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Global Services
September 3, 2008
Nishant Verma |
Many German, British Co.s Get Sold in July '08 One of the major deals July '08 was Capgemini, a French IT-services provider acquiring the Netherlands-based business-application division of Getronics for $400 million   |
Global Services
June 2, 2008
Verma & Vashishtha |
Japan, Belgium and Israel: New on Global M&As Radar Compared to previous month, the total deal volume in April 2008 dipped by 19 percent, and the total deal value rolled down by 27 percent. |
Global Services
April 29, 2008
Verma & Vashistha |
Global SMEs on an Acquisition Spree Unlike Feb. '08, when most acquirers were large firms, the month of March saw most deals done by small and medium enterprises. The acquisitions were mostly in the areas of engineering services, BPO, knowledge-process outsourcing, IT consulting, software and IT services. |
Global Services
August 4, 2008 |
June '08: The Month of Consolidation with 40 M&As This month the global IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry witnessed $1.3 billion of deals from 40 transactions compared to $1.8 billion of deals from 33 transactions in May. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Investment Either directly or indirectly through its portfolio companies, PE firms will widen the geographical scope of their search for investment in this sector. At the same time, in India, the leader in the IT and BPO space, such an investment is likely to be at an all-time high. |
Global Services
December 1, 2008
Nishant Verma |
Average M&A Size Continues to Plunge Further In Oct. '08, firms slated over 54 acquisitions for a total deal value of over $1.63 billion as against 59 transactions making up for $2.1 billion in the previous month. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
The Big Six Providers IBM Global Services, EDS, CSC, and Accenture raked in $15.39 billion in 2007 from single-vendor deals. The other two of the Big Six, ACS and HP, failed to win even one single-vendor deal with a value of more than $200 million in 2007. |
Global Services
March 31, 2008 |
Recession Fails to Impact M&A Trend Though the tone was a bit conservative compared to January, substantial M&A activity in IT/BPO was reported in February. Seventy eight percent of the deals happened in the U.S., despite difficult economic conditions with the largest deal being Reed Elsevier acquiring Choice Point for $3.5 billion |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Anders Bylund |
EDS Feels Tedious IT outsourcing contractor EDS could go places, but it's not trying hard enough. |
Insurance & Technology
May 28, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Vendor Acquisitions Could Reshape Insurance Technology Space Big players such as Oracle and HP make a commitment in the insurance industry, showing that they are willing to verticalize their offerings and that they believe that there's a long-term play in the industry. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
EDS Has Its Work Cut Out EDS doesn't seem leveraged to the sweetest spots in the outsourcing world, but may have some value-play potential for investors. |
Global Services
October 27, 2008
Nishant Verma |
M&A Activities Speed up in Economic Slowdown Amid the economic slowdown, targets looking for higher valuations need to offer sustainable value proposition in terms of high-end capabilities and clientele to differentiate oneself from the peer group. |
Global Services
August 27, 2007
Rinku Tyagi |
European Service Providers: In the Eye of a Storm Management strife, slow global service-delivery adoption, fragmented market, few mega deals, and rising competition from foreign players.... The European IT and BPO service providers are facing rough weather. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
Mega IT Outsourcing Deals 2007 Which were the largest IT-services deals of 2007? Which industry sectors outsourced the most? Which providers won? Which lost out? Global Services analyzes the global sourcing deal trends of the year gone by |
Global Services
June 26, 2007
Imrana Khan |
EDS + MphasiS + ExcellerateHRO = The Awesome Threesome The 2007 Black Book of Outsourcing's listing of top 50 global service providers is full of surprises. EDS emerging on top is only one of them. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
Top 10 Deals Examining the share of the top 10 IT-services outsourcing deals versus the rest of the IT-services deals reveals interesting results. |
BusinessWeek
January 30, 2006 |
The Livermore Way at HP Ann Livermore has her Technology Solutions Group humming - by going "back to basics" and by bringing in more sales executives for her team. |
Global Services
January 28, 2008 |
The End Is Not Always Perfect In Dec. 07, the deal-making trend was quite subdued. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Dell/Perot Merger Differs From HP/EDS While the comparison is inevitable, the difference in sizes and markets make the two mergers very different. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Accenture's Awesome Accomplishments So long as the company continues to leverage its global platform and generate new bookings, the upcoming year should also be kind to shareholders. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
Top 10 Providers Together the top 10 IT-services outsourcing providers bagged single-vendor deals worth a total of $36.28 billion. This is almost 78% of the total share of all deals signed last year. |
Global Services
January 3, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
Top Deals by Industries The global financial-services sector (including banking and insurance) signed 13 contracts worth a total value of $8.40 billion in 2007, according to a recent study |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Imrana Khan |
What'll the New Year Bring for Outsourcers? Outsourcing will continue to be a lever for transformation. Adding business value will become the norm. Services providers will be pressed to drive business transformation that creates sustainable value for their customers |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Anders Bylund |
HP Dons Kid Gloves for the EDS Deal Hewlett-Packard is paying $13.9 billion or $25 per share in cold hard cash to pick up support service provider Electronic Data Systems. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Accenture Accentuates the Positives The information technology (IT) consulting company is setting the bar for its peers. This consistency is a hallmark of high performance companies and should help provide even more upside for shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2009
Anders Bylund |
HP May Fall Apart -- in a Good Way Hewlett-Packard just created a whole new business unit out of fresh EDS services and a few old scraps. The new communications and media solutions segment puts all of HP's products for media and telecom providers under one virtual roof. |
Global Services
September 3, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Indian Domestic Outsourcing Market on an Uptick The Indian domestic BPO market, which presently stands at $1.41 billion mark, is likely to increase by 35 percent to $5.38 billion by 2012, according to a recently released study by ValueNotes, a business intelligence and research firm |
InternetNews
September 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Internal HP Memo Details New Strategies On the heels of its announcement that it will cut more than 24,000 jobs as it integrates outsourcing giant EDS, Hewlett-Packard is also reorganizing its software and services offerings. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Accenture's Outsourcing Bet Will the consulting firm's transition pay off? |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 19, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
HP's Purchase of EDS May Have Minimal Impact on Financial Services HP reached a definitive agreement to acquire Plano, Texas-based technology services and outsourcing provider EDS in a deal worth more than $13.9 million. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2004
Clint Boulton |
HP Inks $784M Services Deal with VA Ten-year contract is a coup for HP and its Adaptive Enterprise strategy over rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems. |
Global Services
May 27, 2008 |
U.S. Health-care Market Awards Maximum Outsourcing Deals The list of the 10 biggest outsourcing and IT outsourcing deals signed in April 2008 is dominated by activity in the U.S. health-care market. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2009
Rich Smith |
EDS, Y-E-S. COMS? N.O., HPQ! PC giant Hewlett-Packard announces that it is buying 3Com. This acquisition is very different from its purchase of EDS. Is it a good idea? |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2007
Rich Smith |
Accenture Says "Happy New Year!" Consulting firm Accenture started off its 2008 fiscal year in a big way -- beating both revenue and earnings expectations. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2004
Boulton & Kuchinskas |
HP Notches $500M in Outsourcing Deals HP on Wednesday closed three new IT outsourcing contracts totaling nearly $500 million. The company inked deals with MCI, Standard Register and TD Bank Financial Group. |
InternetNews
September 15, 2006
Joshua Greenbaum |
HP's Real Crime The spy scandal looks bad, but HP has a much more serious, long-term problem. |
Global Services
October 9, 2007 |
Accenture: Customers' Favorite for FAO Sept. '07 has gone well for Accenture specially in the finance and accounting space. Customers like Microsoft and BT Group both selected Accenture to provide F&A and procurement services |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Park & Greene |
EDS Turbocharges Its Teamwork Tight partnerships with a slew of tech biggies just might give EDS a shot at revival. |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006
Manjeet Kripalani |
Open Season On Outsourcers More Western software and services companies are snapping up Indian companies that specialize in back-office operations. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Stock of the Week: Accenture A breakdown from a former employee, current fan. |
FAO Today
Jan/Feb 2008 |
The Baker's Dozen: Enterprise Whether it's service scope, deal size, or customer satisfaction, these players in the FAO space all turned in outstanding performances for 2007. |
Global Services
January 31, 2008 |
2008 Global Services 100 Survey: Findings The Global Services 100 list, drawn by Global Services and neoIT, now in its fourth year, has come to be seen by the customers as a route to bypass the RFI stage, and the rankings as a means to shortlist candidates for RFP. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2009 |
HP Gets Aid in Wooing Sun's Server Customers HP is enlisting some aid in making its play for Sun customers even strong. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2006
Tom Taulli |
EDS Emerges From the Rubble The firm has made a nice comeback, but can it find more growth? While the company has made solid progress, it's probably not enough to get investors excited for now. |
CIO
March 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
The End of the Billion-Dollar Babies? Are we seeing the end of the single vendor, multibillion-dollar, 10-year outsourcing deal that was popular in the 1990s? |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
EDS in the Slow Lane It looks like competition is dragging growth at the IT giant. And if it is true that Indian rivals are making headway -- which seems reasonable -- then the slowness may continue for some time. Investors, take note. |
Global Services
March 28, 2008 |
Deals Remain Buoyant in Feb. '08, Despite Recession Fears After a strong start to the year, the IT outsourcing market remained buoyant in February, with a number of big-money, long-term deals being announced |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2009
Anders Bylund |
HP's Numbers Aren't as Good as They Look HP remains a colossus of the technology industry, but it's starting to look like its feet may be made of clay. |
CFO
June 1, 2004
Justin Wood |
The View from the East India's upstart IT-services firms face their own challenges from their giant rivals in the West. |
Global Services
October 26, 2007
Imrana Khan |
Say Si For ITO Latin America is not just a nearshore contact-center destination; it is also fast emerging as an IT outsourcing location. |
