Archive for April, 2009
Top 10 Benefits of Outsourcing
Outsourcing and offshore are interchangeably used by people. Some of them think that these terms are same. But there is different between Outsourcing and offshore.
Outsourcing means sourcing from outside. The term is increasingly used to refer to sub-contracting of a set of functions or processes by one firm to another, or to a group of individuals. The latter organization is often in another physical location, or another country altogether.
When a company’s operations or business processes are outsourced to firms in foreign countries, often to take advantage of cheap skilled labor, it is referred to as Offshore outsourcing or Offshoring.
Outsourcing enables a company to focus on core-competency areas. It also frees the firm from resource and labour intensive functions, which are now performed by trained personnel at much lower costs.
The processes or activities that are being outsourced could range from customer service and telemarketing, to IT management, software development, market research and even financial portfolio management.
Most of the outsourcing firms are based in the USA, some in the UK or Australia and fewer still in Europe, while most of the outsourced workforce is Asian.
There have been loud protests against outsourcing in the USA, and more recently in Australia, since some of the professionals might be dislocated; when processes are shifted, jobs are naturally shifted too. However, this kind of dislocation is mostly temporary and there are very few highly-skilled professionals who are actually losing jobs because of outsourcing.
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5 Reasons to Outsource Software Development Projects
To satisfy the customers most of the providers are occupied in developing new programs, providing add-ons, and new versions. In these days of globalization many firms are looking for the software development outsourcing provider. One of the studies says; when new company who outsource their software development assignments to outsourcing company, has been able to save 40 to 50 percent on project. Before going for outsource software development, look carefully towards the various offerings of service provider.
Outsource software development services are mentioned as under:
Desktop Software Development
Desktop applications are generally built as query and analysis tools that access the appropriate database and convey the required information. To develop software programmers need knowledge of various languages and tools including ASP.NET, VB.NET, Java and Visual Basic. Here is some of the example of desktop application XML Parsers, customized data entry forms, Webinar Presentation Creators, and dashboards and scorecards. High accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness are characteristic of our desktop application services.
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4 Steps For Successful Outsourcing
Many people struggle with outsourcing because finding the right freelancer to help you out in your business and then managing them correctly is a difficult business. But I’m here to tell you that things don’t need to be as difficult as they may seem right now.
Having been managing a number of freelancers over the years I have slowly learned and adapted my own techniques for maximizing the chances of a project going without a hitch and I’d like to give you those tips now to make your outsourcing far more effective and reliable.
Clear Instructions
The first mistake that many small business owners make is that their instructions aren’t clear. When you tell your freelancer what work needs doing, the details need ot be completely idiot-proof. I am not saying freelancers are idiots – far from it infact – but what I mean si that your instructions need ot be so clear that your freelancer can be certain of exactly how to satisfy you.
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HTML Help Compiled Help File
Some HtmlHelp (CHM) Tools popular: Pocket CHM Pro, Easy CHM, CHM Editor, Fly_Help, word2CHM….
Pocket CHM description
Easily creates HtmlHelp (CHM) files, open and edit the .chm file directly
Pocket CHM is a convenient tool for developers, Help authors, and technical writers to create online Help for desktop applications in HTML Help (CHM) format. Pocket CHM provides a rapid streamline authoring mode – drag files/folders from built-in resource explorer or windows resource explorer and drop them on your Help book.
Pocket CHM screen shot:
How to test Website?
Following are the validations done while testing a website.
- User Interface or Usability Testing
- Functionality
- Interface testing
- Compatibility Testing
- Load / Stress Testing or Performance Testing
- Security Testing
User Interface testing is done to check how the users navigation happens and to check how easy the application to use. Following are done while performing User Interface testing
- to check the site map or navigation bar
- to check the content like irrelevant or not, grammatical or spelling errors.
- to check the color or background
- to check the images like type of files, positioning, the size of the files etc.,
- to check the tables
- to check whether the wrap around happens properly.
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Top 10 Website Valuation Tools
Methods and estimates the value of the site services are often quite similar. These services are usually based on the following factors to determine value for a website:
+ Google Page Rank
+ Alexa Rank
+ Compete Rank
+ Quantcast Rank
+ Backlinks
+ Based on the relationship on the social network such as Facebook, Twitter …
+ The archives and sharing bookmarks, such as Delicious, Digg, StumbelUpon, Reddit, Mixx …
However, most are for very different results and these values only for reference.
SiteValueCheck.com
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