Outsourcing

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Cognizant and Tata Consultancy Services have outstripped other outsourcers with predominantly Indian operations

Tue, February 07, 2012 - IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Unilever has extended an SAP enterprise resource planning rollout to North America, vital to its core business processes including supply chain management in one of its largest business regions.

Fri, February 03, 2012 - The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.

Fri, February 03, 2012 - H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.

Tue, January 31, 2012 - President Barack Obama faced perhaps his toughest and most direct question ever on the H-1B program by a Texas woman during an online town hall Monday.

Mon, January 30, 2012 - The proliferation of IT and business process outsourcing contracts worth less than $100 million is creating governance headaches for CIOs. How are IT outsourcing service providers responding?

Fri, January 27, 2012 - Offshore outsourcing companies continued to make up the majority of the top 10 H-1B visa users in 2011, according to new government data. These offshore firms have been adding employees by the thousands as their revenues increase.

Wed, January 25, 2012 - President Barack Obama Tuesday attacked offshoring, urged businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S., and renewed his appeal for visa reforms to keep foreign students from returning home after earning advanced degrees.

Fri, January 20, 2012 - Does the USA Patriot Act give the U.S. government too much access to data stored on the cloud servers of American providers regardless of where those servers are located? That's the concern among European IT leaders.

Thu, January 19, 2012 - President Barack Obama is trying to encourage U.S. companies not to send work overseas. This might not be as hard a job as it seems for some types of IT work.

Fri, January 13, 2012 - Are you prepared as global IT outsourcers shrink onshore staff? These tips will help you keep projects moving as offshore IT service provides cut back on the on-site staff that used to work as liaisons between customer and provider.

Fri, January 06, 2012 - Have you outsourced too many IT services? Once an organization gets a taste of the benefits of IT outsourcing, the hunger for more naturally increases. But the ROI quickly diminishes as internal IT service organization shrink. If these seven traits apply to your company, you've outsourced too much.