What are right terms when refer nearshoring

We at Ropardo SRL are providing software development services – that include full range of services.

When we are offering these services outside of our country we are calling this nearshore (near-shore) / offshore services. But not once we observe that these terms are not always similar for everybody. For that in this article I detail words that are usual used when we discuss about nearshore / offshore.

Individual Software	IT Services	Testing/Code Review/Quality
Software Consulting Requirements management System analyze Risk Analyze Process management Software Development Software Arhitecture Design Software Implementation Software Test Project Management Software Services User training Software Maintenance Software performance tuning	IT Services IT Infrastructure management Managed applications IT system monitoring Virtualization IT Operations	Functional testing Unit testing Automated testing Load/Performance testing Static testing

Here are the terms

Outsourcing: identifying, acquiring and managing the receipt of sourced services from an external service provider
In sourcing (insourcing): identifying, acquiring and managing the receipt of sourced services from an internal service provider

By operating structure

Outsourced: Services are delivered by an external service provider
Insourced: services are delivered by an internal service provider
Captive Centers: a service delivery entity that is wholly owned and operated by the organization or organizational group to which the sourced services are delivered, typically located at an offshore location and operated as a separate legal entity
Shared Services: one business unit delivers and/or manages the delivery of sourced services to multiple business units within the same enterprise
Joint Venture: a service delivery entity that is jointly owned by two or more parties, at least one of which is not the entity to which the sourced services are delivered
Build-Operate-Transfer: external service provider owned entity engaged with the expressed intent and/or option of transitioning the delivery mechanism (e.g., people, capital, processes, IP) of sourced services to an internal service provider (at some future time)

By location that service is delivered

Global Service Delivery / Global Sourcing: a service delivery strategy that uses multiple geographic locations for service delivery where such locations may be different from the location of the service buyer(s)
Onshore: a final delivery state where the service delivery location is within the same geographic jurisdiction as the service buyer
- Onshoring: the process of transitioning service delivery to a location within the same geography as the service buyer
Nearshore: a final delivery state where the service delivery location is in a different geographic location (e.g., country) of close proximity to the Service Buyer
Offshore: a final delivery state where the service delivery location is in a different geographic location at a distance to the service buyer, most commonly a different continent
- Offshoring: the process of transitioning service delivery from the location of the service buyer to a different geography
Onsite: the process of delivering services via co-resident resources relative to the service users