Cloud Plus takes outsourcing services for partners offshore
Brisbane-based Cloud Plus has launched an overseas outsourcing service for partners after witnessing a decline in resources and work ethic in Australia.
Brisbane-based Cloud Plus has launched an overseas outsourcing service for partners after witnessing a decline in resources and work ethic in Australia.
India-headquartered HCL Technologies has won a five-year managed services deal with TransGrid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission network in NSW and the ACT.
The Federal Government calls for industry feedback over its proposed critical infrastructure security laws.
Australia’s Government-owned air traffic control provider, Airservices, is on the hunt for an IT partner to take charge of its technology infrastructure overhaul.
DXC Technology will receive nearly $400 million for the multi-year end computing deal it struck with the SA Government earlier this year.
Australia's largest life insurer TAL has confirmed its partnership with Tech Mahindra will impact a number of roles in its IT function.
The rollout and management of an updated Medicare payments system will not be outsourced to the private sector, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull reaffirmed last night.
A federal judge made a ruling this week that could force tens of thousands of foreign workers, many of whom are employed at tech companies on student visas, to return to their home countries early next year.
Citizens Bank in Rhode Island has offered its IT employees solid middle-class wages and good benefits, but this slice of the America Dream is ending for many of them.
"There’s little doubt agencies of all sizes are fingering their worry beads, even as clients increasingly look for outside help."
Offshore outsourcing firms that do most of their work in India remain the largest users of the H-1B visa for computer-related jobs, seemingly unaffected by the odds of the visa lottery, according to new data.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, one of the polling leaders in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, is still a cipher on offshore outsourcing and the H-1B issue. But Wisconsin lawmakers have introduced anti-outsourcing legislation that could shed light on Walker's views, if the bill makes it to his desk.
Microsoft's argument that the U.S. faces a shortage of people with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills isn't helped by the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2945047/microsoft-windows/microsoft-said-to-plan-more-staff-layoffs.html">7,800 layoffs it announced last week</a>.
Just two weeks ago, the Disney ABC Television Group told a team of approximately 30 to 35 application developers that they were being laid off. Their jobs were being moved to an IT contractor with large offshore operations. Some were told their last day would be at the end of July.
Outsourcing should be a strategic partnership, not a simple hand-off of duties to a third-party. Getting that right requires smart preparation.
The great business and technology trend of 2020 has been the shift to distributed working