ASP Success in 2001: An ROI of 404%!
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
An IDC study reports ASPs earned a 404 percent return on investment last year. Not bad!
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Telecom
Renewed Interest in IT Outsourcing to Save Money
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A wave of renegotiations hits the outsourcing world as companies try to reduce their costs.
IT Contracting With the Financially Challenged Survivors of the New Economy
Daniel Masur, Partner, Mayer, Brown & Platt
We all watched the dotcoms become dot bombs. But you still want to do business with one. Here’s how to structure your contract to lower the risk.
Paying Attention When the Telephone Bills Come Calling
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Eighty percent of corporate telephone bills have errors in their favor. Outsourcing short circuits mistakes and checks to see if you’re still being charged for a circuit you removed in 1999.
Meet a New BPO Supplier: Compaq
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
IT suppliers are entering the BPO world. Compaq has created an unusual offering melding the two.
There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
Do you know who’s visiting your Web site? Data mining strikes gold.
Outsourcing Helps Trade Center Buyers Get Back in Business
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing suppliers are responsive in a crisis. Forty-five minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Compaq executives were on the phone, putting together a triage of support for its eight financial clients with Recover-All contracts as well as its many other customers headquartered in the twin towers. Tom Simmons, vice president of Compaq Managed Services in Stowe, Massachusetts, says within three hours Compaq had organized a crisis center routing telephone questions to Colorado Springs and opened a walk-in facility near Madison Square Garden manned by its Northeast sales team. A crisis Web site was online that night.
Ten Key Questions for Developing Effective Service Level Agreements
Brad L. Peterson, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
The first and most important step in developing an effective SLA is to ask the right questions. This article will give you those questions and some background on how to choose the right answers.
How Outsourcing Helped AT&T Lower Its Energy Costs
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
With supply shortages creating a surge in natural gas prices and deregulation jacking up electricity costs, big power users found their energy costs soaring this year. The bills did go up at AT&T, but not by the magnitude of other corporate users.
IT Takes a Seat
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
Managing the infrastructure of information technology is critical to federal government agencies. The maintenance and operation of tens of thousands of desktop computers, the software that drives them and the networks that connect them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, can be likened to the proverbial millstone tied around the neck of government agencies. Outsourcing the management of these computer seats often can combat this drain on resources, saving both time and money.