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The Report ‘Legal Services Outsourcing: What Do Law Firms Think?’ Is Valuable To Offshore Legal Service Providers
May 19, 2009

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Legal Services Outsourcing: What do Law Firms Think?” report to their offering. Read more

Aegis to Acquire UCMS Group
May 19, 2009

MUMBAI, INDIA and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire – May 15, 2009) – Aegis BPO Services Australia Pty Limited, an affiliate of Aegis Limited, a leading global business process outsourcing (BPO) provider and part of Essar Group, one of India’s largest and fastest growing business conglomerates, and UCMS Group Limited, a leading BPO services provider in Australia, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of UCMS Group Limited through an all cash transaction with an aggregate equity value of approximately AUD 54 million. This strategic combination has been approved by the board of directors of both companies. Read more

Wipro, Oracle and Hackett Collaborate to Launch HR Platform Solutions
May 19, 2009

BANGALORE, India, May 18 /PRNewswire/ — Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) announced that its Business Process Outsourcing division, Wipro BPO has partnered with Oracle for best-of-breed HR platform solutions. Read more

Law firms and Outsourcing: Still a long way to go
May 19, 2009

Law firms and Outsourcing: Still a long way to go
The recent survey of US and UK based law firms conducted by ValueNotes reveals that less than 3 percent of the respondents had any past experience of offshoring legal services. Read more

Growth of Publishing BPO
May 18, 2009

Research and Markets has come out with a report that indicates that despite economic slowdown, offshore publishing industry is poised for some robust growth mainly in the Asian sub-continent (India, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Sri Lanka. Dubbing this region as the world’s publishing destination, the report estimates that the offshore pre-press services offered by these countries were worth $780 m as of 2008. Read more

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Geography of Offshoring is Shifting, According to A.T. Kearney Study
May 18, 2009

India and China continue as top offshoring destinations; but Central/Eastern Europe falls while Southeast Asia and Middle East countries rise Read more

The growth potential for outsourcing: Just a mirage?
May 17, 2009

With much of the developed world mired in the deepest recession in living memory and with many companies under enormous pressure to cut costs just to survive, one would assume that the decision to outsource would be easy and new demand for outsourcing services, processes or functions would be increasing exponentially. However, the current reality is proving to be much more complicated than this. Read more

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HRIS and SaaS are driving the HRO industry
May 13, 2009

An AMR research tabled in 2009 indicates that the multi-process HRO market grew by 24% in 2007 and almost by the same rates in 2008 and 2009, respectively despite the market slowdown. Interestingly, a big chunk of these contracts came to India.
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In Outsourcing will China really be a contender to India?
May 13, 2009

With the global export slowdown hitting its manufacturing sector hard, China’s government is turning its attention to boosting its service sector and is laying the groundwork to grab a bigger slice of the US$1 trillion plus global outsourcing market – putting India on notice. Sure, India has an enormous pool of talent to draw upon and a big head start advantage but China also has an enormous and well educated population, a largely untapped domestic market for outsourcing, numerous small or medium sized cities offering competitive cost advantages, and excellent transportation and telecommunications infrastructure. Moreover, the government now plans to offer more perks to outsourcers in 20 pilot cities in the form of tax breaks, subsidies and IP protection.
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Mom Sourcing could be a prank, but the outsourcing idea rocks
May 11, 2009

One day later, i.e. on May 11, I logged on to mom-sourcing.co.in. to check how many ‘time challenged” sons and daughters had booked a call to their mother on Mother’s Day and to my utter disappointment found that the site is dead.
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