Bringing IT back home: 10 prime locations for onshore outsourcing

As offshore outsourcing grows more complex and costly, American IT departments are increasingly turning to onshore providers to procure IT services. Here are 10 popular destinations for IT outsourcing in the U.S.

By Meridith Levinson , CIO | IT Management, outsourcing, slideshow

Macon, Mo.

The tiny city of Macon, Mo. (population 5,471) is where Onshore Technology Services calls home. Executives with onshore outsourcing providers say that establishing outposts in rural parts of the U.S., like Macon, where the cost of living and median incomes are low, allows domestic IT services providers to compete on cost—and quality—with offshore locales like India, where wages are increasing by 20 percent per year.