SAP looks to retail sector for growth
News The business software maker is hoping to offer consulting services to retailers who want to expand their businesses [28 Apr 2008]
Accenture: Time is ripe to test cloud computing
News The company's chief scientist has said cloud computing is now mature enough for CIOs to experiment with [22 May 2008]
HP buys EDS for £7.1bn
News The deal between the IT and consultancy giants is official, with HP hoping the buyout will more than double its services revenue [13 May 2008]
Barclays to offshore 1,800 IT jobs
News Roles in global infrastructure and service delivery are set to be scrapped in the UK and new jobs created in Hungary, India and Singapore over the next two years [15 Jul 2008]
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News The Defence Information Infrastructure scheme has delivered benefits but key elements are 18 months late, says the National Audit Office [04 Jul 2008]
Europe inks third of outsourcing deals in early 2008
News Everest Research claims European companies shrugged off the credit crunch to sign 36 percent of all outsourcing deals in the first quarter of this year [30 Jun 2008]
Businesses shun outsourcing 'megadeals'
News Companies are moving away from large outsourcing contracts in favour of spreading smaller contracts between several suppliers, according to figures from analyst Gartner [12 Jun 2008]
India mulls tax-break extension for outsourcers
News Contemplation of an extended tax break for in-country software companies shows India is worried about retaining its outsourcing dominance, say consulants [07 May 2008]
Rollout of NHS e-record software faces more delays
News Connecting for Health and CSC may be preparing a new contract extending the schedule for implementation of the Lorenzo software until 2016 [22 May 2008]
HP close to EDS buyout
News The PC maker has confirmed it is in talks to buy EDS, a move that would bring it back on par with IBM in consultancy prowess [13 May 2008]
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News The Public Accounts Committee has called for greater analysis of government shared corporate services to ensure value for money [08 May 2008]
Google inks £75m lease for campus on Nasa land
News The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement signed with Nasa in 2005 to collaborate on space and technology research [05 Jun 2008]
Geographic database opens up to business
News Private-sector groups can now subscribe to the National Land and Property Gazetteer, a database of national address and property data [01 May 2008]
HMRC tax-credit losses approach £10bn
News The Liberal Democrats say the flawed tax-credit computer system has lost £9.91bn in fraud, error and overpayments to date [23 May 2008]
India to create 8m outsourcing jobs in next decade
News Outsourcing association Nasscom sees the industry booming in smaller cities as the infrastructure of dominant centres becomes increasingly overburdened [07 May 2008]
BT buys two German IT companies
News The telecoms and IT services company has bought Stemmer and SND, which formed the enterprise IT services section of net AG [26 Jun 2008]
BT signs £160m outsourcing deal with Nationwide
News The telecoms and IT giant will manage the building society's networked IT services for the next seven years [01 Jul 2008]
Lawsuits filed to block HP-EDS merger
News A US organisation and EDS shareholder have both filed lawsuits raising questions over the price of the proposed sale [04 Jun 2008]
TCS creates 350 UK jobs
News The Indian outsourcer is to boost its 5,000-strong UK workforce with 350 jobs at two development centres in England and Scotland [30 Jun 2008]
Report: India losing grip on outsourcing ecosystem
News The 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing claims Indian firms now account for only 10 of the top 50 global outsourcers [03 Jul 2008]
DWP attacked over delays to benefit-fraud IT system
News The Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Work and Pensions of failing to measure benefit fraud properly because of its tardiness in improving IT systems [08 Jul 2008]
