Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The founders of Bangkok.com, who are based in Boston, Massachusetts, planned to resell the domain later for big bucks. But to underwrite their investment, they decided to offer email forwarding to anyone who wanted a Bangkok.com domain name. Our vanity email address wasn’t terribly successful, says Stanhope, who is the general partner. The founders sold 100 year-long subscriptions at $35 each……
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing may turn out to be the golden egg for Commtouch. Since every youth in Israel must serve in the Army, which relies on sophisticated military intelligence and technology to survive, Israel has a wealth of technically skilled young people.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Joe Szmadzinski is a connoisseur of outsourcing contracts. Szmadzinski has negotiated and lived through 25 outsourcing contracts in the last three years as president of System Advisory Group in Southfield, Michigan, a firm that provides interim CIOs for major corporations like Budget Rent A Car….. (outsourcing)
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Swart, the president of Intell-a-Pro, Inc., a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm based in Amelia, Ohio, feels tools now becoming available on the Net will allow companies to reduce labor intensive areas in their business processes…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When midnight hits on December 31, Netizens will have sent 2.2 trillion email messages. That’s because 97 percent of Internet users correspond by email, according to IDC. Back in 1998, a long time ago measuring by Web time, U.S. citizens sent seven email messages to every letter that required first class postage, according to Nua. The number has to be bigger today, given the runaway popularity of email by wireless phone, personal digital assistants and Blackberries in addition to the old-fashioned way of using your computer. (outsourcing)
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
How to Select an ASP Supplier… The path a buyer should take in selecting an ASP depends on the buyer’s intent for use of the outsourced application. Adam Braunstein, Senior Research Analyst with the Robert Frances Group, explains that the buyer could use an ASP to host a full-blown integrated application set, or it could use an ASP as an automation tool for a simple application that doesn’t need to pull information from external systems. Despite the intended use of the application, Braunstein, suggests there are crucial characteristics to seek in an ASP supplier.
George Kimball
Application service providers (ASP’s) promise to make all this go away. Rather than pay large license fees and hire swarms of consultants, companies may rent the software, or buy applications by the drink, paying so much per user, per month. Applications will be delivered to the desktop, over the Internet. Just pay the money, and someone else will buy, install, connect and configure everything. The allure is plain, and has aroused interest in the marketplace, and from service providers, including well-financed startups, as well as such stalwarts as Intel and Oracle. The appeal is especially strong to new and smaller companies, who can adopt standard functions from popular packages more easily than larger, long-established organizations.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Before homebuyers can complete the transaction to purchase a home, they must demonstrate they have also arranged for homeowners insurance. Up until now, the process for obtaining that coverage was almost as arduous as finding the house in the first place…..
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
In July, 1998, a national electronics retailer approached Spherion Corporation, an Atlanta-based outsourcing provider that offers high-volume sourcing, screening and selecting employees. The retailer was facing its busy Christmas season and habitually couldn’t find enough people to man its stores to handle the crush……
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Vincenzo Marino worked for a company that used robots on an automobile industry assembly line. There, he watched as workers sat idle while the plant waited for a crucial part that someone had forgotten to order. Every time you make a mistake, the company loses time and money, observes Marino. In 1989 Marino left to join Unitec, an outsourcing supplier specializing in supply chain management and logistics. The company has two offices in Europe, one in Augsburg, Germany, the other in Saubaudia, Italy. Marino, the CEO, was determined to improve the process….
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