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Insurance Agency Prepares for New IT Projects, Realizes Savings Through SAM

whitepaper As one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, Lovitt & Touche realized that outsourcing the IT requirements of the company was no longer effective. The company moved IT resources back to an internally supported model and quickly...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

Danske Bank Slashes Costs and Paves the Way for Expansion When It Taps IBM to Deploy a Nortel VoIP Telephony Solution

whitepaper Teaming with IBM Alliance Partner Nortel, IBM Global Technology Services - Worldwide Strategic Outsourcing implemented a VoIP telephony solution that provides a unified telephony standard for the client at all of its locations and takes full...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: Prescription for a Vital Network Health Check

whitepaper From short-term goals like improving performance to creating a long-term network development plan, every IT manager should periodically consider outsourcing their network health check. IT managers build, maintain, and in many cases stake their...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. Outsourcing has so many benefits: Outsourcing is more complex than it looks. The Value Proposition of how you provision your outsourcing - 50 per cent cost...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Security Best Practices: What to Look for in an Email Hosting Provider

whitepaper For small, medium and even large-sized companies looking for robust, secure email they can afford, outsourcing to an experienced Microsoft Exchange Hosting Provider is the ideal solution. Email is an essential business tool for organizations of all...

Tags: servers, practices, provider, exchange

[08 May 2008]

The outsourcing decision for a globally integrated enterprise: from commodity outsourcing to value creation.

whitepaper Today, outsourcing helps make the globally integrated enterprise possible. And the decision-making process for outsourcing is changing -- with CIOs playing a more strategic role. To learn how IBM helps turn outsourcing into opportunity, download...

Tags: outsourcing

[07 May 2008]

Synergy in Security: Why a Combined ISO 17799 and OCTAVE Approach Makes Sense

whitepaper This doesn't apply as elnitiatives, third party support and outsourcing requires the perimeter to become porous. Information systems today resemble museums more than medieval castles. The castle description of information security describes a...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News India will gain about eight million outsourcing jobs over the next decade as the industry booms in smaller cities, according to official forecasts. Minor cities in India will snap up about two million of these jobs, according to a report of India's...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing market have pushed it into extending a tax break for software companies say consultants. More on outsourcing…  Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

CSC signs $400m contract with Zurich

News CSC relationship with Zurich began in July 2004 when it signed a seven-year global IT applications outsourcing contract. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has signed a $399m deal to provide desktop support to Zurich Financial Services Group.

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing, ito

[02 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number to call an ambulance, with...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

How Managed Services has Changed Remote Infrastructure Management

whitepaper How managed services/outsourcing has changed Remote Infrastructure Management In today's distributed computing environment, critical Information and Communications Technology (ICT) equipment can be located anywhere in the world.

Tags: infrastructure management, event, itc, infotech

[30 Apr 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen this year. Outsourcer Satyam will bring CGI effects to the silver screen when First Fear hits the cinemas around June this year.

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing company's largest global development centre. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Discover high-tech India

Photo The rapid growth of the city as Indian technology and business outsourcing took off is reflected by the contrast between corporate towers and threadbare shanty towns that stand side-by-side. Outsourcing giant Satyam's School of Leadership provides...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing

[28 Apr 2008]

Outsourcing B2B Operations to a Managed Services Provider

whitepaper Companies seeking to drive growth and cut costs this year are increasingly adopting business-to-business (B2B) collaboration strategies. These strategies provide greater efficiency along with real-time visibility and control over the business...

Tags: back-office, managed, managed services, visibility

[28 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment This is the fastest growing driver of distributed working - outsourcing of tasks. Some of this is traditional outsourcing. Bob Tarzey discusses a tool that could help. Most networks deliver a range of services - voice, video and IM, for example...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News Change is stirring in the heart of rural India as computer-filled business process outsourcing (BPO) units spring up next to rough shacks, and village patients receive diagnoses from doctors hundreds of miles away via satellite link.

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Croydon Council has signed an extension to its IT outsourcing deal with Capgemini, worth an estimated £83m over five years. Click here for more on outsourcing… The new deal runs until 2013 and covers all the council's IT and telecoms infrastructure...

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover

News The Indian outsourcing giant aims to use technology to give football fans the ability to forensically examine every match. Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the...

Tags: outsourcing, fifa, satyam

[23 Apr 2008]

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