Despite the controversy regarding outsourcing, IT outsourcing is catching on among U.S. firms. There are a few reasons why. Read more
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CNBC plus the Atlantic Monthly have reported about another odd story involving “fakes” and China, only this time its not fake DVDs or purses but fake white executives. Apparently, white guys from the USA and other Western countries are being hired there as fake executives in order to bring the appearance of the Western world into the Chinese business world. Read more
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Author: Sanket Purani
Something everyone across the Legal Process Outsourcing world has known for some time – the majority of those who choose to procure legal process outsourcing services hope to do it without anyone else really knowing about it. Kind of a not-so-well kept secret it seems given Fronterion’s recent study released yesterday. The results do not surprise me really. It’s analogous to a dirty secret people like to keep in the closet, in the safety of their home, or in this case their office. And of course the secret’s obediently kept within the office of the dedicated LPO provider.
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Stefan Stern has recently written a thought provoking column for the Financial Times about BP and the trouble with outsourcing. And although Stern is clearly a critic of outsourcing, the whole BP Gulf of Mexico disaster clearly showed how not to outsource and what can happen when the unexpected is not taken into consideration when outsourcing. Read more
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Learn more about Data Center Transformation via free HP virtual conferences:
Europe, Middle East, Asia — July 13
Americas — July 14
Asia Pacific Japan — July 15 Read more
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Outsourcing has turned into a popular strategy used by businesses today. The reason: outsourcing offers an inexpensive strategy for completing all or part of the bpo task. Currently, outsourcing has emerged as the most recent trend in business. Read more
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Authors: Mani Malarvannan and S. Ramaswamy
(Published in IEEE SOSE 2010)
In this paper, we summarize and outline some of the big challenges in addressing performance, scalability, and availability of applications with large and complex backend database systems. We present some of the limitations imposed by the CAP theorem on distributed systems development and identify some approaches that can be used to effectively address these limitations. We propose the adoption of an effective System-of-Systems approach that pushes adoption of principles supported by loosely-coupled SPU based architecture, which can support incremental development and rapid scalability of such complex and dynamic applicative needs. Read more
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Barun S. Mitra has recently written a thought provoking op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about how the Indian State is trying to regulate innovation out of the educational system by strangulating it. To first put things in perspective, Mitra acknowledges that India’s education system and its engineering schools in particular produce some of the world’s brightest graduates for its increasingly knowledge-intensive economy. However, he also cited some of the following and somewhat shocking facts and statistics about the vast majority of graduates and the workforce that India’s education system currently produces:
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