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With
the increasing number of businesses incorporating the Internet
into their operations, information technology (IT) outsourcing
plays a leading role in what is now called the “outsourcing
revolution.” According to IDC, a Massachusetts-based market
research firm, spending on IT outsourcing reached $56 billion
in 2000 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2005 (Source: The
Outsourcing Institute). Businesses have realized that to be successful
on the Web, they would have to devote more time, expertise, and
bandwidth.
Kauai
Publishing Company, Mother Earth News, and Sound Choice are among
those that have contracted offshore IT work with Outsourcing Solutions,
Inc. (OSI).
Hawaii-based
Kauai Publishing publishes and distributes a daily, The Garden
Island, and two other bi-monthly publications, Kauai Beach Press
and Japanese Beach Press, in addition to maintaining two websites:
www.kauaiworld.com and www.thegardenisland.com. OSI does document
conversion work for Kauai Publishing, which gives online subscribers
access to PDF versions of these dailies on the Internet. OSI also
provides website archiving and maintenance work to these sites.
Mother
Earth News, published by Ogden Publications, is one of America’s
leading magazines on sustainable, self-reliant living. The Topeka,
Kansas-based publication contracted OSI to do some web archiving
work involving HTML conversion as well as abstract creation of
the magazine’s back issues beginning in the 1950s. OSI also
developed a search utility engine for its website (see www.motherearthnews.com).
The
North Carolina–based music company Sound Choice, which produces
karaoke musical tracks in CD+G format, has experienced widespread
theft and piracy. In 2001, Sound Choice tasked OSI to do Internet
research and surveillance. This has resulted in the apprehension
of hackers and illegal traders of Sound Choice–copyrighted
material.
Aside
from IT outsourcing work, OSI provides other services such as
data input/data entry and data capture; document transcription;
OCR/scanning work; encoding; keying/keyboarding; copyediting,
indexing, book formatting and styling; typesetting; tagging; proofreading;
website design; cover design; IT consulting.
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