Archive for April, 2009
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Infosys client survey and offshoring market trends
In their earning release Infosys shared results of a survey they did with their top clients. In a number of ways it reflects the overall state of IT budgets and offshoring decision making in the marketplace today. As per Infosys a survey with t
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Microsoft ties up with HCL to outsource jobs to India -LiveMint
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: April 10th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: Microsoft has a large captive presence in India and has continued to build relationship with a few chosen third party vendors as part of their globalization strategy. ARTICLE Compute
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Champions of the XML Workflow: Content Services in India
SOURCE: Publisher Weekly DATE: April 9th, 2009 A robust and efficient single-source multichannel publishing system? That's the promise of the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) workflow. Now the question of XML adoption is no longer when or wh
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IBM Targets India to Beat Rivals at Their Own Game – Bloomberg
SOURCE: Bloomberg DATE: April 9th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: IBM has continued to grow their Indian market share as well as leveraging India as one of their global delivery centers. The brand name combined with a large domestic presence has helped IBM
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TCS bags $80 mn contract from UK’s CMEC
SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: April 8th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: This is TCS initial foray into public sector projects for UK. The earlier deal CMEC had was with EDS which did not pan out as hoped. I wonder how many of the multi hundred million doll
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Companies overestimate offshoring savings -Computer World
SOURCE: ComputerWorld UK DATE: April 9th, 2009 Mohit Soapbox: Do companies overestimate offshoring saving - off course they do. It is no different than expectations around an operational efficiency projects where at the start if the expectations
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Legacy ERP Canned At Carlsberg: Beer-Maker Signs Big Accenture Deal for SAP ERP
SOURCE: CIO UK DATE: April 9th, 2009 ARTICLE Beer brewer Carlsberg has signed a three year IT and consultancy services deal with Accenture. The Danish company will use management consultancy from Accenture, as well as system integration, ap
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Pramod Bhasin interview – with NDTV – offshore to grow 13-15%
SOURCE: MoneyControl DATE: April 9th, 2009 ARTICLE Pramod Bhasin, Chairman, Nasscom, and President and CEO of Genpact, said the growth rate for IT industry would be about 16% for 2008-09. "For the next two years, it might be around 13-15%. We
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TCS pulling back UK staff
SOURCE: ZDNet Asia DATE: April 8th, 2009 ARTICLE Indian outsourcer TCS has cut its U.K. headcount by around 10 percent to control costs in a stagnant market. U.K. and Europe head at the outsourcer, AS Lakshmi, told ZDNet Asia's sister site Si
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Wipro order book down 40% from Sep – LiveMint
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: April 9th, 2009 ARTICLE Tough market conditions and the inability to win new deals have seen Wipro Ltd’s order book nosedive from at least $1 billion in September to nearly $600 million now, an equity research firm has
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