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Prudential Relocation Relocates Work to EMR in India to Create 24-Hour Operation to Please Clients

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Many companies outsource relocation, a complicated and detail-ridden process, to experts like Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services. What makes relocations tricky is keeping track of every company’s distinct relocation policy. To cut costs and improve efficiency, Prudential outsourced the process to EMR in India. But first, it had to explain to Indians what relocation was.

Evaluating Success in an Outsourcing Relationship

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Many companies don’t achieve the anticipated outcomes in their outsourcing initiatives because they don’t take the right steps up front. Here’s how the fifth-largest homebuilder in the United States built an outstanding outsourcing relationship that produced the outcomes the client wanted.

An Outsourcing Solution for Consumer-Directed Healthcare that Payors Cannot Afford to Ignore

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) is causing payors to determine how to meet the challenge of adjusting existing technology so it services individual clients, not just groups. Payors have four choices. One of those, a CDH defined-care platform in an outsourced model is finding great success in the marketplace. Here’s why.

The Impact of Collaboration in BPO for Print Services

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Managing the North American marketing-related print collateral needs of Unilever’s 400 brands in more than 100 countries is an enormous task. Outsourcing printing needs is not the same as outsourcing procurement, especially where it may impact creativity in marketing. Unilever turned to a managed-services provider with a collaborative approach. The results have been stellar.

Outsourcing Facilitates Airline’s Cash Flow for Staying Competitive

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Investing in innovation is critical to business success, especially in highly competitive industries such as the airline industry, which was hit hard with cost constraints after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Yet, British Midland Airways has been innovating and achieved many firsts in service quality. Outsourcing the highly specialized area of revenue accounting had a major impact on cash flow.

Predicting BPO’s Future with Oracle’s Tibor Beles

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Tibor Beles, VP Sales, Global BPO, heads Oracle’s BPO practice. Read why he thinks HRO buyers will take a more aggressive outsourcing approach in the future, how IT will bring innovation to BPO processes, and why time is so critical to outsourcing transactions.

Outsourcing Manages Risk While Transforming Processes for Canada’s Central Bank

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

As Canada’s central bank, the Bank of Canada works to preserve the value of money by keeping inflation low. It also acts as the government’s fiscal agent. More than 400 employees worked on the retail debt program, consuming 85 percent of the bank’s IT capacity while not a core activity. Outsourcing to EDS was the answer. However, this assignment had some extra requirements.

Outsourcing Made More IT Initiatives Benefiting Citizens and Government Possible for Minneapolis

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The City of Minneapolis and Unisys won the Best First Steps Outsourcing Excellence Awards in 2004. We went back to see how the relationship has progressed. Did outsourcing really help the citizens of Minneapolis?

Allied Irish Bank Becomes First Financial Institution in Europe to Outsource Global Trade Processing End-to-End

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The bank’s software provider announced it would no longer support its banking application. AIB had to determine whether to outsource or purchase a new system. Outsourcing was more expensive until ABN AMRO opened an office in India reducing fees by 60 percent. Outsourcing today does much more than save money.

Brewing Up IT Success: Outsource Your Network Globally

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

InBev, which brews 204 brands of beer including four global brands–Stella Artois, Beck’s, Leffe, and Brahma–had specific criteria for its network supplier. It needed someone willing to work together to open new markets like China and Russia. It also wanted someone who could work with its ASP and infrastructure provider. BT fit the bill.

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