Outsourcing, while once considered an option forced upon IT by disgruntled executives, is now a golden opportunity for many small and medium sized Companies. Shortages of e-business application development skills and shrinking time-to-delivery requirements brought about a drastic change in the sourcing arrangements. By taking advantage of the increasing number of sourcing options, IT groups can now focus on building their organizations' revenue-generating aspects.

Contract Manufacturing transformed the high technology industry and Software Outsourcing is about to transform the complete picture of IT & related products in the years to come and even doing so now already: The outsourcing model is already being leveraged by 40% of the Fortune 500 companies including GE, Lucent, Oracle, Microsoft, Motorola - the list goes on. The offshore outsourcing model can bring cost saving of 50% to 70% depending upon the onsite and the outsource resources.

Like say an Offshore Center in India enables follow-the-sun Development. A nine-and-a-half-hour difference from the Eastern Standard Time puts India in a perfect position to enable 24-hour, around-the-clock development.
For example a US development team can work all day, and then while they are sleeping, an Indian development team can pick up the work, making continuous development possible and drastically cutting down deployment times.