Wipro, Airtel, Bank Of India Bag Outsourcing Awards

India has yet again shown its credibility as the world''s most preferred BPO (business process outsourcing) destination as three of its leading companies - Wipro, Airtel and Bank of India - have bagged the prestigious Outsourcing Excellence Award.The ''Best Offshore'' award was bagged by Wipro-Nortel Networks for their 15 years of partnership that brought about many achievements for the offshore industry.The ''Best IT Infrastructure'' award was given to Bank of India-Hewlett Packard combine for their efforts to implement a core banking solution. Bharti Airtel-Nortel Networks India won the ''Best First Steps'' award for representing best practices in outsourcing. The awards, sponsored by global consultancy firm Everest Group and US-based Forbes magazine, will be presented in August at a ceremony in New York. In addition to the fact that three of the nine winners in 2007 were Indian companies, a large number of the US-based service providers this year are delivering services from offshore locations, Gaurav Gupta, country head (India), Everest Group said in a statement.