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Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore India will gain about eight million outsourcing jobs over the next decade as the industry booms in smaller cities, according to official forecasts.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource the bulk of its technology infrastructure.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based IT company Wipro, recently warned the Western world is "seriously underestimating" the scale of the tech skills shortage it faces. The UK's high tech sector will need tens of thousands extra skilled migrant...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking advantage of government tax breaks and opening a low-cost regional software development facility outside of London and the South East.

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Outsourcing prices have slumped in response to aggressive cost bargaining. Buyers have forced discounts of up to 23 per cent on outsourcing deals during...

Tags: offshoring, ito, outsourcing, deals

[11 Mar 2008]

Sharia insurance firm signs £87m Capita deal

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore A British Islamic insurance company is outsourcing its IT to Capita in an £87m deal. The eight-year deal will see Capita working with British Islamic...

Tags: capita, ito, outsourcing, compliant

[04 Mar 2008]

Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Businesses are increasingly outsourcing to improve performance - although cutting costs is still the number one reason for most.

Tags: outsourcing, ito, offshoring, india

[03 Mar 2008]

India losing status as offshore king?

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore India is losing its stranglehold as the offshoring destination of choice as China, Morocco and Hungary gain ground.

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing, china

[03 Mar 2008]

Offshore Indian outsourcer to open London facility

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Offshore outsourcer Cognizant hopes to add up to 20,000 staff to its books this year, including 100 at a new onshore UK facility.

Tags: ito, outsourcing, offshoring, india

[29 Feb 2008]

India to train thousands more cyber cops

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Training centres for thousands more cyber cops are planned in India as the country's IT industry tries to boost its security credentials.

Tags: india, data security, nasscom, police

[06 Feb 2008]

Indian suppliers to double UK IT market share

News India's top five services companies - HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro - are on course to grow their share of the UK software and IT services market from just under three per cent to seven per cent over the next three years, according to...

Tags: india, deals, suppliers, tech

[23 Jan 2008]

Outsourcing market has mega comeback

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore The global outsourcing market bounced back after a shaky start last year thanks to a spate of mega-deals and continued double-digit growth among Indian...

Tags: bpo, global, tpi, outsourcing

[17 Jan 2008]

Intel launches modular-server building tools…

News Intel's local OEM partners and channel resellers in the region include FPT in Vietnam, HCL and Wipro in India, MPP in Thailand and Teratec in Korea. Intel has launched a set of modular-server building blocks for OEMs (original equipment...

Tags: server, intel, channel, blocks

[15 Jan 2008]

India top choice for UK outsourcing

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore He said global suppliers such as Accenture, HP and IBM would have to play catch-up to match the skills, flexibility and quality of work of Indian firms...

Tags: china, outsourcing, india, interfaces

[11 Jan 2008]

UK-India grad school get networking virtually…

News The Indian side of the collaboration will involve the technology institutes of Delhi, Madras and Mumbai, the Institute of Science in Bangalore and companies including BT India, Infosys, Midas Communications, NMSWorks Software, Sasken...

Tags: networking, uk, india, initiative

[04 Dec 2007]

Carphone Warehouse signs $200m Indian IT deal

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has signed a $200m five-year deal with Indian IT company Patni. The deal is an extension of an existing four year...

Tags: offshoring, patni, carphone warehouse

[18 Oct 2007]

Buy big to get noticed, Indian IT companies warned

News The top six India players, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro - collectively referred to as Switch - accounted for 1.9 per cent of the total $672bn IT services market in 2006, compared to 0.5 per cent in 2001, according to figures from...

Tags: tcs, offshore, outsourcing, india

[26 Sep 2007]

Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore In the words of Huawei's chief marketing officer, Dr Eric Xu Zhijun, nothing matters more than research and development.

Tags: r&d, china, huawei

[06 Sep 2007]

Scottish Parliament bags new tech partner

News The Scottish Parliament previously had a seven year managed services deal with Wipro Technologies. The Scottish Parliament has signed a deal with tech services company, LogicaCMG, for the support of its IT and communications infrastructure over the...

Tags: savings, parliament, projects, managed services

[29 Aug 2007]

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