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Better Control and Visibility of Business Information
January 7, 2007


Conscientiousness of Offshoring


Outsourcing right now has no standard legal definition. It can be defined as the transfer of a commercial function to an outside service provider, subject to the customer's retained authority and responsibility to third parties and shareholders for continued success of the customer organization. This normally involves long-term contracts. Virtually any long-term service contract is outsourcing, to some degree. This is distinguished from projects, or "contracting out."

Outsourcing has been here for quite some time. In the 1960’s, the outsourcing model was successfully used by American car manufacturers to be more competitive with Japan. Instead of manufacturing all of a car’s parts, Ford or GM would source non-vital parts, say carburetors, from specialty sub-contractors. They were then free to concentrate on marketing and distribution. Back then, it was accepted as just another business tactic.

The IT boom in the late 1990’s spawned the latest version of outsourcing. Because of the Internet, distance was no longer that much of a factor. By then companies started to look offshore, specifically the Philippines, to leverage the local workforce’s low-cost wages with the high proficiency in English. Offshore outsourcing, or the outsourcing as we know it, was born.

Now, it seems there are no limits to what can be outsourced. In the mid 1990’s AOL started a tech support facility in a former US Military base in northern Philippines. Dell and AIG soon followed. Dell set up a call center hotline to help new PC buyers in the West Coast with their questions. AIG also invested in a call center for telemarketing. Outsource offshoring has developed and has better control and visibility of business information.

Other activities which have been outsourced are customer service, computer programming, writing, graphic designing, media management, data entry and animation.

Filipino animators do well in the global market for animation, which is fast growing due to the increasing popularity of animation as an entertainment medium not just for free and cable TV and the movies but also for computer games, as well as an advertising medium, a graphics medium for Internet content, and an information and educational tool.

Their services range from full 2D and 3D animation, including pre- and post-production services such as layouting, in-betweening, clean-up, digital background production through scanning and pre-compositing, color styling, special effects creation, and digital ink and paint application, to flash animation and web design, graphic and art design, mobile applications, and art and animation training.

There are many benefits with outsourcing your web projects to the Philippines: It reduces your overhead cost in having to maintain a full-time employee. It enables you to concentrate your resources on marketing and have better control and visibility of business information. Your production cost will be cheaper if you outsource to us, making your price competitive. You will be dealing with an established company that you can depend on more than a freelancer.

The Philippines is one of the top ten outsourcing destinations in the world, according to a recent study by consulting firm AT Kearney. It has a large, college-level workforce with good English capabilities. In spoken English, Filipinos fare better than Indians, as they need no accent neutralization training to be able to talk with English – speakers from Western countries.

The Philippines is one of the two most preferred outsourcing destinations due to its skilled, educated and highly trainable manpower. The country boasts of 35 million skilled workers, 3,80,000 graduates annually and a literacy rate as high as 94 per cent. It also has the largest population of US GAAP-certified professionals outside of the US, therefore offering tremendous potential for outsourcing of financial services.

As an end-to-end provider of offshore solutions, Offshoring, Inc, the leading staff leasing firm in the country, provides a wide range of products from outsourcing business processes in the Philippines to contact center and ancillary services. Offshoring, Inc has built a relation between technology and art as it uses best-in-breed technology, proven expertise, and highly competent and motivated teams. Offshoring, Inc gives better control and visibility of business information.

Offshoring, Inc, an American owned and managed offshore staff leasing company based in the Philippines offers a unique proposition to its clients. The clients maintain complete control over the development of their projects from start to finish through cost effective digital communication, like email, instant messaging, Skype or Voip.

The clients resort to outsourcing business processes in the Philippines and some of their business operations to Offshoring, Inc because the company is known for hiring only highly qualified, well-trained, and experienced professionals who mostly have advanced degrees and practical training in the workforce.

Whether you are for it or against it, the reality of outsourcing is hard to disregard. The theory is very simple: it can be an opportunity for a business to cut its costs in an area by up to 50% while maintaining the quality of the work. Businesses should therefore take a long, hard look at this phenomenon to offer their customers and shareholders increased value while remaining competitive in the global environment.

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