Offshore outsourcing plainly means outsourcing your business process to one who is not on your shore (region) or who is beyond your shore. It is the exporting of your business associated jobs that usually can have been carried out by your in-house from your region to other parts of the globe where there are lower labour costs or tax savings, skilled human resource and good infrastructure.

Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the products or services are actually developed or manufactured.
The high-speed Internet connections across the globe has made it possible for outsourcing almost all business associated process to be carried out from anywhere in the world, a business trend that many economists call as globalisation. In general, by offshore outsourcing you not only try to save money in order to be more price-competitive against your rivals, but also it enables you to compete with other businesses across the globe.

Offshore outsourcing has revolutionized many industry sectors. Outsourcing offshore software development to countries like India, China, and Philippines are proving beneficial to the industries world over.
It can be contrasted with offshoring, in which the functions are performed in a foreign country by a foreign subsidiary. Opponents point out that the practice of sending work overseas by countries with higher wages reduces their own domestic employment and domestic investment. Many customer service jobs as well as jobs in the information technology sectors (data processing, computer programming, and technical support) in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom – have been or are potentially affected.

Some of the basic types of offshore outsourcing are

• ITO – Information Technology Outsourcing includes (Software Outsourcing, ITES Outsourcing, SEO outsourcing, Multimedia outsourcing etc.
• BPO – Business Process Outsourcing covers things like running call centres, data processing etc
• Software R&D – offshore software development
• KPO – Knowledge Process Outsourcing covers things that require a higher skill set such as reading X-Rays, performing investment research on stocks and bonds, handling the accounting functions for a business or executing engineering design projects.
• LPO – Legal outsourcing refers to the practice of a law firm or corporation obtaining legal support services from an offshore outside law firm or legal support Services Company.
• Health Care –

The driving factor behind the development of offshore outsourcing has been the need to cut costs while the enabling factor has been the global electronic internet network that allows