Across the industry, it is certainly abounded the first quarter are the strategic partnership that have been formed among the different types of the companies. The efforts to diversify their product offerings are at the root of the trend as competition for the outsourcing contracts increases. There has been a surge in strategic partnership that is being formed especially among the smaller outsourcing companies. For the Information Technology outsourcing industry, it spend management, sourcing and procurement services provider perfect commerce announced a partnership with fellow Information Technology and procurement outsourcing provider. The two companies are combining their expertise in spend management, technology expertise and continuously process improvement in order to offer better services to their clients. The another partnership is between DirectPointe Inc., it is a US based managed Information Technology outsourcing services provider and Concierge communications, this is a national consulting business communications and technology solutions broker. The companies are working together to offer Information Technology outsourcing tools and managed Information Technology services.
It was Fortify Infrastructure Services formed a strategic partnership with Key Pair Technologies in order to provide comprehensive cloud computing solutions for enterprise companies and data centers with regards to cloud based services. With the business process solutions or to be more specific in offshore publishing services, companies Liquent and take solutions formed a partnership to provide a best of breed cost effective outsourced publishing solutions to the market. Between Hexaware Technologies wherein eBaoTech will be offering best of breed policy administration system to insurers while hexaware will be providing end to end system integration services kfor their clients.
For the Knowledge Process Outsourcing, it is companies who have partnered in order to be able to deliver an integrated and streamlined solution to address governance, risk and compliance challenges. The smaller compliance that are following the trend even more established companies including the MPhasis and Intalio and HCL Technologies and Wellogic have formed partnerships. It is convergys however who takes the cake signing two separate strategic partnership within a week of each other. With the Latin America services provider Sonda. The company once again signed a partnership with MicroAutomation. The renewed focus of the different outsourcing companies with the strategic partnership is ultimately in line with obtaining more contracts in the next few months. The trend for more strategic partnership is only expected to increase as 2010 progresses and the economy recovers.
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