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…
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Émigrés typically savor the wealth of business opportunities when they land on the promising shores of America. But the partners at Octet Media L.L.C. in New York City learned that their financial future was still tied to the folks back home.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Cleaning Up The Lead System For The Laundry… Pellerin Milnor Corp. manufactures industrial laundry machinery used by hotels, prisons, nursing homes and dry cleaners. Instead of selling its equipment to its end users, it created a dealer network throughout the world. The manufacturer, however, generates the sales leads…
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
As part of Professional Services at Compaq Computer Corporation, eBusiness Management Services (eBMS) is an Internet provider company. The company has managed the Microsoft network, including connecting more than 1,600 servers into its enormous server farm, for four years.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Two current trends driving the growth of business process outsourcing (BPO) are the trend toward outsourcing of packaged software applications and the trend for end-to-end hosting management of those applications. Within BPO’s segment of the outsourcing industry are such critical, non-core functional transactional processes as payroll, payroll tax services, and benefits administration.
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