September 11, 2007 |
HYDERABAD: Nasdaq-listed Satyam Computer Services is expanding its global footprint, eyeing development centres in Russia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The company reckons it can tap the local talent pool for these centres. Besides, it would also help mitigate business risks through a global delivery model. As part of this strategy, Satyam has opened a global solutions centre in Malaysia, which can accommodate 500 people. The fourth largest software exporter from India will open another centre there by the middle of next year to house about 2,000 associates.
December 7, 2003 |
NEW DELHI: Despite the small revenue they earn compared to their global competitors like Accenture and IBM, Indian IT services companies led by TCS, Infosys and Wipro have caught the attention of top infotech companies. "TCS, Infosys and Wipro each now boast revenues of about one billion dollar and that's still tiny in comparison with competitors like IBM's global services division ($40 billion) and Accenture ($12 billion), but it is clear that the Indian pipsqueaks have caught the attention of big guys," according to the latest issue of US magazine Fortune . Accenture now has 4,000 employees in Bangalore and Mumbai up from just a couple of hundreds a year ago. "They (the big IT companies)
June 7, 2006 |
BANGALORE: As the global business process outsourcing industry is undergoing a mid-life crisis, Indian BPO suppliers will have to change their business model and the investment strategy for survival, a top research expert said today. "To build critical mass and sustainable differentiation, they (Indian BPO suppliers) will have to say no to clients and focus on specific processes and verticals," said John C McCarthy, Vice-President, Asia Pacific Research, Forrester Research, Inc. Addressing NASSCOM's ITeS-BPO Strategy Summit 2006 here, he said Indian BPO suppliers can no longer be a jack of all trades and masters of none.
July 16, 2004 |
In the first page of its latest annual report, under the headline 'New Game. New Rules', Infosys has inserted a statement that's provocative by any standard. It reads "Competitors have been dragged kicking and screaming to replicate what we do. They face trauma and disruption, but the game has changed for ever. " The statement isn't just meant to irk Infosys' Indian rivals in the IT services space. It's in the context of the company's foray into consulting and it's meant to wave a red flag under the noses of entrenched global players like IBM and Accenture.
September 17, 2006 |
LONDON: N R Narayana Murthy, who stepped down as executive chairman of Infosys last month, says he is keen to take up a professorship so that he could be with younger people. "A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people," 60-year-old Narayana Murthy said in an interview published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday. "Secondly, I come from a family of professors. I am the only black sheep of the family, so I think I will become a little bit more respectable if I become a professor.
October 17, 2003
Sunil Mehta Vice President Nasscom The encouraging second quarter results of some technology companies has led to increased speculation that the tech downturn is finally over. Was there really a downturn? Indian IT software and services industry grew at 26-28% in dollar terms in the 2001-2003 period. In this period the global IT market shrank or was stagnant. There is little correlation between global IT spend and growth of Indian IT software and services industry.
April 16, 2008 |
Infosys Technologies zoomed past $1 bilion in profits and reported full year FY08 figures in line with street expectations. But Infosys CEO S Gopalakrishnan says the macro-economic environment remains challenging in the short run. Infosys will continue to expand into newer geographies and add newer service lines, he says, in an interview to ET. Excerpts. How will Infosys strengthen its global delivery model (GDM)? We are continuously strengthening GDM using different tools and putting in more efforts to increase the optimisation.
November 16, 2008 |
NEW DELHI: Infosys, the country's second largest software exporter, on Sunday said its pricing has not come under pressure due to the global financial crisis which has hit the bottomline of the country's outsourcing industry. "Not any trend or anything like that," Infosys Kris Gopalkrishnan said today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's India edition here when asked about if the company has witnessed any pricing pressure under the current global financial meltdown.
May 1, 2007
Noshir F Kaka Partner, McKinsey & Company, Mumbai To understand the future, at times you have to look to the past. I'm often asked what next year growth rates will be or whether the industry will meet the Nasscom-McKinsey targeted aspiration of $60 billion in exports by 2010. The global addressable market for offshore IT services and BPO is $300 billion. India dominates the market, with an over 65% share of the global IT offshore market and a 46% share of the global offshore BPO market.
April 30, 2011
It is indeed my honour and privilege to be invited to become the CEO and the Managing Director of this great organisation. Mr. Murthy, thank you for your support, guidance, mentoring and affection over the last 32 years. You have been my role model. I have learned so much from you. I have learned all the discipline which you talk about from you, commitments, leadership under you for the last 32 years, thank you very much. Kris has been my colleague for the last 30 years. I have looked up to you for guidance.