OOBP News

OOBP Founder Speaks at CEED Regional Conference in Slovenia Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 (EST)

Eugene Goland, Founder of OOBP, was one of the distinguished speakers and round table moderators at “Building a Successful Multinational SME” conference, hosted by Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. (Read More...   )

OOBP Chairman Joins Billion Minds Foundation Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 (EST)

Eugene Goland, Chairman of OOBP.org and President of DataArt, was asked to join a Billion Minds Foundation, and became a member of its Global Knowledge Leadership Council, focusing on the knowledge economy, thought leadership and learning. (Read More...   )

Outsourcing to Ukraine: 2006 results and 2007 expectations Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (EST)

Information Technology market in the Ukraine has been growing stably during the last five years. Although internal customers still cannot afford ordering big IT projects, Ukrainian IT products are progressively more desired in Western countries. The USA and Western Europe are unalterably the well-established importers of software development services from the Ukraine. (Read More...   )

IDC Predicts Hyperdisruption in IT Industry in 2007 Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 (EST)

With worldwide IT spending expected to grow a modest 6.6 percent in 2007, many industry leaders will be more willing than ever to take chances and embrace change, to open up new pockets of growth. The result, according to IDC, will be a year of hyperdisruption, with many IT vendors stepping up their adoption of new business models and technologies, and cross traditional market boundaries. (Read More...   )

Soccer, Samba and Outsourcing? Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (EST)

Mr. Lazarski, who is 38 and sports shoulder-length blond hair, says his business writing software for small U.S. companies is doing well after a slow start -- and he enjoys Brazil's "better weather and a better quality of life. Everything has worked out quite well." (Read More...   )

Fight for outsourcing deals intensifies Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 (EST)

Competition between IT outsourcing providers is continuing to intensify, spelling more complex procurement cycles but potentially lower prices for customers. (Read More...   )

Outsourcing Activity Spirals in Europe as Contract Sizes Shrink Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 (EST)

According to the latest Quarterly Index data from TPI, a leading sourcing advisory firm, 2006 experienced the single-greatest number of European agreements awarded (157) in any year, up 11 percent from 2005's previous high. Alongside this trend, there was a moderate decline in global market contract values which TPI says is symptomatic of the trend for shorter contract durations and smaller contract values. (Read More...   )

The Spin Cycle of Outsourcing Posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 (EST)

When Ross Perot spoke of the "giant sucking sound" during the 1992 elections, he spoke of U.S. jobs leaving the country because of cheap labor abroad. Outsourcing has since become a watchword of corporate America's continuous and heartless quest for cost cutting and downsizing. What was the threat of Japan in the '70s and '80s became Mexico for the '90s, and more recently it has been China and India conspiring with corporate America to take our jobs and send us all to the poor house. (Read More...   )

The Bottom Line of Offshore Development Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 (EST)

The trend toward farming out development work to overseas firms has yielded bottom-line profits to most of the firms that have taken the leap of faith, according to an industry survey. (Read More...   )

An Upgrade For The Industry Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 (EST)

Whether designing a new product, managing shipments of supplies, billing for services, booking revenue or analyzing sales trends, software is the way all business gets done today. (Read More...   )

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