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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/Software Development/Software Outsourcing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that is often made to lower costs or focus on competencies. Due to the nature of programming, the outsourcing of software development has evolved more rapidly than other areas of job outsourcing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6th Sense Analytics Interviews Thomas Koulopoulos, Author of Smartsourcing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper211/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:39:40</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[During this podcast, you&rsquo;ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry&rsquo;s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dana Gardner Discusses Developer Productivity with Greg Burnell, CEO of 6th Sense Analytics]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper212/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:40:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Procurement Outsourcing: The 10 Things Companies Really Want to Know]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper394/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-17 14:05:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper draws upon recent discussions with dozens of companies that are exploring outsourcing services. Jason Gilroy and colleagues draw upon their years of procurement expertise to provide answers to common questions surrounding the outsourcing of procurement services.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software Development Survival Guide: 5 Steps from Chaos to Control]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper770/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 09:21:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper describes five practical steps that you can take to make your development process more predictable and reliable. By following his five steps, Paul maintains that you can build better software more quickly with less cost and less risk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improve Your Application Development Requirements Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper844/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-27 13:33:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper will discuss current and future market dynamics and how you can improve both the quality and the delivery cycle of your applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1175/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-30 14:38:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to those who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Test Methodology]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1216/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today&#39;s organizations. Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts to implement your SOA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarbanes-Oxley and Its Impact on IT Outsourcing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1334/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-24 09:39:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The nature of corporate accounting and financial controls has forever been changed by Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. This white paper discusses the ripple effect of the Act on the IT outsourcing community and the new responsibilities and ethics that rest on companies, both public and private, that entrust all or part of their IT environment to an external third party.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6th Sense Analytics Interviews Rusty Weston of Global Services Magazine]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1396/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:39:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media&rsquo;s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1397/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:40:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected&mdash;on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[6th Sense Analytics Interviews Doug Gold, CFO of CoreObjects]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1399/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:39:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Software in a Flat World]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1401/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:39:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Next Generation of Software Development]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1488/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:41:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper asserts that moving to the next generation of software development and sourcing requires moving from art to science. Given how dependent we are on software as a foundation for every product and service, anything less creates a climate of risk, uncertainty, and unjustifiable costs that undermines our ability to compete in a global marketplace.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Primer on Outsourced Software Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1573/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-13 11:30:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This guide/primer serve as an introductory how-to guide on outsourced software testing for business heads as well as software project managers. It first places testing within the content of total product life cycle and then describes the sequential stages within testing program, and how these stages can run parallel with the other development stages. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domain Focused Independent Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1629/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-04 09:10:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper acts as a tool, for CEO&#39;s and Business and IT heads, helps reduce application deployment risks and costs. This paper attempts to establish how outsourcing test services to an independent domain-focused specialist company can substantially mitigate deployment risks. Business users are assured of receiving reliably better quality application well within cost and time budgets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Speeding the Search for Offshore Developers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1889/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-01 13:32:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Companies exploring offshore software development often find an overwhelming array of options. For example, is India the best choice? What about China, Russia or Brazil? Time, distance and language barriers also make it difficult to assess the quality of offshore developers. How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3 Key Chapters from the Award-Winning Book 'Software without Borders']]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1890/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-01 13:31:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a &quot;threat.&quot;&nbsp; They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3234/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-21 10:01:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out the seven reasons to adopt SaaS security from Industry experts and see how Service subscription takes the headache out of email and Web threat management. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How General Mills Transformed Its Business With SAP]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3298/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how General Mills Inc. sought and engaged SAP Custom Development to enable mass status change in their existing mySAP Product Lifecycle Management application, and thus to help them modify their product specifications in the most efficient, effective, and reliable way.]]></description>
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