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News With voice-to-text company SpinVox making headlines recently, August saw silicon.com reporter Natasha Lomas visit the company's HQ to see its tech in action, and she came away pretty impressed with the company's human... [01 Sep 2009]
Abtran Meets Its Clients' Increasing Security Requirements With McAfee Security Risk Management Solutions
White Paper Abtran is a market leader in delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Its focus is on strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships with major corporate and government clients in domestic and international markets. [01 Sep 2009]
Telecom Calls on Consulting Expertise to Drive New Efforts, Saves Customers 10%
White Paper In general, the outsourcing market has demanded for ongoing cost reductions while delivering constant innovation and more flexibility. Swisscom is the leading telecommunications company in Switzerland. [01 Sep 2009]
Improving Data Mining Via Noisy Micro-Outsourcing
White Paper This work discussed in this paper focuses on problems where it is possible to obtain certain (noisy) data values ("Labels") relatively cheaply, from on-line micro outsourcing sources ("Non-expert labelers"). [29 Aug 2009]
21st Century Innovation Hubs
White Paper In the flat universe, technology innovation no longer follows the outsourced manufacturing model that actually pioneered the outsourcing wave. In place of models where products were designed in locations like the US and... [29 Aug 2009]
Banking on the HP BladeSystem Using HP Management Tools: The Dividends Are Availability, Performance and Security
White Paper B-Source, the market leader in the outsourcing of IT and bank back-office services in private banking and wealth management firms, needed a scalable solution that was both flexible yet highly available to support its... [28 Aug 2009]
Argentina: Software Development and IT Consulting Outsourcing's New Hot Spot
White Paper This paper explains about the attractiveness of Latin America, IT Landscape in Argentina, Leading Content Producer in Spanish, Educational excellence, Political Stability, Closer time-zone which includes instant communication channels,... [27 Aug 2009]
IBM wins five-year BP contract to keep SAP apps slick
News IBM and Indian outsourcing companies have won five-year contracts to manage and run BP's enterprise applications. Consultancy and outsourcing company Accenture had touted running BP's SAP apps, which... [27 Aug 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News For some IT professionals, the definition of making a difference with technology means trimming a small percentage off their employers' bottom lines with a clever outsourcing strategy. For a handful, it means a stint... [25 Aug 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment The outsourcing industry has brought jobs and prosperity to India - but, asks Saritha Rai, at what cost to workers' well being? Outsourcing worker Ash looks back and rues that he entered the job market... [25 Aug 2009]
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Business Risks Associated With Merging IT
White Paper Outsourcing of the IT integration and testing function could be one way of alleviating some of the pressure faced by those in charge, particularly when such projects need abject objectivity, something which is often... [22 Aug 2009]
The rules of outsourcing: 'I don't want to have a dog and bark myself'
News What are the rules of a successful IT outsourcing partnership? Last month Groupe Aeroplan UK, which owns and manages the Nectar customer loyalty programme, extended an IT infrastructure outsourcing... [14 Aug 2009]
Managed Services Demystified - An Overview for Telecom Service Providers
White Paper However, if done correctly, working with a managed services provider and outsourcing all or part of the next generation network planning, implementation and management, the transition to the new infrastructure can occur... [14 Aug 2009]
Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
News This was perhaps what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had in mind as she reviewed what it would cost to just maintain Yahoo's current search commitment, let alone a renewed effort to gain share: Yahoo expects to save a ton in capital expenditures... [12 Aug 2009]
Virtualisation: Get the contract right
Comment In addition, as with any outsourcing agreement, but particularly in the virtualised model, the provision of services by a (remote) third party requires active management to avoid problems arising. Virtualisation promises... [12 Aug 2009]
