The offshoring business is booming. Whereas a few years ago, only a few U.S. companies were setting up shared-service centres and adopting outsourcing, nowadays nearshoring has become a popular strategy in the development community. It’s true that cost pressures are encouraging companies to gain the benefits of pooling services and locating them where skilled labour is cheap, but the approach provides a wide range of advantages including the ability to cost-effectively outsource parts of the project to a skilled team. This enables the internal developers to focus on other mission-critical aspects that might be more in-line with their particular areas of expertise.