Integreon named top global KPO provider       
June 28, 2008
Source:  PTI

MUMBAI: Integreon Managed Solutions, a Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm, today said it has been named the top-ranked global KPO provider by the 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing, the Brown-Wilson Group's prestigious annual survey of the global outsourcing industry. 

This is the third consecutive year the company has received the award, a release said here. The company was ranked third among the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) providers overall and led all vendors in the sub-category of Litigation Document Review. 

It was ranked strongly among Document Process Outsourcing (DPO) providers overall, taking the lead-ranking for financial, regulatory, insurance, legal and compliance document services. 

Integreon, for the second consecutive year, was named among the '50 Best Managed Outsourcing Vendors'.

KeyCorp selects Cognizant      
June 28, 2008 
SOURCE: BL

Cognizant, provider of consulting, technology and business process services, has announced that KeyCorp, bank-based financial services company in the US, has selected it as The Technology Vendor Of The Year 2007 for Enterprise Technology Development from among its 30 strategic vendors. It was chosen for providing solutions that helped the Key Technology and Operations group within KeyCorp to enhance product development and utility as well as business agility and speed-to-market. Cognizant has been a KeyCorp strategic partner since 2005 and has been involved in transformation programmes.

Collabera bullish on mobile communication     
June 28, 2008 
SOURCE: BL

Bangalore, Collabera, a provider of end-to-end IT services, said it continues to see strong growth in the mobile communication space, though some of the other verticals might be slow.

Mr Mohan Sekhar, President and Chief Operating Officer, Collabera, said there would be more IT spending in the mobile communication segment in spite of the slowdown.

He said banking and financial companies in the US are looking to offer more services through the hand-held devices. The communication service providers, too, are spending money on developing more applications, he added.

In the banking and finance sector, the demand for anti-money laundering solutions would increase, he said. But generally companies are cautious about spending on technology.

Mr Sekhar said online retail is also pretty strong in the US and Collabera sees good growth in the Web site management space. However, the manufacturing and retail sector would be slow, he added.

Collabera is also looking at more investment in UK to grow its marketing and sales team, Mr Mohan said. 

He said, in UK, the company has good business in the media and publishing space. The company provides content aggregation services to the media houses in the UK.

Usually the content is spread across print, online and television media, and there is room for data consolidation and streamlining, he said. Consolidation not only cut costs but also improves efficiency, he added.

Collabera provides services that includes application development and management, testing, outsource product development, enterprise software solutions, business intelligence and data warehousing. 

However, application development and management makes most of the revenue, the company said.