Outsourcing in India
Guest Editorial: The Internet and Outsourcing.
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, Article 13, Publication date: August 2007.
Definitions: (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)
1.Outsourcing is subcontracting a process, to make more efficient use of labor, capital, technology and resources.
2.Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.
3.Real time systems, which respond to events or signals as fast as possible. (Note: examples are flight controllers, Logic simulators which simulate the operation of a digital circuit and virtual reality).
The Internet is one of the drivers of offshoring professional services (outsourcing). From this need, experienced technical improvements at the foreign locations are made. To-date, it is considered a synergistic mutually-beneficial relationship.
At MIT Sloan School of Management in the spring 2004, the following articles were reviewed:
1.“24-Hour Knowledge Factory: Using Internet Technology to Leverage Spatial and Temporal Seperations” by Amar Gupta and Satwik Seshasau states that full time shifts will reduce development costs and times.
2.“The Internet's Role in Offshored Services: a Case Study of India” by Rafiq Dossani and Nathan Denny describes entrepreneurship and self-reliance emerged from India due to new revenues from the out-of-date (30 year old) hardware systems. Also, nationwide firms, jump-started in India, raised the average level need of technology.
3.“Impact of Internet- Based Distributed Monitoring Systems on Off-Shore Sourcing of Services” by Ravi Aron, Siddarth Jayanty and Praveen Pathak, reviews Internet monitoring systems has promoted technologies which were previously thought too risky or complex like real-time processes.
4.“Preserving Data Privacy in Outsoucing Data Aggregation Services” by Li Xiong, Subramanyam Chitti and Ling Liu looks at the compilation of information from detailed databases on individuals and selling that information to others. This has resulted in the compromised personally identifiable information which resulted in identity theft. There is a call for more strategies in data privacy.
-Evelyn
Labels: data aggregation, Outsourcing, real-time
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