Opinion

Opinion

Offshore IT services

• Three outsourcing trends to look out for in 2023

  ISG's Andreas Fahr outlines three IT sourcing trends to look out for in the coming year.  Continue Reading

• New India – the next global tech magnet

  A group of UK tech leaders visited India, and may have seen the next world-leading tech ecosystem emerging  Continue Reading

• Currency markets causing choppy waters for UK outsourcing

  Anthony Drake, director at tech advisory ISG, explains how the UK government’s botched mini-Budget announcement raised the cost of IT outsourcing  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Good procurement practices pave the way to app security

  Application security is as much a question of good procurement practice as it is good development practice, says Petra Wenham of the BCS  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Don’t trust the weakest link? Don’t trust any link

  Your security model shouldn’t fall apart just because a part of your business, or a partner, has weak security. This is why information-centric security is a must  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Attackers leveraging the supply chain

  Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they have taken away from the past 12 months  Continue Reading

• Supply chain cyber security is only as strong as the weakest link

  A spate of high-profile cyber attacks has highlighted the criticality of supply chain security and put new pressures on security leaders. How can we ensure that cyber security remains robust down the full length of supply chains?  Continue Reading

• Reimagining outsourcing after Covid-19

  Covid-19 has changed how businesses interact with their suppliers. Here are five steps companies can take to manage their outsourcing ecosystem in the post-pandemic world  Continue Reading

• Life under the loan charge: An IT contractor’s story

  Thousands of IT contractors are being pursued by HMRC for “life-changing” tax bills for work they did up to 20 years ago, as part of a disguised remuneration clampdown known as the loan charge policy. One of those affected anonymously shares his ...  Continue Reading

• What Belarus offers the tech sector

  Belarus might not be as well known for its IT as some of its neighbours, but it is pushing its head above the parapet  Continue Reading

• Outsourcing is not dead or dying – it just needs to be done properly

  The collapse of Carillion and the profit warning at Capita have created a false sense of fear about the stability of the outsourcing sector  Continue Reading

• A new nearshoring game is emerging

  Countries selling themselves as nearshore business services locations need to change their sales pitches to avoid becoming like all the other countries doing the same  Continue Reading

• Why the public sector is turning to multi-sourcing

  Sarah Burnett explains why the public sector is moving from single sourcing to multi-sourcing, in an age of austerity.  Continue Reading