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IAOP Releases The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 and World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors
February 21, 2012 No Comment
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®) today announced its annual Global Outsourcing 100® and World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors lists. The unranked lists were released at the opening day of IAOP’s 2012 Outsourcing World Summit, at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The outsourcing service providers named to the seventh annual listing of [...]
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Global Increase in Outsourcing Forces Organizations to Improve their Information Security Posture to Prevent Devastating Breaches
February 15, 2012 No Comment
Global economic troubles have motivated many companies to seek alternative means of conducting business that will cut costs and maximize profits. One of the most popular and effective methods is outsourcing of the Information Security (IS) infrastructure. According to a recent study commissioned by Savvis, Inc., this number is predicted to increase by almost 67% [...]
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Outsourcing continues to change in response to market changes, and a still uncertain economy. I expect the following trends to be apparent in outsourcing as we go through the year: • Cloud concerns will increase – although I expect more companies to start implementing cloud-based solutions into their IT infrastructure, the struggle of complying with [...]
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Datacentres have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy. Without datacentres, the emerging Cloud opportunities for agility and IT efficiency and increased competitiveness would not be possible to realise. Datacentres involves the end users, operators and service providers, telcos and companies providing [...]
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The year 2011 saw a record global information technology outsourcing contracts. A total of 870 deals, above the average of the five prior years of 690, were awarded to global companies, including Indian services providers such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies. The increase was mainly due to tripling in number of [...]
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The fate of over a billion dollars worth of information technology (IT) outsourcing contracts is in a limbo after on Thursday’s Supreme Court verdict cancelling 122 licences of telecom firms. For, the order comes at a time when both Indian and multi-national IT firms like Wipro, Tech Mahindra and IBM, besides business process firms such [...]
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The European Commission is to establish the European Cloud Partnership, which aims to bring together public sector organisations and the IT industry to work on commons requirements for cloud procurement, said Neelie Kroes, the vice-president of the EC with responsibility for Europe’s digital agenda. Speaking at the European Cloud Partnership World Economic Forum in Davos, [...]
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An analysis of last year’s outsourcing activity reveals the continuation of a decade-long decline in deal size. While the numbers of mega-deals and mid-range contracts awarded each year has remained relatively stable since 2002, those valued at $100 million or less have more than tripled, according quarterly data from outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group (formerly [...]
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Information Services Group (ISG) (NASDAQ: III), a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, today released TPI Index data showing healthy growth in the global outsourcing market during the fourth quarter amid record contracting activity for the full year. The 4Q11 Global TPI Index, which covers commercial outsourcing contracts valued at $25 million [...]
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Another great year for Outsourcing has passed and another year is beginning. A number of organizations and experts have already predicted the Outsourcing trends for 2012. Based on those predictions there are a few countries that shaping up to be the forerunners. Some of them are present last year and some of them are just [...]
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