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All IT Services and Outsourcing News - October 2006

Capgemini acquisition targets overseas growth

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 27 October 2006

Capgemini is buying rival outsourcing company Kanbay International for around $1.25bn (£675m), to help it expand in India and the US.

Rethink outsource policy or lose out, warns NCC

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Author: John Riley
Date: 24 October 2006

Organisations should rethink their outsourcing policies as many are resulting in a loss of competitive advantage through the inability to adapt quickly to new market conditions, National Computing Centre chief executive Michael Gough has warned.

BBC outsources business processes to India

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 23 October 2006

The BBC has selected Xansa as its preferred supplier for a 10-year business process outsourcing (BPO) contract worth £85m.

Euro payment changes causing problems for banks

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 09 October 2006

Banks are struggling to implement plans to handle the introduction of the single Euro payments area (SEPA) in 2008, new research has revealed.

Vodafone names EDS and IBM as preferred bidders in apps development deal

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Author: Will Hadfield
Date: 09 October 2006

Vodafone has named EDS and IBM as the preferred bidders for an application development and maintenance services deal worth £560m per year.

Retailers use outsourcing to improve focus on core business

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Author: Will Hadfield
Date: 03 October 2006

Retailers are increasingly outsourcing their back-office functions so that they can concentrate on their core business activities.

News in brief

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Author: Computer Weekly
Date: 03 October 2006

Short takes on this week's news

Outsourcing takes the lion's share of supermarkets' above average IT investment

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Author: Computer Weekly
Date: 03 October 2006

Business Focus is a weekly column providing at-a-glance statistics and commentary on spending priorities and trends in particular sectors. This week we look at food retailers.

Outsourcing: Getting it right

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Author: Computer Weekly
Date: 02 October 2006

In the next few years outsourcing contracts worth billions of pounds will be let or re-tendered. The decision to outsource is fundamental to an organisation’s strategy and business model, so how do you get it right?

BPO spend set to boom over next five years

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Author: Arif Mohamed
Date: 02 October 2006

European organisations will spend increasing more on business process outsourcing (BPO) services between now and 2011, a report from Forrester Research has predicted.

All IT Services and Outsourcing News - October 2006

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