Archive for July, 2008

Advanta looks to Genpact to help reduce cost

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: BizJournals Philadelphia DATE: July 25th, 2008 ARTICLE Small business credit-card issuer Advanta Corp. said late Friday afternoon that it expects to incur expenses of about $6 million to $6.5 million for severance ... Read more..

Capgemini To Buy KPN IT Services Unit For EUR255 Million

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EasyBourse.com DATE: July 25th, 2008 ARTICLE French information-technology services company Capgemini (CAP.FR) Friday said it will pay EUR255 million for a unit of Royal KPN NV's (KKPNY) Getronics subsidiary, bolstering its position ... Read more..

Polaris sets up Algorithmics CoE

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: CIOL DATE: July 22nd, 2008 ARTICLE Polaris Software Lab Limited will set up a dedicated Center of Excellence (COE) for Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions. Polaris will set-up its Algorithmics' ... Read more..

Shifting Patterns in BPO pricing – Accenture

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: MoneyControl DATE: July 20th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Accenture has continued to leverage their global footprint, consulting expertise to continue to grow during a time when the pure Indian vendors are facing an ... Read more..

Our MTM provision is not a loss`- interview with Wipro joint CEOs

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: JUly 19th, 2008 ARTICLE Mohit Soapbox: I wonder if Indian firms can actually manage decentralized centers and provide control, authority to decentralized locations to grow. A common theme I hear ... Read more..

Outsourcing the Offshore Operations

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Week DATE: July 15th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Interesting article. The debate on to go captive or go third party continues. The market today is not going to support a sale of captive given ... Read more..

TCS net profit rises 7 percent in FY09 Q1, warns of “difficult” times ahead

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: IBTIMES.COM DATE: JULY 16th, 2008 ARTICLE India's top software services and consulting firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a 7 percent rise in net profit for the fiscal quarter ended June ... Read more..

24/7 Customer to relocate 450 employees

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: SIFY DATE: July 16th, 2008 ARTICLE 24/7 Customer, the Los Gatos, California-based call centre operator, has terminated the services of 450 employees in Gurgaon centre due to a European client ending its ... Read more..

HCL buys Liberata unit

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: DNA DATE: July 16th, 2008 ARTICLE HCL Technologies appears to have struck gold with a deal to buy the financial services division of UK-based BPO major Liberata (LFS) for $2 million.LFS has ... Read more..

`Tear` II cities: No frills, no thrills, moan BPO staff

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: July 14th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: lack of  physical infrastructure, social infrastructure and globalization infrastructures are critical aspects of why the Tier II and Tier III cities in India will ... Read more..