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All IT Services and Outsourcing News - May 2007

Global law firm improves datacentres with outsourcing deal

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 29 May 2007

Global law firm Linklaters has signed a worldwide IT services contract with Unisys to improve the performance of its datacentres

Hewden updates network and services with renewed BT deal

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 24 May 2007

Hewden, the UK’s largest plant hire company, has renewed its £20m outsourcing deal with BT, which will be its fully managed network IT services provider.

Worldwide IT services market grows over 6%

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 18 May 2007

The worldwide IT services market totalled £353.8bn in 2006, a 6.4% increase from 2005, according to a report by analyst firm Gartner.

Brits prefer onshore call centres

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 15 May 2007

Research from analyst firm Mintel has cast a shadow over offshore call centres as it revealed a massive 82% of UK consumers do not want to talk to overseas call centres about their finances.

Atos take over talks come to nothing

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 14 May 2007

Takeover talks at outsourcer Atos Origin have come to nothing, and the firm has decided to carry on as an independent company.

Chinese offshore software market to grow

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Author: John-Paul Kamath
Date: 11 May 2007

Total revenue from China's offshore software outsourcing market will grow fivefold over the next five years and the compound annual growth rate of the market will reach 37.9%, according to a recent report by market research firm IDC.

Wage inflation threatens outsourcing

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Author: Karl Flinders
Date: 10 May 2007

Higher wages for Indian IT workers is the single greatest threat to global outsourcing, according to a poll of 325 Fortune 1000 IT executives.

Legacy tracker helps HSBC assess offshore project risk

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Author: John-Paul Kamath
Date: 04 May 2007

HSBC has cut the average time it takes to analyse the effect of making changes to its legacy software applications from seven months to seven weeks after deploying software to automatically track data dependencies between applications.

Outsourcing IT career progression

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Author: Liz Warren
Date: 04 May 2007

Emphasis on training and the chance to work on diverse contracts makes outsourcing suppliers attractive employers, but flexibility and business focus are vital

Your shout: skills gap, outsourcing failures, good security

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Date: 01 May 2007

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