Trend Report

Offshore Services: Understand Blended Rates

Buyers Need Transparency To Gain Confidence In Offshore Services

Richard Peynot
 and  four contributors
Jun 06, 2007

Summary

European companies continue to accelerate their adoption of offshore services. In parallel, many service providers continue programs to increase the percentage of offshore resources used in delivering their services. But IT service buyers sometimes unrealistically expect large cost reductions and lack clarity as to how services firms calculate project prices when offshore and onshore resources contribute jointly. Sourcing and vendor managers need to obtain better transparency into the bundling of on-site and offshore resources.

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