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For the fourth year in a row, KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP®). KPMG continued its success in the shared services and outsourcing advisory (SSOA) space with this year’s #2 IAOP ranking. The [...]
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More than a third of senior IT professionals feel ‘locked in’ to outsourced supplier contracts, with most finding it difficult to renegotiate deals, according to research. Just under two thirds of respondents to a survey by independent sourcing adviser Alsbridge said they did not believe their IT outsourcing (ITO) suppliers would be approachable about renegotiating [...]
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Now when mobile has rooted deeply in our everyday life counting more than 1 billion smartphone users worldwide and has become a key to any business success, many of us want to use its magic to monetize our craziest app ideas. So, “how much does it cost to develop an app” is probably one of [...]
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A decline in reimbursements has a majority of physician practices preparing for a downward trend in profitability, according to research published by Power Your Practice. “The greatest challenges stem from the gap between changes underway at a systemic level and their real-world impact on the daily lives of physicians, staff and patients,” state the authors [...]
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IT outsourcing is now far more than just a trend or innovation. Each day more and more companies entrust their IT-related tasks to outsourcing partners benefiting in many ways. Eastern Europe is one of the most effective IT outsourcing destinations. In this article we will talk about peculiarities, principles and main facts of IT outsourcing [...]
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Private equity firms invested $8,853 million over 406 deals in 2012 compared to $10,378 million they spent across 483 deals during the previous year, a fall of 14.7%, according to analysis by a private equity research firm. The total investments by PE firms over the past five years in India now stands at about $41.4 [...]
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The Oracle Applications-related consulting and systems integration (C&SI) market is seeing strong growth as organizations in key markets like the US, UK, France and Germany invest in new generations of Oracle middleware and applications, and make moves into Cloud services. Public and private organizations are upgrading to Fusion middleware and are investing in social business, [...]
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At the end of last year, KPMG made a number of moves in the IT space, which I felt laid down a significant pointer in terms of the direction the firm was moving. One of these was the acquisition of IT advisory firm Xantus, who I’d spoken to in the past. I recently caught up [...]
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The worst is over, says India’s IT industry. Despite a persisting crisis in Europe and fears of a fresh round of recession in the US – two of its biggest markets – India’s information technology and IT-enabled service exports are expected to grow by at least 11% in the current fiscal year. The National Association [...]
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The issue of offshore outsourcing and its impact on American jobs has been front and center throughout the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. But as election day draws near, both President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are singing more or less the same tune on the subject-offshoring is bad; job creation is good. [...]
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