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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
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 27, 2008 |
May '08 Posts M&A Deals Worth $16 Billion Global IT and business process outsourcing firms have inked 34 M&A deals in May '08 where the acquirers, based in the U.S., dominated the market with maximum acquisitions. |
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
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 |
Global Services
January 28, 2008 |
The End Is Not Always Perfect In Dec. 07, the deal-making trend was quite subdued. |
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
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of KPO The next five to 10 years of the Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry's growth will be dramatic as firms build scale, develop new capabilities and innovate their business models. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Accenture's Outsourcing Bet Will the consulting firm's transition pay off? |
Global Services
January 1, 2008
Verma & Vashistha |
The Future of M&As The next few years will witness an increase in the volume and aggregate value of M&As in the global IT and BPO service provider landscape. These deals will reflect providers' strategies to broad-base their presence across Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. |
Insurance & Technology
August 6, 2008
Chris Murphy |
BPO Continues to Evolve Knowledge process outsourcing, or KPO -- in which service providers take over high-level tasks requiring professional judgment and industry experience -- looks to be the next frontier for the outsourcing industry. |
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
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
May 12, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Sourcing Advisor Caveat Third-party advisors assistance may be one of the good reasons behind the overall satisfaction with the sourcing engagements you are involved in, but in many instances external advisors can hit hard on your pockets. |
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 |
Global Services
November 24, 2008
Namita Goel |
More of IT-consulting Services to Move Offshore The total offshore market of IT consulting in the U.S. is estimated at $104 billion, according to a report released by Everest and Bernstein. |
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. |
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. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
How One Venture Capitalist Views Opportunities in BPO Investments As more and more buzz grows around business process outsourcing, as the trend is called, venture capitalists are starting to take notice. |
Global Services
May 5, 2008
Adyasha Sinha |
The U.S. Gains Momentum as an Outsourcing Hub With more and more U.K. firms plunging into offshoring, their next-door neighbor, the U.S., gains brownie points as an outsourcing destination |
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
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. |
CFO
December 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Buyer Beware More companies than ever have experience with outsourcing. So why are deals still failing? |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Accenture's Balancing Act The large consulting firm is holding steady in the face of ever-changing demand. The company reported third-quarter earnings of $0.37 per share that were in line with the analysts' estimate and $0.09 better than last year's results. |
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
May 14, 2008 |
Bracing up for the Slowdown The impact of U.S. slowdown will not be as severe as it was during the dotcom bust; the outsourcing industry has matured fairly well in the past seven years. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 22, 2005
Paul Allen |
The Evolution of Outsourcing Though most trends in the financial services industry tend to be U.S.-led, fund management outsourcing has been more of a U.K. and continental European phenomenon to date, with a raft of high-profile deals hitting the headlines in the past two years. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 1, 2007
Nancy Feig |
New Rules for Bank Outsourcing and Offshoring New deal models and business imperatives, as well as opportunities in emerging markets, are inspiring banks to reevaluate the types of outsourcing and offshoring arrangements they make. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Peggy Cope |
Department Statistics & Studies: 2007: Was it a Good Year for FAO? Some Say Yes. Nelson-Hall's business process outsourcing Index reported gains for the industry overall, with some good news for the finance and accounting segment. |
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 |
