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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
September 4, 2008 |
Govt. Defense Contracts Rule the Top 10 Chart July '08 saw government defense contracts dominating the top 10, with Lockheed Martin winning the biggest of the bunch -- a $1,200 million eight-year deal from the Transportation Security Administration to manage its integrated hiring operations and personnel program. |
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. |
Global Services
August 27, 2007
Juhi Bhambal |
European Providers: Off the Radar European customers signed IT and BPO deals worth about $19 billion between Jan. to Aug. this year. But European providers took less than half that amount to the bank. Whats going wrong? |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Global Services
September 20, 2007 |
Outsourcing by Europe Until recently, the outsourcing of IT and business services from Europe was primarily restricted to the U.K. and large firms on the continent. Now it seems as if the rest of the continent has begun to wake up to the opportunities provided by outsourcing. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
How Warburg Pincus Views Prospects and Perils in Outsourcing Deals What opportunities do private equity firms like Warburg Pincus see in the business process outsourcing business? What risks do venture capitalists weigh when making such investments? |
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 |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008 |
What Happened to FAO Deals in 2007? Let's catch up with the top finance and accounting outsourcing deals of 2007 to see how they are going now. |
Global Services
August 4, 2008 |
India's Largest Captive Buyout Aviva Global Services, finally, sold! |
Bank Technology News
May 2007
Glen Fest |
IT Consulting: Capgemini Banking on Renewed Cred The bank's comeback strategy relies on building bank clients. |
Global Services
September 30, 2008
Namita Goel |
Top 10 Indian BPOs Analysis on the Top 10 Indian BPOs and what worked well for them in the past financial year. |
| 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. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Russ Banham |
Scaling New Heights Accenture's contract with BT Group lets finance and accounting outsourcing take a real seat at the strategy table -- perhaps for the first time. |
Global Services
June 10, 2008
Shyamanuja Das |
Outsourcing to India: 1998 Vs. 2008 If you want to offshore to India for the same reasons some of your peers did in 1998, then do so at your own risk. |
Global Services
January 31, 2008
Rinku Tyagi |
Best Performing FAO Providers--2008 Winner WNS The FAO practice at WNS has more than doubled its revenues in the past year, with 4,500 people out of a total of 17,000 working in this group, makes WNS the best performing FAO provider. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Vidala & Ranjan |
BPO in China Good to Grow The IT outsourcing legacy of China has given the country's business process outsourcing industry a sound base to start from. |
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
September 30, 2008
Phil Fersht |
China's Challenges to Develop a Global BPO Capability China is moving fast into BPO to establish its domain and thereby pose a challenge to India, the Philippines and Latin America. Will China make it there? |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2009
Andy Atkins-Kruger |
The International Search Recession is Over... International search outgains U.S. and U.K. during the three-month period ended Sept. 30, 2009. |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Paul Roehrig |
New Market Shifts Will Drive: Next Generation IT-Services Outsourcing Today's turbulent business environment can all but paralyze enterprise planning. IT faces this impact as much as any other business function, but the reality is that commerce must continue |
Global Services
May 27, 2008
Adyasha Sinha |
South-East Asia: Outsourcing Hotspot Although India, China and the Philippines have been the leading outsourcing nations for some time now, other Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore are among the emerging destinations where service providers are starting to expand. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Advisor Pulse Insurance holders are an increasingly fickle bunch, according to a world report. |
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 |
Global Services
May 27, 2007
Balaka Baruah Aggarwal |
Aviva Pulls an Ace with BOT Meticulous planning and serious intent helped Aviva conclude a successful transfer in one of its BOT engagements. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Russ Banham |
Let's Give 'em Something to Cluck About WNS takes Church's Chicken's F&A offshore all the way, with results that make the restaurant retailer crow. |
BusinessWeek
August 7, 2006
Manjeet Kripalani |
Call Center? That's So 2004 Outsourcing shops are moving fast into higher-paying businesses |
Global Services
August 27, 2007
Imrana Khan |
BPO is a Career in the Philippines BPO workers in the Philippines are less likely to leave their jobs than their counterparts in India or China. This is one of the several reasons for the growth in the industry there. |
