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Offshore IT Outsourcing and Transition Economies: A Critical Comparison of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine

Information Technology IT outsourcing has long been viewed as a cost-effective way to get access to highly skilled, scarce resources located abroad. Countries such as India and Ireland are recognized offshore outsourcing locations, however there has been an increased interest in "Near shore" countries as potential outsourcing locations. This paper...

Tags: Offshore, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Poland, Offshore Outsourcing, Hungary, Ukraine, University Of East London, Information Technology Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2007-07-10

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No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

Updated: Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4 billion. The move is a big bet to transform Xerox into a services company that does everything from collecting tolls and installing government systems to retooling business processes and information technology...

Tags: Xerox Corp., ACS, Chances, Document Management, Operational Planning, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Managed Hosting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-28

HP hires former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman

HP said Wednesday that it has hired former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman as senior vice president of global information technology. In a statement, HP said that Dillman will report to Randy Mott, CIO of HP. Dillman will be in charge of the information technology teams behind the...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Connected Intelligence for the Utility Industry: More Business Value From Information Than Ever Before

HP provides BI consulting services through its world-class consultancy practice. With a team of 2,800 BI consulting professionals worldwide, and more than a decade of consulting experience, it solves utility companies' most complex information challenges with relevant customer insight experience, proven acceleration techniques and technology, and global delivery capabilities. HP...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Industry, Consulting, Connected Corp., Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2009-07-01

Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google

Yahoo's Carol Bartz took the stage at her first annual shareholder's meeting as CEO this morning. The first half of the meeting was business as usual, specifically votes on the re-election of board members and other official business facing the board. It wasn't until about halfway through the meeting that...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.

Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...

Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Absolute Scalability: SoftLayer improves IT staff efficiency by 15% while introducing more flexible services for customers with Dell storage

These days, just about all organizations need to invest in information technology in one form or another, whether it's managed in-house or via an outsourcing arrangement. Either way, deciding on the amount of IT resources to purchase is usually a guessing game. Companies often overbuy to accommodate peak demand, wasting...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Storage, Scalability, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2009-05-18

Leveraging SaaS Technology for Web Application Security

Information security managers and directors are faced with the enormous responsibility of keeping Web applications secure from hackers. The ever-growing number of security threats and an increasing body of governmental regulations are overwhelming information security teams. With Web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly, and time-consuming undertaking....

Tags: Information Security, Web, Software-as-a-service, Web Application, Cloud Computing, Security

White papers 2009-05-01

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Expect better: IT Partner Bill of Rights

No question about it, the information technology business is global in reach and implementation. And while working with an IT partner in the same city can be painful enough, working with a partner 12 time zones away is fraught with risk and uncertainty. In the wake of the recent financial...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Weather report: Slow-moving cloud for government IT

With federal spending advancing far beyond the trillion-dollar level although a huge amount of that is going to the states, government purchasers have no shortage of friends hailing from Silicon Valley. Chief among them are locally based Google reps, who are keen on getting the federal...

Tags: Google Inc., Agency, Information Technology, Government, Vertical Industries, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Mission-Critical Application Management: Priority Candidate for Offshore Outsourcing

This white paper is part of series of informational papers developed by Keane to share knowledge on specific outsourcing issues of importance in today's business environment. This paper covers the topic of Mission-Critical Application Management and is the second in the series. This informational paper, the second in a series,...

Tags: Keane Inc., Offshore Outsourcing, Application System, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2009-03-12

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!And yet, you still seem to have plenty of ....... time to moonlight on this blog. So cry me a river! Try naming a single company in the U.S. that isn't trying to do more with less people. RE: Hey, guess what? We're...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Media Center PCs, Strategy, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Controlling OPEX in Enterprise Communications

Controlling your telecommunications costs is essential to surviving in today's tough economic climate, but don't stop at capital expenditure CAPEX savings alone. What you need are communications tools that are both affordable to implement and efficient to operate. This TechRepublic Webcast highlights proven strategies for reducing your...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2009-03-02