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Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News  Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts   Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys   India losing status as offshore king? Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching according to industry experts.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News  Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts   Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys   India losing status as offshore king? India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News  Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts   Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys   India losing status as offshore king? Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

China key to Indian IT growth

News  Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts   Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys   India losing status as offshore king? China will be a key part of Indian outsourcing giant Satyam's plans to create 15,000 new...

Tags: satyam, offshore, outsource, centres

[21 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Nandan Nilekani BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe.

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News Nandan Nilekani Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for...

Tags: google, yahoo, myspace, foundation

[26 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Nandan Nilekani Infosys Around 38 per cent of its revenue comes from financial services and Nilekani is quick to note that the company works with the some of the world's largest and most...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Indian IT outsourcers look ahead

Comment Still, Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of Infosys, listed the impressive ways that technology has already transformed contemporary India. Indian outsourcing industry association Nasscom says it is focusing on the future.

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[14 Feb 2008]

Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Nandan Nilekani Infosys Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT

News Nandan Nilekani Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste...

Tags: londonwaste, cio essentials, cio, person

[11 Dec 2007]

Oracle users demand better support

News Nandan Nilekani Infosys Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. He explained that many of the concerns expressed by...

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year

News Nandan Nilekani The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme...

Tags: nhs, richard granger, spokeswoman, health

[05 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Nandan Nilekani Infosys Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune, which also...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches

News Nandan Nilekani Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Graham Yellowley, director of technology...

Tags: cio essentials, graham yellowley, transport, adopt

[27 Nov 2007]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Nandan Nilekani Infosys At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the...

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

Cost still main reason for outsourcing

News Nandan Nilekani Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations going down the outsourcing route, despite unsustainable or unrealistic targets for savings. But companies lured into outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting...

Tags: outsourcing, gartner, savings, cash

[21 Nov 2007]

Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out

News Nandan Nilekani Infosys CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said...

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[21 Nov 2007]

Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource

News Nandan Nilekani The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing arm of the De Beers family of companies...

Tags: virtualisation, unisys, outsourcing, contract

[20 Nov 2007]

CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping

News Nandan Nilekani Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Colin Cobain, group IT director for Tesco...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco, cio essentials, cio

[20 Nov 2007]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study Nandan Nilekani Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

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