Outsourcing the outsourcing
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Why China's about to give India a run for its money.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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The Nielsen Company, a provider of consumer and media information services, is outsourcing a portion of its IT and business processes to Tata Consultancy Services&#160;(TCS), an Indian outsourcer based in Mumbai.Under a 10-year agreement valued at $1.2 billion, TCS will take responsibility for some of Nielsen&#8217;s IT and operational processes and help the customer integrate and centralize multiple systems, technologies, and processes on a global scale. TCS will also deliver certain finance and human resource business processes, the company said Thursday.On Monday, TCS reported growth of 45 percent in revenue and profit for the quarter ended Sept. 30, despite fears that the weakening dollar would erode margins for Indian outsourcers.
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There's a new calculation taking hold in corporate suites: Identify a company's core competencies. Outsource everything else.
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MANILA Â As India moves up-market in outsourcing, the Philippines is quickly gaining a share of the customer-service call center business. It may be a low-end, low-margin business, but for the Philippines it has been an employment boon.
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IBM said Wednesday that it has sewn up outsourcing deals with two Danish companies valued at more than $1 billion over 10 years, reinforcing its strength in Europe.ADVERTISEMENTWhite Paper: Converged Services Spell ReliefDiscover why technical decision makers are turning to IP telephony and VPNs to increase worker productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
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Call it Outsourcing 3.0. First came domestic vendors peddling technology services to companies in their local markets, a wave that gathered momentum in the 1970s and 1980s. Next came a generation of offshore outsourcers that helped clients boost profits and cope with the dreaded Y2K bug in the 1990s by shipping technology work to places like Bangalore.
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Europe has become the new hotspot for outsourcing contracts, exceeding the U.S. in terms of the value of major outsourcing deals awarded last year, global sourcing firm Technology Partners International Inc. (TPI) said Friday.
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Primavera Systems, a vendor of enterprise project management software, has outsourced product development using theÂ agile development processÂ to the Indian operation of product engineering outsourcer Symphony Services.
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OCTOBER 15, 2004  - In quarterly reports released this week, three big India-based offshore outsourcing companies detailed sharp increases in employee head count, clear evidence of growing demand for offshore services.
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As this practice increases globally, the number of countries involved grows, as does the list of products and services outsourced.
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By Rebecca Roussell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Feb. 16--Small businesses have long wrestled with doing payroll on their  own. Most avoid outsourcing the work to an outside company, fearing that the  cost will nip away at their profits.
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By PAUL RESTUCCIA  The media are filled with stories of jobs being shifted overseas - from software programmers to call-center representatives, from insurance claim adjusters to X-ray technologists.
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Sure, outsourcing lowers a firm's costs, but it also drives prices lower and stimulates job growth.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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New venture in India raises questions about the evolution of offshore outsourcing.
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THE SINGAPORE Government has decided to reverse the world-wide outsourcing trend and ship some work to HP. Singapore&#39;s ministry of manpower has transferred IT staff to Hewlett Packard under an outsourcing contract.