Outsourcing and Compliance Regulations

Stan Lepeak, VP for META Group, had some compelling insights regarding regulatory compliance in a session at the META conference titled: "Compliance, Law, and...

Calculating the Total Cost of Outsourcing: A Simple Tool

CIO magazine published an interesting chart that META Group helped developed back in 2002 and then showed in a slide during its opening session...

The Top 15 IT Outsourcing Vendors

META Group released the results of its "METAspectrum Evaluation," which ranks top IT outsourcing vendors into three categories: Leader, Challenger, and Follower. Currently, META...

The Lifecyle of an Application

Michael Doane, a Sr. VP with META Group, made the statement, which really surprised me, "The lifecycle of your applications is around 20 years..."...

India and The Vertical Angle to Outsourcing

Whereas Indian service providers have become major players in the application development and application maintenance space and are making big inroads on the infrastructure...

We Can Do It All for You

I’m at the META Group outsourcing event in San Francisco this week, and there’s plenty I’ll share on the blog over the next several...

Lou Dobbs and Outsourcing

Lordy, lordy, Lou Dobbs has created for himself a profitable niche. Dobbs, a business journalist, anchors CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, which I don't watch...

Outsource This!

My brother, a Silicon Valley software engineer, and I are having a major argument about how to get the Sourcingmag.com Web site done....

Help Desk Improvements

Mark Ehr, who puts out an interesting weekly column on outsourcing for Network World magazine tackled outsourced first-level help desk support this week. (The...

Interesting Jobs for Outsourcing Professionals

This Website, once it's up and running fully, will post interesting jobs for people who are doing the work of outsourcing management in IT....