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Barclays banks on offshore

News He added: "The number of BPO processes has increased as the Barclays management became increasingly comfortable with the success with which we could achieve offshore. Barclays is increasingly confident in its use of business process outsourcing...

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing, barclays

[15 May 2008]

HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS

News  Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts   Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys   India losing status as offshore king? HP has completed a $13.9bn deal to create one of the world's largest service providers by...

Tags: saas, hp, eds

[13 May 2008]

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? It is the ability to put together different components of a company's operating model both...

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]

Wanted: Women must save IT industry

News The report adds that the UK must reduce its reliance on skilled offshore workers and rebuild its domestic IT labour force to serve emerging areas such as analytics, information management, design and innovation.

Tags: skills gap, women, skills

[15 Apr 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News This has been achieved through a combination of a move to offshore resourcing and greater emphasis on sustaining permanent staff skills. IT contractors are finding it harder to secure work, with the joblessness rate among temporary tech staff...

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News India losing status as offshore king? This month, silicon.com has been busy wrestling with Android. Not manhandling tin men but exploring Google's new operating system for mobiles with our definitive Cheat Sheet guide to the nuts and bolts of its...

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News But India has been forced to defend itself against claims of tech skills shortages and rising salaries that threaten to erode its cost advantage over other offshore locations. But Premji claims India will still maintain its dominant offshore position.

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Are foreign imports hurting the UK tech industry?

News ATSCo CEO Ann Swain said that while the initial fear with outsourcing was that tech support functions would be the "thin edge of the wedge" and that mid-level IT roles would go offshore next, what is happening is quite different, with workers from...

Tags: skills, graduates, offshore, eu

[12 Mar 2008]

India losing status as offshore king?

News India is losing its stranglehold as the offshoring destination of choice as China, Morocco and Hungary gain ground. Special Report: Inside India In February 2007 silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore, Hyderabad...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing, china

[03 Mar 2008]

Offshore Indian outsourcer to open London facility

News Offshore outsourcer Cognizant hopes to add up to 20,000 staff to its books this year, including 100 at a new onshore UK facility. Gossain believes the company, whose revenue grew 50 per cent to $2.1bn last year, benefits from having both a strong...

Tags: ito, outsourcing, offshoring, india

[29 Feb 2008]

Outsourcing gives personal-injury claims company a boost

News The company moved to an outsourcing platform supplied by Xansa between April and October 2007 and back-office processes were transferred to an offshore team in Delhi. A provider of medico-legal reports for personal injury claims, Mobile Doctors...

Tags: xansa, health, insurance, outsourcing

[25 Feb 2008]

BAA calls on India for application management

News Under the five-year deal LogicaCMG will deliver the outsourced services through a "blended" onshore/ offshore model using its shared services centre in Bangalore. Airport group BAA, which owns seven UK airports including Heathrow, is outsourcing...

Tags: baa, india, logicacmg, deal

[12 Feb 2008]

India to train thousands more cyber cops

News Training centres for thousands more cyber cops are planned in India as the country's IT industry tries to boost its security credentials. President of Indian IT industry group Nasscom, Som Mittal, said the association plans to open a further six...

Tags: india, data security, nasscom, police

[06 Feb 2008]

Cyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'

News Primarily it's against fringe industries - online gambling, online gaming, online porn - operating offshore in countries like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: cyberattack, gamble, cia, institute

[24 Jan 2008]

India top choice for UK outsourcing

News It found most UK businesses that offshore IT are now choosing at least one provider in India. India is now outstripping competitors worldwide for cost and service quality and is riding the crest of a revolution in global outsourcing, according to a...

Tags: china, outsourcing, india, interfaces

[11 Jan 2008]

Outsourcing growth expected in 2008

News Spending on offshore services is three times higher in North America than in Western Europe but the gap is closing, with Indian providers becoming more popular in 2007, growing 40 per cent in the US and 60 per cent in Europe.

Tags: outsourcing, ito, gartner, bpo

[10 Jan 2008]

Shell's outsourcing plans face legal threat

News Shell is apparently arguing the previous redundancy package with the larger payout terms only applied to offshore oil rig staff and not IT workers, something Amicus is disputing. But] it was negotiated by the staff rights committee and both...

Tags: union, shell, it, outsourcing

[07 Jan 2008]

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