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- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?
- My good friend and former colleague at the Yankee Group, Arijit "Apu" Sengupta pictured - who is now CEO of outsourcing quality improvement software firm BeyondCore - alerted me to a startup that reverse-offshored its development team from Bangalore back to the US: “Bangalore wages have just been growing like...
- Tags: Bangalore, Salary, Benefits, Human Resources, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Photo: Indian techies seek stress relief
- Meditation may be just what the doctor ordered to help Bangalore's software professionals deal with work demands.
- Tags: Bangalore, photograph, software
- Image galleries 2005-07-18
- Photo: Indian techies seek stress relief
- Meditation may be just what the doctor ordered to help Bangalore's software professionals deal with work demands.
- Tags: Bangalore, photograph, software
- Image galleries 2005-07-18
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- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full 2.0 update later this fall
- Top iPhone appsHa ha, one of the visual search galleries is for iPhone apps, how ironic!BUT, Can We Block The Bing Cookies?One issue that is irritating me with MS is their disregard for me, and for every person who uses MS products. (No, I am not anti MS. However, I...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Bing, cookie, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Cloud may complicate SOA load balancing act
- Shine your own light in the cloudLori is correct to suggest that the cloud can obscure what you see. Cloud offerings tend to be basic, covering CPU, bandwidth and storage, and are very much of a 'one-shape-fits-all' nature. This is a consequence of building the offering on multi-tenanted...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Lori, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine
- Who's on 1st? Thank you, thank you, thank you to the folks at TechMarketView for finding the most inane testimony yet in the still amusing Satyam fraud saga. The story, and you’ve got to read the source document in The Times of India, is...
- Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Indian, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?
- I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support
- Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Ramco Systems Case Study: Auto Component Manufacturing
- A leading auto component manufacturer headquartered in Bangalore, with operations that include fabrication of body parts for heavy commercial vehicles and manufacturing construction equipments, trucks, buses and automotive parts was looking for a solution that would help standardize and streamline their business processes across the organization and improve operational control...
- Tags: Ramco Systems, Manufacturing, Construction
- Case studies 2009-04-29
- HP Officejet 6310v or Photosmart C5140 plus Windows XP-an exercise in installation futility
- My Samsung office printer/fax/scanner/copy machine/trash compactor/cat food dispensor bit the big one. Although it was a quirky machine having the requirement for very hard to find, expensive toner modules, it was possible to use most of its features from Linux, Mac OS X and both Windows XP and Vista. Since...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Printers, Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform? Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Leadership, Strategy, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Hard times hit Bangalore
- Hard times hit BangaloreSun Microsystems is an outsourcing company?I don't really think that's Sun's core business.
- Tags: Outsourcing, Hard Times
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- PPoPP 2009 wrap-up
- The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....
- Tags: Compiler, Memory, Conference, Los Alamos National Lab Roadrunner Computer, Composability, Flash Memory, Processors, Productivity, Development Tools, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Social silly season
- I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...
- Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Google wants to tap into your electric meter; Enters smart grid fray
- Google wants to tap into your electric meter; Enters smart grid frayDo you REALLY think most consumers care "where the power is going."?Not likely.And so what? Is someone NOT going to use their dryer because they see a spike on a graph? What a complete waste of time. Google is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Wants, electric meter, power company, grid
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Forget 2006, let's go back to '96
- Like many of you, I have been waking up in the middle of the night wondering what's going on with the global economies and how the world will look in a few months when we adjust to the new economic reality. I started thinking about about the world when people...
- Tags: Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- Obama and Ed Tech
- Today, we inaugurate the first president to ever own a BlackBerry, to ever have a Twitter account, and to ever use the Internet to build and win a grassroots campaign. Obviously, hopes are high among those of us in Ed Tech for a very different sort of presidency when...
- Tags: Education, School, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- How should companies approach outsourcing in this economy?
- How should companies approach outsourcing in this economy?Outsourcing should be abolishedThere's no way we can keep good jobs in America if we keep sending them offshore.Bring jobs back to America should be Job #1!Abolish outsourcing!God Bless America.RE: How should companies approach outsourcing in this economy?Can't argue with that Dietrich -:)In...
- Tags: outsourcing, outsource, job
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
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