A quick show of hands in the audience at the recent San Francisco-area TDWI chapter meeting indicated that most companies still send data work off shore to save money. That disappointed one of the panelists.
"Cost is the wrong reason," said Anthony "Tony" Giordano, a partner at IBM Global Business Services. That advantage is evening out as offshoring intensifies. Talent is spreading out, and the demand for talent is forcing costs higher.
The area’s second chapter meeting, held late last month, touched both ends of the BI data trail—starting with visualization with dashboard expert Stephen Few and ending with a panel on offshoring, one of the most-requested subjects.
A much better reason to send work offshore, Giordano said, is to focus on what each company actually knows how to do. Most don’t know data administration, so why not send it out?
