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Efficient Construction Scheme of Software Service Outsourcing Industry JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE, VOL. 7, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2012 2583 Efficient Construction Scheme of Software Service Outsourcing Industry Xiang-jun Peng College of Information Science and Engineering, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China E-mail:[email protected] Abstract—The prosperous development of the software and 0.2 million and the sales production value will exceed 10 information service outsourcing industry brings billion RMB, in which 5 billion RMB will come from opportunities for inland city to optimize industrial structure global software outsourcing service and 5 billion RMB and change economic growth pattern. This paper takes will come from local and national demand of software. Chongqing, which is located in open frontier and is national Currently, the year by year increase in software and service outsourcing demonstration city as an example. Based on stepwise regression and ridge regression from the information service outsourcing industry in Chongqing, national view to study the influential factors to undertake the industrial structure itself, has shown good momentum. service outsourcing since 1986, this paper analyzes the With the support of municipal government on the advantages and restricted factors of the development of development of software and information services service outsourcing industry in Chongqing. Industrial outsourcing industry attention, software, reserve foundation, technology import and innovation, financing personnel, excellent security for financing system, channels, the information public service platform, talents everything is ready. In Chongqing is strong enough to construction, development environment aspects, software warmly welcome domestic and foreign large-scale and information service outsourcing industry development software and information service outsourcing enterprises path will be mainly discussed. or research institutions to locate in Chongqing. Index Terms—service outsourcing industry, competitive Three regions of software and information services advantages, software service outsourcing, stepwise outsourcing plan, Chongqing software and information regression, ridge regression. services outsourcing white papers, software services outsourcing Chongqing, competitive analysis, the basic I. INTRODUCTION construction of analysis, human resources analysis and base-building analysis, software and information in The State Council determined Chongqing and other 20 Chongqing Analysis of offshore outsourcing services in cities to be the service outsourcing demonstration cities the shore, Chongqing software and information for China in March 2009, which would undertake outsourcing industry investment and financing system international service outsourcing businesses and promote analysis, software and information services programs and service outsourcing industry development pilot cutting-edge city of Chongqing, branding software and thoroughly[1]. In 2009, HP global software service center information services outsourcing overall investment (GDCC) Chongqing branch, Honeywell technology programs coastal cities. Along the building, by 2020, the development center (GES), Fujitsu system engineering income scale will reach 250 billion Yuan, the scale of Co. LTD, Chongqing branch, ORACLE Chongqing software and information service outsourcing will exceed branch, Microsoft Chongqing innovation center, ZTE 1,800 billion Yuan, and strive to enter the ranks of the top communications software R&D base and a number of three cities across the country. renowned domestic and foreign software research and Chongqing actively undertakes service outsourcing to development institutions settled down in Chongqing, speed up the transformation of foreign trade growth creating a prosperous atmosphere of service outsourcing pattern and improve the level of utilizing foreign industry in Chongqing [2]. Chongqing undertook service investment. This is a strategic choice and turning point outsourcing contract in an amount of 30 million dollars in indicating significant shifts of industrial structure in 1st 2010, which is 8 times higher than that in the Chongqing as the leading industry in depth [3]. corresponding period of last year. Besides, the actual Chongqing as the service outsourcing's demonstration execution amount exceeded 19 million dollars, which is 7 city, expands the industrial scale year by year, optimizes times higher compared with last year the corresponding the policy environment unceasingly and consummates the period. services structure day by day. At the same time, the rich At present, the development of software outsourcing human resources and the relatively prominent cost service in Chongqing is strongly supported by the advantage create extremely favorable conditions for the Chongqing government. We aim at being the first-class development of service outsourcing industry. Location, base city of outsourcing service in China. It is estimated cost advantage and government unprecedented attention that until 2015, the number of personnel engaged in make Chongqing service outsourcing industry's future software development industry in Chongqing will exceed © 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER doi:10.4304/jsw.7.11.2583-2590 2584 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE, VOL. 7, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2012 full of opportunities. But inescapably Chongqing believe that the more detailed and precise the information technology industry development is still in specification is, the better the expected results from the primary stage [4]. The intensified professional offshore software Development Company. However, in competition between Chongqing and many domestic big practice, collaboration and communication time between cities cannot be avoided. Facing these challenges and distributed teams on the clarification of unnecessary opportunities, how to create the evaluation competition implementation specifics and style is time-consuming and advantage index to undertake software service contributes little to meeting the requirements of the end outsourcing according to regional economic product. Implementation style is difficult to direct across characteristics, and give target-oriented approach of GDD teams. Global methods and process should focus enhancing the ability and countermeasures suggestion, energy on managing and communicating the architecture and help our city enterprise effectively participate in and requirements. It shouldn't waste time to define the global market competition. This is the theoretical step-by-step directions for how distributed Software research and practical problem to be solved. development Company members should do their jobs. Couple of years back or we can say in early nineties, it was something that software development can be done II. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS VARIOUS FACTORS with a Software Development Company solely located at one place. Now it is changed and different teams are A. Data Description working from different places on entire projects and As a result that Chongqing has not related complete never meet face-to-face. The fact that is still challenging statistical data, the author carries on empirical analysis is that it has not reduced the risks and complexity involved in successful project delivery in spite of through the national service outsourcing and software reducing the frequent-flyer balance of today's developers. outsourcing industry , and researches the influence Global Development and Delivery (GDD) is the most factors of undertaking service outsourcing, which fascinating short term aspect that is consistently keeping Chongqing develops software outsourcing industry can managers to think of the same thing. Companies in take for reference. Taking the main factors influence on software development using GDD as a competitive the software service outsourcing into account, set variable; Most IT organizations expect what benefits to econometric model are as follows: extract from GDD. They usually are less sure about how to achieve them. Still, that hasn't affected the speed of nlnlnRSO=+ββ WAGE + β EDU 01 2 (1) GDD adoption. Frequently, the demand of software + β lnDVP++ββ ln INT ln GDP + μ development forces IT organizations to take on GDD 345 before they can establish strategies and platforms for lnSRSO=+ββ ln WAGE + β ln EDU 01 2 (2) success. + β lnDVP++ββ ln INT ln GDP + μ As the scope and scale of GDD efforts increase, so 345 does the occurrence of failure. This pattern continues Among them, RSO expresses the scale of the service until frustration results in software development outsourcing to undertake, due to lack of the statistics data organizations concluding that GDD is more trouble than of service outsourcing in China at present, the domestic it's worth. Software development has always been a team scholars generally replace with the service trade exports, sport. Geographical and organizational separations of this article has also adopted the similar processing project Software Development Company increases the method, and followed the definition of trade services to complexity involved in achieving successful outcomes. reject government service in WTO-relative regulations. In Yet global flexibility is the core foundation for achieving order to research the factors exerting influence on advantages in cost, time, and quality. To be successful in software outsourcing industry, the SRSO represents the GDD, you must protect the Software development scale of undertaking software service outsourcings. Company in the aspect of application development WAGE stands for the human resources cost in service
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