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Apr25	Priority One blends into ForestRiver Krissy April 25, 2007 Know More: Deals & Agreements 2.0, Deals & Agreements Priority One thus goes inside forest and blends with the big river called Forest River Inc. However, the founder and president of Priority One Lisa Gladstone will continue to manage her baby and management team which she founded in 1987. A leading finance and insurance (F&I) outsourcing company, Priority One over the years has become one of the largest entities in St. Petersburg, Florida. It presently serves to 600 marine and recreation vehicle dealers throughout the U.S. On the Forest River front off course there are exuberance which hopes to make its partners and dealers more profitable and better managed through its new acquire. Posted at 12:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr25	Women safety: GPS in call center cabs Krissy April 25, 2007 One can only hope this news will give some security to the women workforce working in the call center sector in India. An industry trade body in India has suggested installation of GPS (Global Positioning System) in more than 20,000... Continue Reading Posted at 11:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BPO council for Philippines Krissy April 25, 2007 India has a dedicated outsourcing council, which even a stern critic can not say is not working towards the upliftment of the industry. In Philippines in line comes a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) council, which will promote the Philippines as... Continue Reading Posted at 11:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Capgemini wins large outsourcing deal from Rijkswaterstaat Krissy April 25, 2007 The deal was big, a lot was in stake for the relegated executives of Capgemini who has been clinching one after another deal in recent times from across the world. And it won convincingly the deal from Rijkswaterstaat the Dutch... Continue Reading Posted at 11:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Getronics bags IT outsourcing contract with Innospec Krissy April 25, 2007 IT services company Getronics has bagged a major IT outsourcing deal with chemical firm Innospec. Getronics under this contract will offer conclusive IT support to Innospec’s global IT network. The network consists of more than 800 users. The deal is... Continue Reading Posted at 9:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr24	Outsourcing myth: Unlearn with Unisys Krissy April 24, 2007 When B-school graduates get into the corporate world for the first time they are being told by the management in training classes, unlearn to learn more. Here, in this extensive study undertaken by Unisys asks company employees to get rid... Continue Reading Posted at 11:05 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom rigid, Union to go strike Krissy April 24, 2007 No one party is ready to move an inch. Deutsche Telekom in order to lessen costs, first planned to outsource no loess than 50,000 jobs in areas like customer service, call center and network technology. Then changing its stand (supposedly... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Britvic to chop 450 jobs for outsourcing Krissy April 24, 2007 Britvic may add two new flavors permanently, Orange & Pomegranate to its range of products but that does not signify the for ever permanent happy job with 450 employees who are expected to be transferred from Britvic to KN Drinks... Continue Reading Posted at 9:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM No. 1 Outsourcing company Krissy April 24, 2007 Yes, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has voted IBM as the world’s best outsourcing company for the second consecutive year. But the competition is keen, big fat Indian outsourcing companies like Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra are coming up... Continue Reading Posted at 8:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Luxembourg to outsource health related services to India Krissy April 24, 2007 Like many other countries beautiful Luxembourg also want to take part in outsourcing health services. While attending a meeting organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recently Mr. Jeannot Krecke, Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Government of Grand... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr23	NASSCOM initiates project to protect data theft and India's image Krissy April 23, 2007 Continuing with its 'Trusted Sourcing' initiative, Indian outsourcing body Nasscom has appointed Mr. Shyamal Ghosh as the chairman of the intended independent self-regulatory organization (SRO). It will try to make India a better (and safer) outsourcing destination. A new challenge... Continue Reading Posted at 11:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shocking!!! IT professionals in US are in demand than ever before Krissy April 23, 2007 It may sound unbelievable, the prolonged political agenda has rested in our mind in such a fashion that we can not think of USA techies doing well in technology sector and that all the jobs are not being Bangalored (a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Russia’s IT outsourcing market to reach 1 billion in '07 Krissy April 23, 2007 Russian IT outsourcing is reaching for its first big time landmark. According to the chairman of the US semiconductor giant Intel, Steve Chase, the IT outsourcing market in Russia will reach a billion dollar mark in this year itself. In... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Ousouricng more costly than in-house Krissy April 23, 2007 One way you have reports from Gartner and Abderdeen which says outsourcing come what may will save costs or otherwise the concept would have disappeared. But on the other hand you have reports like this, where Compass Management Consulting warns... Continue Reading Posted at 12:07 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Secret package leads Amazon setting up shop in Ireland Krissy April 23, 2007 Irish government has given a secret and confidential package to Internet retailer Amazon. What lies in there no one knows (as of now that is, I’m sure Brit journalists are on their way to break it) but resultantly Amazon instead... Continue Reading Posted at 6:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr22	Royal & Sun Alliance cuts outsourcing deal with IBM & Cable & Wireless Krissy April 22, 2007 To place its position in the booming real estate development and construction market, especially in Middle East and Southern part of Asia more robustly even companies mostly famous for their old school of management policies are embracing new age economic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Central Europe to grow by 30% in outsourcing Krissy April 22, 2007 What’s so unique of Central Europe? Why Gartner and other consulting biggies are so buoyant about Central Europe? Gartner predicts that the market, which has been estimated at a little more than US$2 this year, would continue to grow by... Continue Reading Posted at 11:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing slowdown wont touch Europe and India Krissy April 22, 2007 Globally outsourcing market is probably experiencing a slowdown. Compared to last year the total contracts awarded in the first quarter of this year have down by a third in comparison to last year. Outsourcing consulting company TPI predicts that BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 11:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	TCS moving jobs to China, Indian media least bothered Krissy April 22, 2007 Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is considered as India's biggest software information technology and outsourcing company, even ahead of Wipro and Infosys, is planning a big set up in China, reports the Financial Times. "If any country has the potential... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Zealand Health Ministry considering outsourcing Krissy April 22, 2007 New Zealand Health Ministry seriously wants to get its health check done not by in-house but outsourcing partners. As the population of servers has increased by leaps and bounds over the years and now spreads across 17 regional sites, the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr13	Ghana is game for outsourcing Krissy April 13, 2007 Ghana is seriously working hard to have a presence in the outsourcing market. Last year the Ministry of Communication in conjunction with the World Bank has undertaken a study to gauge Ghana’s scope in the outsourcing world. In November 2005... Continue Reading Posted at 3:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China is Japan's biggest outsourcing base Krissy April 13, 2007 Now after Premier Wen Jiabao's "ice-melting" visit to Japan it is believed that China’s ever growing software outsourcing trade with Japan will reach even greater heights. China is Japan’s biggest software outsourcing base and the country accounts for more than... Continue Reading Posted at 1:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom AG to face 8000 angry workers over outsourcing issues Krissy April 13, 2007 Deutsche Telekom is in the midst of some unpleasant happenings. One way it is demanding €1.2 billion from Polish utility company Elektrim in an eight-year outsourcing dispute and on the other hand it has to face 8000 irate employee whoa... Continue Reading Posted at 12:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr12	Capgemini opens outsourcing centre in Katowice, Poland Krissy April 12, 2007 The international consulting firm Capgemini has opened an IT outsourcing centre in Katowice, Poland. The investment for the firm is expected to be €2.3 million. The new facility which will house 135 headcounts for now (later will be risen to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why outsourcing haters are dead wrong Krissy April 12, 2007 These days (political or not I don’t know) many a so called ‘pro free trade’ pundits are turning their back and overnight becoming conservative on outsourcing issues. One of them is Princeton University economist and professor Alan S Blinder. He... Continue Reading Posted at 1:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	In classroom: from outsourcing to social networking Krissy April 12, 2007 To keep a pace with the international learning, US need to get more into basic mathematics and elementary science. That’s what Bill Gates prescribed few months ago. Now a slew of educators and technology executives are coming up with new... Continue Reading Posted at 1:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche, EDS, IBM in race for $1.5bn Reliance deal Krissy April 12, 2007 Following Bharti and Hutch (Essar) Reliance Telecom is also looking to spruce up its software and networking division. For the $1.5 billion IT outsourcing contract it has chosen three players as of now. They are International Business Machines Corp (IBM),... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Affiliated Computer Services (ACS): Good news, bad news Krissy April 12, 2007 Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has renewed and expanded an outsourcing contract with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. That’s not the news. The news is, ACS has lost a disk which had 2.9 million Georgia residents information (like... Continue Reading Posted at 12:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr11	NIAID signs outsourcing contract with Perot Systmes Krissy April 11, 2007 Perot Systems Corporation’s government subsidiary wing has won an outsourcing contract which will maintain and support the application and infrastructure services of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the Africa, United States and South Asia. GovWorks, the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Future of outsourcing full of surprises for global providers? Krissy April 11, 2007 If emerging trends in outsourcing is questioning the tried and tested models of ‘now running successfully’ practices, then the reasons like approaching sourcing decisions by clients in a whole different way is only showing up the adaptation of the changing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UK’s IT contractor sector may disappear by 2025: Study Krissy April 11, 2007 This alarming prediction comes from a UK based research firm Consultant Technologies Ltd. Though analysts and industry experts feel that low level low skilled IT work and some high end work which will be enrooted to India, China and Eastern... Continue Reading Posted at 3:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sony to procure worth $12billion from Taiwan Krissy April 11, 2007 Chinese magazine Apple Daily writes that Sony will make a procurement order of US$12 billion to Taiwan companies in 2007. Kenji Sakai, chairman and managing director of Sony (Taiwan) commented that Sony's gross procurement value from the country has grown... Continue Reading Posted at 1:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Defense Logistics Agency (DLA): Accenture wins $252 million contract Krissy April 11, 2007 Thanks to growing military obligations along with Base Realignment and Closure requirements, DLA's global mission continues to expand the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in a bid to continue its expansion has signed a 10-year, $252 million IT-outsourcing service deal... Continue Reading Posted at 12:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr10	The other side of outsourcing Krissy April 10, 2007 Millions of jobs and billions of dollars. Well, I agree with the second one but Millions of jobs going to India seem not a bit, but a lot stretched out figure. Too imaginative. Sorry, I can not agree with... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	SMEs/SMBs benefit from hosted IT service Krissy April 10, 2007 Hmm…for small and medium sized business hosted IT services are not that bad…even its better…says this study, “The Small Business Transition to Hosted Technology: Costs vs. Benefits.” Conducted by BizTechReports.com for its client, Planet, one of the biggest private dedicated... Continue Reading Posted at 2:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IT Companies keen in healthcare, pharmaceutical outsourcing Krissy April 10, 2007 In the ever competitive global environment each and every industries are in an extreme pressure to cut down costs to be more competitive. Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are no exception. Add to that meeting tighter... Continue Reading Posted at 1:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Poland: Rising wages, shortage of skilled labors Krissy April 10, 2007 It looks like Poland is losing its positioning in the outsourcing and manufacturing world. Principally there are two reasons which may probably in the future act like the death knell. One of them is constantly rising wage level and the... Continue Reading Posted at 1:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Defense Logistics Agency (DLA): Accenture wins $252 million contract Krissy April 10, 2007 Thanks to growing military obligations along with Base Realignment and Closure requirements, DLA's global mission continues to expand the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in a bid to continue its expansion has signed a 10-year, $252 million IT-outsourcing service deal... Continue Reading Posted at 12:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing to Africa: After South Africa comes Egypt, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda Krissy April 10, 2007 South Africa is already regarded as the future big player in the outsourcing world. Looking at the quantum of success that South Africa has achieved (or will achieve) now other African countries are also pitching with their proposition. Most of... Continue Reading Posted at 12:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 9	For major pharmaceutical companies outsourcing makes sense Krissy April 9, 2007 Pundits and analysts may put up reasons behind outsourcing but mostly it seems like the drive behind offshoring and outsourcing at big pharma majors is purely financial. As industry consolidations are becoming a trend, the flourishing pharmaceutical companies are reaping... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hexaware to acquire US firm for $40 million Krissy April 9, 2007 After doing away with ESOP schemes for its employees and setting up new software development centers in northern part of India, Software and outsourcing firm Hexaware Technologies now sets its eye to acquire an IT firm in US or Europe.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	What is outsourcing: Economist's view Krissy April 9, 2007 Outsource. The moment one utters the word in US or UK or Westen Europe, you will get an instant negative reaction to it. There are many will endlessly debate on the ethics of having companies paying low wages to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Virtusa Files for $92 Million IPO Krissy April 9, 2007 US based (not virtual) IT consulting outsourcing provider Virtusa Corporation filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a $92 million proposed initial public offering (IPO) JP Morgan Securities Inc has been chosen as the sole book-running manager while... Continue Reading Posted at 1:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing??? Lil affect on Britons:Report Krissy April 9, 2007 "By 2010, the UK contact centre industry will be worth almost 30 billion pounds to the UK's economy, employing more than 1.1 million people." Now you wonder should you believe what media says or being an optimist sport you should... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 8	Is security right for outsourcing? Krissy April 8, 2007 Ever rising security demands for online applications like e-commerce and web services are binding more corporate customers to let go security functions like intrusion detection and firewalls to third party outsourcing providers. It is understood that the third-party (outsourcing) security... Continue Reading Posted at 1:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Automotive, manufacturing, high-tech are more game for outsourcing Krissy April 8, 2007 If you believe in this Equa Terra study (there is no reason for disbelief but sales executives may find the result too good to be true. ) The latest research says that three mushy segments, automotive, manufacturing and high tech... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 6	Eastern Europe becoming costly for outsourcing? Krissy April 6, 2007 No more Eastern European countries are under communist rules. After the settling up of capitalism many US companies gauging the lucrative 70 million consumers in the region have stepped up, be it McDonald or Microsoft. But now 18 long years... Continue Reading Posted at 6:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 5	Duke Univ study finds cost as major factor in outsourcing Krissy April 5, 2007 There may be claims and counterclaims but debunking claims like education level of Chinese and Indian workers, shortage of American engineers, a new study from Duke University has asserted that it is solely and purely cost savings that is driving... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shenandoah Police using custom software to track and share crime data Krissy April 5, 2007 This new software from CrimeCog Technologies of Milford will make Shenandoah Police Department’s officers life easy and hopefully they will be less bothered about the unsolved crimes and unnecessary paperwork. Hmm…outsourcing’s omnipresence seems to have reached the police headquarters also.... Continue Reading Posted at 7:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Delphi to outsource 650 salaried jobs to Genpact (GE), India Krissy April 5, 2007 Delphi Corp., the biggest U.S. auto-parts maker, will get rid of as many as 650 global finance jobs and outsource the work to Genpact, a sister concern of GE, India to save more than $150 million a year in preparation... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	More automation than low wage and outsourcing can lead to economic depression Krissy April 5, 2007 The trend is prevalent in USA, Japan and Western Europe. The employers are fast growing productivity by increasing use of automation. Even cheap labors don’t seem cheap, companies are shunning away from manual labor forces, low wageworkers and even outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 12:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 4	Business logic of offshoring and lumps of labor fallacy Krissy April 4, 2007 I was reading an article by Lary Dignan on how H-1B reform bill may push more work offshore. Ron Hira, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, an economist, an author and expert on issues like offshore outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	NewMarket China and ArtCoding to build game development outsourcing business Krissy April 4, 2007 NewMarket China in partnering with Shanghai ArtCoding Company to deliver outsourcing services to game development clients. Both the companies has signed a deal on that. The sharing ratio is undisclosed. On the financial ground, a bigger name in the deal,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Leading comapnies are for outsourcing IT infrastructure Krissy April 4, 2007 Market consulting firm Aberdeen is on the view that leading companies are increasingly going for outsourcing infrastructure as this popular option is regarded as the key to efficiently fulfilling the IT needs. Practice of outsourcing infrastructure took momentum from 2003,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM wins £400 million Somerset outsourcing deal Krissy April 4, 2007 Councils are actually doing this to save millions. IBM has been chosen as favorite bidder for a big IT and outsourcing contract with Taunton Deane Borough Council and Somerset County Council. The deal is worth £400 million, which will span... Continue Reading Posted at 2:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Enea prefers to keep its outsourcing partner unnamed Krissy April 4, 2007 Enea, the equipment maker has officially announced that it has signed a couple of year $3 million service agreement with an unnamed application service provider (secret, secret!!!) for converged networks systems. According to the secret agreement its been told to... Continue Reading Posted at 11:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 3	"India is epicenter at the flat world”" Krissy April 3, 2007 New York Times writer Anand Giridhardas says an interesting thing, that, “the kinds of jobs that can not be outsourced are slowly evaporating.”Let’s take a gist out of his wonderfully written article in there: 1. A transition of moving from... Continue Reading Posted at 11:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	hic...Thresher picks Xansa as outsouring partner Krissy April 3, 2007 Good time is rolling for Threshers. If you remember only last week it launched a 40% discount offer which actually it launched December the previous year. And now banking on the positive groove it has signed a five year outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 12:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mellon to provide managed accounts outsourcing for Bear Steams Krissy April 3, 2007 This mellon seems ripe enough for great tasteful result. And looking pretty bearish. Mellon Financial Corporation has declared that that its Asset Servicing group will deliver back office service solution Bear Stearns Asset Management(BSAM). Not mellow but it will offer... Continue Reading Posted at 12:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM Signs $3.8 million Deal With Sony Pictures Entertainment Krissy April 3, 2007 After ending all the speculation, Sony Pictures Entertainment has at last signed a five-year long $3.8 million contract with big blue International Business Machines Corp (IBM) to hold up its global financial system. Signed in first quarter of 2007 has... Continue Reading Posted at 6:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom to discuss union over outsourcing Krissy April 3, 2007 There may be debate on whether outsourcing is good or bad, but when its concern the shareholders (that is stakeholders in macro), outsourcing and offshoring not only brings a new hope for them but also give them a reason to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 2	Recruitment process outsourcing/offshoring rolls Krissy April 2, 2007 This new theme on the block is called…. recruitment process outsourcing or RPO. Now, if some one asks what is actually recruitment process outsourcing, you can answer him straight, without much scratching your head. Again it’s a back end work... Continue Reading Posted at 12:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union allgeing United Airlines outosurcing more than allowed Krissy April 2, 2007 The allegation is serious. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association of United Airlines has alleged that the company is actually outsourcing much more of its maintenance than what is allowed (I am not sure if that does mean more than the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Oracle unveils Quistor Learning Management system for BPO Krissy April 2, 2007 In its first ever e-learning solution for outsourcing companies Oracle will deliver ‘a complete, scalable and open infrastructure solution’ that will enable customers (here, the BPO workers) to manage, deliver and track their own improvement (or lack of it) online... Continue Reading Posted at 11:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New age shelter for call cneter workers in Philippines Krissy April 2, 2007 A perfect example how outsourcing churning more mullah for non-BPO industries, no this is no restaurant or cab ferry service but a real estate one. Megaworld Corporation, Manila (Philippines) based realty company plans to construct Stamford Executive Residences for BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 11:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Wal-Mart has a unique plan for India Krissy April 2, 2007 To fulfill India dream Wal-Mart will deviate from its tried and tested universal formula and will adopt a unique approach. Otherwise, world over, Wal-Mart usually not only sets up and runs but also manages its own supply chain. However, surprisingly,... Continue Reading Posted at 12:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 1	More UK accounting cos are outsouricng to India Krissy April 1, 2007 Notwithstanding some occasional hiccups increasingly more British firms are outsourcing their accountancy and similar services to India’s shores. Seems like Indian BPO companies have never had it so good. Along with pouring services from other sectors the nicely branded outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:28 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Apr25	Priority One blends into ForestRiver Krissy April 25, 2007 Know More: Deals & Agreements 2.0, Deals & Agreements Priority One thus goes inside forest and blends with the big river called Forest River Inc. However, the founder and president of Priority One Lisa Gladstone will continue to manage her baby and management team which she founded in 1987. A leading finance and insurance (F&I) outsourcing company, Priority One over the years has become one of the largest entities in St. Petersburg, Florida. It presently serves to 600 marine and recreation vehicle dealers throughout the U.S. On the Forest River front off course there are exuberance which hopes to make its partners and dealers more profitable and better managed through its new acquire. Posted at 12:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr25	Women safety: GPS in call center cabs Krissy April 25, 2007 One can only hope this news will give some security to the women workforce working in the call center sector in India. An industry trade body in India has suggested installation of GPS (Global Positioning System) in more than 20,000... Continue Reading Posted at 11:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BPO council for Philippines Krissy April 25, 2007 India has a dedicated outsourcing council, which even a stern critic can not say is not working towards the upliftment of the industry. In Philippines in line comes a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) council, which will promote the Philippines as... Continue Reading Posted at 11:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Capgemini wins large outsourcing deal from Rijkswaterstaat Krissy April 25, 2007 The deal was big, a lot was in stake for the relegated executives of Capgemini who has been clinching one after another deal in recent times from across the world. And it won convincingly the deal from Rijkswaterstaat the Dutch... Continue Reading Posted at 11:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Getronics bags IT outsourcing contract with Innospec Krissy April 25, 2007 IT services company Getronics has bagged a major IT outsourcing deal with chemical firm Innospec. Getronics under this contract will offer conclusive IT support to Innospec’s global IT network. The network consists of more than 800 users. The deal is... Continue Reading Posted at 9:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr24	Outsourcing myth: Unlearn with Unisys Krissy April 24, 2007 When B-school graduates get into the corporate world for the first time they are being told by the management in training classes, unlearn to learn more. Here, in this extensive study undertaken by Unisys asks company employees to get rid... Continue Reading Posted at 11:05 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom rigid, Union to go strike Krissy April 24, 2007 No one party is ready to move an inch. Deutsche Telekom in order to lessen costs, first planned to outsource no loess than 50,000 jobs in areas like customer service, call center and network technology. Then changing its stand (supposedly... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Britvic to chop 450 jobs for outsourcing Krissy April 24, 2007 Britvic may add two new flavors permanently, Orange & Pomegranate to its range of products but that does not signify the for ever permanent happy job with 450 employees who are expected to be transferred from Britvic to KN Drinks... Continue Reading Posted at 9:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM No. 1 Outsourcing company Krissy April 24, 2007 Yes, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has voted IBM as the world’s best outsourcing company for the second consecutive year. But the competition is keen, big fat Indian outsourcing companies like Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra are coming up... Continue Reading Posted at 8:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Luxembourg to outsource health related services to India Krissy April 24, 2007 Like many other countries beautiful Luxembourg also want to take part in outsourcing health services. While attending a meeting organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recently Mr. Jeannot Krecke, Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Government of Grand... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr23	NASSCOM initiates project to protect data theft and India's image Krissy April 23, 2007 Continuing with its 'Trusted Sourcing' initiative, Indian outsourcing body Nasscom has appointed Mr. Shyamal Ghosh as the chairman of the intended independent self-regulatory organization (SRO). It will try to make India a better (and safer) outsourcing destination. A new challenge... Continue Reading Posted at 11:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shocking!!! IT professionals in US are in demand than ever before Krissy April 23, 2007 It may sound unbelievable, the prolonged political agenda has rested in our mind in such a fashion that we can not think of USA techies doing well in technology sector and that all the jobs are not being Bangalored (a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Russia’s IT outsourcing market to reach 1 billion in '07 Krissy April 23, 2007 Russian IT outsourcing is reaching for its first big time landmark. According to the chairman of the US semiconductor giant Intel, Steve Chase, the IT outsourcing market in Russia will reach a billion dollar mark in this year itself. In... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Ousouricng more costly than in-house Krissy April 23, 2007 One way you have reports from Gartner and Abderdeen which says outsourcing come what may will save costs or otherwise the concept would have disappeared. But on the other hand you have reports like this, where Compass Management Consulting warns... Continue Reading Posted at 12:07 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Secret package leads Amazon setting up shop in Ireland Krissy April 23, 2007 Irish government has given a secret and confidential package to Internet retailer Amazon. What lies in there no one knows (as of now that is, I’m sure Brit journalists are on their way to break it) but resultantly Amazon instead... Continue Reading Posted at 6:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr22	Royal & Sun Alliance cuts outsourcing deal with IBM & Cable & Wireless Krissy April 22, 2007 To place its position in the booming real estate development and construction market, especially in Middle East and Southern part of Asia more robustly even companies mostly famous for their old school of management policies are embracing new age economic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Central Europe to grow by 30% in outsourcing Krissy April 22, 2007 What’s so unique of Central Europe? Why Gartner and other consulting biggies are so buoyant about Central Europe? Gartner predicts that the market, which has been estimated at a little more than US$2 this year, would continue to grow by... Continue Reading Posted at 11:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing slowdown wont touch Europe and India Krissy April 22, 2007 Globally outsourcing market is probably experiencing a slowdown. Compared to last year the total contracts awarded in the first quarter of this year have down by a third in comparison to last year. Outsourcing consulting company TPI predicts that BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 11:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	TCS moving jobs to China, Indian media least bothered Krissy April 22, 2007 Tata Consultancy Services or TCS is considered as India's biggest software information technology and outsourcing company, even ahead of Wipro and Infosys, is planning a big set up in China, reports the Financial Times. "If any country has the potential... Continue Reading Posted at 9:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New Zealand Health Ministry considering outsourcing Krissy April 22, 2007 New Zealand Health Ministry seriously wants to get its health check done not by in-house but outsourcing partners. As the population of servers has increased by leaps and bounds over the years and now spreads across 17 regional sites, the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr13	Ghana is game for outsourcing Krissy April 13, 2007 Ghana is seriously working hard to have a presence in the outsourcing market. Last year the Ministry of Communication in conjunction with the World Bank has undertaken a study to gauge Ghana’s scope in the outsourcing world. In November 2005... Continue Reading Posted at 3:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China is Japan's biggest outsourcing base Krissy April 13, 2007 Now after Premier Wen Jiabao's "ice-melting" visit to Japan it is believed that China’s ever growing software outsourcing trade with Japan will reach even greater heights. China is Japan’s biggest software outsourcing base and the country accounts for more than... Continue Reading Posted at 1:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom AG to face 8000 angry workers over outsourcing issues Krissy April 13, 2007 Deutsche Telekom is in the midst of some unpleasant happenings. One way it is demanding €1.2 billion from Polish utility company Elektrim in an eight-year outsourcing dispute and on the other hand it has to face 8000 irate employee whoa... Continue Reading Posted at 12:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr12	Capgemini opens outsourcing centre in Katowice, Poland Krissy April 12, 2007 The international consulting firm Capgemini has opened an IT outsourcing centre in Katowice, Poland. The investment for the firm is expected to be €2.3 million. The new facility which will house 135 headcounts for now (later will be risen to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why outsourcing haters are dead wrong Krissy April 12, 2007 These days (political or not I don’t know) many a so called ‘pro free trade’ pundits are turning their back and overnight becoming conservative on outsourcing issues. One of them is Princeton University economist and professor Alan S Blinder. He... Continue Reading Posted at 1:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	In classroom: from outsourcing to social networking Krissy April 12, 2007 To keep a pace with the international learning, US need to get more into basic mathematics and elementary science. That’s what Bill Gates prescribed few months ago. Now a slew of educators and technology executives are coming up with new... Continue Reading Posted at 1:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche, EDS, IBM in race for $1.5bn Reliance deal Krissy April 12, 2007 Following Bharti and Hutch (Essar) Reliance Telecom is also looking to spruce up its software and networking division. For the $1.5 billion IT outsourcing contract it has chosen three players as of now. They are International Business Machines Corp (IBM),... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Affiliated Computer Services (ACS): Good news, bad news Krissy April 12, 2007 Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has renewed and expanded an outsourcing contract with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. That’s not the news. The news is, ACS has lost a disk which had 2.9 million Georgia residents information (like... Continue Reading Posted at 12:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr11	NIAID signs outsourcing contract with Perot Systmes Krissy April 11, 2007 Perot Systems Corporation’s government subsidiary wing has won an outsourcing contract which will maintain and support the application and infrastructure services of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the Africa, United States and South Asia. GovWorks, the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Future of outsourcing full of surprises for global providers? Krissy April 11, 2007 If emerging trends in outsourcing is questioning the tried and tested models of ‘now running successfully’ practices, then the reasons like approaching sourcing decisions by clients in a whole different way is only showing up the adaptation of the changing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:33 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UK’s IT contractor sector may disappear by 2025: Study Krissy April 11, 2007 This alarming prediction comes from a UK based research firm Consultant Technologies Ltd. Though analysts and industry experts feel that low level low skilled IT work and some high end work which will be enrooted to India, China and Eastern... Continue Reading Posted at 3:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sony to procure worth $12billion from Taiwan Krissy April 11, 2007 Chinese magazine Apple Daily writes that Sony will make a procurement order of US$12 billion to Taiwan companies in 2007. Kenji Sakai, chairman and managing director of Sony (Taiwan) commented that Sony's gross procurement value from the country has grown... Continue Reading Posted at 1:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Defense Logistics Agency (DLA): Accenture wins $252 million contract Krissy April 11, 2007 Thanks to growing military obligations along with Base Realignment and Closure requirements, DLA's global mission continues to expand the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in a bid to continue its expansion has signed a 10-year, $252 million IT-outsourcing service deal... Continue Reading Posted at 12:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr10	The other side of outsourcing Krissy April 10, 2007 Millions of jobs and billions of dollars. Well, I agree with the second one but Millions of jobs going to India seem not a bit, but a lot stretched out figure. Too imaginative. Sorry, I can not agree with... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	SMEs/SMBs benefit from hosted IT service Krissy April 10, 2007 Hmm…for small and medium sized business hosted IT services are not that bad…even its better…says this study, “The Small Business Transition to Hosted Technology: Costs vs. Benefits.” Conducted by BizTechReports.com for its client, Planet, one of the biggest private dedicated... Continue Reading Posted at 2:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IT Companies keen in healthcare, pharmaceutical outsourcing Krissy April 10, 2007 In the ever competitive global environment each and every industries are in an extreme pressure to cut down costs to be more competitive. Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are no exception. Add to that meeting tighter... Continue Reading Posted at 1:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Poland: Rising wages, shortage of skilled labors Krissy April 10, 2007 It looks like Poland is losing its positioning in the outsourcing and manufacturing world. Principally there are two reasons which may probably in the future act like the death knell. One of them is constantly rising wage level and the... Continue Reading Posted at 1:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Defense Logistics Agency (DLA): Accenture wins $252 million contract Krissy April 10, 2007 Thanks to growing military obligations along with Base Realignment and Closure requirements, DLA's global mission continues to expand the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in a bid to continue its expansion has signed a 10-year, $252 million IT-outsourcing service deal... Continue Reading Posted at 12:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing to Africa: After South Africa comes Egypt, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda Krissy April 10, 2007 South Africa is already regarded as the future big player in the outsourcing world. Looking at the quantum of success that South Africa has achieved (or will achieve) now other African countries are also pitching with their proposition. Most of... Continue Reading Posted at 12:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 9	For major pharmaceutical companies outsourcing makes sense Krissy April 9, 2007 Pundits and analysts may put up reasons behind outsourcing but mostly it seems like the drive behind offshoring and outsourcing at big pharma majors is purely financial. As industry consolidations are becoming a trend, the flourishing pharmaceutical companies are reaping... Continue Reading Posted at 11:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hexaware to acquire US firm for $40 million Krissy April 9, 2007 After doing away with ESOP schemes for its employees and setting up new software development centers in northern part of India, Software and outsourcing firm Hexaware Technologies now sets its eye to acquire an IT firm in US or Europe.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	What is outsourcing: Economist's view Krissy April 9, 2007 Outsource. The moment one utters the word in US or UK or Westen Europe, you will get an instant negative reaction to it. There are many will endlessly debate on the ethics of having companies paying low wages to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Virtusa Files for $92 Million IPO Krissy April 9, 2007 US based (not virtual) IT consulting outsourcing provider Virtusa Corporation filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a $92 million proposed initial public offering (IPO) JP Morgan Securities Inc has been chosen as the sole book-running manager while... Continue Reading Posted at 1:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing??? Lil affect on Britons:Report Krissy April 9, 2007 "By 2010, the UK contact centre industry will be worth almost 30 billion pounds to the UK's economy, employing more than 1.1 million people." Now you wonder should you believe what media says or being an optimist sport you should... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 8	Is security right for outsourcing? Krissy April 8, 2007 Ever rising security demands for online applications like e-commerce and web services are binding more corporate customers to let go security functions like intrusion detection and firewalls to third party outsourcing providers. It is understood that the third-party (outsourcing) security... Continue Reading Posted at 1:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Automotive, manufacturing, high-tech are more game for outsourcing Krissy April 8, 2007 If you believe in this Equa Terra study (there is no reason for disbelief but sales executives may find the result too good to be true. ) The latest research says that three mushy segments, automotive, manufacturing and high tech... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 6	Eastern Europe becoming costly for outsourcing? Krissy April 6, 2007 No more Eastern European countries are under communist rules. After the settling up of capitalism many US companies gauging the lucrative 70 million consumers in the region have stepped up, be it McDonald or Microsoft. But now 18 long years... Continue Reading Posted at 6:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 5	Duke Univ study finds cost as major factor in outsourcing Krissy April 5, 2007 There may be claims and counterclaims but debunking claims like education level of Chinese and Indian workers, shortage of American engineers, a new study from Duke University has asserted that it is solely and purely cost savings that is driving... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shenandoah Police using custom software to track and share crime data Krissy April 5, 2007 This new software from CrimeCog Technologies of Milford will make Shenandoah Police Department’s officers life easy and hopefully they will be less bothered about the unsolved crimes and unnecessary paperwork. Hmm…outsourcing’s omnipresence seems to have reached the police headquarters also.... Continue Reading Posted at 7:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Delphi to outsource 650 salaried jobs to Genpact (GE), India Krissy April 5, 2007 Delphi Corp., the biggest U.S. auto-parts maker, will get rid of as many as 650 global finance jobs and outsource the work to Genpact, a sister concern of GE, India to save more than $150 million a year in preparation... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	More automation than low wage and outsourcing can lead to economic depression Krissy April 5, 2007 The trend is prevalent in USA, Japan and Western Europe. The employers are fast growing productivity by increasing use of automation. Even cheap labors don’t seem cheap, companies are shunning away from manual labor forces, low wageworkers and even outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 12:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 4	Business logic of offshoring and lumps of labor fallacy Krissy April 4, 2007 I was reading an article by Lary Dignan on how H-1B reform bill may push more work offshore. Ron Hira, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, an economist, an author and expert on issues like offshore outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	NewMarket China and ArtCoding to build game development outsourcing business Krissy April 4, 2007 NewMarket China in partnering with Shanghai ArtCoding Company to deliver outsourcing services to game development clients. Both the companies has signed a deal on that. The sharing ratio is undisclosed. On the financial ground, a bigger name in the deal,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Leading comapnies are for outsourcing IT infrastructure Krissy April 4, 2007 Market consulting firm Aberdeen is on the view that leading companies are increasingly going for outsourcing infrastructure as this popular option is regarded as the key to efficiently fulfilling the IT needs. Practice of outsourcing infrastructure took momentum from 2003,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM wins £400 million Somerset outsourcing deal Krissy April 4, 2007 Councils are actually doing this to save millions. IBM has been chosen as favorite bidder for a big IT and outsourcing contract with Taunton Deane Borough Council and Somerset County Council. The deal is worth £400 million, which will span... Continue Reading Posted at 2:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Enea prefers to keep its outsourcing partner unnamed Krissy April 4, 2007 Enea, the equipment maker has officially announced that it has signed a couple of year $3 million service agreement with an unnamed application service provider (secret, secret!!!) for converged networks systems. According to the secret agreement its been told to... Continue Reading Posted at 11:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 3	"India is epicenter at the flat world”" Krissy April 3, 2007 New York Times writer Anand Giridhardas says an interesting thing, that, “the kinds of jobs that can not be outsourced are slowly evaporating.”Let’s take a gist out of his wonderfully written article in there: 1. A transition of moving from... Continue Reading Posted at 11:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	hic...Thresher picks Xansa as outsouring partner Krissy April 3, 2007 Good time is rolling for Threshers. If you remember only last week it launched a 40% discount offer which actually it launched December the previous year. And now banking on the positive groove it has signed a five year outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 12:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mellon to provide managed accounts outsourcing for Bear Steams Krissy April 3, 2007 This mellon seems ripe enough for great tasteful result. And looking pretty bearish. Mellon Financial Corporation has declared that that its Asset Servicing group will deliver back office service solution Bear Stearns Asset Management(BSAM). Not mellow but it will offer... Continue Reading Posted at 12:09 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IBM Signs $3.8 million Deal With Sony Pictures Entertainment Krissy April 3, 2007 After ending all the speculation, Sony Pictures Entertainment has at last signed a five-year long $3.8 million contract with big blue International Business Machines Corp (IBM) to hold up its global financial system. Signed in first quarter of 2007 has... Continue Reading Posted at 6:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deutsche Telekom to discuss union over outsourcing Krissy April 3, 2007 There may be debate on whether outsourcing is good or bad, but when its concern the shareholders (that is stakeholders in macro), outsourcing and offshoring not only brings a new hope for them but also give them a reason to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 2	Recruitment process outsourcing/offshoring rolls Krissy April 2, 2007 This new theme on the block is called…. recruitment process outsourcing or RPO. Now, if some one asks what is actually recruitment process outsourcing, you can answer him straight, without much scratching your head. Again it’s a back end work... Continue Reading Posted at 12:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union allgeing United Airlines outosurcing more than allowed Krissy April 2, 2007 The allegation is serious. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association of United Airlines has alleged that the company is actually outsourcing much more of its maintenance than what is allowed (I am not sure if that does mean more than the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Oracle unveils Quistor Learning Management system for BPO Krissy April 2, 2007 In its first ever e-learning solution for outsourcing companies Oracle will deliver ‘a complete, scalable and open infrastructure solution’ that will enable customers (here, the BPO workers) to manage, deliver and track their own improvement (or lack of it) online... Continue Reading Posted at 11:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	New age shelter for call cneter workers in Philippines Krissy April 2, 2007 A perfect example how outsourcing churning more mullah for non-BPO industries, no this is no restaurant or cab ferry service but a real estate one. Megaworld Corporation, Manila (Philippines) based realty company plans to construct Stamford Executive Residences for BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 11:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Wal-Mart has a unique plan for India Krissy April 2, 2007 To fulfill India dream Wal-Mart will deviate from its tried and tested universal formula and will adopt a unique approach. Otherwise, world over, Wal-Mart usually not only sets up and runs but also manages its own supply chain. However, surprisingly,... Continue Reading Posted at 12:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 1	More UK accounting cos are outsouricng to India Krissy April 1, 2007 Notwithstanding some occasional hiccups increasingly more British firms are outsourcing their accountancy and similar services to India’s shores. Seems like Indian BPO companies have never had it so good. Along with pouring services from other sectors the nicely branded outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:28 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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