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Accenture has been named the world's best outsourcing provider for the fifth consecutive year in the 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 rankings by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
"Getting selected shows these companies came out on top following a rigorous application process and unbiased competition judged by an independent panel of recognised industry leaders in outsourcing," said IAOP CEO Debi Hamill.
Average revenue for 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 providers was $1.6 billion, with a growth rate of 6 percent versus 13 percent in 2008.
Companies were judged on four critical characteristics: size and growth, customer references, organisational competencies and management capabilities.
1. Accenture
Key strength: Balanced Performance
Accenture is a multinational management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
A Fortune Global 500 company, it is also the largest consulting firm in the world.
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2. Infosys
Key strength: Balanced Performance
Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys was established in April 2002.
The company has more than 21,400 professionals servicing over 126 clients across 18 delivery centers in the Americas, APAC, and Europe.
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3. HCL Technologies
Key Strength: Customer References
HCL Technologies is provider of Information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
It is primarily engaged in providing a range of outsourcing services, business process outsourcing and infrastructure services.
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4. CBRE
Key Strength: Balanced Performance
CBRE Group, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world's largest commercial real estate services firm (in terms of 2011 revenue).
CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing, corporate services, property, facilities and project management.
The company has about 34,000 employees serving real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices worldwide.
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5. ISS
Key strength: Balanced Performance
ISS (International Service System) was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1901 and has since grown to become one of the leading Facility Services companies in the world.
ISS offers a wide range of services like support and property services, catering, security services and facility management services.
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6. NCR
Key Strength: Management Capabilities
NCR Corporation is an American computer hardware and electronics company that provides products and services that enable businesses to connect, interact and transact with their customers.
Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check processing systems, barcode scanners, and business consumables.
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7. Wipro Technologies
Key Strength: Customer References
Wipro Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Ltd is a leading information Technology, consulting and outsourcing company with a comprehensive portfolio of services and an organization wide commitment to sustainability and innovation.
The IT Products segment sells a range of Wipro personal desktop computers, Wipro servers and Wipro notebooks.
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8. Capgemini
Demonstrated Competencies
Capgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 115,000 operating in 40 countries.
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9. CSC
Demonstrated Competencies
Computer Sciences Corporation is an American multinational provider of information technology (IT) and professional services headquartered in Virginia, USA.
CSC offers IT services in integration and professional services, enterprise application development and management, application software for the financial services industry, business process outsourcing, managed hosting services and application and IT infrastructure outsourcing.
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10. TeleTech
Demonstrated Competencies
TeleTech Holdings, Inc is a global business process outsourcing company that provides services for customer management, transaction-based processing, database marketing services, professional sales and eCommerce.
The firm operates in 17 countries, with a total of 62 delivery centers.
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11. Sodexo
Key Strength: Customer References
Sodexo is a French multinational corporation headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
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12. Amdocs
Key Strength: Balanced Performance
Amdocs is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM), operations support systems (OSS).
The company also offers outsourced customer service and data center operations.
Headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, Amdocs has more than 20,000 employees and serves customers in more than fifty countries.
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13. Genpact
Key strength: Management Capabilities
Genpact is a global provider of business process and technology management services, offering a portfolio of enterprise and industry-specific services.
Currently, it employs over 55,000 people in various locations providing services in 25 languages.
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14. Aegis
Key strength: Balanced Performance
Owned by the Essar Group Aegis Inc, is a corporation founded in the United States and is currently based in Mumbai, India.
Aegis has increased its portfolio of solutions to target the wide range of business and customer interactions.
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15. CGI Group
Key strength: Management Capabilities
CGI Group Inc is a Canadian multinational information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and solutions company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
CGI employs around 31,000 professionals in over 125 offices across 16 countries.
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16. Johnson Controls
Management Capabilities
Johnson Controls, Inc is a global company offering products and services to optimise energy and operational efficiencies of buildings, automotive batteries and interior systems for automobiles.
It is a Fortune 500 diversified, multi-industrial company with 162,000 employees in more than 1,300 locations across six continents.
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17. Diebold Integrated Services
Key Strength: Balanced Performance
Diebold, Inc is a United States-based security systems corporation that is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), electronic and physical security products, and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets.
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18. iGate Patni
Key strength: Customer References
iGate Corporation (formally iGate Patni) is a provider of IT services and business solutions, as a subsidiary of iGate Corporation.
The company has employed over 15,000 people across 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as offshore development centres in eight cities in India.
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19. Sutherland Global Services
Key strength: Demonstrated Competencies
Sutherland Global Services is a multi-national technology-enabled BPO services company providing integrated platform-based and analytics enabled business-cycle support solutions.
Sutherland now employs over 30,000 professionals.
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20. Jones Lang LaSalle
Key strength: Management Capabilities
Jones Lang LaSalle is a multinational financial and professional services company specialising in real estate with its global headquarters located in Chicago.
The company's real estate services include agency leasing, capital markets, tenant representation, real estate investment, consulting and investment management.
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