abgestürzt, und Internet Capital ging damals mit, so ca. 3 bis 5%. CMGI hat von den minus 15% einiges wieder aufgeholt, Internet Capital von den sehr viel niedrigeren Rückgangen bisher nichts.
Aber das ist auch egal, denn das sind nur kurzfristige Geplänkel. Langfristig sieht das allerdings so aus, dass CMGI inzwischen ein Low-Tech-Unternehmen ist, das keinerlei Perspektiven bietet, während Internet Capital eine gut gefüllte IPO-Pipeline mit eineigen Hochkarätern hat.
Und auch die weniger aussichtsreichen Unternehmen, wie z.B. ICGCommerce stehen gar nicht so schlecht da, wie der nachstehende Bericht zeigt, den ich bisher nur als Adresse ins Netz gestellt hatte. Einschränkend muss man hier allerdings sagen, dass sich das gute Geschäft nur auf die USA bezieht, weil man dort die Nr. 1 ist - und ganz vorne muss man hier offensichtlich marschieren, wenn man gute Geschäfte machen will:
BPO Market Report – 20 February 2006
ICG Commerce, Inc.
Last month, procurement BPO vendor ICG Commerce won a deal with The Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company in North America. The contract sees ICG working with Goodyear's internal
procurement organization to reduce the company's indirect spending, using processes such as
strategic sourcing, savings implementation, transaction processing, and ongoing category
management.
The deal was the first to be publicly announced by ICG in 2006, although according to the
company's vice president of outsourcing, Jason Gilroy, ICG is "consistently closing deals with
new customers". "We have extended our deal with Avaya, and Goodyear is a new customer,"
Gilroy told BPO Market Report. "We are not seeing a decrease in the pipeline of new customers."
Indeed, research carried out by Everest Partners reveals that ICG has won 26% of the contracts
signed in the procurement outsourcing space to date, more than any other vendor. ICG leads
IBM, which has secured 24% of deals, Accenture (16%) and Ariba (15%).
Of these four leading suppliers, ICG and Ariba represent the specialist providers, as opposed to
global IT services giants IBM and Accenture, who offer procurement outsourcing as just part of a
BPO business that also includes areas such as finance and accounting and human resources.
Jason Gilroy is keen to emphasize the point that ICG is "100% focused on procurement
outsourcing."
Gilroy also said that, while ICG and Ariba can both be described as procurement specialists, the
two companies have different business models. "Ariba started as a software company," said
Gilroy, "and a lot of [ICG] customers are Ariba users, but also use ICG to drive value and
efficiency from their technology investments".
"For ICG, technology is an absolute necessity for enablement, but we don't care what technology
it is," said Gilroy. "In that sense, we are technology agnostic."
ICG was set up in 1992 as strategic sourcing provider Purchasing Solutions Inc (PSI). In
November 1999, e-commerce company Internet Capital Group Inc paid $12m for a majority stake
in PSI, and changed the company's name to ICG Commerce.
The following year, ICG raised approximately $117m in private placement financing from a
group of investors led by Internet Capital Group and including Staples, Unisys, Keppel, Graham
Partners and Koch Ventures. A further $35m was raised in an equity funding round in January
2003, including investment from Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Wynnefield Capital and CIC
Group alongside ICG's parent company.
Today, ICG has offices in the US, the UK and Germany. The company operates a nearshore
policy, rather than investing heavily in low-cost offshore locations such as India, China or the
Philippines. Jason Gilroy explains: "We view offshore as good for data mining, classification and
other non-customer facing processes. "Our business requires extreme interaction at a local level
with suppliers. For that, you need to have a strong understanding of the local culture, language
and so on."
BPO Market Report – 20 February 2006
ICG Commerce, Inc.
Last month, procurement BPO vendor ICG Commerce won a deal with The Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company in North America. The contract sees ICG working with Goodyear's internal
procurement organization to reduce the company's indirect spending, using processes such as
strategic sourcing, savings implementation, transaction processing, and ongoing category
management.
The deal was the first to be publicly announced by ICG in 2006, although according to the
company's vice president of outsourcing, Jason Gilroy, ICG is "consistently closing deals with
new customers". "We have extended our deal with Avaya, and Goodyear is a new customer,"
Gilroy told BPO Market Report. "We are not seeing a decrease in the pipeline of new customers."
Indeed, research carried out by Everest Partners reveals that ICG has won 26% of the contracts
signed in the procurement outsourcing space to date, more than any other vendor. ICG leads
IBM, which has secured 24% of deals, Accenture (16%) and Ariba (15%).
Of these four leading suppliers, ICG and Ariba represent the specialist providers, as opposed to
global IT services giants IBM and Accenture, who offer procurement outsourcing as just part of a
BPO business that also includes areas such as finance and accounting and human resources.
Jason Gilroy is keen to emphasize the point that ICG is "100% focused on procurement
outsourcing."
Gilroy also said that, while ICG and Ariba can both be described as procurement specialists, the
two companies have different business models. "Ariba started as a software company," said
Gilroy, "and a lot of [ICG] customers are Ariba users, but also use ICG to drive value and
efficiency from their technology investments".
"For ICG, technology is an absolute necessity for enablement, but we don't care what technology
it is," said Gilroy. "In that sense, we are technology agnostic."
ICG was set up in 1992 as strategic sourcing provider Purchasing Solutions Inc (PSI). In
November 1999, e-commerce company Internet Capital Group Inc paid $12m for a majority stake
in PSI, and changed the company's name to ICG Commerce.
The following year, ICG raised approximately $117m in private placement financing from a
group of investors led by Internet Capital Group and including Staples, Unisys, Keppel, Graham
Partners and Koch Ventures. A further $35m was raised in an equity funding round in January
2003, including investment from Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Wynnefield Capital and CIC
Group alongside ICG's parent company.
Today, ICG has offices in the US, the UK and Germany. The company operates a nearshore
policy, rather than investing heavily in low-cost offshore locations such as India, China or the
Philippines. Jason Gilroy explains: "We view offshore as good for data mining, classification and
other non-customer facing processes. "Our business requires extreme interaction at a local level
with suppliers. For that, you need to have a strong understanding of the local culture, language
and so on."
January 24, 2005: Industrial packaging products and services vendor Greif Inc selected ICG to
provide procurement services. ICG provides sourcing, purchase-to-pay processing and ongoing
category management across a range of indirect materials and services categories. The total value
of the contract was not disclosed.
November 22, 2004: ICG won a deal with Cooper Cameron Corp, a producer of oil and gas
pressure control equipment. ICG provides Cooper Cameron with strategic sourcing, savings
implementation, purchase-to-pay processing and ongoing category management, across 17
purchasing categories. Also, ICG's RealExchangeSM technology platform is integrated with
Cooper Cameron's SAP system in an attempt streamline the company's global procurement
process. The value of the contract was not disclosed.
November 9, 2004: Universal Packaging Systems Inc, a cosmetic contract manufacturer, chose
ICG to provide procurement outsourcing services. Under the terms of the five-year deal, ICG
provides strategic sourcing, savings implementation, purchase-to-pay transaction processing and
invoice reconciliation. ICG also provides an onsite procurement team to coordinate the delivery
of services to Universal Packaging. The contract value was not disclosed.
CONTACT DETAILS
ICG Commerce
2520 Renaissance Boulevard
King of Prussia
Pennsylvania
19406
Phone: 00 1 877-935-4242
Fax: 00 1 877-4242-339
www.icgcommerce.com
Indeed, research carried out by Everest Partners reveals that ICG has won 26% of the contracts
signed in the procurement outsourcing space to date, more than any other vendor. ICG leads
IBM, which has secured 24% of deals, Accenture (16%) and Ariba (15%).
Of these four leading suppliers, ICG and Ariba represent the specialist providers, as opposed to
global IT services giants IBM and Accenture, who offer procurement outsourcing as just part of a
BPO business that also includes areas such as finance and accounting and human resources.
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