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| Friday, 04 August 2006 | |
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IBM to set up second F&A center in Portugal IBM will set up its second finance and accounting services provider center in Braga, Portugal. The first centre is located in Lisbon. IBM will optimize process performance and reduce costs for one of their clients Uniliever from the Portugal centre. It will work in co-operation with the other two centres at Bangalore, India which provides transactional services and Krakow, Poland which will also provide client and vendor relations services. eSys eyeing India for back-office The Singapore-based eSys Technologies, an IT distribution and manufacturing firm, plans to relocate its global back office to India. The planned expenditure for the venture is close to $214.88 million in the current fiscal. The company has revenues of $2 billion with 114 offices across 35 countries. The primary reason for the Indian back office is cost saving. Bharti contracts with IBM IBM has been awarded an IT outsourcing contract from Bharti to provide assistance for developing a Service Delivery Platform (SDP). This will allow Bharti to put all applications for Airtel under one platform. The contract is worth $100 million. Wipro and Motorola to invest in WMNetServ Wipro and Motorola plan to invest about $20 million over the next three years in WMNetServ. WMNetServ is a joint venture between the two companies to provide outsourced telecom services. The investment will enhance the tools and technology division of the new firm. It will begin operations with about 50 employees. Transpower awards ITO contract to Fujitsu Fujitsu New Zealand has won a three-year IT outsourcing contract with Transpower, the owner and operator of New Zealand’s National Grid. Fujitsu will provide onsite support and a quality plan for Transpower, apart from IT outsourcing activities. SAP to expand in India SAP plans to invest $1 billion in India over the next five years for expanding its workforce and strengthening its distribution network. The company is planning to employ an additional 750 employees by end of 2006, and aims to double its India workforce in the next five years. Related Items: |
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