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New Contact Center Management Solution Enables Social CRM, Streamlines Processes, and Ensures Cost-Effective Flexibility

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Today’s contact centers drive revenue and build customer relationships. Management of processes in those centers (whether outsourced, hybrid, or internal centers) is now easier and less costly using VContactCenter. This new CRM solution also facilitates capturing and managing data from social media such as Twitter, makes it easy to segment data, and provides multi-language yet standard capabilities for globalization.

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In-house Language Skills Enhance Offshore Engagement and Enable Greater Savings

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

Application development costs and speed to market are critical for a startup with a new concept. Because the founders had to prove the concept, they didn’t want to spend a lot of capital. Hiring U.S. developers was not in the budget. A Chinese service provider got the job done at half the cost.

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Outsourcing Alleviates Logistical Growing Pains

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

Success threatened Wellington Technologies. The HP maintenance provider signed a big contract, but the scope of the win was beyond the capabilities of its existing parts delivery system. And the fact that its parts delivery agreement had penalties didn’t help. After paying those penalties, the company outsourced to meet its delivery challenges and enhance its capabilities.

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Application Management Outsourcing Services Provide Bigger Bang for the Buck

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Increased business agility is a big driver of the increase in application management outsourcing (AMO), notes Marc Schwarz, Senior Vice President and leader of the Oracle On Demand business. Businesses want to focus more of their resources on developing new innovations that increase revenue and profits. But he states that reducing business risk is the …

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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 …

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What Companies Need to Understand about Outcome-Based Approaches in Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Among the various changes that will impact outsourcing over the next five years, Don Schulman, General Manager of Finance and Administration at IBM, says the first will be a focus on outcomes-based pricing models. “Focusing on clients’ end-to-end processes, the discussion moves to outcomes pretty fast when considering the advantage of an outsourcer doing a …

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Upcoming Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (the economic stimulus package for the U.S. economy), healthcare reform, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), the next five years will see a dramatic increase in outsourcing in the healthcare industry. But there are significant challenges for decision makers beyond …

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Managing Outsourced Data Securely

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Outsourced data security is revolutionizing businesses. “We will see a dramatic change in security becoming a prevalent component of outsourcing contracts over the next five years,” says Jim Motes, Chief Information Security Officer for Dell Perot Systems. As virtualized services in cloud and utility computing technologies become more ubiquitous, they will drive an even deeper …

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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 …

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