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How Verticalization and Business Process Utilities Will Impact Outsourced Services

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Transparent pricing, highly standardized processes, vertical solutions. Companies will select service providers that deliver the best quality and value-add, not just the best price. “Increased adoption of standardized solutions in outcomes-based models will drive outsourcing to become more utility based,” says Don Schulman, General Manager, Finance and Administration at IBM. “And that becomes where the …

How and Why Cloud Computing Will Change Outsourcing Services

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Technology enables business change, but it doesn’t drive it. Jim Stikeleather, Chief Technology Officer at Dell Perot Systems, says change doesn’t happen unless there is an economic value. And that’s why cloud computing will make such a huge impact on outsourced services. It changes companies’ ability to consume IT. “This will create a very different …

Electronic Signing Solution Eliminates the Hidden Cost and Process Roadblock in Going From Paper to Digitized Documents

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Although companies have spent millions on digitizing their documents, they still face a process bottleneck in trying to close sales and other contractual agreements because they have to revert back to a costly paper process to get the documents signed–and that could take days or weeks. Now there’s an SaaS solution that reduces the process to minutes, increases productivity and customer satisfaction, and dramatically takes costs out of the process.

Source One Provides End-to-End and On-Demand Strategic Sourcing Solution for Mid-market Companies

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Mid-size companies are limited in their ability to drive continuous improvements in cost and performance for strategic sourcing of goods and materials. And it’s too costly for companies to maintain domain expertise in every category of spend and keep up with current market in each area. Outsourcing to Source One solves these problems, and a contingency-based model for pricing based on a percentage of savings achieved provides even more value.

Clear-Cut Choice for Comprehensive Back-Office and ITO Solutions in the Mid-market

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

BPOMS, a service provider for mid-market companies, offers tier-one services with a willingness to customize the solution and provide on-demand pricing options.

Hosted ERP Suites Improve Front- and Back-Office Operations, Yield Dramatic Cost Savings for Smaller Manufacturers

John Harney, Business Writer

Since installed ERP systems are expensive, complex to deploy, and require dedicated IT resources to maintain, automating mission-critical systems for small manufacturers is a challenge. ProSoap found itself concentrating so much on our servers that we couldn’t get on the phone enough to make sales calls. Outsourcing a hosted ERP solution solved the problem.

E-Sourcing Technology Solution Provides High Value

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

The lower middle market manufacturers ($30 – $200 million in sales) tend not to use strategic sourcing solutions. But there’s an outsourcing provider achieving value for them with e-sourcing technology available in a Software-as-a-Service model. Read how it works for a mattress manufacturer impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Outsourcing Solution Accelerates Companies to Market Leaders

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

From early-stage companies to large enterprises, it’s not unusual that a company’s sales and marketing are not integrated or strategic. Read what can happen if they outsource their entire sales team to a provider with the expertise to move its clients to market leadership positions.

A Rapidly Growing Health Plan Turns To Outsourcing to Handle the Growth

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The Community Health Plan of Washington had an enviable problem: its growth rate topped 300 percent a year. It needed a supplier who could handle that growth. Adaptis, with offices in the US and India, was just what the doctor ordered.

Why the Midmarket is the Hottest Segment of HRO Today

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

A new report from the Everest Research Institute found the midmarket accounted for more than half the full-service HRO transactions. Eight trends are converging to make it the fastest-growing segment of the HRO market.

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midsize business

How Verticalization and Business Process Utilities Will Impact Outsourced Services

How and Why Cloud Computing Will Change Outsourcing Services

Electronic Signing Solution Eliminates the Hidden Cost and Process Roadblock in Going From Paper to Digitized Documents

Clear-Cut Choice for Comprehensive Back-Office and ITO Solutions in the Mid-market

Hosted ERP Suites Improve Front- and Back-Office Operations, Yield Dramatic Cost Savings for Smaller Manufacturers

E-Sourcing Technology Solution Provides High Value

Outsourcing Solution Accelerates Companies to Market Leaders

A Rapidly Growing Health Plan Turns To Outsourcing to Handle the Growth

Why the Midmarket is the Hottest Segment of HRO Today

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