Dallas, Texas 4/8/2011 1:28:48 AM
News / Business

World's Best Outsourcing Success Stories

Outsourcing-Center.com, the premier database for market intelligence on outsourcing recently acquired by Alsbridge, Inc., today announced they will be hosting the 15th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards on April 27th at the Adolphus hotel in Dallas.

“Creating an outsourcing relationship that achieves real business value for both the client and provider while keeping both parties happy is a nearly impossible task,” says Debra Floyd, COO, of Outsourcing-Center. “However, each year we manage to find 5-10 examples of the best outsourcing relationships in the world and brings them together for a day of knowledge sharing and ‘Oscars-like’ recognition.”

“The global program is unique in the industry due to its recognition of both the buyer and provider in making the outsourcing relationship successful and its due diligence in conducting interviews with the buyer in each relationship as well as retaining an independent panel of industry experts,” says Ben Trowbridge, CEO of Alsbridge, Inc.
The 15th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards black-tie ceremony will honor:
•    Best Partnership:  AT&T Services Inc./Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation
•    Most Flexible: Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc./Capgemini
•    Best Communication: Catholic Healthcare Partners/Dell Services
•    Most Collaborative: Barclaycard US/Firstsource
•    Best Global Services: Carillon PLC/Accenture
•    Most Effective: Verizon Wireless/Océ Business Services
•    Service Provider Excellence – Best Business Transformation: Accenture
•    Service Provider Excellence – Most Consistent Business Impact: Genpact
•    Service Provider Excellence – Best IT Enablement in BPO: Wipro

About Outsourcing Center LLC

As the resource for actionable business insights, Outsourcing Center provides objective perspectives and real-world examples, identifies business risks, and explains how to leverage value-creation opportunities – crucial information you need to make informed decisions around your business strategies.  Founded in 1997, Outsourcing Center has more than 55,000 opt-in subscribers and over 300,000 unique visitors which have come from more than 94% percent of the Fortune 500 companies along with midsized and small businesses.  Alsbridge plans to double the Outsourcing Centers market reach in the next 90 days and provide even greater value to outsourcing buyers worldwide.  The site provides visitors with access – at no charge – to almost 3,000 articles, white papers, market intelligence and webinars on outsourcing that can be searched by industry, situation, function or business challenge. The company’s website is: www.outsourcing-center.com

About Alsbridge

Alsbridge provides world class sourcing advisory and benchmarking services for IT, finance and sourcing executives. With over 150 consultants located globally, we've helped hundreds of companies reduce costs and get more value from their vendors. Our experienced consultants leverage proprietary tools and information databases to identify and engage the optimal vendors for your situation, negotiate best practice terms at fair market prices, and improve the way you work with your vendors. Alsbridge clients utilize the most cost effective and value added sources globally for IT infrastructure services, hardware and maintenance, network services, software and maintenance, application support and development, business processes and cloud services. Our commitment to delivering value to our clients has made Alsbridge a distinguished member of the 2010 Inc. 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America.  Alsbridge competitors include KPMG, Equaterra, TPI and Deliotte.