Organisations are beginning to use offshore outsourcing to improve their business agility, rather than simply cut costs, the UK head of Indian outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services said last week.
Unisys has signed a worldwide IT outsourcing contract with Germany-based BSN Medical, an international provider of medical products for wound care, orthopedics and phlebology.
United Utilities is selling its Vertex Data Science business process outsourcing subsidiary to a consortium of US-based private equity firms for £217.5m.
Sandwell Council is anticipating significant cost savings from a planned £300m, 15-year outsourcing contract that will involve phasing out 145 jobs within the next three years.
Local government will spend £600m less on ICT in 2006-07 than it did in 2005-06, as IT directors realise cost savings from both outsourcing and business transformation projects.