Can you even remember what it was like to have to be in a “place” to make a call? When a flat tire meant a search for a pay phone? When email was something that accumulated between Friday and Monday, until the office computer was powered back on? It’s hard to believe that when the [...]
Outsourcing providers have been offering their clients analytics services for at least 15 years. “But today the interest in analytics is completely unprecedented,” reports Pankaj Kulshreshtha, senior vice president, analytics and research at Genpact. Earlier, clients only considered a few specialized functions were appropriate for the ‘quants’; today it’s all functions, he notes. “Procurement, marketing [...]
If ITO were a movie, Cloud, analytics and mobility would be the headliners. Although this trendsetting triad is having a dramatic impact on how services are consumed and how companies operate, a number of other significant trends are emerging in the ITO space. This article focuses on those unsung heroes and the impact they’ll have [...]
By leveraging the huge amounts of data, organizations of all types can increase operational efficiency and quality, leading to cost and labor savings and a competitive edge, along with streamlines processes and a better ability to fight fraud. In this white paper, you’ll learn how organizations are managing and analyzing proliferating data and how these [...]
Symphony Services is a software innovation company. We help our clients ideate, develop, deploy and manage innovative software and software-enabled products. Our solutions address traditional and new software product engineering challenges created by faster release cadences, the need for mobile cross-platform user experiences and the shift to a cloud delivery model. Symphony Services has changed [...]
The past few years have not been kind to retailers. Sluggish economies, shrinking margins and a more cost-conscious consumer have taken their proverbial toll. “We’ve seen retail sales increase by 5 percent to 6 percent, yet profits declined from 3.5 percent to 2 percent. So, even though stores are selling more, they’re making less,” explained [...]
The lack of certainty about the future is prompting businesses to hesitate in making bets on tomorrow. Enterprises that use Analytics and Technology to address business challenges have a tremendous competitive advantage. However, both Analytics and Technology must be used to rigorously re-engineer processes so that the need to address longstanding challenges is eliminated altogether. [...]
Analytics. That is the new buzz word in outsourcing and particularly in workforce management. Managed services providers (MSP) rely on vendor management systems (VMS) to crunch the terabytes of data on a company’s global workforce—where they work, for how long and how much they cost. But is this really helpful? “Absolutely,” says Doug Leeby, president [...]
Wipro Voice: A Discussion with Deepak Jain, Senior Vice President and Head of TIS “You can see computers everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, Economist The CEO wants to know how to transform IT from a cost center to a game changer. The CIO wants to run IT like a business. The [...]
Wipro Voice: A Discussion with K R Sanjiv, Senior Vice President for Analytics and Information Management Enterprises, physicians, stock traders, oil rig operators — everyone these days is awash in data. How do you make sense of all the information? How do you use it to make better business decisions and ultimately more money? Wipro [...]
Wipro Voice: Manish Dugar, Senior Vice President, BPO Historically companies outsourced business processes to save money or gain process efficiency. But as service provider offerings and buyers matured, BPO can now become a revenue enabler, according to Manish Dugar, senior vice president, BPO. In some cases, old, outdated technology and antiquated processes in the back [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peter Bendor-Samuel, Everest Group CEO, discusses how strategic BPO services can help grow your business even while driving bottom-line savings.
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