Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A brief history of Business Process Outsourcing in India


Business Process Outsourcing is a structured arrangement between an organization and an outsourcing partner to perform services, otherwise conducted in-house. The provider of the outsourced services takes primary responsibility of ensuring the process works and delivers the required results as expected by the organization. Thus Business Process Outsourcing represents a new paradigm for international trade in services.

In 1968, an Indian government working group on computers said, “Software development would seem to have a very high employment potential in a country like India … the value added in the case of software, is very large.” Ironically the same report framed a policy of “self-sufficiency” that arrested the development of the IT industry. Restrictive rules and regulations imposed severe restrictions on imports of hardware and software. Even IBM quit the country in 1978 due to laws that disallowed foreigners from owing more than 40% equity stake in an Indian firm. 

Sanity returned to the system only in 1986 with new policies which liberalized access to software and associated hardware. The software technology parks of the 1990’s led the way to opening newer technology domains such as Business Process Outsourcing agencies. India’s tryst with process outsourcing began in the mid 1990s with GE setting up a Business Process Outsourcing facility in Gurgaon. Some of the other early birds were companies such as American Express and British Airways.

Initially low-end work such as data entry and call centre activity was outsourced to India. With increasing confidence of the companies, value added work such as processing of accounts and other non-core functions came to India. The success of these early pioneers encouraged a host of others to set up their own back office operations in India. Banks such as Citibank, HSBC and Standard Chartered and other companies such as Dell and Hewlett Packard set up their own captive operations. Indian software majors such as Infosys, Wipro and Satyam were a bit late to join the BPO party. The scene has since shifted to transaction processing.

9 comments:

  1. Great information. Thanks for providing us such a useful information. Keep up the good work and continue providing us more quality information from time to time. Software Development Outsourcing

    ReplyDelete
  2. I like to get the details to manage the employee's payroll management system effectively...

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hello there, simply become alert to your weblog through Google, and located that it's really informative. I'll be grateful if you proceed this in future.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hello, I do believe your site may be having internet browser
    compatibility problems. Whenever I take a look at your blog in Safari,
    it looks fine however, if opening in Internet Explorer,
    it has some overlapping issues.I merely wanted to give you a quick heads up! Besides that, excellent website!

    ReplyDelete
  5. I have to voice my passion for your kindness giving support to those people that should have guidance on this important matter.company incorporation in dubai

    ReplyDelete
  6. I simply wanted to thank you so much again. I am not sure the things that I might have gone through without the type of hints revealed by you regarding that situation.offshore company formation in uae

    ReplyDelete
  7. We are living in an era where you can get access to maximum things at a single tap and this is the most comfort era of the whole generation in which we are living. Here we are Best Outsourcing Companies provider of efficient Business outsourcing solutions. Our team is engaged in researching and analyzing your specific requirements so we can assist you at the greatest level possible.

    ReplyDelete
  8. A reverse mortgage loan, like a traditional mortgage, allows homeowners to borrow money using their home as security for the loan. If you want to take a reverse mortgage loan, then you should contact us. We will help you to take out a reverse mortgage loan. Reverse Mortgage Ajax

    ReplyDelete
  9. Data Science is not about making complicated models. It is not about making awesome visualization. It is not about writing code data science course in hyderabad

    ReplyDelete

The Priority Gap: When Patchability Does Not Equal Protection

Vulnerability management often fails at the point where security mandates collide with IT operations, creating a Priority Gap between vulne...