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Author Archive for Jeffery D. Zbar, Business Writer

Outsourcing Picks Up Speed in the Consumer Package Industry | Article

Outsourcing Picks Up Speed in the Consumer Package Industry | Article

Knowing who your customers are and what they want is crucial in today’s competitive packaged goods industry. Outsourcing their IT to companies that can mine this data gives them an edge. Read why.

How Gain Sharing Is Ringing Up Incentives for AT&T and Accenture | Article

How Gain Sharing Is Ringing Up Incentives for AT&T and Accenture | Article

You almost need a spreadsheet to select the most appropriate telephone calling plan. AT&T worked with Accenture to develop a program to match customers to the right plan, ringing up profits both parties will share.

Why Outsourcing Your EDI Initiative is an Effective Strategy | Article

Why Outsourcing Your EDI Initiative is an Effective Strategy | Article

Are you considering how to revamp your supply chain to EDI? Outsourcing this function brings some surprising benefits — value far beyond the IT infrastructure.

ASPs Face a Changing Market | Article

ASPs Face a Changing Market | Article

A young industry — long accustomed to evolving — will continue to experience Darwinism. One new wrinkle: buyers are now asking their software vendors to host their own products.

European Cosmetics Maker Turns to Outsourcing to Enter U.S. Market | Article

European Cosmetics Maker Turns to Outsourcing to Enter U.S. Market | Article

A European cosmetics company outsourced its U.S. distribution when it entered the American market. But it took a couple of makeovers to get it right.

Outsourcing Makes Virtual Management Real | Article

Outsourcing Makes Virtual Management Real | Article

In 2001, a year that many dotcoms and other technology-related companies suffered hard times, Portera enjoyed 125 percent revenue growth with 121 new deals. Read how this ASP, which provides professional services automation, is not only surviving, but thriving.

Bringing More to the Buyer’s Table With Broad Offerings | Article

Bringing More to the Buyer’s Table With Broad Offerings | Article

Total Support grew from a back-office supplier to an outsourced Kinko’s by offering almost every major BPO process.

Back-office Outsourcing Makes Rapid Growth Possible | Article

Back-office Outsourcing Makes Rapid Growth Possible | Article

Sunrise Assisted Living planned to open 200 new facilities a year. Outsourcing was the only way to handle its back-office activities with such rapid growth.

CRM Providers Bullish On 2002 | Article

CRM Providers Bullish On 2002 | Article

2001 was the year buyers saw the light and realized they need powerful customer tracking tools.That’s good news for CRM suppliers.

ASP Helps Hanover Direct Track Traffic | Article

ASP Helps Hanover Direct Track Traffic | Article

Consumers abandon their online shopping carts with maddening frequency. Coremetrics can tell you why.

BPO Cuts Moving Costs, Cures Headache for Dry Cleaner | Article

BPO Cuts Moving Costs, Cures Headache for Dry Cleaner | Article

National Dry Cleaning acquired 13 companies using 12 accounting systems. Outsourcing the back-office reduced that number to one.

Apparel Company Seamlessly Outsources Its Back Office | Article

Apparel Company Seamlessly Outsources Its Back Office | Article

When downsizing earlier this year closed The In7 Company’s back office — including the termination of six staffers who handled the books, company executives at the apparel importer feared its finances would fall into disarray.