Bringing IT Back Home: 10 Prime Locations for Onshore Outsourcing

American companies and government agencies are increasingly seeking onshore outsourcing vendors that can provide high-quality application development and infrastructure services at a low cost. Some IT organizations solicit onshore partners to supplement their offshore outsourcing projects, while others look to onshore providers to clean up messes created by offshore vendors or to avoid the complexities and rising costs of offshoring altogether.

To compete with offshore providers on price, onshore vendors set up shop in rural locations or in larger cities with universities, access to Fortune 1000 customers, and in places where the cost of living remains low. Here are 10 prime destinations for onshore outsourcing in the U.S.

Forget about getting out of Dodge. While cowboy culture still permeates this historic city (which, like Deadwood in South Dakota, was known for lawlessness and gun-slinging in the 19th century), it’s now becoming a prime spot for onshore IT outsourcing. Dodge City is another place where Rural America Onshore Outsourcing would build a development center if a customer asked for it, says Derrington.

A tier two city for IT outsourcing with a population of 427,872, Omaha is host to several outsourced call center operations, including EMS Inc., Complete Call Solutions, West Interactive and Sitel. Five Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Omaha, which is another factor that makes the city an attractive location for IT outsourcing. Additionally, Omaha was named the third best city to live, work and play in 2008 by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

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