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Whatever your business – hardware, clothing, marketing, services or even internet related – a large part of the efficient operation of your business depends on well run IT systems. Although it is good to have these systems in place and have them maintained by in-house “IT guys,” continuous technological advancements and subsequent changing customer expectations [...]
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The traditional request-for-proposal (RFP) process may be doing your IT outsourcing relationships a disservice. Enter request for solutions (or RFS), an open-ended, collaborative approach that’s better for IT environments. If you’re looking for transformation or innovation from an outsourcing engagement, you might want to ditch the traditional request-for-proposal (RFP) process. That’s right—that decades-old, time-tested process [...]
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By far the most common reason for hiring offshore service providers is to save money – often, a lot of money. Yet surprisingly often those big savings turn into nickels and dimes. “I don’t know what happened,” one outsourcing manager told M.M. Sathyanarayan, President, Global Development Consulting recently, “but we’ve gone at least 25% over [...]
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For a decade and more, India has reigned as the world’s outsourcing destination. Among its well-publicised advantages are a large pool of educated, English-speaking people, proactive government backing and robust infrastructure, telecommunications and technology. But with wage inflation and rising staff attrition eroding India’s cost-effectiveness, other nations hope to cut a bigger slice of the [...]
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FORS announced SmartSport — a specialized ready-to-market brand new solution for sports organizations based on Oracle technologies. This system could be used by any sport clubs, associations or other organizations regardless to the types of their sports activities, country or language. It could be easily customized up to the specific needs and deployed in the [...]
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June 16, 2012 No Comment
Major suppliers of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies including Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Entreprise, Eurotech, IBM, Intel, ParTec, STMicroelectronics and Xyratex in association with HPC research centres BSC, CEA, CINECA, Fraunhofer, Forschungszentrum Juelich and LRZ have created a European Technology Platform for HPC (ETP4HPC) and released the ETP’s Vision document to improve Europe’s position in [...]
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Ten years after its global launch, SAP is launching a new business in Russia and the CIS focused on the development of custom software for its platforms. In particular the company will be developing and expanding the functionality of implemented solutions, and providing technical support. The main objective of the new line is to help [...]
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Romania has been ranked in the top 10 emerging outsourcing destinations in the Outsourcing Business supplement distributed on June 11th by The Times in association with the National Outsourcing Association (NOA). The article mentions that wage inflation and rising staff attrition is reducing India’s cost effectiveness and allowing other locations to take a bigger slice [...]
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On 10 June, the best Macedonian programmers dug into the keys at the championship round of the CodeFu Coding Competition, initiated by Netcetera in Skopje. At the gaming club Enternet 32 coders with the highest results from the two previous online qualifying rounds competed on-site to earn their bragging rights. Netcetera congratulates this year’s winners [...]
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BIT Contest, the largest tech contest in Russia and neighboring countries, will hold its finale on June 28 at Digital October, Moscow’s leading tech event organizer and venue. This year, more than 1,000 applications were received from all Russian regions as well as from neighboring Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Inspired by the MIT $100K competition, [...]
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