IT outsourcing, by all expert projections and reports, will continue to grow in the years to come. As data shows, more and more businesses will choose to offshore their services to specialist providers. The lack of in-house engineering talent will be one of the main drivers of the IT offshoring industry. Companies will choose to offshore their services to more attractive and low-cost destinations in Europe due to the shortage and high cost of tech professionals in their own countries.
Nearshore was created, in 2011, by a group of IT engineers aiming to explore the above business opportunities by creating IT engineering teams dedicated to create innovative software products for Business partners. These teams encompass state of the art IT technologies and methodologies in order to provide added value for customers and shareholders.
We make a distinction between “outsourcing” and “offshoring”. Fundamentally, a company can outsource an operation (e.g. a call centre) or software production (e.g. building a tool or a website). This is not the business we are in. Offshoring is all about building dedicated engineering teams that work as part of the “parent” company organisation, augmenting the skills and human resource availability for their technology organisation. Engineers (in the wider sense, i.e. software, quality assurance, devops, business analysis, support etc) that will work hand in hand with the engineering organisation of the parent company and be seen as “members of staff”.