Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Offshore outsourcing is changing dramatically. Read about the changes and their implications for buyers and providers of outsourced services.
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.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Most small to midsize businesses (SMBs) don’t have in-house telecom experts, lack the experience to handle ongoing quick technological changes, and can’t effectively plan ongoing strategies, manage implementations, and ensure harmonious use of communication technologies and devices on their own. So they outsource.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Success Apparel, a children’s sportswear manufacturer in New York City, just wanted its phone system to work. Its phone system was dead for as long as three days as its local, long distance, and PBX supplier pointed fingers. Outsourcing all its telephony to a VoIP supplier solved the problem.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, who conducted all the interviews, finds six recurring themes among the winners. The most surprising: offshoring actually created jobs for Americans.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
BT was a plain old phone company. Then competition and the Internet changed telecommunication. Where was BT going to find the capital to fund the requisite new offerings? BT outsourced its HR to Accenture. Together the partnership transformed BT.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
What do you do when the hospital has a fiscal crisis and can’t staunch the bleeding? Some suppliers would cut off the air supply when the money ran out. But not Eclipsys. It lowered its monthly fees until the hospital recovered, putting patient safety before profit.
Bruce Leshine, Jorden Burt LLP
The centerpiece of current healthcare information technology outsourcing initiatives is the buyer’s decision to implement a new clinical information system. Attorney Bruce Leshine posits the best way to go about this is for the buyer, supplier, and CIS vendor to work together to craft a solution.
Bruce Leshine, Jorden Burt LLP
Outsourcing your IT doesn’t relieve you of security obligations. Try telling the CEO that it’s alright that you lost customer information because we have an IT outsourcing contract. Just don’t tell him about the supplier’s limitation of liability provision. Attorney Bruce Leshine shares legal ideas to protect your data in an outsourced environment.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Email archiving is a hot technology for 2006, solving corporate and compliance challenges. Here’s what an investment management firm learned when shopping for an outsourced email archiving solution.
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