Nearshore Journal

PROPERTY GIANT Ayala Land, Inc. plans to hike office spaces for business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in the next few years given renewed demand, its top executive said.
More office spaces will be available in the next few years as Ayala Land taps provinces for further expansion. “An example is our BPO building in Iloilo and [...]

It was a year ago when analysts were estimating that IT will begin to move back to the U.S. and IT outsourcing to other countries such as India, and China, will wane. But weathering through challenges such as language barriers and political opposition, IT still remains as one of the most viable outsourcing services to [...]

By Bharghavi Nagaraju
Bangalore: Mid-sized Indian outsourcer MphasiS is looking at opportunities to buy companies with annual revenues of $50 million to $100 million to strengthen its presence in financial, telecom and healthcare services, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Ganesh Ayyar said MphasiS, a unit of Hewlett-Packard Co, would use its cash reserve of $320 million [...]

By Karl Flinders
It is worth mentioning that the main suppliers that met government Minister Francis Maude yesterday to discuss reducing costs did not include any Indian IT companies.
How long will this last I wonder? If they want to cut costs, up to 20% according to some, they will probably need access to lower cost labour.
That screams [...]

Offshore BPO company Genpact Ltd on Wednesday named Mr Sanjeev Prasad as its new Chief Information Officer. In his new role, Mr Prasad will be responsible for delivering enterprise applications and services, and driving IT innovation for the company. “Mr Prasad will be specifically focused on utilising technology such as business process-as-a-service (BPaaS), virtualisation and [...]

By Arjun Sethi and Olivier Aries
As Google and Amazon.com become preeminent sellers of tech services, companies from Accenture to Microsoft and Xerox must adapt to cloud computing.
In the next five years outsourcing as we know it will disappear. The legion of Indian service providers will be sidelined or absorbed. U.S. and European companies that pioneered [...]

BANGALORE: On his first visit to India as the British prime minister, Conservative leader David Cameron allayed fears of any curbs on the IT outsourcing by the country’s government departments, even as he asked Indian companies to create more jobs in the UK.
Mr Cameron, who will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Thursday, [...]