- Business and Market Research Outsourcing: Revenue growth of pure-play providers almost at a standstill 17th October 2012– Revenue growth of Indian pure-play business and market research service providers dropped from 60% in 2007 to 3% in 2011 – Return on capital employed dropped from 45% in 2007, to single digits in 2011 – Dun & Bradstreet came out ...Read more
- Design and Animation Industry: Operating margins attractive, but declining 17th October 2012– Revenue of pure-play design and animation firms grew at a CAGR of 27% from 2007 to 2011 – EBITDA margins are the only silver lining for the industry, while net margins continue to be a concern – Unattractive returns and low ...Read more
- Analytics segment most attractive in the Indian KPO sector 17th September 2012– The analytics segment appears to be the least affected by the global economic slowdown, thus making it more attractive than the other KPO segments – Revenue of pure-play analytics firms in India increased rapidly at a CAGR of 38% ...Read more
- Engineering Services Outsourcing: Shareholder returns wiped out in 2011 17th September 2012– Return on equity of pure-play ESO companies in India slid from 34% in 2007 to -5% in 2011 – With annual growth rates of 30-35% between 2007 and 2009, revenue decreased by 21% in 2010 – Debt has become a major ...Read more
- Outsourced publishing services: Financial prudence critical for survival 13th September 2012– Pure-play Indian publishing service providers have seen a revenue decline of 34% in the past two years – In 2011, the revenue of large-sized service providers dropped to less than half of that in 2009 – Knowledge Global Limited topped the ...Read more
- Clear leaders emerge: Financial health of Indian LPO firms 14th June 2012– Larger pure-play LPO firms in India are financially better off than smaller players June 2012: The global economy continues to be in a fragile state. Businesses across industries are feeling the strain as they are forced to scale back and ...Read more
- Demand for mobile collaboration applications set to grow in India 29th May 2012– More than 75% of the organisations in a recent survey rate collaboration applications as important as other traditional applications – 44% of organisations have chosen to expand their collaborative mobile access – 22% of organisations use Open Source Software (OSS) for ...Read more
- The State of Corporate Governance in India: Boards open to improving their effectiveness 20th April 2012– More than 50% of the directors surveyed in India said that their boards hardly ever evaluated their own effectiveness – 31% of companies did not have their board’s involvement to systematically address corporate risk management – Around 25% of the companies ...Read more
- Demand for core banking solutions soars, outsourcing grows 28th March 2012The current global banking environment offers significant opportunities for service providers to analyse the banking system and provide core banking solutions Emerging solutions include the adoption of platform BPO for greater scalability, and social media solutions to connect with customers Services outsourced ...Read more
- Indian consumers’ sense of financial freedom is low, Life Freedom Index 11th March 2012Indian urban consumers not actively planning for unexpected events and external factors – reveals HDFC Life ValueNotes Life Freedom Index – The Life Freedom Index at 58.3 on a scale of 0-100 shows that Indian consumers’ sense of financial freedom is low ...Read more