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Outsourcing Software Development involves shifting of software development activities by a company to third party service vendors or software firms that may be located in offshore destinations

Advantages by Outsourcing your Software Development:
• Access to specialized labor at low rates
• Cutting human resource costs
• Cutting operational costs
• Reducing software project expenditure
• Ensuring proper project management
• Software research at lower rates
• Reducing training costs

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India and China continue as top offshoring destinations; but Central/Eastern Europe falls while Southeast Asia and Middle East countries rise

While India, China and Malaysia retain the top three spots they’ve occupied since the inaugural GSLI in 2004, a fundamental shift in the index has taken place as once strong Central European countries have yielded ground to countries in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
The GSLI analyzes and ranks the top 50 countries worldwide for locating outsourcing activities, including IT services and support, contact centers and back-office support.There are 43 measurements, which are grouped into three categories: financial attractiveness, people and skills availability and business environment.

Established Central European countries including Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, once among the premier offshoring destinations for Western Europe companies, have fallen significantly due to a rapid increase in costs driven by both wage inflation and currency appreciation against the dollar. Meanwhile, low-cost countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East made significant gains this year as the quality and availability of their labor forces improved. Egypt, Jordan and Vietnam ranked in the GSLI’s top 10 for the first time ever.

Read the Highlights from this year’s GSLI and the Global Services Location Index 2009 here