October 16, 2011 – 7:34 pm
Posted by Pius Bienz
This is the second part of the interview with François Jeannet who supported BSI, i.e. the Board of B-Source, during the transaction.
The first part of this interview gave an overview on the transaction and analyzed the strategic objectives of the parties involved. In this second post, the transaction is positioned in the [...]
September 15, 2011 – 9:47 am
Posted by Pius Bienz
On August 31, 2011, a major transaction in the Swiss IT resp. BPO sector was announced: Avaloq, the leading core banking software vendor, takes over B-Source, one of the key providers of bank BPO services. The size of the transaction and its strategic relevance for the industry are reasons enough to address it here. In [...]
September 28, 2010 – 1:17 am
Posted by Pius Bienz
On Friday, September 24, 2010, Swisscom IT Services announced its decision to abandon individual sister company names and logos by the middle of 2011 and to integrate Sourcag into Comit.
Swisscom IT Services adopts a one-brand strategy
Swisscom IT Services (SITS) has experienced significant growth over the last years, also through external growth and the acquisition [...]
March 21, 2010 – 3:47 pm
Posted by Pius Bienz
I quite like to read the monthly issues of the (electronic) Outsourcing Journal, published by the Outsourcing Center that is part of the Everest Group. The March 2010 issue provides a series of White Papers as well as so called Best Practice Series.
The White Papers cover many different topics, ranging from the “Impact of Technology on [...]
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July 29, 2009 – 7:43 pm
Posted by Pius Bienz
As of 1 August 2009, B-Source will acquire Fin-Log. The latter provides services to private banks in the areas of securities master data and German tax statements.
Fin-Log will be integrated into the B-Source organization as an Independent Business Unit (IBU) and will remain at its current location Dübendorf. Its current CEO, Frank Müller Erkelenz, [...]
February 24, 2009 – 11:15 am
Posted by Pius Bienz
Taking the opportunity of its 20th anniversary, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Morocco published a well-researched portrait of the host countries off-shoring services industry that we briefly summarize here.
The portrait is positioned in the context of the “Plan Emergence” started in 2005 and, more specifically, related to the project “Offshoring Maroc 2010″. The [...]
October 6, 2008 – 11:50 pm
Posted by Pius Bienz
According to NZZ am Sonntag of Oct. 5, 2008, Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) is supposed to launch a request for proposal in November in order to outsource the operations of its two main computer centres located in Switzerland and the US. CSC is considered as having the best chances to win the deal.
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Zurich Financial Services [...]