Coming Full Circle Back To Custom Applications

As with all technology cycles, we are in for a reversal. The trend of buying packaged applications has been very strong for the last decade +, but is about to change directions. I predict (yes you can quote me) that over the next 24 months (possibly 36 months) we will see a new shift towards enterprise application development. There are a few forces driving this shift: Labor is less expensive – with off-shore...

Off Shore Development – Shoe-horning a SWOT Analysis

A friend of mine has recently been considering off-shoring a portion of his development organization, this post is a synopsis of my thoughts and experience…. Off-shore development has been going of for more than a couple decades. When I started with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) in 1994, engineers in the Philippines were being employed to do off-shore development – simply missing the ubiquitous...