The Future of Offshore Development: Trends and Innovations Shaping the Industry

Outsourcing of IT has gone through a fill transformation in the last twenty years due to technology, business and global influence. As firms seek to drive down their costs, and as the very notion of offshore development becomes imbued with new shades of meaning, several dynamic forces are redefining the geography of offshore development and application development. This article explores these trends, which are remote work, development within artificial intelligence and automation, changes in regulation, and upswing in cybersecurity, besides presenting future scenarios of the industry. Key Trends in Offshore Development 1. Remote Work Revolution The COVID-19 led to immunization of the working force and corporations on remote working and the new norm came to be. This means that offshore development teams are now more dispersed than ever, and that businesses are offered access to talents, which may be restricted by location. A Forbes report reveals that the number of firm...