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                You are a staff writer at IT Flash Magazine, a popular online newsletter aimed at IT professionals. Your editor has asked you to prepare a special report for next week’s edition. Specifically, she wants you to research the subject of software outsourcing, and other significant trends that might affect software development in the future. If possible, she wants you to cite specific sources for your information, including IT employment statistics and employment statistics and employment forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1. Search for information about software outsourcing generally, using the search techniques described in Part 5 of the System Analyst’s Toolkit.
2. Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics site at bls.gov and search information about employment trend affecting system analysts, computer programmer and computer engineers.
3. Does the Bureau of Labor Statistics offer any comments or insights into the subject outsourcing generally? What conclusion does it reach?

There in sight is that manufacturing company increase their employment.

Therefore outsourcing affects the employment to increase because today many company used the outsourcing to relief them from that responsibility and lessen their expenses.

4. In your report, comment on whether the offshore outsourcing of IT jobs is just another step in the progression that began in manufacturing jobs, or represents a whole new trend. Be sure to cite Web research sources and your own reason.

 Answers:

1. Search for information about software outsourcing generally, using the search techniques described in Part 5 of the System Analyst’s Toolkit.

●Answer: System Analyst have the ability to create a new system that is based on the objectives of the company or can use the existing system and just developed it to achieve the needs and wants of the company. This topic tracks the news and information on software and IT outsourcing within the U.S. and abroad. Software Outsourcing is part of Business Exchange, suggested .

2. Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics site at bls.gov and search information about employment trend affecting system analysts, computer programmer and computer engineers.

 Answer: Software outsourcing considered to be the answer in improving the project to suit in the complexity of the enhanced business process, Software outsourcing process must have a good communication between the one that will provide the services and the customer. Software engineers often work as part of a team that designs new hardware, software, and systems. A core team may have engineering, marketing, factory, and design people who work together until the product is done.

3. Does the Bureau of Labor Statistics offer any comments or insights into the subject outsourcing generally? What conclusion does it reach?

=There in sight is that manufacturing company increase their employment.

=Therefore outsourcing affects the employment to increase because today many company used the outsourcing to relief them from that responsibility and lessen their expenses.

4. In your report, comment on whether the offshore outsourcing of IT jobs is just another step in the progression that began in manufacturing jobs, or represents a whole new trend. Be sure to cite Web research sources and your own reason.

Answer: For us it means that your paying in exchange for the services or product to the foreign company where they are specialize in that task to relief that company from that responsibility and can let it minimize the cost of the operation. On the other hand, outsourcing has also disadvantaged for it cannot comply the exact objectives of the company and has limited services for the company also it decreases the amount of jobs and investments here in domestic.