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Outsourcing giant Infosys plans £154m site
News Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys is building a £154m campus in Hyderabad, India that will employ 25,000 people. The expansion follows sluggish growth in the Indian outsourcing market, with Infosys reporting revenue of $1.16bn (£610m) in its...
[August 12, 2008, 8:34]
Outsourcing to multiply and shrink - Gartner
News Huge outsourcing deals are on the way out, according to new research from Gartner. On Thursday, the research firm predicted a shift away from full-service, 10-year, multibillion-dollar outsourcing deals for technology service providers.
[February 20, 2004, 9:50]
Outsourcing: How to Assess, Diagnose And/or Restructure Your Relationship
White Papers Outsourcing agreements created ten, five, even three years ago are now being renegotiated because they were essentially conceived in another era. The increasing level of sophistication in modern IT and business process outsourcing best practices...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Outsourcing Development - The Impact of Process, Architecture and Tools
White Papers The paper is also of interest to IT practitioners interested in understanding the implications of outsourcing. This white-paper elaborates on the challenges that must be faced by organizations that outsource development activity.
[May 26, 2006, 1:00]
Outsourcing Security Responsibilties to Achieve Compliance With Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
White Papers Many banks are playing it safe - or, at least, safer - by outsourcing security responsibilities to managed services providers dedicated to keeping Internet trespassers at bay. Ever since Section 501(b) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) took...
[September 29, 2005, 3:00]
Outsourcing interest on the up
News Organisations are more interested than ever in outsourcing - though that doesn't mean they aren't still struggling with which core functions they should keep in-house. Indeed, the question of what is core to an organisation has come up throughout...
[April 29, 2005, 9:45]
Outsourcing grows - but deal size shrinks
News Outsourcing is set to continue, with more organisations handing over at least one IT function during the next year, but the scope and length of many agreements will also be reduced, according to a new report.
[August 12, 2004, 17:30]
Cracked it in one - outsourcing!
Talkback If the service had been inhouse the data would have been generated simply by amending the database parameters but thanks to the joys of outsourcing which saves lots of money, a new run would have needed a new project set up involving estimating...
[November 26, 2007, 13:55]
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. Gartner also said the number of IT infrastructure outsourcing "megadeals" -- those worth...
[January 31, 2003, 8:24]
Winning Strategies from Accenture: Outsourcing at BP in North America
White Papers Accenture's outsourcing business takes key non-core processes such as finance and accounting and turns these cost centers into high-value service centers by arming freshly motivated people with the necessary practices and proprietary methodologies.
[December 17, 2003, 0:15]
Gartner: Outsourcing raises costs
News Gartner also claims that 80 percent of organisations who outsource their customer management operations purely to cut costs will fail, while 60 percent of those who outsource parts of the customer-facing process will have to deal with customer...
[March 7, 2005, 11:40]
Outsourcing deals to face greater EC scrutiny
News New competition guidelines are set to put outsourcing deals under greater scrutiny from European Commission regulators. The Commission's latest updated guidelines, and interpretation of the 1990 Merger Regulation, now include a section on how an...
[August 30, 2007, 9:00]
Forget Speeds and Feeds - Outsourcing Today Is All About Your Business
White Papers OneNeck does not subcontract recurring outsourcing services. OneNeck is the leading mid-market outsourcer that can both manage customers' ERP applications and integrate them with other systems. Unlike other providers, OneNeck does not force its...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Gartner: Outsourcing to boom this year
News The pace at which companies are transferring IT services to offshore contractors is speeding up, with the outsourcing market set to grow more than 40 percent this year, according to new figures. India is the leader in IT outsourcing because of its...
[April 11, 2003, 15:42]
Outsourcing turns political - diplomat
News The heated debate over business-process outsourcing will soon become a political issue, and Indian authorities must come up with a plan to counter the opposition, says a US diplomat. Concerned about the impact on the local workforce, the report...
[July 18, 2003, 13:55]
Outsourcing backlash will fade - Gartner
News The backlash against India caused by outsourcing will fade away in two years, according to analysts from IT market research firm Gartner. A hot topic at the two-day seminar was business process outsourcing (BPO) and offshore IT services.
[July 23, 2003, 7:56]
Outsourcing brings legal woes over software licences
News Companies that provide outsourcing services could face prosecution if they do not ensure that their customers' software licences are outsourcing-friendly and up to date. The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) claims it has seen the first case...
[July 8, 2003, 8:43]
Outsourcing Management Software Tools
White Papers This paper will help organizations assess the state of Outsourcing Management (OM) tools, looking primarily at third-party vendors. Who are they? What do they offer? Where and how do they work? What will be the cost in terms of time and money?
[June 24, 2009, 15:19]
Outsourcing + Insourcing: Key to Smartsourcing
White Papers This white paper gives an overview of outsourcing and insourcing, defining the both and tries to map out the advantages as well as the challenges faced by them. It justifies how outsourcing is craving to be the perfect motivator and is making a new...
[June 24, 2009, 11:59]
Outsourcing may doom future IT careers
News The rampant outsourcing of IT jobs could sound the death knell for Australia's technology industry, an IT Manager Australia survey has revealed. ITM members were asked if students in Australia would be discouraged from considering IT as a career if...
[July 9, 2003, 10:36]
