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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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information design

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The detailed planning of specific information that is to be provided to a particular audience to meet specific objectives. In one hierarchical model, the information design ...

web services

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Services made available from a business's Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs.

taxable income

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

What is left after all deductions are taken. This is the amount upon which tax is computed.

outsourcing

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The general term that refers to the transfer of management and/or execution of a business process to a service provider.

application programming interface (API)

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A specific method prescribed by a computer operating system or by an application program by which a programmer writing an application program can make requests of the operating ...

structured programming

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A subset of procedural programming that enforces a logical structure on the program being written to make it more efficient and easier to understand and modify.

benchmark

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A standardized task or measure of quality that is used to compare products, services, and/or processes with those of other companies or organizations.