RMS announces expanded outsourcing joint venture with New Delhi subsidiary

[OhioChick]

East Bay Business Times - 2:03 PM PST Friday


Risk Management Solutions, which provides catastrophe and weather-related risk-management products and services to insurance companies, said Thursday it is expanding a joint-venture outsourcing initiative in India.

The Newark-based company said it expects to expand its New Delhi Business Process Outsourcing unit from 55 employees to more than 200 over the next two years. The venture is based in the offices of RMS' Indian subsidiary, RMSI.

The unit provides data-enhancement and other services used by more than 10 reinsurance organizations worldwide. RMSI, meanwhile, already employs more than 850 workers on the Indian subcontinent, who provide software and services linking geographic and geospatial information with a wide variety of niche business applications.

RMS' customers are in business sectors such as real estate, wireless telecommunications, insurance, disaster management, agriculture, and multilateral funding agencies.

http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2006/11/27/daily43.html

<snip> "Expanding our capabilities to India will enable us to rapidly scale and broaden our offering by drawing upon a pool of highly dedicated analysts." :eyes:

[valerief]

1. Why don't they just become a New Delhi based company? Why

are so many "American" companies without American employees?

[NYC]

6. Reminds me of the video:

Ha, Ha, Ha, America.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48648

It said American companies have more Chinese employees than American employees.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Jeez...I thought you were talking about Richard Stallman!

:rofl:

[davidwparker]

3. Attention on deck: A computer geek. :-))

You'd have to be to know Richard Stallman of emacs and GNU fame. I met him once at a convention. Interesting guy.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Didn't he write a book

called "Cuckoo's Nest" or something like that?

[davidwparker]

5. Hadn't heard of that, so I used the google. Hits had Stallman

with Cuckoo's Egg. Try the google yourself and see if that helps you remember.

cheers

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Well, he pretty much founded the whole free software thing

so I guess he's a bit more well-known than that now...:-)