Source: businesswire.com

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its Global Delivery Network with the opening of a delivery center in Monterrey, Mexico, strengthening the systems integration and outsourcing capabilities it provides to clients in North America.

Sharing the same methodologies, tools and architectures that Accenture uses across its Global Delivery Network, professionals at the delivery center in Monterrey work with those in other Accenture delivery centers around the world to provide systems integration, application development and maintenance, testing, and technology consulting services to clients across many industries.

The delivery center in Monterrey supports a variety of technologies and technology platforms, including JAVA/J2EE, Microsoft.Net, mainframe, SAP and Oracle. It is Accenture’s second delivery center in Mexico, joining one in Mexico City, which opened in 2004. The delivery center in Mexico City, which is also part of Accenture’s Global Delivery Network, provides application outsourcing and systems integration services to clients globally.

With the addition of the delivery center in Monterrey, Accenture now has six delivery centers across Central and South America — with two centers each in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina — bringing the total number of delivery centers in Accenture’s Global Delivery Network to 51.

“The ability to serve the needs of our clients using a global capability is a key feature of Accenture’s global sourcing approach,” said Keith Haviland, senior managing director, Delivery Centre Network for Technology. “We bring together the right mix of people, skills and common standards to provide our clients with price-competitive and cost-effective solutions and services. Our global network offers the flexibility of multiple locations for the integrated delivery of services to clients.”

The Accenture Global Delivery Network comprises 76,000 professionals at more than 50 delivery centers worldwide. By applying a systematic approach to creating and capturing proven, repeatable processes, methodologies, tools and architectures, professionals in the Accenture Global Delivery Network enable client teams to deliver customized services and solutions in less time than would be required to develop them independently.

Source: manilastandardtoday.com

Bacnotan Consolidated Industries Inc. plans to venture into business process outsourcing this year to take advantage of the rapidly growing sector.

Bacnotan chief executive Ramon del Rosario Jr. told reporters yesterday following the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting that the company was especially interested in a BPO business that would offer financial, engineering and animation services.

Del Rosario said the company was currently developing a strategy on how to enter the BPO industry. He said Bacnotan could either put up its own BPO facility or acquire existing companies.

“We see BPO as an industry with a bright future. We hope to get into the BPO sector within the year,” Del Rosario said.

He said Bacnotan’s entry into the BPO sector would also complement the company’s existing businesses.

“It’s the type of operations that blend itself to our type of skills and strengths. Plus, it is also a good mechanism employment for Filipinos,” Del Rosario said.

Bacnotan is primarily involved in investment holdings, galvanized and pre-painted iron sheets manufacturing, education, real estate development and real and personal property investment.

Its principal subsidiaries are Atlas Holdings Corp., Union Galvasteel Corp., Pamantasan ng Araullo Inc., Cagayan de Oro College Inc., Bacnotan Industrial Park Corp., P&S Holdings Corp. and Asian Plaza Inc.

Subsidiaries and affiliates include Phinma Property Holdings Corp., Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp., Luzon Bag Corp., AB Capital and Investment Corp. and Asian Coal Corp.

In 2007, the company reported a net income of P330 million, slightly lower than P336 million in 2006, while revenues grew to P2.79 billion, up from a year-ago level of P2.65 billion.

The company said it remained bullish in 2008 despite the market uncertainties. It said it planned to evaluate opportunities in oil exploration and the privatization of the power sector.

Through its newly formed subsidiary, Trans Asia Gold and Mineral Corp., Bacnotan also plans to pursue opportunities in the mining sector. Jenniffer B. Austria