I'm actually just guessing about that. It's probably impossible to compare the newly announced capability to host Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud service with...

No real commentary on it, but I thought I would point you to an interview posted at IT Business Edge with Jeff Jernigan of Instat, a communications market research firm that has been tracking the...

It's refreshing to read about IT issues from overseas from time to time, particularly when they are liberally peppered with bollocking and crikeys and codswallops, and so I give thanks to this...

Other bloggers have been doing the math of the Google/Capgemini deal around Google Apps Premier Edition support, and I don't think any of them quite have my take on it, but the reactions seem...

I'm left slightly unsure what you really get from Capgemini's new offer to provide support for Google Apps. What is Capgem offering that Google's Enterprise Premier support tier...

Japan's IT services market is expected to grow to $107 billion by 2008 - a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7 per cent. It accounts for over a third of the total revenues for the Indian...

First Gopalakrishnan the CEO,Excerpts from an interview: He was most passionate about a few broad themes in the changing technology landscape. "One of the biggest changes you will see is the...

Despite ITO's maturity and widespread acceptance, success still eludes some companies. Logic would say that any business process that has been around as long as ITO should achieve more consistent...

On the WSJ came across this article with the same title, below is the list of the 7 Myths and also some quotes and excerpts from the same.This is based on a survey conducted of senior executives at 62...

Wipro has a very interesting presentation up on the site which they seem to have presented at the Web2.0 conference, Below are some of the slides. Outsourcing also gets the 2.0 tag. Will write more on...

EquaTerra believes upwards of 20 percent additional savings are on the table for some of India's captives, and that is on top of opportunities for improved quality and global process...

Outsourcing Management & Governance is a critical discipline that enables companies to achieve the intent of their outsourcing deal. Without it, value leakage of 15 percent or greater typically...

Business Network Transformation is a concept I have written about previously here.A lot of people believe it to be the future model for how enterprises will work. Well if that is the case than what...

There is an article by Gary Fromer, SVP, SAP Managed Services, SAP Americas.Below are some excerpts from the same: The SAP Managed Services organization delivers application outsourcing services to...

Consider the source has a post up discussing TPI's Q1 findings, We said that the first quarter saw a dramatic decline in the number and value of larger commercial outsourcing signings, compared...

According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) majority of senior executives -- 87% -- think IT outsourcing delivers on the business benefits projected in their original plan. Even more,...

There has been a lot of talk of a possible slowdown in the IT Sector, below are some thoughts on the topic: Announcing the fourth quarter results, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and Satyam Chairman...

Forrester has a report titled "The Forrester Wave: North American Outsourcing Applications - Q1 2007" we had covered this report in this post about a month ago, recently i came...

BusinessWeek has an article on IT talent in Eastern Europe excerpts from the same: If you're a Bulgarian programmer, a Romanian network-systems engineer, or a Czech enterprise-software specialist,...

First it was Bharati Airtel, than recently there was the IDEA deal, well now looks like HUTCH is also going down the same path, Hutchison Essar is now looking at outsourcing its IT operations to...

Forrester have released a report with their take on the Vendor comparison in the NorthAmerica, Application Outsourcing Market, IBM and Accenture still lead the market, of course closely followed by a...

Outsourcing is big business and Outsourcing advisory firms have a very important role to play, Forrester has a presentation with an overview of some of the firms, listed below:...

In March'04 a mega outsourcing deal announcement was made out of India, Bharati the largest private sector telecommunication company in India, inked a deal with IBM for total IT transformational...

PerformanceMonitor conducted a research based on input from 864 clients of 11 leading ADM providers, 7 of which are multi-nationals and 4 of which are India-based. The 7 Multi-National providers were,...

neoIT a consulting firm that is focused on helping firms improve operations and grow their business by capitalizing on services globalization has released a new report with the same title as this...

Francisco D'Souza, CEO,President Cognizant has an article up at sandhill with the same title, Below are some interesting excerpts from the same: Looking at the future of technology services, it is...

London-based consumer products maker The Unilever Group is planning to turn over some of its IT infrastructure operations to Hewlett-Packard Co. Unilever, which employs some 206,000 people worldwide,...

In the recent TPI Apac call, it was indicated that India is one of the three biggest outsourcing markets, behind Australia and Japan (Graphic Attached from the TPI Presentation), given this...

Baseline has a piece, on 1 year look at the GM Outsourcing deal : The new multi-vendor outsourcing deal is already helping to further slim GM's global I.T. costs. The automaker's new service...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

Genpact, has signed a five-year contract to provide certain finance and accounting activities for Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Outsourcing of these services to Genpact is part of Kimberly-Clark's...

Capgemini and Tetra Pak a world leader in food processing and packaging, recently announced that they have signed a 7-year global outsourcing agreementcovering a range of finance and accounting...

Last night at the IDC Tele briefing titled "The Services Marketplace in 2007: Predictions for Business Model Change", the analysts presented their Top 10 Services Predictions for 2007. Here...

IBM has signed a multimillion dollar contract to provide a range of IT services to Scotiabank Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia. Under the deal, disclosed...

Recently came across this report by TPI on the budling of BPO+ITO, this is a trend that is increasingly become very popular, one example was the merging of Infosys's BPO division Progeon into the...

One of the most common outsourced element is ADM, this is usually the first step in the outsourcing journey of most companies.Recently came across a report by Aberdeen Group, titled "Does...

Continuing on the topic of cost arbitrage, I was reminded of an article in Strategy and Business which was an interview with Fransico D'Souza, COO, CTS. During the interview Mr.D'Souza talks...

Pune based telecom software services company Tech-Mahindra, has bagged the largest outsourcing deal valued at $1 bn from British Telecom (BT). This is the largest contract bagged by any software...

Michael E. Nemeth a VP at Cognizant has published an executive white paper, on outsourcing ....drawing parallel with Flying lessons and explaining how intution about these areas is not necessarily...

Outsourcing research firm TPI says that the total global outsourcing revenues have declined for the third quarter of '06. Global majors seem to be going for shorter duration of outsourcing...

Today i was reading the article on TCS increasing its billing rates by 3-5% on renewal contracts & 5-10% in new contracts."If there is an opportunity to increase the billing rates in the...

Tenet Healthcare Corp., a large operators of hospitals and outpatient facilities, has signed a sweeping, 10-year IT services deal with Perot Systems Under the contract, Perot will manage information...

Here is an interesting note that i found in the interview of HCL's Shiv Nadar on the IT Services industry "Consider the mental baggage that IT companies have today. Each quarter, Indian IT...

Wipro Technologies announced recently that it has won the National Outsourcing Association's (NOA) award for "I.T Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year". According to Dr. A L Rao,...

According to AMR in the 7 categories tested for outsourcing -application development, hardware maintenance and support, data center operations, web hosting, application implementation, application...