Levi9 Global Sourcing Nearshore IT service provider recently launched its second blog. The blog is dedicated to Microsoft .NET development domain and focuses on providing the useful information on the latest software releases, testing new technologies and sharing practical knowledge that company's specialists gained after years of developing on the .NET platform. By combining a wide-range of subjects, weekly news summaries and personal articles from Levi9's team the blog appeals to readers who interested in both Microsoft domain in general and in application development utilizing the .NET platform in particular.
The start of dedicated Microsoft .NET blog, along with a Facebook company page and a Twitter account prove that Levi9 is not only takes an unique position on the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies, but also responding to social media trends extending its on-line possibilities and keep the reader up-to-date on both latest developments in Microsoft domain and on news on Levi9 itself.
"As blogging became an essential part of online communication in this virtual world of information and stimulates for more friendly interaction and knowledge sharing we clearly understand its significant value", says Marketing Specialist at Levi9. That is exactly in the blog where our team is sharing latest news about testing new technologies and software releases.
The company blog facilitates to personal communication and sharing ideas revealing the personalities behind the company, who are anxious to share their experience, exchange ideas and communicate with other professionals contributing to development of Microsoft community.
Pioneer in Nearshoring the Levi9's Blog is rising together with the trend.
Started in 2005 as a brave initiative to support the development of pioneering Nearshoring trend that stand for abandoning risky and complex "traditional" offshore model if favor of leveraging geographical and cultural benefits of the Nearshore destinations, nowadays the Levi9 Nearshoring Blog is a widely recognized resource focused on providing an independent view on the latest news, trends and business practices surrounding Nearshoring at the international level.
Although, the Nearshore blog is mainly focused on providing latest news and trends spanning around Central & Eastern European cluster it also investigates latest global trends and developments with a view to keep readers up-to-date on latest developments in IT outsourcing industry in general, and in Nearshoring in particular.
With a lapse of time the Nearshoring trend started to gain popularity, especially in Western Europe, where companies realize the value in keeping outsourced work close to where the business generally is. The Nearshore blog's focus has been given on Central & Eastern Europe with its close geographic location, cultural and language similarity, no time zone difference and strong education and scientific base. Although, the CEE region has been more expensive compared to global offshore leaders, such as India and China, the proximity, no time zone difference and cultural affinity between parties results in reducing interaction, communication and decision making costs allowing for customer project management to be often present on the project process, while time zone similarity eliminates the need in extra work. According to surveys results examining companies with experience in both "traditional" and Nearshore service models the geographical and cultural benefits offered by Nearshore destinations resulted in the hourly rate difference between "traditional" offshore model and Nearshoring eliminated and real costs matched. According to a 2006 report by Deutsche Bank Research, imports of IT-based services from Central and Eastern Europe to Western Europe increased on average of 13% per year during last decade. This growth rate is nearly comparable to the import of IT services from India, which averaged 14% on the same period.
The Nearshoring trend gained additional momentum, especially in North America after the Indian IT outsourcing market, the main supplier of offshore IT services to US companies escalated, with increased wages and labor turnover rates along with fraud scandals and vulnerability concerns many US clients turned to Canada and Central American suppliers, the latter ones is especially in use for Spanish-speaking business processes. Synchronous time zones are also favorable factors for US firms looking to source in Canada and Central America.
Meantime, European ICT sector showed a steady growth with regional companies signed a record number of contracts beating the leader US in terms of outsourcing deals in 2008.
All previously indicated factors contributed to an increased interest to Nearshoring from the business, while the blog team has responded with a great enthusiasm to such demand. The need in a high-quality and authoritative information on the matter has been meeting with a number of researches and studies published on the resource, establishing specific communities on leading social platforms that unite professionals across the globe interested in the subject. The blog team is repeatedly investigating latest trends and developments, new strategies and best practices in Nearshoring and by means of manifold mixture of subjects, overviews and personal articles will keep readers updated.
The Levi9’s Blogs can be accessed on the following details