governance – pliXos agrees with the research by CORE, Deloitte Inc., and Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University

IT consulting and services giant Accenture released a report called, “Channel Shift: Measuring B2B Efforts to Shift Customers Online,” detailing the shift to online transactions in the B2B market. We at pliXos fully agree with the findings and want to add some of experiences and visions which relate to topics addressed by Accenture’s article.  

We at pliXos – operating the B2B Marketplace for software service providers and customers – believe that it is very important for customers and service providers to be on the same page and have trust and common respect for each other. Our B2B Marketplace extends our offering of SaaS tools covering the whole sourcing lifecycle... Continue reading Full Set of Pre- and Post-Contract Sourcing Solutions – by pliXos