

Despite the global economic uncertainty, Gartner analysts anticipate that the worldwide enterprise IT spending will experience a 3.9% increase next year reaching the total of $2.7 trillion. Enterprises will continue to invest heavily in their IT infrastructure seeing it as the major drive of business growth. Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner and Global [...]
Continue readingIt is not our business policy to speak about potential contracts before signing them. However, these 3 particular business deals have a highly significant meaning. Their respective volume, in countries which are very far from each other, prove to what extent our nearshore service brand has henceforth become well-known. In Romania, Pentalog brand stands out [...]
Continue readingOutsourcing is one of the fiercely debated topics towards the end of 2011. A lot has been said about it as Presidential Elections in the US are also due in the 2012. So it would be very interesting to know that what BPO outsourcing companies expect from 2012. What will be the trends? Will the [...]
Continue readingDespite the last year’s predictions that the European Union is likely to catch up with the United States by the total IT outsourcing (ITO) contracts value in 2011, the factual state of affairs demonstrates a substantial decline in the European outsourcing transaction volumes (both in ITO and business process outsourcing (BPO)). The last Global Services [...]
Continue readingTPI, an Information Services Group company and the leading independent sourcing data and advisory firm in the world, today announced the European launch of its managed service for outsourcing governance, TPI Governance Services™. TPI research has found companies lose up to 30 percent of the expected value of their outsourcing transactions through poor governance. TPI [...]
Continue readingThe National Outsourcing Association Awards (NOAAs) took place last night (10th November), at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London. Now in its 8th year, the NOAAs celebrate best practice in outsourcing projects, and reward end-users, suppliers, advisors and destinations. The awards were presented by comedian, Imran Yusuf. After the presentations and speeches, there was [...]
Continue readingEurope 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 [...]
Continue readingThe omens all pointed upward at this year’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011: Attendance was up by about 1,000, the vendor headcount increased by almost 100, and everywhere solution providers and consulting firms and vendors espoused the opportunities new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing were transforming into signed contracts. In fact, 85 percent of [...]
Continue readingThe International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®) announces the launch of its newest virtual chapter, IT Infrastructure. The inaugural meeting will take place October 26, 2011 beginning at 11:00 a.m. EDT, and feature the presentation “Mobility Management – How Companies Are Rethinking Expenses Management, Data Privacy Compliance and Revenue Enablement,” by Mike Beals, the COO [...]
Continue readingThe Pentalog Group, European leader in nearshore IT services, shows an impressive organic increase of 17% in the third quarter. The growth mainly comes from existing account extensions. First of all, two existing French clients have extended their contracts: a web leader has just doubled the covering of his contract, comparing to the previous quarter, [...]
Continue reading