Steve Mezak

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Data Marts 101

17th May 2011
Data marts – ever heard of them? Not many people have, but they are essential to the data warehouse that is a key part of most businesses that have vast amounts of customer, employee or product data to store and manage. There are a few different types of ... Read >

Certifications for Developers: To Get or Not to Get?

03rd May 2011
As its name implies, vendor-specific certifications give developers an expertise in a specific tool. Conversely, vendor-neutral certifications focus on such areas of development as security or project management. When it comes to choosing which certifi... Read >

Overcome Problems Related to Coming and Going of Team Members

03rd May 2011
Delivering optimal performance for a team is not often easy when members of that team are part of a revolving door policy. Groups don’t always respond well to terminal turnover. Plus, it negatively affects how the job gets done when continuity of skills a... Read >

Offshore Outsourcing Wars: China versus India

26th April 2011
During the past ten years, China has been considered the biggest challenger to India as the leader in the burgeoning offshore IT outsourcing (ITO) industry. While they are both big and inexpensive compared to Western nations, there are many noticeable dif... Read >

Emerging Offshore Outsourcing Markets

01st March 2011
In a recent study by the London School of Economics Outsourcing Unit, Egypt was determined to exhibit the strongest market potential among emerging providers of global IT services. Commissioned by the Information Technology Industry Development Agency of ... Read >

Why Should You Use a Partner in Finding the Best Software Outsourcing Firms?

28th February 2011
Outsourcing. From the corporate boardroom to small business incubators, it’s all the rage. It’s a global community they say. An interdependent world we live in. All of this is of course, very true, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, right? We all know ... Read >

Offshore Software Outsourcing to India: Advice and Tips

28th February 2011
One of the questions being asked about software outsourcing to India is: Is there any way to ensure that offshore teams in India will develop the required cross-cultural competency in American business culture? To find out definitively, there’s a more per... Read >

Why You Should Outsource Your Software Development

25th February 2011
Many business owners are less than ecstatic about outsourcing certain aspects of their IT operations, especially their software development function. Horror stories abound about failed outsourcing software development projects. What they don’t know is tha... Read >

Five Easy Steps for Preparing to Change Software Vendors

25th February 2011
Change is good. It’s also hard to do sometimes. Especially when it comes to changing outsourced software development vendors. And while you don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, you also don’t want to go out of business because your projects are taking a ... Read >