Outsourcing in India [software development]

Starting in the early 1990s and motivated initially by the desire to cut personnel costs, many companies have explored multisite, multi-country software development approaches. India and Eastern Europe, in particular, have drawn attention. Most companies today distribute their development primarily to access human resources and competencies not available at home and only secondarily to cut labor costs. After examining various possible outsourcing models, this article reports on the experiences of Tenovis GmbH and Co. KG, a German company in the private (in-house) telecommunication domain, and its software development partner in Bangalore, India