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Introducing the On-Demand Cloud Factory

Despite the drawbacks, outsourcing and cloudsourcing still offer distinct advantages, including the ability to tap talented, external resources on an as-needed basis. Cost efficiencies and flexible access to high-quality developers make a compelling case for the outsource/cloudsource model. I don’t mean to take the significant disadvantages lightly. Companies must retain the flexibility to rapidly wind Continue

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Prelude to a Cure: Cloudsourcing

Cloudsourcing is the modern alternative to outsourcing. Cloudsourcing combines social networking, globalization, and Internet-based brokerage models to make the best of software development available on demand. Inspired by the likes of eBay and Amazon, demand aggregators such as Elance, oDesk, and vWorker (previously RentACoder), cloudsourcing takes the outsourcer out of the equation by offering top Continue

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Why Legacy Outsourcing Makes Companies Sick

Technology-driven companies depend on software to deliver value and to create strategic advantage. However, many of these same companies view their IT and software budgets as line items subject to the same cost-cutting measures that lead to one-ply toilet tissue in the bathrooms and off-brand soda in the break room. This type of shortsighted cost-cutting Continue

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The Need for On-Demand Cloud Software Factories

Consumer software that’s now running millions of iPhones and iPads has combined with friendly, frustration-free software powering thousands of consumer-friendly websites to create a new standard by which enterprise software is perceived. Thanks to Apple and others, users expect to fall in love with new applications, which don’t just meet expectations; they blow them out Continue

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