CNET, May 03
American businesses have long outsourced some operations to cut costs, most obviously in manufacturing, and the technology industry also has increasingly outsourced tasks such as applications development. More recently, many businesses have been engaged in process outsourcing, such as moving call center operations offshore.

CommWeb, May 03
Call centers are moving "offshore" as European companies look to Africa and the Middle East for low cost growth.

AFR, May 03
A global backlash is unlikely to stem the tide of offshore outsourcing but market players believe Australia could benefit from the next wave of outsourcing by offering a near-shore option for Asian businesses.

Computerworld - April 2003
There's much more to offshore outsourcing than lower labor rates. Industry experts and CIOs with offshore experience caution would-be customers to carefully examine all of the risks, including the hidden costs. It's also important to protect intellectual property, examine the geopolitical risks in the region where the work will be done and effectively communicate the company's overall outsourcing strategy to stateside workers.

Michael F. Corbett & Associates Ltd.
Firmbuilder - May 03

Outsourcing has taken on new energy in Europe as the areas being outsourced have moved from the traditional "physical" aspects of the business, such as facilities operations and manufacturing, to the more specialized information technology and process operations.

Business World - May 2003
Customer contact center investments in the country increased eight-fold in 2002, according to Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and Board of Investments (BOI) data.

The Business Journal of Kansas City - May 2003
Sprint Corp. expected to cut a list of potential information technology vendors from a dozen to four or five by a May 23 target date. The company is evaluating vendors as it explores the option of taking IT work offshore.

Boston Globe - May 2003
Move over, India. There's a new player in the global outsourcing business. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who visited with President Bush and was feted at a White House state dinner Monday, came to the nation's financial capital yesterday to pitch US companies on the benefits of moving some of their key business and technology tasks to her island nation.

Rediff.com - April 2003
Over a quarter of the people employed in the country's Information Technology-Enabled Services sector are on the rolls of multinationals like GE Capital, Standard Chartered, AOL and HSBC, involved in captive business processes outsourcing.

vnunet.com - April 2003
Economic pressures will force three-quarters of British enterprises to adopt some form of offshore outsourcing within two years, say industry watchers.

CFO Magazine - March 2003
''Pay as you go'' may not replace the ''one size fits all'' outsourcing model for several years. To buy your IT infrastructure services, you should shop hard, negotiate hard, and benchmark the terms of your agreements.

CIOL - February, 2003
Own a niche segment or perish, because customers do not prefer companies beyond the top 10, says Avinash Vashistha, MD, neoIT.

New Architect - February, 2003
Russia and Egypt aren't alone in their bids for a stake in the worldwide IT market. From India to Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe to South America, outsourcing opportunities are becoming almost universal.

HRO Today - February, 2003
In this interview, General Atlantic Partners' Mark Dzialga discusses an investor's perspective on HR outsourcing

Industry Week - January, 2003
Among the Top 10 actions you can take to improve business performance, cutting costs - for the long term as well as the short term - by moving manufacturing from existing high-cost locations to low-cost locations elsewhere in the world is imperative, says neoIT CEO Atul Vashistha.

llgm.com - January, 2003
Russia is in the limelight in terms of offshore outsourcing, especially for companies like Sun Microsystems, LSI Logic, Motorola, Intel, Boeing and Northern Telecom. Russia's qualified inexpensive labor and good R&D is drawing many IT players into it, mainly for software coding jobs. This interest has brought out new issues: Opening an accredited representative office, hiring a research institute, setting up individual contracts with researchers, protecting the intellectual property so that it can be integrated into a Western company's worldwide operations, and ensuring cultural compatibility.

CBS MarketWatch - January, 2003
neoIT (www.neoit.com), the leading offshore sourcing advisory firm, will kick off 2003 with back-to-back appearances at outsourcing events in Malaysia and the Philippines. Given the rising demand for offshore advisory services to help companies successfully outsource information technology and business processes offshore, Mr. Vashistha will speak to and meet with IT and BPO buyers and suppliers in Malaysia, the Philippines and in Singapore during the month of January.