Archive for January, 2009

Infosys to Cut Bonuses, Compensation Packages

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal DATE: Jan 29th, 2009 ARTICLE DAVOS, Switzerland -- Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's second-biggest technology company by sales, warned Wednesday that it will cut employee bonuses and compensation packages in ... Read more..

Falling US wages make nearshore more attractive – EconomicTimes

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: Jan 20th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: Nearshoring is looking to be a more viable option. Maybe we should not even call it nearshoring, it is really 'Relocation' of jobs within the same ... Read more..

Top 10 Hidden Costs of Outsourcing – CIOInsight

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: CIOinsight DATE: January 9th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: This is a good article on hidden cost to be taken into account when building business cases for justifying offshoring and outsourcing. Besides the obvious ... Read more..

Some Silicon Valley companies having second thoughts on outsourcing

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: SiliconValley.com DATE: Jan 29th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: The current situation with Satyam is bound to benefit Multi National firms like IBM, Accenture which are considered more as local firms rather than Indian ... Read more..

WNS Announces Neeraj Bhargava to Transition From CEO to Strategic Advisor Role During Second Half of 2009

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: WNS Press Release DATE: Jan 27th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: A number of leadership roles in firms in India seem to be opening up with limited # of candidates available to take the ... Read more..

Microsoft and Infosys Technologies Create New Alliance Focusing on Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration for Manufacturers

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Press Release DATE: January 29th, 2009 Helping manufacturers manage their increasingly complex global supply chains, Microsoft Corp. and Infosys Technologies have forged a new go-to-market alliance around improving supply chain visibility and ... Read more..

‘BBB’ rating on TCS affirmed; Outlook revised to stable

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: S&P DATE: Jan 30th, 2009 Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today revised its rating outlook on India's Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) to stable from positive. At the same time, Standard ... Read more..

Nokia signs a 5 year end-to-end Global Helpdesk & Desktop management outsourcing agreement with HCL

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Press Release DATE: January 29th, 2009 HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), leading global IT services provider, has entered into a multi-year, multi-regional end-to-end global helpdesk and desktop management outsourcing services agreement with Nokia, ... Read more..

IBM to Manage Application Development and Maintenance of Sony Ericsson’s Global SAP Applications

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Press Release DATE: Jan 29th, 2009 IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the company has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Sony Ericsson regarding the management of Application Maintenance and Development of ... Read more..

TCS to provide managed services for 4U

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: DataMonitor DATE: Jan 30th, 2009 ARTICLE IT services vendor Tata Consultancy Services has won a $100m contract from UK-based telecoms company 4U Group to provide managed IT services. TCS said it will offer ... Read more..