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Outsourcing

DEFINITION: Also see nearshore outsourcing, onshore outsourcing, and offshore outsourcing.

Outsourcing is an arrangement in which one company provides services for another company that could also be or usually have been provided in-house. Outsourcing is a trend that is becoming  … 
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Winning Outsourcing Strategies: How to Increase Value & Reduce Risk
sponsored by Ounce Labs
WEBCAST: Join Ounce Labs and our feature speaker, Ms. Fran Howarth, Principal Analyst of Quocirca Ltd., present findings from a September 2008 report on Winning Outsourcing Strategies - How to Increase Value and Reduce Risk.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Premieres: 20 Jan 2009, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)
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The Lean Paradox: Flexible Supply Chain Management and Outsourced Manufacturing
sponsored by E2open
WEBCAST: LSI Corporation deployed lean supply chain management practices to significantly cut costs and cycle times. Don't miss your chance to learn how they did it.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Channel Success Stories: Virtualization
Case Study: Vitale Caturano
sponsored by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
PODCAST: Download this Podcast for a first hand account of how one company outsourced its IT operations and the benefits they sought by doing so.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 02 Dec 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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Combat Your IT Challenges with XenApp 5.0
sponsored by Citrix
PODCAST: Address the top challenges facing your organization today - how to reduce application management costs, support telecommuters and outsourcers and ensure business continuity. Explore the requirements and best practices that XenApp 5 brings.
Posted: 08 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 10 Nov 2008
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OUTSOURCING DEFINITION (continued): …  more common in information technology and other industries for services that have usually been regarded as intrinsic to managing a business. In some cases, the entire information management of a company is outsourced, including planning and business analysis as well as the installation, management, and servicing of the network and workstations. Outsourcing can range from the large contract in which a company like IBM manages IT services for a company like Xerox to the practice of hiring contractors … 
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