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Outsourcing Prices: Why the Recession Isn't Really Driving Them Down
"Making a blanket assessment of falling pricing levels is generally inaccurate and misleading," says David Brown, EquaTerra's managing director of financial architecture. "Prices have, in general, declined, but it's very situational to specific service providers and specific buyers."
CIOs: Get ready for the economic recovery ahead
Once the business demand for IT services starts growing in an economic recovery, it's far too late for the in-house IT department to ramp up to meet that demand. The time to prepare for a recovery is just before the recession starts to bottom out, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc. analysts Ken McGee and Mark Raskino.
 
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Intetics Participates in SQA Days 2009 and Software Engineering Forum 2009
In spring Intetics - and to be more exact Vitaly Streluk, Sergey Revko and Sergei Terekhov- participated in the 5th International Conference of Software Quality Assurance Specialists SQA Days 2009 (St.-Petersburg, Russia), as well as in the Software Engineering Forum 2009 (Minsk, Belarus). These were enjoyable and informative events where we could build new contacts, learn new ideas and share best practices.
Obama’s Tax Plan Unlikely to Prevent Offshore Outsourcing
Barack Obama started fulfilling his campaign promises and made a first step to return jobs from offshore locations back to the United States. The bill about federal tax changes, that is yet to receive approval in the Senate, will impact IT vendors that run various operations overseas by disallowing deductions for various offshore expenses, including payroll. Thus, it should encourage American companies to hire local employees.
How can cultural differences impact corporate security while outsourcing?
There is a split opinion on whether cultural and language differences between Western customers and their outsourcing vendors have a negative impact on the results of their cooperation. It’s hard to argue that it often leads to miscommunication on projects and other management problems. However, the recent survey of IT managers and end users of 10 countries, which was published by Cisco Systems, Inc., shows that behavioral and cultural differneces impact the security of business activities as well.
 

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ABOUT INTETICS CO.

Intetics Co. is a leading global outsourcing company focused on custom application development, software testing, web system design and offshore staff augmentation services.

Founded in: 1995
Headquarters: Willmete, IL, USA
Development Centers: Minsk, Belarus and Kharkov, Ukraine
Customers: Zone Labs, Adorama, Baer, Check Point and more

Facts:

- Since 1995 Intetics has completed over 500 projects for about 200 Clients in more than 30 countries.

- The company is ISO 9001:2000 certified and Microsoft Gold Certified partner.

- Intetics Co. has been recently named to the Inc. 5000 list, the annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the USA.

- Intetics Co. Named to the Top 100 Global Outsourcing list