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As you now, there are two types of outsourcing that an organization can participate in. These are Local or Global outsourcing. Outsourcing has moved from a niche technology management tool to a mainstream, strategic weapon for many firms. As the move to a multisourced environment accelerates, outsourcing has become the next new business-critical process - requiring that everyone who buys, sells or manages IT services be “reskilled” in this new methodology. “In this process, a contractor subcontracts work that formerly had been performed in-house to outsiders. This allows the company to get the work done less expensively and also frees company management to concentrate on areas in which it is most competent (Pell, Pg. 125)”. “IT outsourcing as a concept has existed for a long time, yet has suffered from limitations in the breadth of offerings, service quality, flexibility and enabling technologies before reaching its present maturity (Pearson Education, P.6)”. Outsourcing started in the 1950’s with a concept called timesharing, which is now called multitasking. Time-sharing is the process of giving multiple users access to a system or group of systems at the same time. With a time sharing setup a computer gives users a small portion of its processing power in pieces. This enables the computers processing power to be more evenly distributed. “Because early mainframe computers were extremely expensive, it was not possible to allow a single user exclusive access to the machine for interactive use. But because computers in interactive use often spend much of their time idly waiting for user input, it was suggested that multiple users could share a machine by sharing one user’s idle time to service other user’s. Similarly, small pieces of time spent waiting for disk, tape or network input could be granted to other users (Wikipedia, P.2)”.
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