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- Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay
- Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...
- Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?
- IBM is latest to ask: Why not take that data center to go?Google has a Patent on this...http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071010-google-patents-datacenter-in-a-shipping-container-ignores-suns-blackbox.htmlI for one really dig this drop-ship approach to a modular data-center.(;||
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Looks like I'm next...
- You can now offshore me. Am thinking of re-training as a plumber ... you can't offshore them ... can you? by Phil Fersht
- Tags: Offshore, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study
- Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. ...
- Tags: Offshore, Turbine, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- Has Europe lost the offshore war?
- Has Europe lost the offshore war?Can you translate that?Oh blodoy hook worms, have you not noticed that if you start using terms like "Have not addressed the holistic transformational challenges posed by offshore IT firms" people will discount anything you say. This sounds more like a sophmoric elevator pitch than...
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops?
- Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead. Egypt's Minister of Communications and...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Call-center, Backup, Outage, Egypt, Internet, Outsourcing, Cable, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing, Call Centers, Product Marketing, Network Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Offshore Tax Disclosure Campaign Pilots New Compliance Transformation Approach
- A landmark series of legal rulings meant a number of financial institutions had to provide information to HM Revenue & Customs HMRC about hundreds of thousands of their UK customers who hold offshore accounts. As a result of this landmark ruling HMRC obtained a significant amount of information on offshore...
- Tags: Offshore, Capgemini, Compliance, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2007-10-25
- Assessing the Role of Captive Operations in Global Service Delivery Models
- Services are simultaneously climbing the value chain from transaction to more strategic, knowledge-based processes (e.g., R&D, financial analysis, marketing, market research). In response, many buyers are seeking to establish offshore captive operations, while others are divesting their captive centers, and still others are leveraging theirs to support partnerships with third-party...
- Tags: Offshore, Operation, Knowledge, EquaTerra, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Performance Management, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2007-08-20
- Offshore Agile Practice Adopted in CMS Development
- The project's purpose is to add new modules and enhance features for the proprietary CMS application, and create highly customized commercial partner portals for customers that need service in the domain of incentive and reward mechanisms to influence their employees' performance and thus achieve profitability and retention. The project has...
- Tags: Offshore, Project, Team, Partnership, Content Management System, Content Management, Business Structures, Team Management, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Internet
- White papers 2007-06-29
- Massive IBM U.S. Global Services layoff on the horizon?
- Massive IBM U.S. Global Services layoff on the horizon?Just like AOL .When AOL began outsourcing , I knew it was time to flip my middle finger at the company and move on . Today I am a Comcast Highspeed user . So I was right all along , Big Blue...
- Tags: Outsourcing, IBM Corp., work offshore, Internet, panacea, offshore
- Discussion threads 2007-05-05
- Indian Talent Shortage,yes. But, can they pass the test?
- CMMI and Six Sigma is so offshore 1.0... Powerhouse NASSCOM, the Indian IT software and service trade organization, announced last week the national rollout of a nationwide assessment and certification program: the NASSCOM Assessment of Competence NAC. NASSCOM has teamed with with the state government of Rajasthan, which...
- Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, NASSCOM, NAC
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- SOA-Offshore, a Roadmap to Successful Implementation With a Cost Effective Offshore Partner
- Thinking of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA as a methodology of implementing IT solutions, rather than a technology, allows significant benefits to an enterprise that seeks to adapt to change. The concepts and designs behind SOA are not new, they are derived from distributed n-tier systems that have been adopted and are...
- Tags: Offshore, Partnership, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Image: Wind turbines way offshore
- MIT professor envisions wind turbines floating on platforms 100 miles out to sea.
- Tags: Outsourcing, turbine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offshore, professor
- Image galleries 2006-09-18
- Improving Governance of Offshore Development
- Offshore development is a competitive imperative, yet there are many inherent risks. Web-based software development environments can strengthen IT governance, protect intellectual property, improve communication, and streamline sharing of project assets. This paper discusses the factors spurring adoption of collaborative development environments, weighs various options, and outlines the benefits for...
- Tags: Offshore, CollabNet Inc., Offshore Development, Software Development, Intellectual Property, Development Tools, Asset Management, Outsourcing, Software/Web Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Operational Planning, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2006-07-18
- Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: The Outsourcers' Perspective
- With the maturity of information and communication technologies, offshore development of software by outsourcers is a new trend for reshaping IT strategy around the globe. Technological advances have increased the interconnection between different societies, facilitating a continuous software development cycle or follow-the-sun approach by having team members located in different...
- Tags: Offshore, Software, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2005-11-17
- India benefits as half the Valley outsources
- India benefits as half the Valley outsourcesSo Americans aren't educated and can't speak English? Gimme a break.It's about COST. THE BOTTOM LINE. EXECUTIVE PROFITS.Nothing more.Anything else is a cheap excuse to be shoved down our throats. A cheap excuse covered in itching powder, no less.A pity...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, benefit, Now IT, offshoring, job, offshore
- Discussion threads 2005-09-29
- DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'
- Silicion.com's interview with JP Rangaswami, CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein DrKW, provides a glimpse into one of the smartest people in IT. He is one of the few CIOs unafraid to try out a broad array of new technologies and open source projects. Here's a sample of the...
- Tags: offshore, open source, outsource
- Blog posts 2005-08-11
- Study: Not all entry-level IT work headed offshore
- Study: Not all entry-level IT work headed offshoreAnd substantial amount of higher-level work is moved offshoreDo not be glad at this news too early guys. The sad news is: a large amount of higher-level jobs is also moved offshore by your greedy bosses. Microsoft, for example, has moved its MSN...
- Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, information technology, offshore
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
- India faces U.S.-style labor pains
- India faces U.S.-style labor painsI figure....With the growing pains, the demand (like us in the 90's) the salaries will rise, and then what are the companies going to do?With demand comes a rise in salary demands...This should turn out to be interesting.. How long will outsourcing last before it gets...
- Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Outsourcing, salary, information technology, high-end skill, offshore, Ive
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
- Offshore Project Management - Risks and Best Practices
- Outsourcing and offshoring have been the biggest trends of the last decade in IT. As more and more companies take advantage of the overwhelming benefits of reduced costs and increased flexibility, the trend toward offshore work is likely to continue. Companies have been evolving and refining their Project Management processes...
- Tags: Offshore, Best Practice, Outsourcing, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-06-10
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