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Jul22
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How much did India’s top 10 IT companies earn in 2006-07. Lets take a look at what report Dataquest magazine, India’s leading technology magazine published on its latest issue: 1. Top three: Wipro, Infosys and TCS earned $8.7 billion
2. Satyam is 4th with Rs. 5,789 crore.
3. IBM 5th with 4,880 crore.
4. HCL Technologies 6th with 4,598 crore.
5. Cognizant 7th with 4,584 crore.
6. Oracle 8th with Rs. 3,663 crore
7. Tech Mahindra 9th with 2,890 crore
8. Patni Software 10th with 2,573 crore The report says there is no change in the rankings of the top 7 of the top 10 software firms. Wait and watch for next year’s result, mark my word, IBM will surprise everyone. To get News, views, analysis, joke, humor, even bitching of outsourcing world Subscribe here
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Jul22
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It’s confirmed now. After dilly dallying for long Swedish telecommunication company Ericsson has confirmed that its research and development center at Backnang will be outsourced. This decision of outsourcing will affect 370 workers (out of 700) directly. 40 developers at...
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I came across this article. Take a look first: In 2006, the Chinese IT services market reached a size of $7.7 billion, with a growth rate of 17.8 per cent over the previous year. On the other hand, software and...
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Philippines, the small country has been striding big in the outsourcing world. In 2000, there used to be merely a few service operators in the country. But since then the outsourcing industry in Philippines has developed by leaps and bounds. ...
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Information and communications technology company IPGV Corp. has acquired Globalstride Holdings Ltd and its list of customers. IPGV informed Philippines Stock Exchange its subsidiary IP Contact Center Outsourcing Inc. (IPCCO) has inked a heads of agreement to acquire the fixed...
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US recruitment site Jobster to strengthen its position in UK market has tied up with Alexander Mann Solutions. Alexander Mann will take care of its sales and marketing responsibilities for Jobster. It will use Jobster’s current online system to attract...
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The El Paso Times has reported that the XM center will take in 300 workers within four months in phases. XM call center is supported by Houston based GC Services. Good news for the El Pasoites. College gores, idle housewives...
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Cost competitiveness will become less important. Instead it’s more about creating value. The better and more value the provider creates for its client will win in the game in the long run. Frost & Sullivan, a multinational consulting group has...
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Good time for Satyam, India’s one of the biggest IT outsourcing companies. Recently, it goy some contracts but mostly lived under the shadows of biggies like Infosys, TCS, IBM etc. This new contract from Singapore Government will surely give them...
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Content restructuring, be it renewals, renegotiations or related changes to prior outsourcing contracts have fallen down from previous year’s 26% to 17%. But, nevertheless, there is a wave of renewing or extending outsourcing contracts from all quarters of business. TPI,...
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The appreciation of Indian rupee against dollar is falling heavily on the BPO and IT employees. Many information technology and outsourcing firms in Bangalore have asked their employees to come on Saturdays to counter the impact. Some IT firms who...
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Believe it or not, there are lots of senior executives who earnestly want to keep the jobs at home, but the peer pressure, the endangering bottom line, rigid board members bound these anti-outsourcing folks to send jobs overseas for quick...
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What is going to be the next paradigm in IT outsourcing. Well, the other day I wrote how the concept of IT outsourcing has reached an over hype status, so much so that pupils in US and UK almost stop...
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Genpact, the BPO company in India has done an interesting thing. When every call center in India is busy recruiting fresh and experienced graduates, Genpact has asked 10+2 students (that is high school in India, in India after competing 10+2...
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Every country has its niche in outsourcing world. Russia, for example, has carved its mark in high end software development. In the same line, Sri Lanka over the years has successfully exported thousands of accountants in Middle East, Maldives and...
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If you are not fully in tune with latest outsourcing lingo, let me tell you, a new word has been invented, its called PPO or person to person outsourcing. Take my word, next along with other outsourcing debates, PPO is...
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IDC consulting in one of its reports states that China gets more than 60% of its outsourcing business from countries like Japan and Korea. Why is it so? Because, these countries had been historically interdependent for years, they also have...
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Jul21
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After coming out from its teething problems, outsourcing is gradually becoming more specialized and competitive. Now its time clients look over the first mover countries, more and more countries are getting into the fray. Big organizations have lost out many...
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There is a perception that all the tech jobs are going offshore, that outsourcing will eat up all the technology related jobs in the coming year. Such is the widespread myth that in last couple of years US universities have...
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Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has successfully bagged an outsourcing contract from Ameren Corporation. Under the contract ACS will deliver benefit and administration related service to its clients. This is a five-year agreement and moreover for its clients’ 24,000 participating employees...
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If you ask me what is the new age mission and vision for global financial services executives of today who are sandwiched between internal and external bottom-line pressures I will tell you its all about how you achieve more with...
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The size of the outsourcing industry in Botswana is not that big, you can call it rather a small sized one. But that does not mean the country does want to take on mature outsourcing markets like South Africa, Philippines...
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Jul20
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Indian newspaper Business Line reports that to expand its operational base significantly in China and also to serve its existing domestic and international clients there Wipro BPO is planning to set up local deliver centers in the heartland. If things...
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Jul19
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IBM is storming ahead on Indian market. After catapulting quite a numbers of big bang clients on the telecom front , IBM sets its eye on Vodafone Plc. IBM of Armonk, New York is in talks with yet unlisted Hutchison...
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Advertising industry may not be the favorite child of outsourcing industry, but this time it seems some jobs, 7 to be specific is going India’s way. Small number, you may say, being a pilot project, remember, the prospect depends on...
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Jul18
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Unisys (UIS) after some long gap has announced of bagging an outsourcing contract. Their new client is U.S. Cargo Sales Joint Venture LLC for which it will deliver a broad range of IT outsourcing support services. U.S. Cargo Sales Joint...
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The idea is to leave the civil servants of Botswana with their core task, which is concentrating on the business of processing the national ID application. Who will explain the procedure on the issuance and other details? Well, the task...
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Jul 7
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed 4,000 businessmen and alumnus at annual alumni conference of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) via live video feed. She tried to lessen the criticism over her links with Indian Americans and said fear...
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Jul 1
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The recent set of ethical guidelines from three US bar associations exclusively for their attorneys it seems are not going to leave any adverse effect on the legal process outsourcing (LPO) services industry in India.Many may saw the event with...
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The trend of outsourcing in Philippines is going a lot like India. There companies are setting up centers in tier II cities overlooking the major metros and the similar is happening in Philippines too. The southern province of Cebu, in...
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The reasoning has come (not from one investment bank executive or any research king) from this international law firm, Bird and Bird and sourcing consultancy, Quantum Plus. Got to be different from Aberdeen’s and McKInsey’s, let’s hear out what they...
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India’s Tata Consultancy Service’s (TCS) shifting of outsourcing jobs to Mexico raises many a questions. It’s true that India’s salary structure significantly lower than the developed countries, but more than appreciating rupee its shortage of skilled workers which probably has...
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Indian rupee has been appreciating against US dollars for quite some time now. Not surprisingly, the continuous strengthening of the rupee poses its first bottom line effect on the Indian outsourcing majors. The rupee has appreciated more than anticipation. It...
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