The past five years have seen a significant trend toward the corporate outsourcing and offshoring of both business operations and specific workforce skills. Now more than ever, companies are viewing these as viable options for improving cost containment, productivity, quality of service, ROI, and so on. As IT organizations consider outsourcing, hosting, and ASP models to manage mainline programs and projects, there is discussion about whether or not to outsource business intelligence (BI) programs as well.