VS and VH offshore IT in economy drive

[fozzyo]

I saw this article in Computing this week.

"The company has now moved Virgin Atlantic's IT support, maintenance, development and other operations to suppliers in India, as well as Virgin Holidays' booking systems and trainline call centres."

According to the article the Virgin group has cut its IT budget by 15% though this outsourcing move. Apparently they are also looking at taking this further with its US, Spanish and Portuguese operations. Interestingly SRB said "he liked the idea of moving business to India but that it shouldn't be customer-facing."

Mat

Originally posted by fozzyo
I saw this article in Computing this week.

The system, designed and implemented by airline network and communications specialist SITA, is expected to be fully deployed by the end of 2004.

Umm, Fozz, did you see the date on that article?:

24 Nov 2003

:D

Cheers

Michael

[fozzyo]

I know! I know!

The article I was reading was in Computing today (p14 16th June 2005). I posted it and clicked on the article link and saw for some reason the link they gave at the bottom of the article is way way out of date. Went back to edit post to remove link but the site kept giving me a Service Unavailable message. [:(!]

Then i had to go and beat up a server and now you've posted so I can't cover up my mistake.

Foz xx

Originally posted by fozzyo
Then i had to go and beat up a server and now you've posted so I can't cover up my mistake.

Muwuhahahahahaha [}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]
Of course, you coulda sneakily edited the link, but then again, I've quoted it now

Cheers

Michael

[Nottingham Nick]

Originally posted by fozzyo

Then i had to go and beat up a server

Is that a technical operation that only you clever IT types can do[?] [8D];)[}:)]

Nick

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by Nottingham Nick

Originally posted by fozzyo

Then i had to go and beat up a server

Is that a technical operation that only you clever IT types can do[?] [8D];)[}:)]

Nick

LMFAO,yes it is,guess it was running MS server

oh and im e-mailing my friend at America West,she would be a good person to jump into this forum,seeing as she just spent a couple of months working with VS on their systems,I cant say how she described it,but it explains a lot of things

Originally posted by Nottingham Nick
Is that a technical operation that only you clever IT types can do[?] [8D];)[}:)]

Indeed - it usually involves a hammer - tricks of the trade and all that

Cheers

Michael

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by mcuth

Originally posted by Nottingham Nick
Is that a technical operation that only you clever IT types can do[?] [8D];)[}:)]

Indeed - it usually involves a hammer - tricks of the trade and all that

Cheers

Michael

Dont forget the use of certain colourful words like "oh gosh that flipping server went down again"

So how come you get your copy of computing a day before me then? Not that it matters if the stories are all 3 years old!

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