Wednesday, 3 October 2007

World’s Top Six Outsourcing Destinations In India

According to a new report, India remains the most favoured outsourcing destination globally and the world’s top six outsourcing destinations are in India....

According to a new report, India remains the most favoured outsourcing destination globally and the world’s top six outsourcing destinations are in India.

According to CyberMedia’s Global Services survey on emerging outsourcing destinations in 2007, India boasts of the largest number of cities (6), which figure among the top-50 emerging cities, followed by China (5), Brazil (3), the Philippines (3) and the US (3), among others.

The study identified Asia and east Europe as favoured destinations for information technology and business process outsourcing, as 19 Asian and 12 east and central European nations featured in the list of the top-50 emerging outsourcing cities, globally. Bangalore, New Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR), Manila NCR, Mumbai and Dublin dominated as the top-five prime outsourcing cities servicing the global corporate world for over a decade, the study said.

The study, conducted jointly with Tholons shows that outsourcers consider process maturity, availability of relevant skills and costs as foremost reasons for deciding on the location for IT and BPO services outsourcing. The top-three global emerging outsourcing cities from India are Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune, while Kolkata ranked fifth and Chandigarh was in the ninth spot.