One App Fits All
John Harney, Business Writer
This SMB manufacturer replaced its legacy applications with one hosted ERP suite for dramatic cost savings and vastly improved operational efficiencies.
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Business Challenge
Cost Reduction & Avoidance
Outsourcing’s Impact on Corporate Archiving and Library Functions
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Most corporate, law firms, and hospital libraries are cost centers and must justify their existence and continually reduce or contain costs. Many libaries are nearly dead or need to transform to digital assets. And more companies–like Toyota Motor Sales USA–find they need to create an information archive. Read this story to learn what outsourcing can achieve.
Infocrossing Introduces Managed Application Services, Providing Four Key Business Benefits to Buyers
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
After repeated requests from its clients, Infocrossing expanded its Enterprise Application Services to include Managed Application Services (MAS), a cross-platform suite that includes all aspects of ERP application outsourcing. We married best practices around infrastructure capabilities with our PeopleSoft and JD Edwards ERP expertise, explains Jim Turner, Director of Managed Application Services.
Outsourcing Helps Legacy Air Carriers Fly Back to Profitability
Jerry Bowles, Business Writer
Outsourcing has been one of the most important factors in the industry turnaround, providing an opportunity to remove large amounts of fixed cost while drawing on the expertise of the outsourcer to update the airline’s technology base. Read why airlines are outsourcing important business processes.
The Top Outsourcing Events of 2006 and What They Mean for 2007
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The GM outsourcing deal. Hewitt’s third-quarter earnings call. Leadership musical chairs. Here are 12 events that rocked the outsourcing world this year.
2007 HRO Predictions: The Good, the Bad, and the Upbeat
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
2007 should be a very, very good year for HRO even though the drags on globalization remain, suppliers’ profits will still be a challenge, and the talent shortage will continue.
Trends Highlight Changes in the Way Companies Will Do IT Outsourcing
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
IT outsourcing is no longer a commodity. Here’s a run-down of recent trends demonstrating IT outsourcing is becoming integral to top-line growth. Read about new business models, new functions being outsourced, and other changes that will impact ITO deals next year.
GE Looks To Recruitment Process Outsourcer To Find ‘Meat And Potatoes’ Candidates As Well As ‘The Purple Squirrel’
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing the routine details of recruiting allows GE’s HR department to stay strategic. Yoh HR Solutions also takes care of GE’s federal compliance folder, a task that can have major repercussions for employers if done improperly.
How Outsourcing IT Helped a Swedish Airline Concentrate on Its Customer Service
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Malmö Aviation, the second largest airline in Sweden, has a laser focus on customer service, which is run by its IT infrastructure. Outsourcing IT to Unisys allows the airline to serve its travelers instead of worrying about its servers. Now its growth pattern looks like a plane taking off.
Aberdeen Group Study: Procurement Outsourcing Becomes More Strategic
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Every two years Aberdeen Group studies corporate plans for procurement outsourcing for the next two years. This year cost still remained the No. 1 reason to outsource. But reason No. 2 changed: today companies want their personnel to focus on more strategic activities.