Market research firm, Gartner said that IT services sector grew 6.7 percent in 2004 -- $607.8 billion in 2004 compared to $596.6 billion in 2003. However, they added that with the US dollar's...
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Yankee Group report, Should Organizations Embrace HR BPO?, said that the practice of outsourcing HR management reduces HR costs by as much as 20 percent for organizations with more than 10,000...
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India could become the preferred destination for accounting related job outsourcing in one to three years. This statement was by made Roopen Roy, managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the...
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Consultancy firm, McKinsey, said that US concerns over job losses due to outsourcing are exaggerated. Data shows that only 274,000 jobs were moved to India from 2000 to 2003, while US' annual job...
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Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich signed a law that requires companies bidding for state work to disclose any outsourcing plans. The state will then decide which companies will get contracts, and...
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The 37 percent growth of IT outsourcing in 2004 were driven by an increase in the number of smaller contracts and vendor competition. Statistics in the IT Services Contract Tracker (researched by...
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Consultancy firm McKinsey said, "It will be many years before [China] poses a threat to [India] in [the IT arena]." McKinsey cited in its 2005 quarterly report that China's biggest...
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Telecoms company BT has signed a ten-year, �306 million contract with consulting firm Accenture. The new deal extends Accenture's previous contract to provide HR services to BT employees and...
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On January 31, Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (acs) announced its plan to open a second operations center in Tianjin, China. The new center will provide IT and business process services to the...
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congruent Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is the first company to provide back-end services to a US retirement fund consulting firm. The company will process 401-K retirement plans for California-based Associates...
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