By now you’ve probably read at least one of the 1,300 plus articles penned about the recent Amazon Web Services service interruption (including mine). Treff LaPlante, CEO, WorkXpress, sees a silver lining in the thunderstorms surrounding this event. “Even though none of us wanted to see this happen, it has become a beneficial educational experience [...]
A recent CIO Roundtable sponsored by Alsbridge, Inc. resulted in several breakthroughs on adopting and implementing cloud computing. Every IT executive in the room had two things in common: (1) a driving need to explore and leverage cloud solutions and (2) lack of a clear way to validate the cloud offerings in the market and [...]
Ben Trowbridge responds Technology is great when it works. What does a buyer of cloud services do when something goes wrong, creating a service disruption? That question became a reality for users of Amazon Web Services on April 20. Its Northern Virginia data center suffered a service outage for its hosting service at 10:41 p.m. [...]
There’s no shortage of methodologies and advisories on best practices and risk mitigation strategies for the transition phase of outsourcing relationships. Even so, many buyers encounter situations they didn’t foresee when structuring their arrangement, which cause costs to rise and delay time to value. Outsourcing Center studied these types of situations by surveying companies nominated [...]
Belatrix Software Factory is a software product development outsourcing vendor originally from Argentina and with delivery centers in Argentina, Peru, and China. Belatrix specializes in providing nearshore and blended-shore outsourcing services for complex and demanding software development and software quality assurance engagements. By leveraging its nearshore location and full overlap with US-EST time zone, Belatrix [...]
Have a PeopleSoft Upgrade in your Pipeline? If you’re considering upgrading your Oracle application, then this is a session not to be missed. Join Oracle On Demand in a “fire-side” chat with current Oracle On Demand customer HDR, Inc. Hear how they used Oracle On Demand as a best practice to ensure a successful PeopleSoft [...]
Wipro Point of View: T is for Technology, Totality, and Tads Technology has been a cog in the BPO wheel for a while. Today technology is seated at the core of all major BPO deals. Cost benefits are now a given Expectations from outsourcing services are more qualitative in nature Despite the shaken-up economy, BPO [...]
3i Infotech is a global Information technology company with a broad range of solutions. In 1999 we started off with just two offerings: application development & maintenance and IT infrastructure services. In addition, there was a team handling the back-office transaction processing work for the ICICI Bank, a NYSE-listed organization. We have expanded our portfolio [...]
A Discussion with Dmitry Loschinin, CEO of Luxoft How is the move to mobility affecting ITO? What impact have social networks had on the ITO scene? What are buyers demanding now? Is there a shift in ITO buyer locations? Outsourcing Center talked with Dmitry Loschinin, CEO of Luxoft, a Russian-based IT services provider about the [...]
Allied Digital Services (Allied) is a global IT services and solutions company that partners with customers to make IT an enabler of positive change in the organization. We accomplish this by providing end-to-end IT solutions for customers across multiple industries and geographies. With over two decades of proven experience in technology and enterprise IT infrastructure, [...]
Efficient AR (Accounts Receivables) management is an important area of focus for CFOs in the current economic climate. Improving collections performance leads to cash flow increase, reduction in bad debts and an improvement in the organization’s credit rating, which reduces the future cost of borrowing for the company. However, though many companies have invested in [...]
iGATE is enjoying significant growth and currently performing strongly in the market with a 200%+ increase in stock price since 2009 and market cap increasing from $300 million to nearly $1 billion. I spoke with David Kruzner, Senior Vice President, about the way iGATE goes to market, its differentiation, and how its customers benefit from [...]
Jim Chiang, CEO of NeoContext, an Agile consultancy, says, “One of the biggest hurdles in outsourcing is getting over the collaboration hump. It’s too easy to put together a project plan and send it over the fence for implementation. We all know this is a preferred strategy, but it doesn’t work.” So how do applications [...]
Outsourcing a help desk can appear to be an easy strategy for reducing cost and improving service levels. However, there are significant challenges and pitfalls that can erode the return on investment. The top challenge is partnering with the right vendor. This white paper pinpoints the 11 biggest mistakes that companies make when choosing an [...]
Business process as a service (BPaaS) is emerging to be a BPO game-changer reminiscent of Software as a Service (SaaS) a decade ago. Specifically, BPaaS is adding arrows to organizations’ outsourcing quiver in how they approach their finance and accounting and other back-office functions. “Businesses that leverage traditional outsourcing deals are looking to move off [...]
Innovation is the lifeblood of entrepreneurial companies such as Inherited Health™, an online resource for information about health risks, but it’s also imperative that such companies deliver new products to the market in a short time frame and at the lowest cost. Those were the business challenges – along with having only a handful of [...]
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