Overview
KPO Sector












Classification

The KPO sector can be classified into 8 major segments:
  • Legal Services: These include drafting contracts, reviewing transactional & litigation documents, research memoranda & due diligence reports, negotiations,
    prosecuting patents, etc. Some of the KPOs working in this area are Wipro, Pangea3, Atlas Legal, Manthan Services, etc.
  • Financial Services: These include financial data mining, insurance, risk assessment, equity research, underwriting, fund management, actuarial analytics, debt collection and recovery, corporate & market research, etc. Some of the KPOs working in this area are Smart Analyst, Office Tiger, The Smart Cube.
  • Engineering and R&D: These include finite analysis, 3D conversion and modeling, technical specifications for tenders, value engineering, computational fluid dynamics analysis, etc. Some of the areas and KPOs working in these areas are:
    • Telecom R&D: Qualcomm, Nokia, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, Ericsson.
    • Software R&D: Phillips, Microsoft, Baan, Adobe, SAP Labs, BMC Software, IBM, Yahoo, HP, Sun MicrosysteAuto/Engineeringms, Google.
    • Auto/Engineering: Neilsoft, Delphi, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Plexion, Quest, Whirlpool.


    Radial Diagram
  • Market Research and Analytics: These include services like writing & editing, secondary & primary research, formatting client reports, conversion of findings to knowledge, etc. Some of the KPOs working in this area are marketRx, Pipal Research, Evalueserve, Inductis, OfficeTiger, Copal Partners, CRISIL, etc.

  • Writing and Content Development: These include services like content delivery, digitization of content, data enrichment & warehousing, pre-press work, proofreading, template designing, text composition, etc.

  • Pharmaceutical and Biotech R&D: These include clinical research, research & development, drug discovery, etc. Some of the KPOs working in this area are Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Biocon, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Dr. Path Labs, etc.

  • Healthcare Services: These include diagnostic, genetic profiling, oncology tests, HIV & allergy, etc. Some of the KPOs working in this area are Clingene, Avesthagen, Ranbaxy.

  • Education and Training: These include private tutorials, curriculum design, K-12, teaching, content development, etc.