Indian software and services exports are expected to jump nearly 33% to $31.3 billion during the fiscal year ending Mar 2007. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Indian IT leaders to be ambitious and aim for IT expots of $80 billion in 2010, nearly fourfold increase in annual exports of from fiscal 2006. 

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Indian software and services exports are expected to jump nearly 33% to $31.3 billion during the fiscal year ending Mar 2007, according to the the Strategic Review 2007 report by NASSCOM, IT software and service industry trade body in India. 

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Posted to IT Services/Outsourcing| January 24, 2007 11:58 AM | Permalink

The total number of outsourcing contracts awarded in 2006 hit a new record with an increase of 3% from an year earlier in 2005. However, the total contract value (TCV) signed declined 8% in 2006 to $78 billion, according to TPI Index report on global outsourcing industry.  

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Worldwide Application Management Services (AMS) market is expected to grow to $32.2 billion in 2010, at a 9.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to IDC. The more mature U.S. AMS market accounts for over 40% of the worldwide demand, but is growing more slowly and is expected to reach $13.4 billion in 2010, groaing at a 7.7% CAGR. 

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Posted to IT Services/Outsourcing| November 24, 2006 9:49 AM | Permalink

Morningstar surveyed the U.S.-based information technology services firms landscape and sorted the key players into the good, the bad, and the hairy. 

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Posted to IT Services/Outsourcing| November 17, 2006 10:57 AM | Permalink

The Top 25 enterprise technology companies sold more than $84.7 billion in products and services to financial industry clients in 2005, representing a 5% increase over last year, according to

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Posted to IT Services/Outsourcing| November 16, 2006 1:25 PM | Permalink

Human resources (HR) business process outsourcing (BPO) is the fastest-growing segment of HR services and will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16% in the United States, reaching $18.9 billion in spending by 2010, according to IDC. Overall, the landscape continues to evolve through mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

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Posted to IT Services/Outsourcing| November 8, 2006 11:23 AM | Permalink

The total contract value (TCV) of the top 100 worldwide outsourcing deals decreased by 3.1% from $70.1 billion in 2004 to $67.9 billion in 2005, according to the annual IDC study of the top 100 worldwide outsourcing deals. The study finds:

• reduction in the number of both megadeals valued at $1 billion and higher and deals ranging from $500 million to less than $1 billion TCV. 
• dramatic increase in the number of deals with less than $250 million TCV from 8 in 2004 to 23 in 2005.

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