Budget negotiators in Olympia are debating whether to privatize a host of little-seen government functions that collect state agencies’ mail, pay their rent, print their documents and maintain their cars. The Senate budget calls for contracting out more back-office work, a small piece of the savings proposed by the plan but another sign of this [...]
Fri, May 13 2011 » Employment Trends, Management Trends, Uncategorized » No Comments
More large companies are turning to collocation providers to relieve capacity constraints in their data centers, as a way to avoid the high cost of building their own new brick-and-mortar facilities, two studies suggest. The Uptime Institute, in its first annual data center survey, reported Tuesday that more than a third of the large companies [...]
Thu, May 12 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
IT outsourcing makes up the largest part of the UK’s outsourcing industry, according to a new report. The Oxford Economics research, commissioned by the Business Services Association, found that based on 2009 data, IT and data-related outsourcing has an annual turnover of £41.7 billion, or 20 percent of the industry’s £207 billion total turnover. The [...]
Wed, May 11 2011 » Industry Leader Profiles, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
NEW DELHI — Business-process outsourcing is getting redefined and will expand rapidly over the next five to seven years outpacing growth in technology services, says Deepak Patel, chief executive of Aditya Birla Minacs, a business solutions company under the Aditya Birla Group. Companies, these days, are looking to outsource a wide range of services including [...]
Tue, May 10 2011 » Business Services, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
China’s data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world’s weakest. But the government’s proposed data security guidelines may go too far in the opposite direction. The People’s Republic of China took a step toward addressing its lack of comprehensive data privacy laws earlier this year: It issued a series of proposed data [...]
Mon, May 9 2011 » Business Transformation Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
Providers of colocation services and wholesale data center space compete hard for customers. But data center executives say the biggest growth opportunity is not winning a few more deals away from rivals, but tapping the huge market of companies who operate their own data center space. New data from one of the industry’s leading players, [...]
Fri, May 6 2011 » Employment Trends, Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments
At eight per cent of overall GDP, the outsourcing sector brings in as much for the UK economy as the financial sector, according to a report released today by Oxford Economics Research. IT- and data-related services account for €41bn (£36bn) of a total turnover of €207bn for this sector, according to the report.
Thu, May 5 2011 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s target of US$ 1 billion for Sri Lanka’s Business Process Outsourcing by 2015 was realistic, India’s largest listed BPO company – Firstsource CEO Mathew Vallance said yesterday. President Rajapaksa’s target is realistic in the light of the Sri Lankan economy growing. The consumer industry, the banking and telecommunications industries are also growing.
Wed, May 4 2011 » Employment Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
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