Every company that relies on a large workforce has one thing in common – the desire to acquire and manage workers in a way that provides the most value without hurting the bottom line. But usually that is where the similarities end. Most companies have unique goals, objectives and challenges of varying complexities that require [...]
Telvista provides English and Spanish contact center outsourcing services to companies that want more from their customer relationships. We believe in delivering what matters most to our clients. By leveraging extraordinary people, process, and technology, we deliver customer service and support solutions that reduce the cost of service, increase customer lifetime value, and create distinct [...]
The bulk of most companies’ operational costs are in manpower, says Ragu Bhargava, CEO of Global Upside, Inc., a finance and accounting (F&A) service provider. That’s one of the reasons companies in all industries are increasingly bucking the long-held practice of retaining full-time F&A staff in house. Mountain View, Calif,-based Global Upside, Inc. provides services [...]
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 [...]
WNS is a leading global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company. Founded as British Airways’ captive back-office in 1996, WNS has today risen to a leadership position with more than 200 global clients, serviced by over 21,000 professionals across 23 global delivery centers worldwide, including Costa Rica, India, the Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. [...]
Most companies that outsourced a portion of their finance and accounting (F&A) functions in the early to mid-2000s generated great savings but are probably overpaying now for the service levels they are receiving. More than $2 billion dollars of outsourcing contracts will expire in the next 12 months, and sourcing buyers need to be prepared [...]
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 [...]
Antex International is a leading payroll and HR administration service provider in Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean region. AI has offices and in-country-based knowledge experts supporting services in 11 countries in the EMEA region. Antex International is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and was founded in 2005 by the Italian-based group Fis Antex as a [...]
What happens in an outsourcing relationship when the two partners are willing to go beyond each of their comfort zones to solve an intractable problem? Answer: a win-win for both partners as well as the relationship itself. This is the story of how Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group, and Infosys BPO, its outsourcing [...]
Improving Processes, Going Offshore Best Ways to Reduce G&A Costs Outsourcing service providers servicing the midmarket (defined here as companies with $1billion to $3 billion in annual revenues) face challenges that differ from working with large corporate buyers. How do they provide the same type of services as they do for enterprises and stay profitable, [...]
The universal complaint about human resources outsourcing in general and RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) in particular has been that few if any service providers have both a local and global reach. It has been difficult to provide best-of-breed services in every location on the globe an outsourcing buyer may need. “RPO buyers have searched for [...]
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 [...]
Baby boomers are living longer. The terrible economy, sliding home and stock prices, and low interest rates are forcing them to work longer. The silver lining is this is good news for both outsourcing service providers and enterprises that need expert help. Companies turn to NuuKo for executive advice in healthcare Companies needing advice typically [...]
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