Category: IT Outsourcing / IT Services

  • Mahindra Satyam eyes big comeback

    November 10, 2010 |

    While the rest of the outsourcing world has been carrying on through challenging times, the most challenged of its citizens, Mahindra Satyam, has been quietly rebuilding a global business under the charismatic and candid leadership of Atul Kunwar.Read More

  • HfS Research aligns with the stars with Ray Wang

    November 09, 2010 |

    Today, Ray announced the launch of a very exciting new research venture entitled Constellation Research, which comprises a collection of really smart and remarkable individuals and friends who are - quite literally - changing the way market research and insight is being served up to the technology buyer. HfS Research is delighted to be the alliance partner of IT sourcing and BPO research to Constellation's buy-side community, where we'll be cross-pollinating some research with each other and coollaborating to help educate the sourcing buyer make better decisions.Read More

  • Benchmarker Beware!

    November 08, 2010 |

    Benchmarking is a misused and misunderstood tool in outsourcing. Almost everybody’s contract has a provision for benchmarking, and in almost all cases is drives the wrong behavior for both partiesRead More

  • Service Integration: Guy Fawkes fireworks or damp squib?

    November 05, 2010 |

    As HfS Research's Euan Davis readies for his annual trip to a bonfire, he muses on fireworks--municipal ones and the type he expected at a session about service integration last night, at PA Consulting Group’s SSON networking eveningRead More

  • A healthcare BPO summit… with Sumit

    November 04, 2010 |

    Healthcare has been on everyone's minds in the US, in the wake of the acrimonious legislative fight and with the recent elections. And when any industry gets the squeeze, us sourcing-folk immediately think "hmmm, will they now do some outsourcing...Read More

  • Deborah Kops, delightful doyenne and describer, joins the HfS research family

    November 02, 2010 |

    Over the next year, you’ll be able to sample some of the most innovative thinking in sourcing change through Deborah Kops' frequent columns and commentary exclusively for HfS ResearchRead More

  • The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part I: Business execs are buying-in to Cloud even more than their IT counterparts

    November 02, 2010 |

    Cloud Business Services are no longer hype - both business and IT executives are buying-into the value Cloud can bring to their jobs and their organizations. The ability to access business applications quicker, faster, cheaper and in a virtual business environment are the major drivers - and it's the business side of the house which is even more engaged by the potential value that the IT-side. Read More

  • HfS Research will be talking Cloud-sourcing in London this November

    October 28, 2010 |

    You'll have a chance to see HfS Research's European research lead, Euan Davis, up close on November 18 at the IIAR London Forum in Central London from 3:45 – 6:30 pm. The session isubbed the "Cloud," and Euan will be giving the HfS Research view of the Cloud, based on brand-spanking new data our joint study with the London School of Economics, which covered the views and intentions of 1043 companies.Read More

  • Will customers buy CSC’s vision?

    October 25, 2010 |

    We liked what we heard at CSC’s European analyst event. The provider outlined two strategies dealing with the short and long term realities of how you, the customer, buys IT and business servicesRead More

  • CSC stakes its claim to prosper in the new IT services ecosystem

    October 24, 2010 |

    CSC has struck out in a new direction sketching out a long-term position as a “service integrator” and laying out a cloud strategy that goes beyond the usual hype. The real test is whether CSC can channel its pricing and engagement models, its service management frameworks and—critically—its sales team in the same direction as the new IT services ecosystem emerges. This HfS RAPIDInsight sets out the HfS Research take on CSC’s strategy; what is needs to make it work, and what it means for customers.Read More