Skilled Labor is Biggest Challenge Facing IT

Linda is from Buligeshi facing the biggest challenge facing todays IT organizations is not to choose the right technology - it was found skilled developers to perform complex, multi-platform integration tasks, often involving legacy systems. This need, but also help promote the application and development of outsourcing.

As the platform of war has settled down, as well as Java and. NET have taken a clear lead, pure tools and technology issues, have become much less attention than staffing and training, according to Gartner vice president Joseph feiman.

Technical challenges of today, feiman said, is application integration, especially with the traditional system. "This is engaged in manual work, [requirements] serious skills. You have to take different technology and connect them. " Although organizations often have to spend a lot of time, the choice of application development technology, feiman said that the capital expenditure is usually less than 20 percent of the overall cost of an application. The remaining cost is labor: development costs, typically 50 to 60 percent of the costs and maintenance, is usually 20 to 35 percent.

Organizations to consider outsourcing continue to miscalculate the situation, overestimated the potential savings in labor costs, feiman said. For example, a simple comparison of direct labor costs, is misleading when, in considering whether or not to outsource. Feiman quoted Gartners figures show that in the factoring business issues such as communication is critical in evaluating a projects true cost. Inadequate communication, which would increase costs when an offshore labor source is used, and because of the differences, language and distance, among other things, become a factor. "If communication is low, then in order to compensate for a lack of communication, you have to either work longer or have more people to do the same work," feiman said.

Feiman also pointed out that even if the entire project outsourcing, is an organization there are still some in-house labor costs, many of which are typical underestimated. For example, computer programs, almost certainly have to meet with business people from the scene analysis, and in-house labor costs are rarely included in the budget for the outsourcing project.

Figures from Gartner indicate that programmers are often left to inefficiency as a key reason for the growing number of companies are turning to outsourcing as an attractive solution. "Yes, it is likely to relocate Heritage to develop new technologies," feiman said. "But in fact, its expensive, lengthy and risky proposition."