Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Dr. Han T. M van der Zee doesn’t own a crystal ball. Yet the director of the Nolan Norton Institute in De Meern, the Netherlands conducts research to predict the future. Companies look to the Institute to help them determine what they have to do now to get ready for tomorrow.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is responsible for establishing accounting principles for governmental agencies. The GASB Statement 34 redefines the basic financial reporting framework that governmental agencies currently use, requiring them to conform to accrual accounting. It also requires infrastructure asset valuations to be included in the financial statements of the reporting agency.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Our business is not IT, says Linda Holmes, director of Informatics Services at the Justice Department in Ottawa. Outsourcing allowed us to realign our resources so we could focus on our core competencies. We didn’t want to worry about day-to-day technology operations support…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Executives who know how to fix computer code but also understand the IRS code are the people who run reSOURCE Partner associates (rSP), an ASP supplier in Columbus, Ohio. The two-year-old firm, which specializes in both the technical and the business side of applications, provides complete application hosting, application management and business process outsourcing using PeopleSoft’s Human Resources and Financial applications. (The firm selected PeopleSoft after an extensive one-year search in 1996.).
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Communication is fundamental to any kind of commerce. But it’s especially important on the impersonal Net where buyers sit alone in front of a computer screen, wondering if their orders will get lost in the ether. Now e-business owners can add a high touch component to high tech commerce. They can assure an executive on the road that the part will get there tomorrow in time for the big meeting. They can answer any question on-line, real time, using software from FaceTime communication, an ASP.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Craig Curtin is a stickler for details. And he’s a great punster. So when he named his new ASP company Do IT Right, the moniker had a double meaning. IT is an abbreviation for Information Technology, which the company does right…
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Fast moving and provocative with possibilities, the ASP market is in the midst of a revolution. World-renowned, best-of-breed vendors, as well as customers of all sizes are watching this rapidly growing industry even as they shape it. ASPs don’t look the way they did at the outset of 2000 and, at the end of 2000, they will have evolved and mutated a great deal more…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When Shakespeare wrote, ‘Let’s kill all the lawyers,’ he definitely wasn’t talking about attorneys who specialize in technology issues. These barristers, who know just as much about server farms as serving subpoenas, provide an invaluable service to clients inking an ASP contract…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When a venture capitalist calls with $65 million in funding, management listens. Then the group leaps at the chance to launch a new outsourcing firm, flush with the largest venture capital award to a BPO firm to date. That’s how LeapSource Inc., a Phoenix BPO, got its start…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When you’re 17, one of the hardest decisions you have had to make in your young life is where to go to college. Then, you arrive on campus and have to embark on a whole new way of living away from Mom and Dad. There’s no doubt these decisions can be tough for teen-agers. So, five recent college graduates decided to do something to make this trying time easier. Young Shin was just 29 when he and his fellow Wunderkinder launched Embark.com, a San Francesco application service provider…
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