Software
that is utilized in business to increase or streamline the ability of your
company or department to do business is workflow software. It is important
because of its design to make your work world “flat”. The first work flow
software breakthrough was e-mail. This form of communication transcended
typical communication and brought business closer together in time, literally,
and in space, figuratively.
The
windows enabled PC can now enable workers to communicate with workers and
departments across the globe. Through the use of SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol, workers do not have to worry about application compatibility, they
can simply communicate without attention to such details.
Open
Source software is an answer to big corporations and their closed door approach
to software development. This community developed software is important because
of the free nature in which it is created and developed encourages and promotes
growth and the sharing of knowledge and understanding. This David versus
Goliath approach to software development is a winning concept which allows many
“little guys” to have a part in a great movement.
Who’s
to say what drives “Open Source software”, but it works, and it works extremely
well. The drive and application to which independent workers, educators and
free-lancers are able to work and provide good product is overwhelming and a
great testament to the human spirit and its desire to excel.
Outsourcing
means “taking some specific, but limited, function that your company was doing
in-house … and having another company perform that exact same function for you
and then reintegrating their work back into your overall operation.”
Outsourcing
became popular in the 1980s, and during the dot com boom, outsourcing was a
terrific way for a company to be able to compete and grow. But even in the
treacherous atmosphere of the dot com bust, outsourcing became even more
popular as companies were frantically looking for answers to problems that they
had never been faced with.
Popularization
and growth in outsourcing was catapulted in the Y2K era. The fear of global
shut down and a following crisis was feared due to the reliance on computer
technology. The insurmountable task of upgrading ever computer and every system
to one that would be able to recognize the turning of the year 2000 was
outsourced to computer technicians and geeks in India. This relationship has
blossomed through the years and has raised the level of the opinions of
businesses regarding Indian business and has heightened their awareness of
Indian capabilities and drive.
We
can only admire and look up to the favorable atmosphere in which change was
anticipated and harbored in India. As much as we can say that India might have
been lucky in many ways. It was also prepared. They were able to reap a massive
harvest upon which they had sown education, application, and foresight.
“Fortune
favors the prepared mind.” And in this case, Fortune definitely favored India.
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