Today we can see mobile devices everywhere: people are using smartphones and PDAs in public transport, in cafés or just in the street. It is hard to recall how the world managed to survive without all this stuff about 15 years ago? Ok, let us examine facts and latest trends.

The mobile market is...

Outsourcing is quite a widespread thing in modern IT sector. As the progress in the industry goes ahead, more projects are outsourced to offshore companies. But this cooperation process is growing not only in quantity, but in quality as well. While earlier simple routine tasks were handled by offshore contributors mostly, now project owners are outsourcing more complex tasks. Consulting services don’t make an exception. Today...

As the new year begins, it is a good time to overlook the results of the previous period and discuss the latest trends. In 2011 IT sector continued its glorious march throughout the world markets. There were new achievements in the software development industry (including offshore software development), for example the usage of Android phones has grown overwhelmingly. So did the whole mobile apps development branch.

Today the outsourcing software development sector is perhaps the most rapidly growing part of the world IT market. The key peculiarity of the software development business is that it does not restrict itself to any certain location but can attract customers from any place of the world. That is why hundreds of software solutions producers are competing with each other, letting users to choose from a great variety of software products.

Computers tend to be more and more important part of our life. They help us to automate lots of mundane actions, such as shopping, newspaper reading, talking with friends, working etc. Every such activity requires a certain set of options. Besides, each person has his or her own unique needs, so a software application which is good for one group of users will be inconvenient for some another group. Thus a demand for new, smarter solutions is supported, which powers the competition of producers, engineers’ creativity and, as a result, the evolution of custom application development.

As the world IT outsourcing industry continues to grow faster and faster, regional markets are undergoing certain changes. The process of evolution gradually changes the face of the industry. Some software development outsourcing companies are entering this market while others are leaving the game. Several years ago...

Like all other industries, software development has entered the stage of automation after reaching certain level of maturity. Nowadays all the main platforms are standardized and contain lots of patterns. This allows software developers to avoid numerous routine actions such as creation of buttons, dialogue windows, authorization forms etc. As a result...

As the share of IT solutions in worldwide business grows day by day, the market of commercial IT projects is boosting. That means more work for software development companies and, particularly, for offshore IT outsourcing services providers.

While in the middle of the previous decade India and China were undisputable leaders of the world outsourcing markets (including such niches as web software development services, custom software development services, animation and game development services), now some new challengers have come forward.

Communication and interaction matter much, especially in the IT industry. Gurus or beginners, all IT professionals need to exchange their experience, ideas and views in order to improve their knowledge. Public IT meetings are...

Winter holidays are over and so is the period of silence in our blog! We are glad to meet you here – now be prepared for a lot of new discussions and event reports!