Archive for April, 2010

Numb3rs: Higher percentage of revenues for US firms coming from non-US geographies

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 Posted in Fact Sheet | No Comments »

SOURCE: New York Times DATE: April 20th, 2010 LINK   % NON-US Revenues   Year 1999 2009 Intel 57% 82% IBM 57% 64% HP 55% 64% Oracle 49% 56% Apple 46% 51% Cisco 39% 50% Microsoft 30% 43% Accenture   64%   Now compare this with US based revenues of Indian Offshore firms   US Revenues Infosys   66.10% TCS   54% Wipro   57.10% What does it  mean ? Indian based firms still heavily dependent on ... Read more..

Aditi Technologies to acquire Infospace development center in India

Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in MandA | No Comments »

Aditi Technologies , an offshore firm specializing around microsoft technologies will buy infospace captive in India. The deal is a captive acquisition deal, where Aditi will acquire the captive at ... Read more..

TCS Q4-2010 – earnings, metrics and learnings

Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in Earnings | No Comments »

DATE: APRIL 19th, 2010 FACTS 39 new clients Signed a deal work more than 500 million dollars (TCS wins the UK Government 10 year, £600 million deal), a number of 100+ million dollars. ... Read more..

In India, historically, they overpromise and underdeliver

Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Opinions | No Comments »

"In India, historically, they overpromise and underdeliver," says Maggie Lee, the lead manager for Invesco Asian infrastructure fund. SOURCE: whatisdelicious blogDATE: April 12th, 2010 This was in the Wall Street Journal April 12th ... Read more..

Weekend Video – Indian outsourcing industry helping standup comedians

Sunday, April 18th, 2010 Posted in Just for Fun | No Comments »

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Scope preparation for outcome based pricing – Phaneesh Murthy

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in CXO Speak | No Comments »

SOURCE: iGate Blog DATE: April 16th, 2010 Good article by  Phaneesh Murthy, CEO iGate on outcome based pricing, criticality of defining the scope for such deals, building vendor competency in pricing such ... Read more..

Netsuite AND Genpact partner – Taking outsourcing to the cloud

Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Market Data, Opinions | No Comments »

DATE: April 15th, 2010 Genpact announced a partnership with NetSuite to offer ERP, e-commerce and CRM business process management services around the Netsuite solutions in the cloud. Genpact will bring their ... Read more..

IP transfer -WiproNewLogic Layoffs to Jobs with Accent

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in MandA, Market Data | No Comments »

DATE: April 15th, 2010 Accent which makes customized chips for OEM applications has opened a Wireless IP development center in France and transferred Wipro Newlogic RF engineering team  to it's organization ... Read more..

Airbus selects CSC as a prime contractor

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in DEALS | No Comments »

SOURCE: Press Release DATE: April 15th, 2010 CSC today announced that the company has been selected by Airbus as the Prime contractor for further development and support of Airbus' award-winning Value Chain ... Read more..

iGate Q1 2010 (March 2010) earnings – Facts,Metrics & Learnings

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in Earnings | No Comments »

FACTS 7 new clients. Number of new key hires David Kruzner to lead Consulting and Solutions Development.  Patrick Burke to lead strategic account pursuits.    Ari Aaltonen to head Europe Sales.  Elizabeth Koshy to lead new account ... Read more..