Archive for July, 2009
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Genpact appoints Harpreet Duggal as domestic business head
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: July 27th, 2009 Genpact (NYSE: G), a leader in the globalization of services and technology and a pioneer in managing business processes for companies around the world, today announced that it is intensifying its focus
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Wipro Enters into a Strategic Partnership with BJ’s Wholesale Club
SOURCE: July 27th, 2009 Press Release Interesting with the deal is that Wipro is leveraging their locations in the US to provide solutions to BJs. Wipro had acquired Infocrossing, a local infrastructure firm in the US which they seem to be levera
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Infosys opens BPO center in Philippines for Cisco
DATE: July 22nd, 2009 SOURCE: TMCnet Infosys opened a BPO center in Philippines for Cisco. It is interesting to see that any development centers being opened outside of India by Indian vendors are for specific client needs. Infosys has a center i
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Accenture hiring in India falls short of projections
Date: July 24th, 2009 SOURCE: DNA Accenture seems to have hired 3000 people in India, compared to their target of hiring 10,000 people last fall. This is not surprising, given that overall Accenture has seen a shortfall of it's consulting revenue
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Indian Railways award ICMS project to Infosys
SOURCE: Time of India Date: July 27th, 2009 The railways have awarded a pilot project for an integrated coach management system (ICMS) to Infosys Technologies. The project is likely to cost about Rs 210 crore. According to a Railway Board offi
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Capgemini and IBX join forces on procurement
DATE: July 27th, 2009 SOURCE: Supply Chain Standard A # of firms in the recent months have announced foreay in procurement outsourcing. Although not a huge opportunity, it does provide quick hit and a foot in the door for a number of larger f
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IBM looking for smaller quick hit opportunities in procurement outsourcing
DATE: July 23rd, 2009 [caption id="attachment_1376" align="alignleft" width="254" caption="Corrystone Global Partners"][/caption] A recent article (LINK) in Supply Demand Chain , talks about how IBM is planning to offer quick hit services to t
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TCS wins followup deal with Volkswagen
DATE: July 20th, 2009 SOURCE: SIFY.COM Tata Consultancy Services has bagged an IT outsourcing contract to service automaker Volkswagen in Germany, according to a top company official. According to the contract, TCS is to develop new appl
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Can the Indian outsourcing firms be ever global ?
DATE: July 21st, 2009 I came across an interesting article by KPMG on how the Indian firms have been slow in their penetration of the Chinese markets (LINK) . Granted that the markets in China are some of the toughest markets for anyone
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Mindtree Q1 net up, cuts FY10 outlook
DATE: July 20th, 2009 IT firm MindTree Ltd on Monday said net profit saw a rose sharply in the first quarter helped by market-to-market gains, but cut its FY10 outlook on "highly uncertain" market environment. The Bangalore-based firm expects t
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