by Liz Tay, November 09 2011
Outsources more application services.
About 200 technology staff in Westpac's service delivery applications team could lose their jobs before Christmas under a new outsourcing drive.
In an internal memo yesterday, the bank revealed plans to dump its year-old Applications Best Sourcing (ABS) program for a supplier-focused Applications Services Transformation (AST) program.
The ABS program was designed to augment in-house skills with the resources of key suppliers such as Infosys, TCS, IBM and Wipro.
But the bank has told staff this week that the model has since proven “sub-optimal” and...
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