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VADS Berhad (VADS) is one of Malaysia's leading ICT & BPO Service Providers. VADS is a wholly owned subsidiary of TM; serving more than 500 medium to large businesses across industries. VADS main activities are Value Added Services, IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing. They bring together people, processes and technologies to enable more effective and dynamic use of information technology and communication. VADS empowers businesses with value-based innovative solutions and services by offering their expertise in what they do best that allows you to focus on what you do best - your core business. read more VADS Berhad (VADS) is one of Malaysia's leading ICT & BPO Service Providers. VADS is a wholly owned subsidiary of TM; serving more than 500 medium to large businesses across industries. VADS main activities are Value Added Services, IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing. They bring together people, processes and technologies to enable more effective and dynamic use of information technology and communication. VADS empowers businesses with value-based innovative solutions and services by offering their expertise in what they do best that allows you to focus on what you do best - your core business.
 
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VADS offers solutions to manage your customers' life cycle from acquisition to retention through multiple contact channels such as telephone, fax, email, web chat and social media. Their focus is delivering your brand promise to build long-term relationships with your customers on your behalf while you focus on your core business. A well-managed contact centre is able to integrate people, processes and technology to deliver a professional and positive customer experience. Services offered include: Customer Service, Technical Support, Telemarketing, Telesales and Tele Collections.
 
VADS offers operational flexibility in operating hours and scalability to suit your business requirements. Their objective is the creation and delivery of value to enhance your business.


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On-Demand Webinars

On-Demand Webinar: Mobility in Manufacturing

As in so many other aspects of our lives, mobile devices have forever changed the way consumers and employees expect to exchange with corporations. While a host of new and exciting mobile opportunities for manufacturers are projected, the sheer diversity of devices and operating systems creates a daunting set of challenges for CIOs and business.

This provocative webinar highlights news and upcoming trends in the mobility marketplace, presenting compelling success stories in manufacturing mobility. It discusses foundation and application solutions to deal with a BYOD (bring your own device) world, focusing on the following key topics:

  • Trends - Mobility has been ranked as the #2 Priority for CIOs in the 2012 Gartner survey. What mobility trends are affecting manufacturers and how are they addressing them?
  • Fragmentation - The Mobile device landscape is highly fragmented and likely to remain so. How can manufacturers quickly deliver business to enterprise and business to business solutions in this challenging environment?
  • Opportunities - Mobility has enormous potential to enhance productivity, revenue and successfully transform business paradigms for organizations who do it right. What opportunities are there to improve manufacturing productivity through mobile solutions?

Featured Speakers:
Loyal Pridgen, Senior Manager, Stefanini - Global Development Center and Application Managed Services - North America and Asia Pacific
Cristiano Oliveira, Senior Vice President, Business Applications, Kony Solutions
Tony Mataya, Managing Partner, ThinkSolutions
This webinar will help you grasp the burgeoning market for mobility in manufacturing so that you can make it work for your customers.

Sponsored by: Stefanini
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On-Demand Webinar: Outsourcing Readiness, Be Prepared or Just Do It?

Key topics include:
  • The Outsourcing Process
  • Industry Trends
  • What Data is Really Needed?
  • Dangers, Risks and Impacts
  • Lessons Learned

Expert Speaker:
Tony Mataya, Managing Partner, ThinkSolutions
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On-Demand Webinar: BPO 2012 Trends and 2013 Predictions

As an annual event, the Proservartner Shared Services and BPO Point of View has become a recognized barometer, reading the developments within the market. In this webinar, the following will be covered:
  • The reality of cloud in captive shared services and BPO
  • Use of analytics in the industry
  • BPO provider landscape
  • Trends in 2012
  • Movements in 2013

Expert Speakers:

Advisory partner, Rakesh Sangani, will showcase the trends that have become the new normal in 2012 and share with you the predictions for shared services and BPO in 2013 in a "must attend" session. Nina Brown, Director of Business Engineering for DATAMARK, Inc., will join in to add perspective and commentary on the current landscape of BPO.

Be the first to know, and join the conversation about the future of shared services and BPO.

Sponsored by: DATAMARK
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On-Demand Webinar: PMO: To Outsource or Not to Outsource - Managing the Risks and Reaping the Benefits

View this webinar to learn how to:
  • Ensure successful implementation and rollout while reducing complexity and organizational shock
  • Implement a PMO for less - without endangering deliverables or quality
  • Spend more time focusing on your competitive strengths
  • Attain measurable ROI from your projects and initiatives
  • Position yourself for success with internal or external audits
  • Offload day-to-day functions such as onboarding and off boarding team members, new projects, creating templates, timesheet/expense processes, milestone and executive reporting

Featured Expert Speakers:
Lynne Davidson, VP Consulting Group, KeyedIn
Stan Minter, Delivery Director, NashTech UK (Harvey Nash Group)
Paul Pinto, Managing Partner, Sylvan VI

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On-Demand Webinar: Relationship Management & Governance

View this webinar to learn about:

Relationship Management and Governance continue to be hot topics as organizations further adopt outsourcing as a service delivery model. As more services get outsourced, the need for qualified and trained resources to manage and govern these relationships grows. There is too much value to be realized and too much risk to mitigated not to make Relationship Management and Governance a core competency.

Join a leading expert in the field to delve into:

  • the connection between Relationship Management and Governance
  • functionality of a mature governance organization
  • appropriate staff skills and size
  • multi-supplier governance models

Hosted by: Mike Beals, Selah Group
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On-Demand Webinar: What is Next in Strategic Document Outsourcing?

As the strategic document outsourcing (SDO) market has matured, new applications for SDO continue to be explored and developed. Providers have morphed into business-process focused partners capable of delivering a broad range of services. Keenly aware of their customers' unique business issues, providers can help them achieve greater ROI, better efficiencies and improved cost savings.

This timely webinar will explore new trends and opportunities available to deliver value to both buyers and providers of SDO. The discussion will cover the following areas:

  • From transaction processing to the cutting edge in print management
  • Advanced digital services, including inbound solutions
  • Creative or presentation solutions...what are the latest offerings
  • Keeping pace with traditional document solutions--mail, reprographics, administrative

Our featured expert speakers will bring you up to date on this expanding market.

  • Aurora Coya , Global COO, Global Managed Services, Williams Lea
  • Matt Swain, Associate Director, Document Outsourcing, InfoTrends

Don't miss this key opportunity to find out how strategic document outsourcing will continue to evolve as a thriving profit center in the years ahead.

Sponsored by: Williams Lea
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On-Demand Webinar: Improving Performance Through Business Process Re-engineering

Business Process Re-engineering is a tantalizing concept. A complete re-thinking and retooling of business processes offers the potential for sweeping transformation of an organization, as well as the promise of substantial cost savings. At least, this is the glowing BPR portrait painted in textbooks.

But BPR in the "real world" is a completely different story. This is why the Outsourcing Institute has brought together two business transformation experts from Datamark, a business process solution provider for Fortune 500 companies, and the IT Transformation Institute. This compelling webinar delivers useful, proven and practical advice for a realistic perspective of BPR's effectiveness, as well as methods to ensure successful project implementations.

Topics covered include:

  • Why a vision is the starting point for BPR
  • The importance of aligning people, process and technology for BPR success
  • The role of Lean and Six Sigma strategies in a transformation
  • The benefits of a successful BPR implementation
  • Real-world BPR experiences that will provide valuable knowledge and insight for your own process transformation.

Featured Expert Speakers:

  • Charles Araujo, Founder and CEO, IT Transformation Institute, and a recognized leader and expert in the areas of IT transformation and IT organizational change
  • Nina Brown, Director of Business Engineering for Datamark Inc., and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt

This webinar provides the key information you'll need to successfully drive upcoming BPR projects.

Sponsored by: DATAMARK
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On-Demand Webinar: Securities Operations and IT in China - Opportunities for ITO, BPO and KPO

View this webinar to learn about:
  • Recent Financial Market Developments in China
  • Needs for Securities Operations, Processes & Technologies
  • Needs for Training, Consulting and Technology
  • Financial Services Outsourcing Companies
  • Case Study - Fund Operations and Administration
  • eRiver's Role

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On-Demand Webinar: Asian Service to Sales: Turning a Cost Center into a Profit Center for Asian Customers

The world's largest and most populous continent, Asia, represents the fastest growing and potentially the largest spending market, particularly in the face of the economic issues that have plagued North America and Europe during recent years. Asian markets such as Malaysia and Indonesia represent critical opportunities for outsourcers who do business in this region.

In this webinar, VADS, the leading Asian ICT and BPO player, will share how it helps businesses penetrate the Malaysian and Indonesian markets, grow by optimizing their sales distribution channels and ultimately, converting every Asian customer service engagement into a sales opportunity.

This informative, interactive webinar provides insight into:

  • How to capitalize every customer engagement by optimizing the sales distribution model via an inside-sales model.
  • The Asian sales distribution channel model and key success factors in making it work.
  • Why Malaysia and Indonesia are great business markets and what positions these countries to support the whole of Asia.

Featuring Expert Speakers:
Bernard Chin, Vice President of Business Process Outsourcing, VADS Berhad
Jeff Russell, Managing Director, Contact Center Marketplace, The Outsourcing Institute

Sponsored by: VADS
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On-Demand Webinar: Marketing BPO - Opportunities and Techniques for Increasing Efficiency in the Marketing Supply Chain

Marketing is critical to unlocking new markets and revenue streams. But in today's economy, even a modest marketing budget can be difficult to swing. How can BP outsourcers market effectively without making an impossible investment?

This webinar explores how BPO is transforming the marketing operation. This lively discussion looks at how BPO creates opportunities for effective investment while lowering the total cost of the marketing supply chain.

A market overview will profile the latest trends in marketing BPO, covering the following topics:

  • Understanding the opportunity for outsourcing while aligning with marketing agenda
  • Delivering increased efficiency without affecting quality or service
  • Reducing the overall total cost of ownership of the marketing supply chain

Featured Expert Speakers:
Frank Olivieri, President and COO, Marketing Solutions, Williams Lea
Matt Swain, Associate Director, Document Outsourcing, InfoTrends

This webinar provides the tools and information outsourcers need to market cost-effectively in the BPO space.

Sponsored by: Williams Lea
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On-Demand Webinar: The Future of BPO

View this webinar to learn about: Topics:
  • Operating Models
  • Competition
  • Pricing Models
  • Location
  • People

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On-Demand Webinar: Maximizing Sourcing Value- Thru Supply Intelligence

View this webinar to learn about: Topics:
  • For Context: About Neo Group
  • What Ails Outsourcing
  • Solutions: Leverage
  • Supply Intelligence Models
  • Supply Monitoring Program

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On-Demand Webinar: Why Suppliers Fail To Sell

We ring in the new year with much economic uncertainty in the air and an election year in the making. Ongoing global tough economic times are often a driver for outsourcing, but as we saw at the end of 2011, uncertainty can delay and derail buyers' decision making processes and timelines and election year rhetoric, while often more pomp than circumstance when it comes to outsourcing, can certainly prove a distraction. So what will 2012 bring to the global outsourcing market? The following is discussed in this webinar:
  • Top 2012 trends and predictions impacting businesses globally
  • The impact of these trends on buyers' use of third party business and IT services
  • What is new? Is this the year for transformation or more of the same
  • Checking the cloud - driver, alternative or something in between when it comes to traditional outsourcing?
  • Global sourcing - more of the same or bring it back home?
  • Global business services - what's the optimal mix of shared services, outsourcing and cloud to meet buyers' business needs?

Our Expert Speakers:
Stan Lepeak, KPMG
Joe Hogan, Managing Partner, Joe Hogan Consulting, LLC
Sponsored by: The Outsourcing Institute

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On-Demand Webinar: Outsourcing Sales Outlook - IT & BPO

We ring in the new year with much economic uncertainty in the air and an election year in the making. Ongoing global tough economic times are often a driver for outsourcing, but as we saw at the end of 2011, uncertainty can delay and derail buyers' decision making processes and timelines and election year rhetoric, while often more pomp than circumstance when it comes to outsourcing, can certainly prove a distraction. So what will 2012 bring to the global outsourcing market? The following is discussed in this webinar:

  • Top 2012 trends and predictions impacting businesses globally
  • The impact of these trends on buyers' use of third party business and IT services
  • What is new? Is this the year for transformation or more of the same
  • Checking the cloud - driver, alternative or something in between when it comes to traditional outsourcing?
  • Global sourcing - more of the same or bring it back home?
  • Global business services - what's the optimal mix of shared services, outsourcing and cloud to meet buyers' business needs?

Our Expert Speakers:
Stan Lepeak, KPMG
Joe Hogan, Managing Partner, Joe Hogan Consulting, LLC
Sponsored by: The Outsourcing Institute

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On-Demand Webinar: BPO Outsourcing - The trends and strategies for 2012

As expected, emerging technologies continue to change the face of BPO, and the uncertain economy has companies reviewing outsourcing options within the U.S., nearshore in Latin American and farshore in India, the Philippines and China. So what can the outsourcing services buyer and provider's communities expect in the New Year. In this presentation we look at some projected trends for the year 2012 and recommendations on what the year holds for you as new sourcing & pricing models and vendors emerge in the market.
  • What are the trends
  • How they will affect the buyers and providers

Our expert speaker:
Rakesh Sangani, Partner, Proservartner
Sponsored by: The Outsourcing Institute

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Featured Content

Improving Performance Through Business Process Re-engineering: People, Process and Technology

As many companies struggle with controlling costs and improving organizational structure, executives often pursue Business Process Re-Engineering or BPR to manage people, process and technology within a holistic and departmental-compliant effort to better ensure alignment throughout the organization and deliver the expected results. Done well, customer service and satisfaction should flourish in kind. Sponsored by: DATAMARK, Inc.
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3x1 interview with Michael Engel, Managing Partner, Sylvan Advisory

Michael has over a quarter century as both an outsourcing Provider and Advisor with some of the world’s most respected firms. Outsourcing Topic: Outsourcing – How to Get Started • What is your definition of outsourcing? • What benefits can be gained? • Where should one start if they haven't outsourced before?
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Avoiding the “ditch” – Making an Effective Transition to Outsourcing

Our research shows that information technology (IT) outsourcing is here to stay. During times of economic prosperity, outsourcing can enable a company to focus on core competencies, improve processes, and increase flexibility. During an economic downturn, outsourcing can help a company reduce costs, generate cash flow, and/or shed low-value operations.
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Outsourcing Institute 3x1 - 3 Questions – 1 Expert

Today’s Expert: Jill Zunshine, Vice President, Americas Region, Global Procurement, Hewlett Packard Topic: Winning in Outsourcing: Maximizing Procurement during the Sales Cycle to enhance Revenue Opportunities Following is an interview with Jill Zunshine that relates to some of the topics Jill covered during her webinar on this same topic. Jill has an in-depth knowledge in the area of Procurement as it relates to Sales. To view the webinar as well please visit: http://tinyurl.com/Webinar-Presentation-OnDemand
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Value-Based BPO in a Resurgent Economy Key Findings

Forbes Insights, in association with Infosys, surveyed more than 200 top-level and C-suite executives at $1 billion-plus multinational companies to gain an understanding of how they are evaluating the risks and benefits of business process outsourcing. In particular, the goal of the survey was to see how these executives viewed BPO in the current post recessionary economy, and whether they are taking a more value-based approach. Review this white paper by Forbes Insights in association with Infosys to learn more.
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Life & Pension BPO Competitive Overview

Industry-specific BPO in the life insurance sector has maintained high levels of activity throughout 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of the vendors serving this market differ markedly both by geography and by life BPO market segment. NelsonHall’s Charles Jupiter provides a framework for assessing life BPO vendors’ capabilities to meet your needs.
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The State of Learning Business Process Outsourcing

Learning BPO has been one of the slower HR outsourcing markets to recover during 2010, with learning budgets traditionally being slashed during difficult times. However, learning is a key factor in retention of high performers and critical to the future success of organizations and the market has now returned to growth. Learning BPO provides a mechanism for improving the effectiveness of training while also reducing the cost of delivery. The author of NelsonHall’s Learning BPO assessments, Gary Bragar, has extensive experience of HR outsourcing vendor management within AT&T.
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Platform F&A Outsourcing

Platform-based F&A outsourcing is a much discussed topic at present but what is the reality? While a number of suppliers are offering platform-based multi-process F&A outsourcing to the mid-market, the principal progress in platform-based F&A outsourcing within multinationals lies in increasingly specialized support for single F&A process and sub-processes with perhaps surprisingly greatest adoption in areas such as expenses management and accounts payable.
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Developments in Finance & Accounting BPO

Finance & accounting BPO continues to be one of the safest forms of BPO, combining relatively low levels of risk, with short transition times, and high return on investment, making the service one of the most acceptable to buyers in the current uncertain environment. Ignore the hype around full-service platform BPO and you are on safe ground.
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Developments in HR Outsourcing

The HR outsourcing market is back. Although several of the second-generation HR outsourcing vendors have now exited the market, multi-process HR outsourcing is re-emerging in hybrid form across a narrower range of outsourced services, RPO is growing strongly, and the benefits administration market is undergoing considerable M&A activity as vendors reposition for future growth.
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Developments in Customer Management Services

The customer management services market is undergoing major change in the delivery mix fuelled by the continuing shift of customer service to the Philippines, growth in use of WAHA services, and the emergence of new channels such as webchat . This presentation summarizes recent developments within customer management services, including current buyer pain points, buying trends, delivery trends, changes in the vendor landscape, and implications for service buyers.
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Renewed Enthusiasm for HR Outsourcing

HR departments continue to be faced with a strong corporate requirement for cost cutting within HR administration combined with a need to improve their identification and retention of key personnel during unsettled times. This, together with a more realistic approach by suppliers, is leading to renewed interest in HR outsourcing in 2010.
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Application of Multi-Channel Customer Contact

Organizations are increasingly faced with the dual challenge of enhancing customer service while reducing customer service cost. Moving to a multichannel environment is becoming a key tool in addressing this challenge and may have the added benefit of providing new approaches to cross-sell and up-sell.
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Developments in the Role & Application of BPO

The current economic environment has fundamentally changed organizations requirements from sourcing, placing a much greater emphasis on certainty of the business case and speed of pay-back. It has also had a significant impact on organizations attitudes towards the impact of outsourcing on customer experience, use of offshoring, and the role of technology within BPO.
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BPO Index: July 2010

Every quarter NelsonHall holds a “BPO Index” webcast to monitor developments in BPO contract activity. This presentation shows developments in the overall level of BPO contract activity, together with the emerging patterns of BPO contract activity by process, industry sector, and geography. It also provides examples of significant developments in the BPO market that took place in Q2 2010.
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