A software park was opened in Tokyo, Japan the day before yesterday by Dalian, a major software outsourcing base for Japan due to its geographical proximity and skilled workforce.
The park is expected to strengthen the ties between companies in Dalian, the China’s information technology outsourcing hub and clients in Japan. What is more, the Dalian Vice-Mayor Dai Yulin hopes the park Read more…
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The Gartner China Outsourcing Summit 2008, which began the day before yesterday in the Shangri-la Hotel in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province come to an end today.
Jointly held by the Ministry of Commerce and Gartner Inc, a leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, it is the Read more…
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In the first three quarters, Shenzhen registered an 11.5 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) despite global financial turbulence.
Boosted by the hi-tech industry, especially the electronic information industry, industrial output of sizable enterprises reached 1.12 trillion yuan during the period, which rose by 14.5 percent. IT sector plays an important role in the significant rise. This sector grew by 16.4 percent to 111.35 billion yuan, which is 4.9 percent Read more…
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Because the global financial crisis may force more Western companies to outsource their business to China, One of the world’s largest IT outsourcing firms, US software outsourcing company CSC, announced on Oct 28th that it will launch another new centre in the country.
Michael Laphen, chairman and chief executive officer of CSC, said in order to go through the financial crisis, more companies have to outsource their business in pursuing of lower costs, thus creating more opportunities for outsourcing companies.
“Outsourcing will increase in difficult times as the financial crisis pushes companies to become more cost effective,” said Laphen. “We expect further robust growth from China.”
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Wuxi, 90 minutes’ drive from Shanghai, is considered one of the top 15 most economically developed cities. Its per capita GDP is expected to surpass $10,000 this year and the manufacturing industry is still on the lead.
Microsoft China, signed a contract with Wuxi government on Sunday, planning to open an IT training centre in Wuxi to turn out skilled professional to work in the emerging IT industry in this city. To offer professional IT training to 10,000 students a Read more…
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According to a recent report, despite huge potential in China’s IT services, the industry has yet to fully take advantage of the global resources.
The conclusion was made in a joint white paper entitled IT Services Industry in China, released by CCID Consulting Co Ltd (CCID) and Microsoft Customer Service and Support, Asia-Pacific & Greater China Region (APGC CSS).
It is shown by the white paper that IT services in China have shifted to personalization, and are now entering a new, performance-oriented phase and tending to be more standardized.
IT services include IT consulting, IT systems integration, related training, IT system management outsourcing, as Read more…
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As a novice, I have to confess that I was not quite familiar with the outsourcing industry before my being the member of BPOVIA. I only used to hear of the successful stories about Tata Consultancy Services Subsidiary from the business studies related books. The same as China, India is a developing agricultural country with a large population. Despite of its poor industry basic, The IT industry of India can reach the relatively high level of the world. Moreover, there are thousands of IT talents exporting to U.S and other European countries as the engineers every year. The southern city of Bangalore has become the center of Asian IT industry, which is also entitled as the eastern Silicon Valley. As the matter of fact, China has owned more advantages than India. For example, China has more university graduates, Chinese economy runs faster and smoothly than India’s. In addition, the social stabilities and invest environment in China is more appropriate than that in India.
After working in BPOVIA for sometime, I learnt something from the fields. Pondering about the reasons triggering the distance between China and India in the field of IT industry, we have to commit that India should fix a suitable approach for the development of domestic economy and improvement of the foreign trade. Since the rising of the cost of labor force, every developing countries should not only regard themselves as a world factory. On the contrary, they ought to spare no efforts to find a means to accelerate the framework of the domestic industry. Luckily, India trains thousands of IT talents, which only contribute to the software promotion, but also greatly foster the Indian economy from the low-cost world factory to a center of knowledge.
Being the member of the BPOVIA, what bring me most is the versatile crew and the high spirits of the working team. BPOVIA is the right one to try to help China to establish the similar market environment as India’s. Focus on the service on BPO, ITO, KPO (knowledge process outsourcing) and PPO (personal process outsourcing), it successfully avoids the low price competitions, but lead the industry to the quality and time-consuming competition. Both the manager and staff are fairly diligent and talent, graduating from various universities and distinguished majors. In order to trigger the boom of Chinese IT and outsourcing related industry, BPOVIA and other field leading companies should take the responsibilities to represent the image of the industry. Furthermore, both the government and the public should give the sufficient supports and importance to the development of such enterprises seeing that the successful experience of India’s.
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Intel Corp, the world’s largest computer chip maker, signed a deal with SMG, one of China’s most influential media and entertainment groups, to develop Internet TV.
Intel will invest $12 million in Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and provide technical support under a 2005 agreement. Its multicore platform will be used to consolidate new Internet technologies, integrate innovative user experiences and visual interfaces and develop the next-generation video platform using virtualization technology.
“Global demand for Internet TV, or broadband online TV, is increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of Internet technology,” said Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, the company’s venture investment arm. “Intel is delighted to cooperate with SMG to develop the broadband online TV platform in China. Collaboration with Intel will stimulate the innovation and development of Chinese new media,” he said.
The new media market which includes interactive TV, mobile phone TV and IPTV, is expected to take off in China. The number of subscribers is expected to soar to nearly 35 million by 2012, according to CCID Consulting.
“The proliferation of the Internet makes it easier for us to do business with overseas clients. We are in a position to get an easy access to foreign businessmen looking for domestic outsourcing companies. As a professional virtual assistant provider, we always welcome contacts and tasks from old and new clients alike,” said James Huang, CEO and founder of BPOVIA Ltd based in China.
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EMC Corp, the world’s largest data storage company, set up a 50-50 joint venture with Hong Kong-listed Digital China in March this year, aiming to tap into the country’s booming IT market.
The new venture—EMC’s first in Asia—is expected to provide information infrastructure solutions, services and support for the Chinese market. It will also help the two sides to attract partners in the information storage sector.
EMC, by shifting to software sales over the years, has now become an information management company. It planned to invest $1 billion in China before 2012 to gain a larger share in the country’s data storage market as China has witness explosive growth in websites and internet content.
According to American IT research firm IDC, the total storage capacity in China will grow 30-fold from 132 petabytes in 2004 to nearly 4,000 petabytes in 2011.
EMC is also expecting the new venture to help serve the needs of its customers in China since Digital China, the country’s largest IT products distributor and systems integrator, has been trying to enhance its IT services business.
“This is about how we grow in the years ahead in China,” said Steven Leonard, president of EMC Asia Pacific-Japan. “China is now one of the world’s fastest growing and strategically important markets.”
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As the world’s second largest PC maker, Dell Inc is seeking strategic partners in China to launch a direct commercial product partnership plan.
It is expected to enroll 1000 partners in China by the end of this year as a new way of entering the country’s huge and profitable PC market. There are two different kinds of partners that Dell will enlist in the country, namely industry authorization partners and commercial product franchise dealers. The purpose of this plan is to increase Dell’s accessibility into small and medium-sized companies in smaller Chinese cities. Some of the commercial partners will sell Dell hardware to end-users, while others will offer hardware and support services.
The president of Dell Greater China was quoted as saying that the commercial product partnership plan was an important part of Dell’s long-term strategy in China.
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