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FAO Today
Jan/Feb 2008 |
The Baker's Dozen: Enterprise Whether it's service scope, deal size, or customer satisfaction, these players in the FAO space all turned in outstanding performances for 2007.   |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Russ Banham |
Scaling New Heights Accenture's contract with BT Group lets finance and accounting outsourcing take a real seat at the strategy table -- perhaps for the first time. |
Global Services
October 9, 2007 |
Accenture: Customers' Favorite for FAO Sept. '07 has gone well for Accenture specially in the finance and accounting space. Customers like Microsoft and BT Group both selected Accenture to provide F&A and procurement services |
Global Services
August 8, 2007 |
July's Biggest Outsourcing Deals The biggest outsourcing contract of the month was signed between AstraZeneca and IBM Global Services. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Peggy Cope |
Department Statistics & Studies: 2007: Was it a Good Year for FAO? Some Say Yes. Nelson-Hall's business process outsourcing Index reported gains for the industry overall, with some good news for the finance and accounting segment. |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Imrana Khan |
What'll the New Year Bring for Outsourcers? Outsourcing will continue to be a lever for transformation. Adding business value will become the norm. Services providers will be pressed to drive business transformation that creates sustainable value for their customers |
Global Services
November 4, 2008
John Willmott |
F&A Outsourcing Regroups in 2008: Improved Business Analytics Delivery in 2009 & 2010 Finance and Account Outsourcing (FAO) contract activity was down this year. Here's a look at the future of this industry. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Russ Banham |
Let's Give 'em Something to Cluck About WNS takes Church's Chicken's F&A offshore all the way, with results that make the restaurant retailer crow. |
CFO
May 1, 2007
Randy Myers |
Going Away The doubts that finance executives once had about offshoring are quickly disappearing as savings and process improvements become too good to pass up. |
Global Services
January 31, 2008
Rinku Tyagi |
Best Performing FAO Providers--2008 Winner WNS The FAO practice at WNS has more than doubled its revenues in the past year, with 4,500 people out of a total of 17,000 working in this group, makes WNS the best performing FAO provider. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Khan & Bhambal |
The Big Six Providers IBM Global Services, EDS, CSC, and Accenture raked in $15.39 billion in 2007 from single-vendor deals. The other two of the Big Six, ACS and HP, failed to win even one single-vendor deal with a value of more than $200 million in 2007. |
Global Services
September 6, 2007 |
Aug.'s Top Outsourcing Partnerships: Reuters-Fujitsu; Allianz-Xchanging The month saw a string of new IT outsourcing contracts being announced -- some of which were expected in the first half of the year |
Global Services
May 27, 2007
Fersht & Sappenfield |
F&A BPO: Beyond Labor Arbitrage While traditionally it has not been easy to convince CFOs of the business benefits of Finance and Accounting BPO, the effectiveness of some early deployments has boosted their confidence. |
HRO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Andy Teng |
After Steep Declines Last Year, Will Big Deals Come Back in '08? With big signings nearly disappearing in 2007, is the HR outsourcing industry in trouble? |
Global Services
February 4, 2008
Imrana Khan |
34% Buyers Axe Their BPO Deals One of three customers of Business Process Outsourcing services ended their offshoring deals prematurely in 2007, reveals a recent study. |
Global Services
June 16, 2007 |
Accenture: HRO Leader in Europe A recent study has crowned Accenture as Europe's top Human Resource Outsourcing service providers. The company signed 24% (with 48% of total contract value) of total outsourcing contracts. |
Global Services
August 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Truly Global A reality check on the multicountry global delivery model in outsourcing |
Global Services
May 14, 2008
Lisa Ross |
Shifting to an FAO 2.0 Mindset While cost reduction and process efficiency are still key drivers for FAO engagements, customers are adopting a wider scope of contracted services upfront, suggesting that the FAO market is now shifting to the age of FAO 2.0 differentiated from less sophisticated market demand for services |
Global Services
October 31, 2008 |
No. Of Long-Term Outsourcing Deals Surges in Sept. '08 The overall trend, in recent years, has been for outsourcing contract lengths to become shorter, due to customer wariness of being trapped in a long-term deal. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Rachael Stormonth |
Are Vendors Contributing To the Slowdown in New Procurement BPO? Mismatches between buy-side requirements and vendors' services and capabilities prove challenging. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Lisa Ross |
Department Procurement: Try Adding Procurement By outsourcing finance & accounting and procurement together, you can fan the flames of powerful synergies that will go straight to the bottom line -- while helping to improve operations. |
HRO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Andy Teng |
The European Market Update Taking on HR outsourcing in a more measured way than North American counterparts, European HR leaders seem careful to make their outsourcing effort a more successful experience. |
Global Services
August 27, 2007
Rinku Tyagi |
European Service Providers: In the Eye of a Storm Management strife, slow global service-delivery adoption, fragmented market, few mega deals, and rising competition from foreign players.... The European IT and BPO service providers are facing rough weather. |
HRO Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Andy Teng |
Department Market Trends: Study: Multi-process HRO Continues Downward Slide NelsonHall quarterly report finds HRO and BPO in general accounting for smaller piece of overall outsourcing industry. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Ross & Madden |
New Dynamics Emerging In the Mid-market FAO Landscape Outsourcing companies are increasingly seeking new business opportunities in what is called the "mid-market." |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Menzigian et al. |
Outsourcing Order-to-Cash & Procure-to-Pay For finance and accounting outsourcing, an understanding of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay unlocks new opportunities to create business impact. |
CFO
March 1, 2011
Janet Kersnar |
Outsourcing Matures, Slowly To make outsourcing deals succeed, CFOs still need to ask plenty of questions -- and demand more flexibility in contracts. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Peggy Cope |
Globalization and the Future At the ONE Conference in Atlanta, experts tackled the cutting-edge questions of finance and procurement globalization. Here are some highlights from the presentations and panels. |
Global Services
May 28, 2008
Lisa Ross |
FAO to Achieve Strategic Objectives The No.1 reason for companies to consider outsourcing finance back-office functions is the need for cost reductions; however, there are a myriad of additional drivers compelling companies to consider this option. |
Global Services
January 2, 2008
Vidala & Ranjan |
BPO in China Good to Grow The IT outsourcing legacy of China has given the country's business process outsourcing industry a sound base to start from. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
David I. Sheinfeld |
The Commoditization Of F&A Outsourcing With finance and accounting outsourcing providers cropping up on every street corner, the pressure is on for companies to distinguish themselves and their offerings to stay competitive. |
Global Services
August 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
34% More FAO Contracts to Be Inked in 2008 The global finance and accounting outsourcing market will engage in an estimated 456 multiprocess, three plus year FAO deals, with a combined annual growth rate of 30.7 percent |
Global Services
September 20, 2007 |
Outsourcing by Europe Until recently, the outsourcing of IT and business services from Europe was primarily restricted to the U.K. and large firms on the continent. Now it seems as if the rest of the continent has begun to wake up to the opportunities provided by outsourcing. |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Polly Schneider Traylor |
Outsourcing More work is being sent packing, often far away. To make it pay off, management must adapt. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Deal Structures Business the world over is getting savvier -- and that also goes for outsourcing, as market trends today portend some notable shifts in IT and Business Process Outsourcing deal structures for 2010. |
HRO Today
Dec 2007/Jan 2008
Andy Teng |
The Sound of Silence With the start of a new year the HRO market is reassessing outsourcing strategies and opportunities. Signs of a stronger 2008 are in the works. |
HRO Today
Dec 2007/Jan 2008
Monica Barron |
Optimism in the HRO Market With demand for outsourced services underserved and a new crop of providers ready to enter the market, look for growth to rebound in the new year. |
Global Services
January 31, 2008 |
2008 Global Services 100 Survey: Findings The Global Services 100 list, drawn by Global Services and neoIT, now in its fourth year, has come to be seen by the customers as a route to bypass the RFI stage, and the rankings as a means to shortlist candidates for RFP. |
Global Services
July 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Case for Transformation Beyond the hype about transformation there's some real work being delivered that makes the case for business transformation outsourcing. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Accenture's Outsourcing Bet Will the consulting firm's transition pay off? |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Neeraja Kandala |
Global Legal-Services Market: Crisis Creates New opportunities Offshore legal services industry has been reporting over 40 percent growth annually and we can expect an even higher than average growth over the next two years. |
HRO Today
June 2008 |
Ranking The Top Enterprise HRO Providers Who do you go to when you need a straight-up opinion about who are the top enterprise providers? HINT: the customer is always right. |
Global Services
June 26, 2007
Imrana Khan |
EDS + MphasiS + ExcellerateHRO = The Awesome Threesome The 2007 Black Book of Outsourcing's listing of top 50 global service providers is full of surprises. EDS emerging on top is only one of them. |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006
Manjeet Kripalani |
Open Season On Outsourcers More Western software and services companies are snapping up Indian companies that specialize in back-office operations. |
HRO Today
May 2008
Russ Banham |
Slow Going With Uncle Sam Whether on a state or federal level, interest in outsourcing human resource functions is growing. Buoyed by a desire to upgrade services and fears of a tax revenue shortfall, government agencies are taking another look at HR outsourcing. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of BPO The continuing implosion of the traditional organization and its underlying support-management approaches, and the emergence of virtualized businesses, will see the Business Process Outsourcing market grow substantially over the next few years. |
Global Services
May 12, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Sourcing Advisor Caveat Third-party advisors assistance may be one of the good reasons behind the overall satisfaction with the sourcing engagements you are involved in, but in many instances external advisors can hit hard on your pockets. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Barron & Ranjan |
Embracing the World's Offerings Global sourcing is increasingly a valuable tool for achieving business process outsourcing cost savings, and HR outsourcing buyers, long holdouts against offshoring, will finally start to give in to its alluring value. |
Global Services
October 1, 2008
Avinash Vashistha |
Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities They are not Bangalores or Makatis yet; but they could get there sooner. There are nine new entrants and six dropouts from the 2007 list of the top 50 global outsourcing cities. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 22, 2005
Paul Allen |
The Evolution of Outsourcing Though most trends in the financial services industry tend to be U.S.-led, fund management outsourcing has been more of a U.K. and continental European phenomenon to date, with a raft of high-profile deals hitting the headlines in the past two years. |
