Outsourcing & offshoring

Outsourcing & offshoring

The process of contracting a business function to a third party, or to a supplier outside the home nation of the original business.

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build tool

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A programming utility that is used when building a new version of a program.

page rank (PR)

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Google's trademark for their proprietary measure of link popularity for web pages. Google offers a PR viewer on their Toolbar.

spider

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Also called a bot (or robot). Spiders are software programs that scan the web. They vary in purpose from indexing web pages for search engines to harvesting e-mail addresses for ...

build operate transfer (BOT)

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A type of outsourcing solution or service delivery model wherein a service provider takes on the initial work (recruitment, workstation setup, operations management, etc. ), then ...

cash advance

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The advance of approximately eighty percent of expected earnings to an employee instead of a Hand-drawn Check. The advance is processed through the Controller's Office. The ...

exempt

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Former common reference name for Administrative and Professional personnel. Actually includes all employees "exempt" from the provisions of the Higher Education Personnel law and ...

salary sacrifice

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Where an employee forgoes future pre-tax salary to cover the payment of Benefits and any liability for FBT resulting from the provision of those Benefits.