Xerox, Accenture, CSC Atop List of Green Outsourcing Vendors

For companies looking to outsource business services and minimize impact on the environment, a new list shows the top 50 green outsourcing vendors.

The Black Book of Outsourcing has put together its 2009 lists, including ones for outsourcing of infrastructure services, business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and outsourcing of call centers. In all, there are 15 lists.

In creating the lists, in excess of 1,300 respondents were surveyed about  third party service providers interactions.

For the list of the top 50 green outsourcing vendors, the Black Book of Outsourcing accounted for a company's environmental protection, social improvements and economic growth, plus third-party standards such as:

• the U.N.'s Global Compact for social, economic and environmental principles
• the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) standards 14000 and 14001
• the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standard
• Green Sigma, IBM's sustainability consulting service, which is based on Six Sigma principles.

Here is the complete list of the top 50 green outsourcing vendors.

Rank and company name

1. Xerox
2. Accenture
3. CSC
4. Capgemini
5. IBM Global
6. Oracle
7. HCL
8. Patni
9. WNS Global
10. Hewlett Packard/EDS
11. Aramark
12. Perot Systems
13. Logica
14. Wipro
15. SITEL
16. Mastech
17. Océ Business Services
18. SAP
19. CIBER
20. SAIC
21. TechMahindra
22. BT
23. Atos Origin
24. ACS
25. Fujitsu
26. T Systems
27. Orange Business Services
28. eTelecare
29. CH2M Hill
30. Infosys
31. Steria Xansa
32. CGI
33. Innodata Isogen
34. Océ Convergys
35. Sun Microsystems
36. TeleTech
37. Hewitt
38. RR Donnelley
39. UST Global
40. Sodexho
41. Northrop Grumann
42. Ariba
43. Emcor
44. Siemens
45. Unisys
46. XChanging
47. Pitney Bowes
48. Hitachi
49. Tata Consultancy Services
50. CompuCom/Getronics