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Rachael Stormonth, Senior Vice President at BPS analyst house NelsonHall, discusses the latest business trends in F&A BPS with Professional Outsourcing magazine, and describes how some companies are using it as a platform for business transformation.
Conduent has launched FastCap to assist organizations in improving their working capital. FastCap is offered as a managed service leveraging its subject matter expertise in accounts payable and procurement and applying a set of tools (both proprietary and third party). These tools research and analyze large data sets, including accounts payable (AP) invoices, procurement spend data, and contr[...]
Genpact has signed a procurement BPS contract with a multinational conglomerate to manage a spend of $10bn covering all major categories of indirect spend (except IT) including logistics, FM, MRO, professional services, travel, and contingent labor, globally. The contract is of strategic importance to Genpact in that it involves the transfer of 130 category management and sourcing personnel[...]
Overall IBM Group revenues in 2014 declined 6% (-1% in CC and excluding divestitures). However, IBM is in the midst of a major adjustment of its portfolio. In line with this, the company is reporting $25bn in revenues (and 16% revenue growth) in 2014 (out of a total of $92.8bn) from its "strategic imperatives". IBM's acquisition of Softlayer, where it continues to invest strongly,[...]
Infosys has been awarded a five-year renewal through June 2019 of its F&A BPO contract with Philips. There is no significant change in contract scope or direction in the renewal, largely a recognition that Philips and Infosys are part way through a major program of change in the way that Philips carries out its finance and accounting operations, including a major change in Philips[...]
There are clear positives to this quarter’s results from Infosys, and its share price certainly picked up (is now the highest since March 2012), though it continues to look to address a number of challenges, some of which are company-specific issues. This is the third quarter of improved topline growth. Management has raised revenue guidance for full FY 2014 to growth of 11.5-12% (up from[...]
Accenture has announced that in 2012 it was awarded a five-year application services contract by Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) to streamline Zurich’s global finance IT. Services being provided by Accenture Finance and Risk Services include development, implementation and management of SAP-based finance and BI applications that support Zurich operations in North America, Germany, Switzerlan[...]
HP Enterprise Services has announced Q2 FY 2015 results, for the period ending April 30, 2015: Revenue was $4,817m, down 15.5% y/y, and down 10% in constant currency (CC), reflecting key account run off and weakness in EMEA Segment earnings before taxes (EBT) were $194m, a margin of 4.0%, up 143 bps y/y. Q2 FY 2015 revenue by service line (with y/y revenue growth) was: [...]
Accenture Federal Services (AFS) is to acquire Agilex Technologies, a privately-held provider of digital solutions for the U.S. federal government based in Chantilly, VA. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital capabilities in analytics, cloud and mobility for federal agencies. It also will add agile delivery expertise. Agilex br[...]
Wipro results this quarter show an ongoing improvement: topline growth is continues to improve and operating margin is the highest it has been for two years. Clearly, it still has a way to go to catch up with Indian growth rates (NASSCOM guided on 14% this FY), let alone with TCS. This quarter, Wipro achieved an operating margin of 23% and $101m in y/y topline growth; TCS achieved an operating mar[...]
Another very strong quarter from TCS, with no hint of the slight slowdown in growth that we have seen at Accenture (for its November quarter) and Infosys. If we look at where the growth is coming from: The more established ADM services (where Infosys took its eye of the ball in FY 13) contributed an estimated $173m in additional revenue, or 35.4% of the y/y growth of $490m. (Infosys achie[...]
NelsonHall recently visited the Capgemini BPO center in Campinas, Brazil, about 100 kilometers to the northwest of the city of São Paulo. Capgemini’s Campinas center is part of a network of BPO centers in Latin America, the others being in Guatemala City; Santiago, Chile; and, most recently, Blumenau, also in Brazil. We had had the privilege several years before to visit the Guatemala[...]
HP recently provided an update on its turnaround program at a securities analyst meeting in the U.S. One major takeaway from the briefing is that HP ES, in particular, is taking additional steps to rebuild and strengthen its business. Looking firstly at the HP group-wide picture, turnaround measures till now have included restructuring, retooling, and reducing costs. Successes so fa[...]
An encouraging quarter for Infosys after the disappointment of missing guidance last quarter. It is not possible to determine the precise level of organic growth (excluding Lodestone) as Infosys is folding some of its consulting capabilities into Lodestone Consulting: this has happened already in the U.K. and is occurring now in the U.S. and Germany; the incremental $20m in revenue contributed [...]
Xerox's acquisition of U.K. based Customer Value Group (CVG) indicates that Xerox's ambitions for the acquired ACS business and for FAO in particular have not dimmed. CVG's primary product, Value+ is a SaaS-based offering that supports the management of customer credit, collections, and disputes and Value+ will now form a cornerstone of Xerox's O[...]
Accenture has continued the trend of acquiring captives as a means of gaining domain capability in a multi-process F&A BPO deal with Marriott International, Inc. that has been described by both parties as a strategic collaboration. In a ten-year contract to provide F&A services to Marriott and its franchisees in the Americas, Marriott will transition its Louisville, Tennesse[...]
Accenture's seven-year BPO contract with Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB announced this week will see it providing accounts payable, accounts receivable, some CMS activities as well as operational procurement, sourcing and category management for selected country operations in Europe. Accenture has had a long history of providing FAO services to manufacturing companies in the Scandinav[...]
