| Metamorphosis of the web; diffusing cross boundaries; | | | | suppliers and streamlining those modules to attain |
| changing growth strategies; with semantic web, social | | | | perfection. Also companies have started outsourcing |
| media communities, offshore and outsourcing as major | | | | to more than one country and India is most preferred |
| transformation tools has transformed the web world | | | | destination and China is next to it. |
| and SMEs and giant IT players have come closer on a | | | | Merger-and-acquisition activity is recent outsourcing |
| common platform to benefit from mutual interaction. | | | | trend that sprouted as a result of very tough |
| These trends have become the IT success mantra. | | | | competition that exist between IT players. |
| How was this introduced, when did it gain strength? | | | | Ripening outsourcing market in 2006, boundaries |
| What is its impact and where do you see offshore | | | | smudging and intermingling of resources reflects a |
| outsourcing after 5 years from now?? | | | | very challenging market for offshore outsource |
| Offshore is relocation of business modules and | | | | players and developers in consecutive years. Strategic |
| functions to offshore country or location. This is giving | | | | outsourcing has reduced risk of relocation of |
| charge of secondary operations i.e. non-core | | | | resources and management units to India. Which way |
| operations to external specialized entity, moving | | | | to go?? It is not clear that it will generate 100% |
| charges from an internal controller. This may not | | | | success; lack of proper consultancy may result in |
| involve offshore movements. Again, multi-sourcing | | | | failure. |
| involves different modules sourced from different | | | | |