http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:50:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The financial results of the country's top three software exporters had already provided signs of recovery earlier this month. India's software exports industry derives more than half of its revenues from the US. "The IT industry has seen a better Q2 and given positive guidance for rest of the fiscal. The ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/10/indian-it-recover-from-the-crisis/ Yesterday, IBM  signed a 10-year information technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with Innovation Auto Risk, an established leader in the Indian market providing claims management services and other related solutions to insurers & fleet management companies. As part of the agreement, IBM will deploy server, storage, networking and security IT infrastructure to be ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/07/ibm-outsourcing-agreement-innovation/ Outsourcing Software Development involves shifting of software development activities by a company to third party service vendors or software firms that may be located in offshore destinations Advantages by Outsourcing your Software Development: • Access to specialized labor at low rates • Cutting human resource costs • Cutting operational costs • Reducing software project expenditure • Ensuring proper project management • Software ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/06/advantages-of-outsourcing-software-development/ India and China continue as top offshoring destinations; but Central/Eastern Europe falls while Southeast Asia and Middle East countries rise While India, China and Malaysia retain the top three spots they’ve occupied since the inaugural GSLI in 2004, a fundamental shift in the index has taken place as once strong Central ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/06/kearney%e2%80%99s-2009-global-services-location-index/ A recent study from research and advisory firm Computer Economics Inc. shows that more companies plan to increase rather than decrease their data center outsourcing and most are pleased by the results. The percentage of companies that entrust some part of their data center operations to third-party providers has hovered around ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/data-center-outsourcing-increases/ India still controls as much as 65 percent of the industry and derives an estimated US$52 billion in annual revenues from it, employing more than 2 million people in finance, human resources and customer services. However, this industry is continuing to change dramatically, growing progressively. BPO industry is growing at a ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/new-challenges-for-indias-outsourcing-industry/ Wipro is currently one of the Indian software exporter who has significant presence in Egypt. Wipro counts Bharti Airtel, Unitech Wireless and Dena Bank among its top customers. Egypt counts 10-15 % lower costs than India, and has availability of required technical skills across different programming languages including Windows and ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/egypt-emerging-offshore-outsourcing-center/ Top Australian banks Westpac and Commonwealth Bank plan to curb offshoring of back office and IT projects to India Westpac, is Australia's biggest bank by market value, is evaluating outsourcing vendors for a contract estimated to be anywhere between $200 & 300 million. Actually Westpac is being advised by Booze Allen ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/top-australian-banks-plan-on-indian-outsourcing/ Saturn Systems Software Engineering has reported record results for 2008 with its Rural Outsourcing business model. Financial results for 2008 show a 25% increase in revenue which is consistent with Saturn’s growth pattern over the past three years. Equally strong first quarter results for 2009 indicate another record year is ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/onshoring-growing-trend/ A study conducted by AMR Research, Boston, MA, revealed that outsourcing software testing services to offshore development centers saves companies to up to 75% in in-house costs. “It has been observed in various software companies in this downturn that the first axe mostly felled on the IT budget affects testing systems, ... http://outsourcingindia.co.uk/blog/2009/05/offshore-software-testing-services-saves-75-development-costs/