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Indian IT outsourcing market continues to boom
News Combined with a business-friendly and stable government, India is quickly growing into one of the outsourcing capitals of the world. The growth of the Indian IT services market has been stimulated by multinational companies, such as Microsoft, IBM...
[July 15, 2004, 13:00]
Global outsourcing market sees slowdown
News The worldwide outsourcing market is experiencing a slowdown, with the total value of contracts awarded in the first quarter of 2007 down by a third compared to the corresponding period last year. Duncan Aitchison, managing director of TPI, said in...
[April 23, 2007, 10:40]
Europe is world's biggest outsourcing market
News Europe is now the biggest market for outsourcing, while demand in the US has softened as a result of a shift in focus to smaller deals. And the global outsourcing market is continuing to grow, but at a slower rate and with lower average deal sizes...
[October 25, 2007, 16:47]
Enabling HR Outsourcing Below the Large Market for Oracle HRO Providers
White Papers Organizations can choose to perform the Human Resources function using a variety of delivery methods including on premise, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). By choosing Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO), a company...
[July 31, 2009, 1:21]
New Market Pressures Will Drive Next-Generation IT Services Outsourcing
White Papers Against a background of economic crisis, war, price shocks, natural disasters, and political upheaval, making decisions about IT services for global enterprises is getting more complicated. Regardless of whether think the daily news points to the...
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
Gartner: Outsourcing prices to fall 10 percent
News The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner. Regardless of the relative strength of outsourcing during a recession, many companies are reporting intense discussions with their vendors, according...
[March 23, 2009, 15:24]
Why Outsourcing?
White Papers Outsourcing giants that permanently provide inspiration by imposing global trends constitute a benefit to the entire outsourcing market. Although India is the main service provider in USA - the biggest outsourcing market, companies are already...
[December 22, 2005, 23:00]
IBM wins battle of the brands
News Buyers of information technology services perceive IBM as the top brand in all key segments of the market except business process outsourcing. Last week, IDC said that IBM leads the global IT outsourcing market, claiming about 22 percent of the...
[October 7, 2003, 9:50]
UK leads Europe in outsourcing
News The UK IT outsourcing market is relatively stable despite a significant downturn in deals globally, according to the latest industry figures. The quarterly index, by outsourcing advisers TPI, shows a forward pipeline of deals down 40 percent from...
[July 16, 2003, 9:28]
Outsourcing mega-deals double in 2003
News The outsourcing market received a massive boost on Wednesday with news that the number of outsourcing deals worth in excess of $1bn (£546m) doubled in 2003. According to Datamonitor's IT Services Contract Tracker -- which monitors all new...
[January 21, 2004, 11:45]
Infineon awards Accenture $48m outsourcing deal
News In a sign the outsourcing market remains healthy, German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies is tapping Accenture to handle SAP software support duties. TPI, however, has predicted that the outsourcing market will cool off this year.
[July 21, 2003, 9:15]
Gov't stung by 'poor value' outsourcing deals
News Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public-sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 percent more than the going market rate. The consulting group made its claims in a submission to the government's Public Services Industry...
[April 7, 2008, 9:20]
IBM cements outsourcing dominance
News IBM leads the pack in the $68.5bn (£41.08bn) information technology outsourcing market, but Hewlett-Packard and a handful of overseas companies are gunning to catch up, says research company IDC. In a recently published report, IDC said Big Blue...
[October 2, 2003, 11:15]
Outsourcing to boom in 2003
News Companies offering information technology outsourcing see lower-cost foreign labour as a key to growth in 2003, market research firm Gartner Dataquest says. IT outsourcing -- in which one company hires another to take over such tasks as managing a...
[January 31, 2003, 8:24]
India mulls tax-break extension for outsourcers
News India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing market have pushed it into extending a tax break for software companies, according to consultants. Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) has argued this is a...
[May 7, 2008, 9:16]
Managing Government and Healthcare IT Outsourcing in Europe: A Relationship Based Approach
White Papers This paper offers approaches and tools for successful IT outsourcing in the European market. It begins by presenting background on the European IT outsourcing market. This sets the stage for a general discussion of the value propositions and...
[April 25, 2005, 3:00]
Global market hit by 'DIY' offshoring bug
News The increase in the number of organisations setting up their own "DIY" offshore operations in countries such as India is responsible for the slowdown in the global outsourcing market. The value of new outsourcing contracts globally has risen by...
[July 13, 2007, 9:02]
Outsourcing growth continues
News Up-and-comers in the IT outsourcing market include Dell, which specialises in the desktop management, and Lucent Technologies, which focuses on network maintenance. Meanwhile, companies like Salesforce.com, which offer off-site, subscription-style...
[December 9, 2005, 8:30]
Outsourcing may doom future IT careers
News ITM members were asked if students in Australia would be discouraged from considering IT as a career if offshore outsourcing continued to shrink the local employment market. According to market research firm Gartner, offshore business process...
[July 9, 2003, 10:36]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
News In 2003-04, IT accounted for 56 percent of the total market, followed by communications outsourcing and business process outsourcing, each of which account for 19 percent of the market. Karen Swinden, Kable's head of forecasting, commented: "There...
[June 28, 2004, 16:25]
