In yet another shake-out of the Melbourne banking scene, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group today confirmed it would send around 500 information technology and back office jobs to India by year's end.
IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems
The U.S. technology industry's demand for offshore services is apparently beginning to drive up pay rates in India, raising questions about the long-term benefits of outsourcing work to that country.
The backlash against India caused by outsourcing will fade away in two years, according to analysts from IT market research firm Gartner.
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has named 14-year-company veteran R Ravishankar as country manager for Australia and New Zealand.
We need statistics and commentary from analysts to reinforce the bleeding obvious because we seem quite capable of utterly ignoring it otherwise.
Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.
Growing demand for offshore services in India is raising the cost of labour there, causing US firms to begin eyeing China, Romania and other options. But India has some tricks up its sleeve.
Offshoring seems like such an irresistible force, but in the not-too-distant future, much of the work that is pushing offshore will be eliminated altogether by continual improvements in software technology.
Wipro's Sudip Banerjee explains why many Indian companies fear being left behind by an emerging -- and less expensive -- China.
Wipro CEO Vivek Paul ponders the implications of a US that graduates more sports therapists than engineers.
For European businesses, Romanian IT workers are cheaper and have fewer cultural differences than in India--making the country the first choice for outsourcing, a report says.
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