India's largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has landed a US$140 million contract from the India's large state-owned telecommunications services provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., for the deployment of next-generation networks in the country.
Deloitte & Touche unveiled its list of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. Medical equipment company NuVasive topped the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 by growing revenue from US$52,000 in 2000 to $38.4 million last year.
European travel giant TUI AG is expanding its IT outsourcing in India and will also add some business functions to the mix, part of an effort to reduce its costs, an executive at the company said.
Supply chain vendors have marked the year with a rush of acquisitions, anticipating that customers are ready to act on a pent-up demand for products and services to help eliminate operational waste and improve forecasting abilities.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has entered the business process outsourcing (BPO) market with a bang, expecting to finalize a deal in April to manage The Procter & Gamble Co.'s (P&G's) accounts payable activities worldwide, an HP executive said Tuesday.
While frame relay may be one of the most widely accepted ways of linking geographically dispersed corporate sites, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), a no-nonsense high-speed routing protocol, may be a technology whose time has come, thanks to better quality of service and lower implementation costs.