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Saint Petersburg 2004
The Insiders Look at Outsourcing!
Connecting Worlds Through Offshore Business Models
Co-located with the Software Outsourcing Summit 2004 - Russia’s Largest Software Conference for International Development Clients
Pulkovskaya Hotel, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
9-11 June 2004
It’s no secret. Russia offers excellent outsourcing opportunities for software development. While today’s offshore growth trend keeps rising, it pushes companies to streamline their product internationalization and localization processes. And Russia, with its low cost structure and experience in multilingual project management, has their eyes on this target too. Its more than just about costs. It’s a whole new set of management challenges.
In the IT sector, outsourcing is becoming the norm, as noted in a recent Globalization Insider article, Meeting the Outsourcing Challenge by Tiziana Perionotti of TGP Consulting. She noted that Silicon Valley software producers are most likely to develop their products with offshore R&D facilities in India, China or the Ukraine. Due to the nature of software writing, services such as quality assurance, localization, technical writing and project management have now been added to the lists of tasks being assigned to outsourced locations.
As Rory Cowan of Lionbridge explained in his article From Mozart to Mumbai, the localization industry is just in the early stages of this outsource migration. Translation has most often taken place in the target country for quality reasons, but now more workflow processes are moving to overseas locations. This trend is giving rise to the need for more and better project management training in headquarters and outsourced locations to manage this transition.
Global Business Managers and most recently many internationalization and localization production managers are being faced with a plethora of opportunities and challenges as the outsource engine picks up steam. LISA members and conference attendees have the unique opportunity to participate in a conference where both sides of the equation are being discussed.
