Dr. Subbu Murthy , Chairman, USourceIT, is a keynote speaker at Annual International conference on Smart-Sourcing to be held in Hyderabad City, India from August 8-9, 2008. The conference is organized by “Centre for Global Outsourcing”. For more details about the conference and registration, please visit www.outsourceglobal.org
Avasant helps you navigate the complete lifecycle for sourcing IT and Business Process services. Their management consultants, advisors, and lawyers offer focused advisory services for developing your sourcing strategy, executing your sourcing transactions and effectively managing your sourcing relationships. Their methods and practices have been refined over decades of experience spread across a talented team serving clients worldwide. Their team has conducted over 1,000 sourcing engagements collectively since 2001 in over 40 countries. No wonder, they rank among the top ten sourcing advisories in the world.
Kevin Parikh is the CEO and Partner of Avasant. Mr. Parikh specializes in IT and business process (BP) outsourcing contract and service-level negotiations, strategic management, business risk evaluation and software licensing. His practice engages in both near-shore and off-shore sourcing solutions. Mr. Parikh is based in Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining SGS, Mr. Parikh led the Global Sourcing practice for Gartner Consulting.
Jeff Erle joins our marketing advisory board. He is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of WAVE Strategy Partners. WAVE provides customized, high-level, strategic advisory services and interim management to small and mid-sized companies in Southern California to help them unleash their unrealized potential and achieve new levels of success.
Tatum joins USourceIT’s partner channel. It is the largest and fastest-growing executive services and consulting firm in the United States helping companies in transition to accelerate business success and create more value. This partnership provides small to mid-sized companies the opportunity to off-shore on a project by project basis.
Ujj Nath joins our marketing advisory board. He is a Regional Vice President with Snap-on Business Solutions in their Global Accounts organization. He manages the relationship for Snap-on with the Asian Global Automotive OEM accounts, and the Premier Automotive Group and has 25 years of experience as an Entrepreneur and Executive.
Cookie-cutter approach for off-shoring. Dr. Subbu Murthy, Chairman of USourceIT presented Los Angeles area CIOs guidance for Small to Medium Sized businesses (SMBs) when to off-shore, and equally importantly, when not to off-shore. View his presentation on-line
Avasant, a leading global sourcing advisory firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California today announced a strategic multi-year partnership with USourceIT to launch a virtual Software-as-a-Service offering powered by the proprietary technology of USourceIT. The online service will assess commodity IT sourcing needs of clients, match specific needs with marketplace sourcing solutions, and facilitate the solicitation of services with best-of-breed providers.
The Service will be provided at no-cost to clients and used to support and grow value added consulting services. Ultimately, offering will become a complement to Avasant’s strategy-led advisory services and help Avasant address the underserved needs of the small & medium sized business market.
“It is a perfect marriage of USourceIT’s technology platform and Avasant’s subject matter expertise” said Kevin S. Parikh, CEO of Avasant. “The new service will enable Avasant to harness the experience of our top advisors around the world in a cost-effective way to deliver streamlined sourcing services to our middle market clients.”
“USourceIT is very pleased to provide our proprietary technology to Avasant and its clients,” said Subbu Murthy, Chairman of USourceIT. “Our tools and resources enable our network of service providers to develop new client opportunities by identifying the right IT solution for client needs while improving the quality and execution of these engagements.”
“Not every sourcing deal is complicated and worth millions of dollars,” said Amit K. Singh, a Partner at Avasant, “The USourceIT service is perfect for us to meet the basic sourcing demands of some of our clients while reducing their sourcing costs significantly.”
About Avasant - Based in Newport Beach, California, Avasant is a sister company to a widely known and well-respected U.S. Law Firm – Avasant, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth. Avasant helps clients navigate the complete lifecycle for sourcing IT, Business and Knowledge Process services. Avasant’s experienced team of management consultants, advisors, and lawyers offer holistic advisory services for developing sourcing strategy, executing sourcing transactions and effectively managing sourcing relationships. Avasant’s methods and practices have been refined over decades of experience spread across a talented team serving clients worldwide. The Avasant team has conducted over 1,000 sourcing engagements collectively since 2001 in over 40 countries.
About USourceIT - A software service provider incorporated in India, USourceIT has developed a robust suite of applications designed to assist small to medium companies gain business advantage through off-shoring their IT related projects. USourceIT founders have vast experience in managing the full transaction lifecycle of off-shore projects for several Fortune 1000 U.S. based companies. The company seeks to leverage these lessons learned into a comprehensive yet user-friendly format to extend the benefits of sourcing to the underserved middle market business community.
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Notes for Editors:
1. Kevin S Parikh is the CEO and Partner of Avasant. Mr. Parikh specializes in IT and business process (BP) outsourcing contract and service-level negotiations, strategic management, business risk evaluation and software licensing. His practice engages in both nearshore and offshore sourcing solutions. Mr. Parikh is based in Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining SGS, Mr. Parikh led the Global Sourcing practice for Gartner Consulting.
2. Amit K Singh is the partner of Avasant. Mr Singh has extensive experience in outsourcing strategy, financial modeling and leading strategic outsourcing initiatives for IT and business processes with a focus on enterprise applications.
3. Subbu Murthy is the Chairman of USourceIT. He has over 25 years of diverse work experience. As a CIO, he was involved in general and technical management, marketing, strategic/tactical planning, business/product development, operations management and Fortune 500 contract/joint venture negotiations. Dr. Murthy has helped private equity firms acquire small to medium sized businesses by providing an in-depth assessment of business processes and technology.
