The proposed Global Delivery Centre of BPO (business process outsourcing) firm Genpact in the city, which is already running behind schedule, is set to face further delay. Genpact, the BPO arm of the US-based General Electric, had aimed to operationalize its delivery centre in the city by the fourth quarter of 2009-10. But as things stand today, the project is unlikely to take off before March 2010.The global financial turmoil has hit the operations of Genpact and the BPO firm is unlikely to resume construction work before March 2010, a senior official of the state IT department told Business Standard.

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Genpact Bpo Project To Be Delayed

Analysts to Show How To Implement and Manage a Successful Outsourcing Partnership During the Gartner Outsourcing Summit, April 4-6 in Los Angeles, CA STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 29, 2005–Worldwide business process outsourcing (BPO) is projected to reach $133.7 billion in 2005, an 8 percent increase from 2004 revenue of $123.8 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts predicted earlier this year that eight to 12 major BPO contracts, each exceeding $300 million in contract value, were likely to be signed between the fourth quarter of 2004 and the end of the first quarter in 2005. That prediction is rapidly turning into a reality

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Gartner Says Increased Demand for Business Process Outsourcing to Create a Seller’s Market in 2005

Even as the buzz around Vivel Paul’s candidature as CEO is still doing the rounds at Satyam Computer Services [ Get Quote ] , insiders say the government is considering a person who was an integral part of the company till three months ago. The name of Venkatesh Roddam, former CEO of Satyam’s BPO subsidiary Nipuna, is being seriously considered, since Paul is not keen to return to India, according to highly-placed sources. The search for a CEO has been following founder Ramalinga Raju’s disclosures of financial fraud January 7 and his subsequent arrest.

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Ex-Satyam BPO chief in contention for CEO post

NEW YORK: The economic crisis may present a growth opportunity for India’s top outsourcing firm, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), as US financial services companies look to cut costs, but that opportunity is likely some months away, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday. It does not make sense for Wall Street firms to run their own “captive” back-office information technology operations that perform functions such as order processing, TCS Chief Executive Subramanian Ramadorai told Reuters.

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Tata CEO sees opportunity as US banks cut back

MANILA: Business outsourcing may not be the most glamorous industry in the world but it is one of the few bright lights amid the doom and gloom of the global financial crisis. The two countries which have benefited the most from outsourcing, India and the Philippines, expect to see some initial pain from the financial turmoil but the industry is confident it will ride out the storm. In the Philippines the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry expects growth this year of between 35-40 per cent on revenues of around seven billion dollars.

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Outsourcing one bright light in sea of global gloom

While numerous studies have been pointing to a possible softness in IT budgets next year, the closely watched TPI Index of global contracts shows a definite slowdown in outsourcing. The Houston, Texas based TPI, the worlds largest sourcing data and advisory firm, released the quarterly numbers of global outsourcing deals on Thursday. About 128 outsourcing contracts worth only USD14.4 billion in TCV total contract value were signed in July September, the third quarter of calendar 2008.

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TPI sees slowdown in outsourcing

It doesn’t take a madman to notice that the email industry is in shambles from all the trash that’s floating around on the net these days. The effectiveness of email and newsletter campaigns is diminishing as people are starting to tire of the job of filtering through all the junk mail just to get what they want to read. Even with a double opt in email or newsletter many of the newsletters and emails are ignored and many are caught in the spam filters set up by corporations, ISPs or the system operator themselves, what to do?

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