Pharmaceutical services company Parexel International has acquired all the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a provider of Regulatory Information Management (RIM) solutions. Established in 1994,Liquent provides software solutions ...
The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
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Capita has won the race to take over a number of key Barnet Council services in an outsourcing deal valued at GBP 320m over 10 years. The business-process outsourcing specialist will take over the running of the Council's "new support and ...
Councils are showing a huge disparity in the amount they spend on invoice document processing, with some paying 100 times more than others, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) research. The research found that Hammersmith and Fulham ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped year-on-year in the third quarter, with contract values also decreasing, a research firm said. Everest Group, which had reported a drop of 20% year-on-year ...
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Outsourcing services giant Accenture has launched an apprenticeship programme in Newcastle, offering 40 places on the three-year programme over the next 12 months. The first 20 apprentices will start in February 2013, with another 20 ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20% to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, a research firm said. "The market is ...
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IBM has combined a number of its online marketing software programmes into a unified service, called the IBM Marketing Centre. IBM has designed the service, an IBM Smarter Commerce offering, for organisations to outsource their online ...
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The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) business process outsourcing (BPO) market could be worth US$9.5 billion in 2016, up from US$5.9 billion in 2011, according to a Gartner report. The study, Market Trends: How to Profit From BPO Services ...
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Nicaragua is currently participating in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) Offshoring and Outsourcing Summit, held in Medellin Colombia from December 4th to the 6th, whose objective is to promote the development of the outsourcing ...
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Businesses and public sector organisations continue to outsource operations, with demand for shared services outstripping traditional outsourcing. According to KPMG research into outsourcing trends, over half (52%) of organisations in ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped year-on-year in the third quarter, with contract values also decreasing, a research firm said. Everest Group, which had reported a drop of 20 percent ...
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BancTec, a Dallas-based business process outsourcing (BPO) has purchased certain assets of GTESS, a provider of claims pre-adjudication technology and services for the healthcare industry for an undisclosed amount. According to BancTec, ...
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Hewlett-Packard(HP)CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year turnaround plan for the troubled enterprise IT company,admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected. Speaking at an analyst briefing,she said:"We have to focus on ...
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Thomas Cook online has signed a seven-figure deal with SME cloud provider CatN to host its e-commerce site. The agreement comes on the back of recent work by CatN,initially brought in by Thomas Cook as a skunkworks operation,which ...
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