Earlier this year the company announced plans to save billions of dollars through an IT overhaul that includes closing half of its 42 data centres by the end of 2009, standardising applications and using fewer vendors.
Robin Goad, managing analyst at Datamonitor, says: "The vast majority of offshoring is through an outsourcer and even the do-it-yourself efforts normally involve working with a local partner. It began with application development, in cheap overseas...
BT has dismissed some of the "myths" around offshore outsourcing and claims some customers who complain about language difficulties with Indian call centres are just "bigots". Bushell said she was shocked by some of the "bigots" she encountered...
The merger between banks ABN Amro and Barclays will see the consolidation of both companies' data centres and IT networks to realise cost savings of €1.65bn by 2010. The goal is a universal banking model that includes the use of best practice...
The Indian start-up business process outsourcing (BPO) firms - as opposed to the big established players like Infosys, TCS and Wipro - are also set to undergo radical consolidation, with Gartner predicting 70 per cent of the top 15 will be...
Therefore, it perhaps comes as no surprise to find that many of the UK’s call centres are not capable of offering true integrated multi-channel interaction. Running in parallel has been an increased reliance in offshore outsourcing, using call...