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ISHIR :: Celebrating 10 Years of Creativity : Technology : Search

Monday, February 1st, 2010

10 Years of Delivering Excellence

On this day our vision turned into reality and our journey began. ISHIR India started on February 1st 2000 and has grown from a garage start up to a diversified services outsourcing company with expertise in the Casino Gaming industry as well as the Digital Marketing and Technology Business Solutions.

We started with an idea that evolved into what ISHIR stands for today. The quest for finding a niche in our business led us to Casino Gaming, Search and Technology solutions. The last ten years have been challenging, fun, memorable and full of learning. The fresh challenges and learning’s have kept ISHIRites motivated and helped evolve ISHIR.

People have been our greatest assets at ISHIR. ISHIRites and ex-ISHIRites have greatly contributed to the success of ISHIR and worked against all odds to make what seemed impossible, possible.

Their aspirations, team spirit, commitment and a great value system have been the driving force behind ISHIR’s success.

Our clients have entrusted ISHIR to solve their unique business problems and given us the opportunity to become their trusted advisers. We would like to thank all our wonderful clients that we have worked with and have supported our growth in the last decade.

Having matured in business in the last ten years, we plan to make our next 10 years even more focused in our core areas of business. We look forward to our journey ahead. We are glad we have the support of our people and esteemed clients to make that journey possible.

Offshoring by US Companies Surges Survey

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Last year, more than 50 percent of companies had a corporate offshoring strategy in place, up from 22 percent in 2005. Sixty percent of companies currently offshoring say they have aggressive plans to expand existing activities, according to the recently released survey conducted by the Duke University and The Conference Board.

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Five Most Common Mistakes When Outsourcing Software Development

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Inadequate Readiness Assessment of Current State, Desired Future State and Required Roadmap

Software organizations often make decisions about what and how to outsource too quickly, without detailed expert assessment of their current state, desired future state and required path on how to get there. It is critical to plan outsourcing strategy by considering a company’s current software engineering process maturity, in-house team size, available project documentation, and experience with distributed software development, cross cultural fitment, executive support and staff by in. It is recommended to access applications, source code base, business processes and to lay out a matrix of how and in what sequence applications and processes can and/or should be outsourced, kept in-house or retired.

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Plan Before You Outsource

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Outsourcing is a proven strategy, but it can fail if you do not plan it thoroughly. There are no short cuts to reaping benefits of outsourcing. It requires planning and execution on your and your service providers’ part. Here we have documented some of the key steps that are important to making outsourcing successful.

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It is Time to Switch Your Outsourcing Vendor

Monday, July 13th, 2009

As more and more companies are sharing dissatisfaction with their existing software development outsourcing arrangements, companies are evaluating risks and rewards of switching outsourcing vendors. When switching outsourcing providers significant risks can be avoided or minimized if best practices are followed.  

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Why IT Outsourcing fails?

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Offshore outsourcing comes with its set of risks and it known to fail at times. If one analyzes reasons for failures one will clearly realize that most of these risks can be mitigated. All it takes is a management commitment, mature process and mitigation plan.  

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How to Define an Outsourced QA Project Plan

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Companies should define a high-level project plan and a test strategy for reaching the desired QA outcome. 

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Business Intelligence – What Do You Need To Know

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Business Intelligence is the process of getting enough of the right information in a timely manner and usable form and analyzing it so that it can have a positive impact on business strategy, tactics or operations.

The three key steps in Business Intelligence are gathering, analysis and recommendation. For most organizations, this is most effective if it’s a part of regular ongoing business practice.

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Ten Most Common Mistakes When Outsourcing Quality Assurance

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Outsourcing Software Testing is suppose to be the most risk free process to outsource to a third party vendor. But in doing so the following common mistakes are made.

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Non-Profit Practice

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

ISHIR’s Non-Profit industry practice helps non-profits or non-governmental organizations (NGO) leverage technology to better serve their missions and communities better.  We provide non-profit with a wide array of professional, affordable technology consulting and IT services with one goal in mind - to make their non-profits more efficient and better able to focus on their mission utilizing the software they have internally, applications available to them through Microsoft and open source projects for free or reasonable licensing fees.

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