spending outsourcing deals
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? TPI says this year is on track to realise the highest total contract... [18 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? The world's fifth largest insurance group, owner of Norwich Union... [11 Jul 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment Gone are the megalithic outsourcing deals where organisations used one supplier for the whole range of IT and business services. The contract is a roadmap and following it will help outsourcing deals be more successful. [10 Apr 2008]
Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals
News Taxpayers' money is being squandered on public sector outsourcing deals where costs are ballooning up to 75 per cent more than the going market rate. Lacklustre controls on spending over the full lifetime of government outsourcing contracts are... [04 Apr 2008]
Outsourcing growth expected in 2008
News More companies are favouring smaller deals and splitting services between several providers and countries, the Gartner report found. This shift away from large high-value deals is partly responsible for the fact that publicly reported BPO and ITO... [10 Jan 2008]
Bank IT spend to rise despite credit crunch crisis
News Most of that investment will go into outsourcing deals, especially business process outsourcing (BPO). As the UK banking sector steadies itself in response to the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, IT suppliers will be pleased to learn tech spending in... [11 Dec 2007]
Unilever adds extra £270m to BT outsourcing deal
News The original contract, announced in November 2002 and worth £670m, is one of BT's largest deals. Pot Noodle-to-Persil consumer packaged goods giant Unilever has extended its telecoms outsourcing contract with BT for another three years, spending an... [16 May 2006]
Leader: Should government be allowed to offshore?
Leader Most private sector outsourcing deals will assume some level of offshore development now in order to keep costs down. On a purely political level it is pretty much impossible to justify deals that involve cutting jobs in the UK and moving them abroad. [23 Jan 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT
News And just a month later one of the biggest outsourcing deals in government got signed off, with EDS and friends winning the 10-year £4bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract. [19 Dec 2005]
Council banks on IT savings to boost services
News In a similar but unrelated move, Winchester City Council has also revealed it is spending £2.5m over the next five years on an outsourcing deal with Digica. North Lanarkshire Council is spending £5m over four years on an IT services deal which is... [01 Dec 2005]
Outsourcing - more, smaller deals being made
News At the same time, the number of contracts has increased by 11 per cent, which shows there have been a larger number of smaller deals. More than two-thirds of the larger contracts signed this year have been enterprise restructuring deals, due to... [18 Oct 2005]
India still first choice for offshore outsourcing
News Forrester's figures also showed a decline in the level of infrastructure outsourcing, while telecoms and network outsourcing grew 18 per cent on last year and accounted for almost a third of all the deals. [21 Sep 2005]
CIOs need 'marriage counselling' for outsourcing
News Despite the relationship headaches, the survey found that in the next two years, nine out of 10 CIOs plan to maintain or increase spending on outsourcing, with their reasons for choosing outsourcing including a desire to reduce operational costs... [12 Jul 2005]
Offshoring failures blamed on hidden costs and bad comms
News The analyst report predicts global spending on offshore outsourcing services will top $50bn by 2007 but it warns too many companies are rushing into deals on the promise of unrealistic cost savings. As a result, long-term offshore deals do not... [22 Jun 2005]
Cash flows back into IT consulting
News The report also found that risk/reward deals - where some of the consultant's fee is dependent on the success of the project - are increasing. But she added: "It may also be a sign that clients are choosing to do more IT work in-house with the help... [03 May 2005]
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