Archive for April, 2009

Infosys client survey and offshoring market trends

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Featured, Opinions | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Microsoft ties up with HCL to outsource jobs to India -LiveMint

Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Champions of the XML Workflow: Content Services in India

Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

IBM Targets India to Beat Rivals at Their Own Game – Bloomberg

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

TCS bags $80 mn contract from UK’s CMEC

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in DEALS | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Companies overestimate offshoring savings -Computer World

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Legacy ERP Canned At Carlsberg: Beer-Maker Signs Big Accenture Deal for SAP ERP

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Pramod Bhasin interview – with NDTV – offshore to grow 13-15%

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

TCS pulling back UK staff

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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, ... Read more..

Wipro order book down 40% from Sep – LiveMint

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..