Archive for February, 2010
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Wipro winning large deals in Saudi Arabia
SOURCE: ArabNews DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 The total dollar amount of the deals seems fairly high and our assumption is that it is based on multi year deal contract values. Given that Wipro strength in Saudi Arabia is around 600 ( including 157 loca
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Copal Partners revenue $40 million in 2009
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: Feb 26th, 2010 According to the article (link below), Copal Partners, a specialized Knowledge Processing Offshoring firm in India has seen a growth of 40% in revenues from 2008-2009 and is around $40 million in reven
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IBM Australia to move roles to India and China ?
SOURCE: CRN Australia DATE: Feb 26th, 2010 IBM Australia is looking to reduce their staffing in Australia and deliver services to their clients in Australia using offshore resources in India and China. This for all clients except federal governme
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The $10 billion dollar Indian e-governance market ?
SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 LINK The Indian Government has committed about USD 10-billion to this program, of which composite of some investment is coming from private partners and also from the State Governments, Ministry of
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UK Treasury demands to cut £3.2bn annual tech spending – is offshoring the answer ?
SOURCE: Silicon.com DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 LINK Replacing public sector workers in the UK with cheaper labour overseas has until now proved too hot for any UK government to handle. As such, politicians have steered clear of publicly supportin
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Flattening World Helps Genpact
SOURCE: Investors DATE: Feb 22nd, 2010 Interview with the COO of Genpact and how BPO and ITO firms are positioning themselves to compete. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521855
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Can Small/Midsize BPO’s survive ?
SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 The article talks about how some of the small & Mid size BPO firms are figuring out ways to scale up or survive. This is an interesting point right now and the applicability of scalability applies not j
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Wipro wins Punjab and Sind Bank IT contract
SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: Feb 25th, 2010 Wipro, India’s third largest IT services firm, has bagged a 10-year contract with public sector lender Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) to enable it to centralise banking operations. Though the Bangalo
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Person responsible for Wipro $4 million fraud commits suicide
SOURCE: DNAIndia DATE: Feb 23, 2010 The person responsible for commiting a $ 4 million embezzlement as a Wipro controller, Anoop Agrawal commited suicide. The fraud was commited over a period of 2 years and though Wipro has strong cost controls
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The freelance outsourcing economy
DATE: Feb 22nd, 2010 The economy is gone solo & global and it is no where more evident than the freelance work which people perform all over the world sitting in their homes, coffee shops and even regular full time job locations! Working
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