IT Outsourcing

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lobally reached US $56 billion in 2000 and is expected to surpass US$100 billion by 2005. The global IT outsourcing will nearly double by 2005, driven by competitive strategies and not just cutting. IT development and integration is predicted to be the largest sector and the leading driver of IT services spending over the next coming years” (hknet 2002) Information technology outsourcing was originally focused on mainframe management and data processing services, but has since evolved to cover a broad range of services ranging from software development to network management and Web hosting. (The Outsourcing Directory 2004)
Executives are currently outsourcing the following activities:
 Maintenance/Repair
 Training
 Applications Development
 Consulting and Reengineering
 Mainframe data centres
Executives are considering outsourcing the following activities:
 Client/server
 Networks
 Desktop systems
 End user support
 Full IT outsourcing(The Outsourcing...