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CIOs are being predictably cautious with IT budgets for next year, and are focusing on increasing use of cloud technologies and offshore outsourcing, according to the annual report of technology trends by the Society for Information Management. Staff turnover in IT departments averaged 5.2% this year, which is below the average rate of 5.8% measured [...]
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GENERAL MOTORS’ decision to bring most of its information technology activities back in-house may not be an insourcing trend yet, but it’s the beginning of one, say observers. The company piqued market interest with the announcement earlier this month that it would end 90 per cent of its IT outsourcing to reduce costs, increase efficiencies [...]
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While the IT services market in Hungary is somewhat reduced, can expect an expansion of IT outsourcing, mainly because of the banks and insurance companies outsource more business – by the global economy. This page was published on Friday, IDC (International Data Corporation), a market research company forecast a description they write that in Hungary [...]
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Nearly 60pc of IT and business decision makers now believe organisations must place the priority on outsourced infrastructure over traditional in-house services, a study from global cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions provider Savvis suggests. The study also reveals that three out of five survey respondents agree that owning and operating in-house IT infrastructure drives [...]
Continue reading Global Outsourcing 100 Application Process Opens Tomorrow for Outsourcing Providers and Advisors
September 3, 2012 No Comment
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (lAOP®) is calling on outsourcing service providers and advisors to apply for its annual Global Outsourcing 100® and join the ranks of leaders like Accenture and KPMG. IAOP® is accepting applications through November 1, 2012 for the annual, independently-judged opt-in ranking. Now entering its eighth year for service providers [...]
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped by 20 percent to 411 in the second quarter from 516 in the same quarter a year ago, with average contract values also sliding, a research firm said. “The market is growing, but the pace of growth is slowing down,” said Salil Dani, [...]
Continue reading Global IT Outsourcing Services Spending on Pace to Surpass US$251B in 2012
August 8, 2012 No Comment
Worldwide spending for IT outsourcing (ITO) services is on pace to reach US$251.7 billion in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase from 2011 spending of $246.6 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. The fastest-growing segment within the ITO market is cloud compute services, which is part of the cloud-based infrastructure as a service [...]
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An analysis of second quarter outsourcing deal activity reveals an increase in billion-dollar-plus deals, all of them awarded outside the mature U.S. and European markets. Mega-deal outsourcing deals–those contracts with a value of $1 billion or more-picked up in the second quarter of 2012, according to the quarterly Global TPI Index. Five mega-deals were signed [...]
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The Economic Development Association of North Dakota came to Williston to host its 2012 Summer Conference ‘Thinking Outside the Bakken,’ Tuesday June 19-20 at the Airport International Inn. The conference has brought in a variety of people from all over the state of North Dakota to learn about the unique opportunities in the Bakken. “This [...]
Continue reading Industry and Research Centres Create a European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing
June 16, 2012 No Comment
Major suppliers of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies including Allinea, ARM, Bull, Caps Entreprise, Eurotech, IBM, Intel, ParTec, STMicroelectronics and Xyratex in association with HPC research centres BSC, CEA, CINECA, Fraunhofer, Forschungszentrum Juelich and LRZ have created a European Technology Platform for HPC (ETP4HPC) and released the ETP’s Vision document to improve Europe’s position in [...]
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