Filed in archive Offshoring
by prashanth on January 31, 2007
Steve Hamm's (The author of Bangalore Tiger) Blog has a very important and relevant post to the IT Services industry in India. In this post Steve highlights the issues faced by the CEO of...
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by prashanth on January 30, 2007
TCS, India's top software services exporter, sees strong orders and revenues in the year ahead, driven by robust demand in Asia and Europe, and plans to boost its headcount aggressively. TCS...
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Another survey confirming the growth of SaaS, a new survey by Cutters Consortium confirms that the SaaS movement is in full throttle. Customer interest and adoption of this new on-demand model is real...
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by prashanth on January 29, 2007
The Indian software and services (IT-BPO) exports will clock a growth of 32.6% to exceed $31 billion in the current fiscal, key findings of a Nasscom review.Clocking a 10 fold rise in revenue in 10...
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At the annual conference to report full-year fiscal results, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann outlined plans to introduce a new midmarket solution offering breakthrough innovations in faster,...
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Filed in archive Management
by prashanth on January 24, 2007
For sometime now we havent had this discussion and than recently i saw this report from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows 2003 versus Linux in Indian...
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How often do you find yourself needing to capture something from you computer screen to show to someone else? Yes, there are lots of ways to do it, but how about a super easy way? That's what...
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In Tom Friedman's book the World is Flat, he lists 10 flatteners, During another keynote by Shai Aggasi , he added SAP as another flatnner, Aberdeen Group genralised it and have come up with a...
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by prashanth on January 22, 2007
BPO and ITO outsourcing demand is generally growing, but the first half of 2007 will see a slower rate of growth than in previous years, according to EquaTerra's 4Q06 Outsourcing Pulse Surveys....
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At Shai Aggasi's keynote at the SAP Teched the message was clear, UPGRADE to MySAP 2005 ERP, a similar message rang at Oracle OpenWorld user conference. But the decision of weather to upgrade or...
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SAP introduced the next version of its SAP All-in-One solutions, with significant enhancements to provide midsize companies with greater agility in managing their businesses. Leveraging the power of...
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The debate is on! Or, at least the debate will be on early next month at CMO 2007, a forum hosted by Red Herring which plans to attract 200 CMOs and other experts from the technology and communication...
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by prashanth on January 17, 2007
Recently we had a post on Kimberly Clark signing an 5 years outsourcing deal with Genpact , now there are two new announcements: TCS has signed a multi-year agreement to provide information technology...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on January 17, 2007
Today i was in the TPI call to share their observations on the global and Asia Pacific outsourcing markets in 2006 and the service providers who are competing for, and winning contracts. From their...
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by prashanth on January 15, 2007
Was just reading this Event Flash by IDC, titled "Why HCL Technologies Is Disruptive and Bears Watching" , Some excerpts from the same: IDC has commented before on how HCL is taking a unique...
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Saw this post on Infoworld, here is an excerpt from the same: Software sales slowed in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, SAP reported. In the U.S. and Japan, sales dropped to a 4 percent growth...
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Filed in archive by prashanth on January 12, 2007
If you work for any size IT Services company in India, you are bound to be suffering from the talent crunch not enough is said or written about it , but the market is really crazy out there. There...
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by prashanth on January 11, 2007
Its result time for the Indian IT Services world, i was just looking at the results of Infosys and iGate, as i was wondering through the announcement files, there are a couple of interesting charts...
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by prashanth on January 10, 2007
ADP one of the largest providers of computerized transaction processing and information-based business solutions has announced plans to set up its second facility in India in Pune. The new facility,...
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM - code-named "Titan" - with a broad range of partners through the company's...
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by prashanth on January 10, 2007
One of the points from the Services Globalization Trends 2007 report of NeoIT is that, In the year 2007 Russia will emerge as a strong contender in the IT Outsourcing market. Russia is currently the...
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Steve Hamm, The Author of "The Bangalore Tiger" has a post providing an overview of his recent discussioins with Infosys & Accenture, In the post Steve specifically covers some tools...
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