BPO (business process outsourcing) is quickly becoming a frontline solution for CIOs desperate to reduce costs and automate business processes. Behind the lines, however, the major application vendors are increasingly viewing BPO as an opportunity to lock outsourcers and customers into proprietary infrastructures. Microsoft is quietly building a BPO platform strategy group, which in its own words will use Microsoft "evangelists" to promote its technology and infrastructure to partners.
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