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Article | 23/08/2011 Offshoring pioneer GE to hire 1100 American IT workers

To those who know their IT outsourcing history, GE and offshoring are practically synonymous.

Article | 16/08/2011 Whistleblower presents evidence of alleged visa abuse

The Infosys employee who is suing the Indian IT service provider for allegedly violating visa and tax laws in order to increase its profit margins has...

Article | 16/06/2011 9 ways to stop your IT outsourcing deal from leaking money

If there were a relatively straightforward way for an IT leader to boost his company's bottom line by millions of dollars a year, chances are he would...

Article | 10/06/2011 iGate Patni CEO on his merger of unequals

When iGate completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Patni Computer Systems in May, the two offshore outsourcing providers instantly leapt over their ...

Article | 25/05/2011 Outsourcing customers focus on SLAs

Business strategy is getting short shrift in outsourcing relationships while outsourcing customers and providers focus excessively on basic service le...

Article | 14/05/2011 Offshoring: Preparing for India's proposed privacy rules

The Indian government has finally taken a step toward creating a comprehensive set of data protection rules to safeguard privacy, but the proposed reg...

Article | 5/05/2011 IT outsourcing in China and data privacy guidelines

China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too...

Article | 26/04/2011 Mitigating the risk of cloud services failure

One of CIOs' biggest concerns about the infrastructure-as-a-service model has been the loss of control over assets and management that enterprises mig...

Article | 20/04/2011 Outsourcing: IT Customers disappointed with results

Forget all the discussion about IT outsourcing providers moving up the technology value chain to become partners in innovation; their customers' bigge...

Article | 11/04/2011 How cloud computing promotes business growth

Coty is growing.

Article | 12/04/2011 6 biggest cloud computing myths

1. It’s insecure.

Article | 18/02/2011 Goodbye outsourcing, hello insourcing: A trend rises

Looking back on the last twelve months, most outsourcing analysts agree that the level of IT services deals sealed has held relatively steady, year-ov...

Article | 9/02/2011 Egypt, Mexico move up outsourcing list amid unrest, violence

In what could be viewed as unfortunate timing, management consultancy A.T. Kearney released its annual Global Services Location Index last week naming...

Article | 11/11/2010 Inside HP's new $1 billion outsourcing plan

HP today revealed further details of its previously announced $1 billion investment in offshore outsourcing, selecting six countries-Bulgaria, China, ...

Article | 9/09/2010 Outsourcing: Brazil blossoms as IT services hub

CapGemini's announcement last week that it would invest $298 million in Brazilian IT service provider CPM Braxis attracted a lot of attention in outso...