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The IT outsourcing market saw its first substantial decline in twelve months during the third quarter of this year. Transaction volumes fell for both the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) markets, by seven percent and 12 percent respectively, according to the outsourcing consultancy Everest Group’s quarterly report on the global services industry. The average [...]
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Europe certainly can’t compete with offshore destinations like India and Philippines on the cost front, but when it comes to innovation and high-end technology solutions, it is very often seen as the best bet. Major Strengths That Define Europe Talent Pool Europe has a vast talent pool, engineering expertise, and high standard of education. Dmitry [...]
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The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON) is the largest and most established community of shared services and outsourcing professionals. We provide the roof under which key industry experts and organizations share their experience, knowledge and tools, and your practitioner peers connect with other all over the world, face to face and online. SSON focuses [...]
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SaM Solutions is glad to announce its participation in the Discover IT Belarus event that will take place on November 24, 2011 (9:00 am – 7:00 pm) at Maritim Hotel, Munich (Germany). The company will take part in the event in tight cooperation with BICC, the Bavarian Cluster of Information and Communication Technology, and Belarusian [...]
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More businesses are turning to outsourcing and shared services in order to improve their service delivery performance, according a survey of business leaders and IT providers by KPMG. Some 71 per cent of people polled in KPMG’s Q3 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey said the most common approach buyers took to enhance their service capabilities was [...]
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When large companies looking for solutions to get the most from their outsourcing suppliers, many of them in order to improve their IT efficiency towards running frameworkům such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). Although ITIL is generally accepted as the standard for best practice IT service management, its current version does to achieve the [...]
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On the 15th of October NETwork conference gathered more than 400 Ukrainian experts in Microsoft technologies and is recognized by many attendees as one of the largest and informative educational and networking events in Ukraine within the Microsoft IT Community. Co-organized by Sigma Ukraine and Akvelon Ukraine, NETwork is a platform for experience & knowledge [...]
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While the 2008 crash saw us all face a major economic and fiscal reality-check, 2012′s landscape will see us move beyond bailouts and credit downgrades to a world where governments and business leaders need to deal with the societal impact of growing unemployment, worker insecurity and an alarmingly widening gap between the wealthy establishment and [...]
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Recently, outsourcing by companies especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), has started taking shape, which if nurtured and adopted widely, can greatly improve productivity of SMEs in India. In India a few emerging outsourcing opportunities include: 1. Technology Outsourcing IT outsourcing helps in reducing the initial capital requirements of the SMEs, and more importantly, helps [...]
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It is important for any business to understand outsourcing pros and cons before committing to this arrangement. Outsourcing is a basic term used when one company hires a third-party company to do a portion of their work for them. Typically, the work that is outsourced is tasks at which the first company does not have [...]
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