“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”  These words from a popular song are true for members of the Olive family during Christmas time.  But what does celebrating Christmas look like at an Indian outsourcing firm? In many ways it is not too different from what many of you might experience in your workplace. Let me share with you how our team celebrates this special time of year.Read more

There are so many people providing IT services in this brave new flattened world. Each one of their Web sites looks wonderful and promises excellent results. So why should a company looking for software outsourcing work with Olive, rather than one of our less expensive competitors? I would like to answer that question with four essential criteria which Olive strives every day to meet for their customers:Read more

At a recent workshop held in Silicon Valley the speaker shared that investors are now asking startups the question, “What is your outsourcing strategy?” just as often as they ask “What is your exit strategy?”  I believe this question comes out of the reality that the Internet facilitates low cost communication and file sharing which has made outsourcing software development and maintenance to a company half way around the world just as easy as outsourcing to one that is down the street.  Read more

Technology visionaries have prophesied for decades that the Internet will one day become a utility service like electricity.  That day has arrived.  Cloud computing now offers metered services in a pay-as-you-go model with a perception of unlimited, elastic supply.Read more

One of the attributes that makes Indian IT companies so effective in serving many of the world’s technology needs, is its willingness to collaborate. As the IT industry began to take root in India, especially in the southern cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, the local and national governments began to take measures to create an environment that was friendly to IT business startups, from tax breaks to single window licenses to land allocation for IT parks.Read more

Almost a decade ago I was in Lagos, Nigeria, to sell a banking software solution.  During my stay at a hotel in Lagos, I had an unplanned meeting with the owner of the hotel while having breakfast one morning.  She asked me if I would build the hotel’s website.  By the end of the day she had also asked me to build websites for two other companies that she owned! While my intention for entering Nigeria was to sell banking software, my first order was from a chance meeting with a serial entrepreneur who placed a substantial order after having met me for a few minutes over breakfast one morning.  My flexibility that morning paid great dividends for Olive Technology.Read more

When starting a business or launching a new initiative, it is important to have a clear direction. So many launch and then begin to ask the questions that should have been entertained in the planning stages. But what should that map look like? Well, some start their process very slowly and fail to get critical mass. Others dive in and use up their resources too quickly.
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