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Month: June 2016
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Thinking Outside The Box To Support SaaS Applications
I’ve been an analyst for 20 years, a period dominated by legacy systems, on premise applications and a very strict view of the IT services Value Chain of Plan, Implement and Manage. Service providers and analysts alike list relevant services that should aRead More
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Confessions of a market forecaster – we might not be real wizards, but let us at least pretend we are!
Looking behind the curtain at how market sizing and forecasting really works…Read More
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RPA is Dead. Long Live Intelligent Automation!
I have been researching the notion of Intelligent Automation and, in particular, the rapid uptake of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for more than 4 years. It was this work that eventually brought me to HfS. Over the years, I have made many good friendsRead More
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Budgets? We don’t need no stinking budgets! Or do we? An interview with Accenture’s Bill Phelps
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Phelps, Managing Director, Accenture Security, to discuss our report. Bill was one of my co-collaborators in this research effort, and I was curious to get his take on both the survey and its implicatioRead More
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Meet the Dinamo driving TCS’ business process services impressive growth
HfS' Phil Fersht interviews Dinanath (Dina) Kholkar, Global Head of Business Process Services at Tata Consultancy ServicesRead More
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard to keynote at HfS Cognition this September
Phil Fersht interviews Futurist Gerd Leonhard prior to his keynote at the HfS Cognition Summit this SeptemberRead More
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Accenture, TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and Infosys lead the 2016 Telecom Operations As-a-Service Blueprint
HfS unveils the 2016 service provider performances in telecoms operations servicesRead More
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Can HPE + CSC dominate the digital underbelly, or has that ship sailed?
These two firms need to be slammed together with an urgency and focus not yet seen in our industryRead More
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Digital labor will trim 1.4 million global services jobs by 2021
Low skilled, routine jobs drop 30% as many of these roles get phased out over the next 5 years, resulting in a net loss in the global services industry of 9%, totaling 1.4 million jobs by 2021Read More
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The broader issues behind Brexit send a frightening message to the services industry
This rebellion against the establishment can be clearly mirrored in our enterprises, where similar issues of disenfranchisement are rapidly permeating with 30% of rote services jobs likely to be eliminatedRead More
