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Monday, September 06, 2010
Established Outsourcing Providers Lose Market Share in the DACH Region
New findings from a report by the market research and strategic consulting firm Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) demonstrates that sales from IT outsourcing services will have increased by approximately EUR 4.5 billion in the DACH region in 2010 compared to 2005. Over the same period, the share in overall IT spending - an important indicator of the maturity of the outsourcing market - has risen from 9 to 13 percent.
According to the PAC report, which focused on sourcing trends and supplier positioning in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, established players in this market segment have not all been benefiting to the same extent from the positive trend. A comparison of the years 2005 and 2009 shows that most of the established providers have lost market share, partly to individual competitors, but mostly to a large number of “newcomers“.
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Wipro joins with Oracle to deliver domain solution
Wipro Technologies the global Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced an initiative with Oracle to jointly deliver a Warranty Management and Analytics solution for the Industrial Manufacturing, Automotive and High Tech industries.
This combined solution will leverage Wipro’s deep industry expertise and Oracle’s Siebel CRM applications to help streamline the warranty management process across OEMs and their suppliers, dealer service providers, and contract manufacturers to help reduce warranty expenses and fraudulent claims.
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Friday, September 03, 2010
Hitachi and GDS to open green data centre in the Netherlands
Hitachi Europe and Green Data Systems (GDS) have announced the opening of a highly energy efficient data centre in Deventer, The Netherlands. It will be opened on 23 September this year.
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Dell throws in the towel; HP acquires 3PAR
It seems analyst were right as to who would win the bidding war over global provider of utility storage 3PAR. But with $115bn annual revenue –compared with Dell's $53bn - this should come as no surprise.
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
UK: Buying Solutions awards IT outsourcing contract to Bull IT
Buying Solutions, the public sector procurement agency awarded Bull IT a framework agreement for IT Managed Services.
Under the agreement, Bull’s IT managed services will be made available to all UK public sector organisations which are seeking to contract a supplier who can design, implement and manage end-to-end, cost effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services.
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The Met awards £10m contract extension to Logica
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) and Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have granted Logica a £10m three-year extension on its pay and pensions outsourcing contract.
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Capgemini acquires stake in Brazilian IT services player
IT and outsourcing consultancy Capgemini has acquired a 55% stake in Brazilian IT services company CPM Braxis.
Capgemini has an option to buy the remainder of CPM Braxis’ capital (45%), and the existing shareholders have an option to sell their remaining shares. These options can only be exercised between the 3rd and the 5th anniversary of the closing date (on the basis of an estimated price based on fair market value at the time of the exercise of these options).
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
CBI awards 5 year contract to Wipro
Central Bank of India (CBI), one of the largest public sector banks in India has awarded IT solutions supplier Wipro a five-year total outsourcing agreement to provide state-of-the-art, technology-driven, core banking solution for seven sponsored Regional Rural banks (RRBs).
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Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, a mobile software and applications development tools vendor.
The OpenPlug toolset will be incorporated into Alcatel-Lucent’s Developer Platform and external linkOpen API Service, thus broadening the functionality available to service providers, enterprises and developers for the exposure of network assets and the rapid introduction of new services across mobile and Web domains.
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Sony increases outsourcing to Taiwan
Japan’s Sony Corp is increasingly outsourcing television manufacturing to contract makers, primarily its Taiwanese partners, during this fiscal year to boost its market share.
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