...offshore outsourcing is not the best solution for many companies, said Thomas P. Streicher, Ciber’s vice president and area director in Rhode Island.

Ciber, a Greenwood Village, Colo.-based firm with outsourcing delivery centers sprinkled throughout the United States and in 16 countries, leverages its offshore practices for clients that are a good fit.

Ciber is focused on the process rather than just getting someone offshore, and it pre-qualifies its clients to see if offshore is for them. Often, Ciber will run a pilot to evaluate if the client has a process mature and disciplined enough to benefit from offshore outsourcing...

Ciber’s process-focused approach to outsourcing was validated recently by The Brown-Wilson Group’s annual Black Book of Outsourcing survey...which ranked Ciber eighth among global IT outsourcing vendors...