Gartner says India still top offshore haven
India is already the most successful country among the offshore locations. It continues to score very well across all the 10 criterion," Gartner said in its latest report on offshore services. India is the offshore hotspot of the world for now but its service competitiveness and cost efficiency is being challenged by Phillipines, Vietnam and Indonesia. Moreover its neighbour country China is fast closing in on its heels, according to IT consultancy firm Gartner. According to Gartner, even though India's cost competitiveness is being challenged by the appreciation of its currency, it manages to compensate on the other nine criterion. The 10 criterion used to judge the attractiveness for offshore locations were language, government support, labour, infrastructure, education, cost, political and economic environment, cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity and data security and privacy. According to the survay an attractive cost structures in the Philippines, Vietnam a...