Archive for July, 2008
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Arnaud Ruffat Appointed to Head Atos Origin in France
SOURCE: PressRelease DATE: July 31st, 2008 Arnaud Ruffat has been appointed CEO of Atos Origin in France. He replaces Didier Zeitoun, who has decided to pursue other career opportunities. Arnaud Ruffat becomes member of the Executive Committee. “
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Genpact to provide F&A services to Hyatt
SOURCE: CIOL.COM DATE: July 30th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Genpact seems to continue on it's model of going with anchored clients in certain verticals. The interesting thing is that the wins by Genpact continue to be in their core offerings of F&am
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Patni sets up green BPO center
SOURCE: CBROnline DATE: July 30th, 2008 ARTICLE The center, which is spread over five acres, has a seating capacity of over 3,500. It was built using guidelines from India's Green Building Rating System for New Construction and is currently under
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Innodata Isogen Selected to Convert Johns Hopkins University Press and Project MUSE Journal Titles into XML Repository
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: July 29th, 2008 Innodata Isogen , a leading provider of knowledge process outsourcing as well as publishing and related information technology services, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Project MUS
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India’s Swelling Deficit Has Potential to Set Off Cascading Economic Troubles
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal DATE: July 28th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Having just made a seven day visit to multiple locations in India and China with a client of ours the infrastructure issue in India will have much to do with decision by customers
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Private Equity leveraging India Offshoring capabilities
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: July 29th, 2008 ARTICLE List of some recent transactions where PE firms are leveraging offshoring to rationalize their portfolio companies. Given that the market exit strategies are getting fewer and delayed the PE firms a
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PE-controlled firms beginning to look at India
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: July 29th, 2008 ARTICLE Indian outsourcing firms are winning deals from overseas entities controlled by private equity (PE) firms that are growing more comfortable with farming out work both as a way to reduce costs and leve
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Barclays and HBOS slash contractor rates
SOURCE: The Register.UK DATE: July 29th, 2008 ARTICLE Barclays is cutting IT contractor rates by ten per cent across the group, less than a month after cutting 1,800 IT jobs.Back in May Barclays Capital forced contractors to take a ten per cent pa
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Profit-focused Infosys now looks to growth
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: July 29th, 2008 ARTICLE In a significant change of strategy, India’s second largest software services firm Infosys Technologies Ltd has said it will focus on growth, even if this means lower profitability — a reflection
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MNCs new kings of outsourcing
SOURCE: Indiatimes DATE: July 27th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: This debate continues and the reality is that the India based vendors are struggling hard to shed their image of low cost providers and move up to the C Suite. Some have gone the consulting
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