Nearshore Journal

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.
By Tony Baer
We’d be the first to admit our surprise that Pegasystems has thrived as well as it has. Our initial impression of the company about four to five [...]

India-based back office services firm EXL Services, which competes with bigger rivals like Genpact and WNS Global Services, plans to establish a delivery footprint in its top export market of the US through an acquisition. The firm is currently evaluating several deals, said the company’s president and CEO Rohit Kapoor. “We are pursuing acquisitions for [...]

By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Indian financial services group Religare Enterprises Ltd (RELG.BO) agreed to take a controlling stake in private equity firm Northgate Capital, as part of a $1 billion plan to build a global asset management business.
Northgate, with $3 billion under management, is Religare’s first U.S. deal and the Indian [...]

ExlService Holdings, a leading provider of outsourcing and transformation services, is scouting for acquisitions in the US. The company’s outsourcing services include a full spectrum of BPO services from offshore delivery centers that require ongoing process management skills. It is now looking to make acquisitions that will help the company grow competency in the insurance [...]

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.
By Tony Baer
Thanks go out to Oracle on Feb. 8 for finally putting us out of our suspense. AmberPoint was one of a dwindling group of still-standing software independents delivering run-time governance of the for SOA environments.
It’s a smart [...]

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.
By Tony Baer
In an otherwise pretty packed news day, we’d like to echo @mdl4’s sentiments about the respective importance of Apple’s and Oracle’s announcements: “Oracle finalized its purchase of Sun. Best thing to happen to Sun since Java. Also: [...]

By Philip Peters
In a new Kauffman Foundation Survey of its top economics bloggers called “Kauffman Economic Outlook” –  recently completed a grading of U.S. institutions 
that Influence the economy. The full details of the study will be released tomorrow and we will post the full study on our blog. Watch for the complete results tomorrow. [...]