Centrix: website spend for offshoring 'is a waste'

UK companies are wasting up to £1.5m and twenty-four months on developing unnecessary web-based applications each time they offshore business processes, according to a survey by IT services consultancy, Centrix.

The survey of 100 large UK companies found that they are sending a wide range of business processes - together with their associated software applications - offshore for processing, and then emailing them back to the UK.

This in turn, says the company, creates an increase in demand for