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Offshore outsourcing: Preparing for India's proposed privacy rules

Posted May 13, 2011 - 11:00 am

India's proposed data privacy regulations could create serious logistical problems for offshoring customers if passed. Offshore outsourcing attorneys and analysts explain how the data protection rules will impact customers.
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IT outsourcers don't fulfill promises, invent work to inflate fees, survey respondents charge

Posted May 11, 2011 - 11:34 am

The IT outsourcing market shrank during the past quarter, partially to cloud providers, while a new survey taps into a deep vein of distrust between IT and outsourcers.
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Offshoring: The captive center rises again

Posted January 12, 2011 - 11:24 am

High failure rates. Shutdowns. Divestitures. Author and researcher Dr. Ilan Oshri explains why, despite it all, the wholly-owned offshore service center is coming back -- and here to stay.
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11 outsourcing trends to watch in 2011

Posted December 20, 2010 - 4:51 pm

Outsourcing activity is expected to creep back in 2011, but things are hardly getting back to normal in the IT services space. The new year will be marked largely by upheaval--smaller contracts, cloud-related chaos, increased offshoring and decreased quality, for a start.
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Why U.S. IT jobs aren't coming back

Posted November 18, 2010 - 5:21 pm

As the economy recovers, the jobs are going to India and other cheap-labor nations
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Offshoring of U.S. IT Jobs Continues to Increase

Posted October 18, 2010 - 4:58 pm

Indian outsourcing companies are making double-digit increases in quarterly revenue, but locating a lot of their workers in the U.S.; U.S. service companies can go anywhere, but stay here because the skills to deliver cutting edge cloud and virtualization systems is still a homegrown product.
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Career Watch: A challenge to the wisdom on offshoring

Posted December 21, 2009 - 2:36 pm

Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology professor and author of Outsourcing America, talks about the broad consequences of offshoring.
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Can Obama curb offshoring with tax code?

Posted May 5, 2009 - 8:53 am

President Obama unveiled tax code changes Monday he said could curb offshoring, but analysts and tax experts believe the plan will have little to no impact on the megatrend that threatens as many as one-in-four IT jobs at large companies.
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Guide to a Perfect Offshoring Outsourcing Vendor Deal: The 'Do' List

Posted May 4, 2009 - 10:13 am

While end-goals differ from company to company and from deal to deal, there are some general guidelines to follow to ensure you are achieving best advantage in outsourcing negotiations.
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Will Recession Cause a Bangalore Backlash?

Posted May 4, 2009 - 10:10 am

While the reasons behind the moves have varied, several prominent offshore outsourcing customers have made a big show of announcing the cancellation of some of their business process and information technology services deals and what could be described as a "backshoring" of those jobs to the U.S.
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The *Real* Cost of Offshore Outsourcing

Posted May 4, 2009 - 8:37 am

Now that offshore outsourcing is roughly a decade old, it's time to evaluate lessons learned.
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Swine flu latest blow for Mexican offshoring business

Posted April 29, 2009 - 8:14 am

Mexico, once considered one of the more favorable countries to locate offshore facilities because of its proximity to the U.S. and lack of cultural barriers, has been falling out of favor in the past year due to border violence and drug-related crime. Now add swine flu to that list.
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Emerging Offshore Outsourcing Markets You Can't Miss

Posted April 27, 2009 - 8:45 am

Egypt has the most market potential among emerging providers of global IT services, according to a recent study by the London School of Economics Outsourcing Unit comparing data on costs, infrastructure, skills and other factors among 14 offshoring up-and-comers.
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India is losing its share of outsourcing market, says Gartner

Posted April 20, 2009 - 8:18 am

India could lose offshore outsourcing business as customers start looking for alternative locations.
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Is Outsourcing Cost-Effective?

Posted April 13, 2009 - 9:53 am

For years now, companies have rushed to find cheap labor and increased profits in foreign lands. The move was a play to make bottom-lines blacker, company coffers deeper and corporations safer. But has offshore outsourcing helped or harmed enterprises in the final count?
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Symantec warns customers after call center theft

Posted March 30, 2009 - 7:17 pm

Symantec says about 200 customers were affected by a credit-card data theft at the company's Indian call center.
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India's competitors catching up as outsourcing hotspots

Posted December 11, 2008 - 10:28 am

India may be losing ground to smaller and newer competitors on cost and ability to retain staff, according to Gartner.
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How IT companies must act in financial crisis

Posted October 22, 2008 - 4:54 am

TEAM International shares expert opinions of how IT offshore outsourcing services providers should act within the current worldâ€™s financial crisis to suffer as little as possible.
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Offshoring R&D to India on the upswing

Posted August 11, 2008 - 3:59 pm

Offshoring R&D (research and development) to India is currently a US$9.35 billion industry, with R&D centers owned by multinational companies accounting for about $5.83 billion of this market, according to management consultancy Zinnov.
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Luxoft Acquires Romania’s ITC Networks

Posted July 23, 2008 - 1:05 pm

Acquisition of leading Romanian IT player increases Luxoftâ€™s global delivery capability and telecom expertise
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Offshore outsourcing: current state of affairs and future trends in Europe.

Posted July 23, 2008 - 8:58 am

TEAM International shares some of the findings of the latest Annual Outsourcing Survey conducted by Ernst & Young, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The 2008 survey questioned more than 600 decision-makers of the largest European companies with a turnover of at least 100 million euros. The survey came up with the following findings: 2. 49% of respondents agreed that offshore outsourcing served as an efficient cost saving tool;
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