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Category: Confusing Outsourcing Information
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BPO, SaaS and Cloud: Too many people aren’t seeing the bigger picture
Too many technical folks fail to view the bigger picture when it comes to Cloud. At a tactical level, when you look at solely hardware capacity solutions, it's hard to see beyond how it can impact businesses beyond creaking ITO-only deals. However, you really need to look at the convergence of BPO, SaaS and Cloud in a broader outsourcing context to start to visialize how these three pillars of business delivery can - and are - coming together in a blended outsourcing model.Read More
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Are you ready for… The HfS Private Cloud Challenge?
Private Clouds are a cynical oxymoron. The whole point of a Cloud is that you share resources and don’t have to own the capacity you need, because its available on demand, so you can pay by the drink. Well, if you own the resources and the capacity, it is inherently limited to what you own, and you’ve already paid for everyone’s drinks at the bar whether they consume them or not!Read More
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HP’s strategy: is it plotting, or losing the plot?
Unless HP is plotting a radical move to buy SAP, or some other ERP business, HP seems to be letting itself down badly - the firm needs new thinkers who can drive innovation and a new direction into the business, because right now, most industry observers are left scratching their heads trying to figure out what the game-plan is.Read More
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So… on which side of the fence sits Gideon Gartner?
So the Grandaddy of great big research, and (arguably) the founding father of today's IT industry analyst business, Gideon Gartner, picked up on our recent post "Will the industry analyst business be dead in five years?"Read More
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Why I wrote that piece…
So when I received many notes, emails, calls and comments after my weekend "rant" about the analyst business, I suddenly realized this thing was going "viral". How had I managed to hit such a raw nerve? Read More
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Will the industry analyst business be dead in five years?
Love them or loathe them, analyst firms and their unique individuals stoke the emotions of many who come in regular contact with them. But are thee days of the traditional industry analyst numbered?Read More
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And here are… HfS’ 2011 Outsourcing Predictions… on demand
nd here we are, like clockwork, jumping on the tackiest, lamest marketing exercise every analyst, consultant, CEO, and wannabe thought-leader always persists in doing... because you are supposed to gasp "Wow - they are predicting the future!"Read More
