About: Mani Malarvannan

Mani Malarvannan

Website: http://www.cybelink.com

Profile: My name is Mani Malarvannan, I have been working in IT consulting since 1993, I live and work in Twin Cities, Minnesota. I started reading about outsourcing from 1998 and started writing about it from 2006.

Posts by Mani Malarvannan:

  • Does Business Process Standardization help BPO?

    We all know how outsource companies brag about their CMM level, Six Sigma, COPC – 2000, etc. Two years back I wrote an article explaining how business process standardization helps customers in their outsourcing projects. Last week I read an article in Harvard Business Review, When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? that made me to think about standardization and BPO. Read more

  • Current trends in offshore outsourcing

    US financial crisis that started in 2008 changed several industries permanently; offshore outsourcing is not immune to the changes. Top outsource vendors successfully managed the global recession by adopting different global delivery models and by understanding customer’s business started providing direct business value in the projects. Customers from their part started managing their outsource vendors more efficiently and with better performance metrics they started getting maximum benefits in minimum cost. Read more

  • Can globalization be stopped?

    Current economic slump may slow down the globalization but it will not stop it. Though G20 countries may increase protectionism they cannot reverse the globalization trends. If they try to reverse then it would have negative impacts on their economy like increase in layoffs, increase in price for goods and services, etc. For example President Bush introduced steel tariffs and lifted it couple of years back due to protection from WTO. But it does not save the US steel industry; in contrast it affected the US automobile industry directly. Since the US car makers need to pay more for the steel than their foreign competitors they increased the price and customers bought more imported cars. Read more

  • Can President Obama alter offshore outsourcing for US companies?

    President Obama’s new tax proposal has been widely discussed topic in the offshore outsource industry for the past month or so.  Read more

  • Managing Offshore Software Teams

    The effect of Globalization touched all industries and jobs; software development is no different. Now a days software developers working for a company are physically separated with each other and they may be in different timezones within in a country or anywhere in the world. Companies often outsource software development projects to countries like India, China, Russia, etc. and they also started using crowdsourcing web sites for all their software development efforts. Read more

  • Offshore Outsourcing Commoditization

    Today I was reading the article India Is Losing its Share of Offshoring Market, following are the main reasons quoted by the Gartner analyst for India to lose offshore outsourcing market share:
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  • Green Cloud Outsourcing

    I did not know that IT industry is putting as much carbon as the airline industry until I read the Hardvard Business Blog on cloud computing. As you all know cloud computing is the hottest topic in IT and with its promise of reducing IT infrastructure and their by reducing energy usage will definitevely appeal to all the businesses. Also President Obama administration with green initiative will further enforce the growth of green and cloud computing in US.
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  • HCL ahead in infrastructure outsourcing race

    HCL has won two major infrastructure outsourcing contracts straight in a row, first $350 Million with Reader’s Digest and now $100 Million with Xerox.
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  • Growth of Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing

    Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing, (RIMO) is a growing trend among the outsource providers to deliver IT infrastructure management services remotely either from onshore, nearshore or from offshore locations. In the past customers were reluctant to outsource infrastructure management services to offshore locations but now that trend are changing. Recently India based HCL won a major infrastructure outsource deal from Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. and from Xerox. Read more

  • Financial and Accounting (F&A) Outsourcing Opportunities

    Due to current economic slump, many small businesses from developed countries are considering finance and accounting outsource services like accounts payable, account receivable, and general bookkeeping services. As the small business see the value beyond cost savings in large corporations due to higher-value F&A outsourcing, they are considering outsourcing higher-value accounting projects like accounting and financial process innovation, real-time accounting integration, budgeting and forecasting. Some small businesses are considering outsourcing their entire accounting and financial operations to outsource vendors. Increasing confidence in accounting outsource providers skills, availability of tools and technologies, and accounting process standardization are making the shift for the small businesses on outsourcing higher-value accounting projects. Read more

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