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BPO Is an Effective Answer to the Financial Crisis

The ongoing global financial crisis is a concern for everyone in almost all industries - fear of job loss, foreclosed homes and bankrupt businesses. About 20% to 40% of the revenues of offshore outsourcing companies are tied to the financial services industry. With its collapse, companies have been forced to...

Tags: BPO, Business Operations, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Crisis, It Operations, It Services, Management, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Outsourcing Factory, Strategy

White papers 2009-01-12

The Real Cost of Outsourcing

This white paper will explore the total cost of outsourcing by uncovering the hidden figures that boost up their bill. There are areas where one will have to invest more than they thought in the beginning, issues where things like poor processes and productivity can eat away potential savings and...

Tags: Outsourcing Factory, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-12-03

Solutions for HR Bottlenecks in Staffing the IT Department

IT staffing is a delicate balancing act. Hire too few people and one faces an overburdened IT department that may actually impede growth. Hire too many, however, and they waste money. Their goal, of course, is to make the biggest impact at the lowest cost. Companies that study their staffing...

Tags: Human Resources, Staffing, Information Technology, Outsourcing Factory, IT Staffing, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-12-03

Why You Should Outsource Your Software Testing

Market research studies show that 40% of unplanned application downtime is caused by application failures or "Bugs"; 40% by application errors and only 20% by hardware, environmental factors or disasters. Therefore, 80% of unplanned downtime can be alleviated by improvement of IT processes, pre-deployment testing and complete operations training. But...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Outsource, Outsourcing Factory, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2008-11-12

IT Outsourcing Benefits for Healthcare Companies

Perhaps no other industry could depict better the benefits of IT than healthcare. Nowadays most healthcare organizations have already invested in IT outsourcing, for anything from Telecommunication and Wireless, to Application Data Development (i.e. LIMS, SOA), or even Business Process Management. How much does one know about the new HIPAA...

Tags: Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Health Care, Outsourcing Factory, Managed Hosting, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2008-10-21

Overcome Cultural Differences in the Outsourcing Process

Outsourcing is quickly making the transition from new business strategy, to business as usual. Most major companies have already tried outsourcing, and mid-sized companies are beginning to see the value of selective outsourcing as well. While this strategy is being adopted by the mainstream, many companies are acknowledging the fact...

Tags: Outsourcing Factory, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2008-09-26

Additional Resources

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottom line

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottomCompletely disagree. Outsourcing only works for small projects that can't be done in-house, like wiring jobs, installing generators and the such. Outsourcing entire departments doesn't work. I've seen it before, when the employee is on a contract...

Tags: Managed hosting, Outsourcing/Offshoring, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Rumor: Apple 9.7-in. tablet coming October; $800

Rumor: Apple 9.7-in. tablet coming October; $800Bold move?[i]a tablet PC would represent a big undertaking and bold move by Apple[/i]Can you explain why releasing a PC with the same form factor as others have been doing for years is a "bold" move?[i]The Times claims that touchscreen supplier Wintek and battery...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, PC

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Enter Argentina as a nearshore destination...

Enter Argentina as a nearshore destination...Very good articleEven though Argentina can't compete in size with India or other traditional outsourcing destination, it can compete in quality and most importantly in convenience.My company Belatrix Software Factory (www.belatrixsf.com) has been competing succesfuly for the last 8 years from Mendoza, Argentina and offering...

Tags: Enter Argentina

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

NetApp: Layoffs and a $3 million CEO jet

NetApp: Layoffs and a $3 million CEO jetIf You've Got the Money, You'll Spend It On SomethingWhile I personally believe that we have more important things to do in this world than to buy toys, I think those who have substantial money will be spending it in some manner. The...

Tags: American People, NetApp, Warmenhoven, layoff

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

SaaS mashups shape up

SaaS mashups shape upI see little added valueCombining PayPal and Amazon.com on a Salesforce platform does what for me again?If I am an Amazon.com customer I can click on the shopping cart and use my account information to make my purchases. So having a PayPal link is of limited value...

Tags: Data centers, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Outsourcing, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

ERP implementations and outsourcing: The white board rarely reflects reality

ERP implementations and outsourcing: The white board rarely reflects realityMyriad of errors, but...the IT failure itself can only be blamed on IBM. And it is possible for your IT to break you. Whether it did or not will probably be decided by 12 people in a jury box......

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), outsourcing, IBM Corp., white board, ERP Implementation, Yahoo! Inc., ERP, ALF, board

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Must employers really pay to play?

Must employers really pay to play?There's no surprise, this was predicted!Corporations have been abandoning loyalty to the employee for over 15 years now. How long has it been since any company rolled out a new pension plan or offered to repurpose a large and obsolete workforce due to changes in...

Tags: Workforce management, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, talent, workforce

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Capgemini brings Google Apps to enterprises

Google gained a major ally for its march into the enterprise. Capgemini, the $10 billion consulting and outsourcing services, is now offering its customers the $50 per user per year Google Apps Premier Edition (Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Page Creator, Start Page, administrative tools, APIs,...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Capgemini, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-11

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection

This is a guest column by frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht. It's part of the SAB software discussion and represents exactly what I'd hoped to spawn with this whole imaginary company business: an interesting dialogue. That said, here's Erik: Innovative information technology can be a critical means for...

Tags: Software, Core Competency, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Product, Manufacturing, SAB, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Castro: H1-B increases are plot to steal IT workers from Latin America

As Silicon Valley demands more H1-B visas be granted to foreign workers, Fidel Castro warned this week that increased migration of tech workers to the U.S. will hurt Cuba and other Latin American economies, ComputerWorld reports.Castro's warning was part of celebrations to mark the graduation of the first class from...

Tags: International

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Music, video phones may ride iPhone wave

Music, video phones may ride iPhone waveMusic, video phones may ride iPhone waveI'll stick with my $100 phone that does most of what the iPhone will be doing. Email, texting, music, video, applications, web browsing, qwerty keyboard? Check! All this at 1/5th the price.DuhMonkey see, monkey do. ...

Tags: Corporate communications, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, Outsourcing, Digital media, Mac Zealots, Apple iPhone, U.S. Citizen, phone, U.S. Job, H-1B, iPhone wave, Music Video, video

Discussion threads 2007-05-18

Qualcomm CIO: Norm Fjeldhim - Transcript

Dan Farber: Norm thanks for joining meNorm Fjeldheim: Thank you Dan.Dan: Now Qualcomm is a company that deals with the wireless world, phones all over the world. But as a company are you totally wireless? Norm: Yeah we have seen a big shift in our employee base...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Qualcomm CIO: Norm Fjeldhim - Transcript

Dan Farber: Norm thanks for joining me Norm Fjeldheim: Thank you Dan. Dan: Now Qualcomm is a company that deals with the wireless world, phones all over the world. But as a company are you totally wireless? Norm:...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Employee, Phone, Information Technology, Qualcomm Inc., Norm, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2007-05-08