Can Salesforce and Workday’s hook-up genuinely hurt the SAP and Oracle empire?
With a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars a year being plowed into integrating and managing SAP and Oracle, are the SaaS upstarts truly ready to integrate multiple cloud apps at this type of scale to challenge the status quo?
Why American firms are more progressive with outsourcing than the Europeans and Asians
Why is it always the Americans at the head of the queue when it comes to increasing quarterly profit margins? But, even more intriguingly, why are they also leading the way when it comes to attempting to improve their capabilities when they outsource? Our recent State of Outsourcing Study 2013, conducted with the support of […]
If outsourcing were an employee, it would be fired… Part 2
It’s never too late to find redemption… So if you haven’t been fired yet, here’s how to avoid it happening… Phil Fersht (HfS Research): So, Lee, we talk about more of a fluid evolving outsourcing relationship. How can we get there? Why is this industry stuck in the weeds in doing things and the way […]
Who’s rising above the W-I-T-C-H hunt?
Have you been observing the fascinating scramble going on over in India for supremacy in the IT services space? By the time this year is out, it’s highly likely that Cognizant will have leapfrogged both Infosys to take the number two spot behind TCS: So what’s driving this shifting landscape? Let’s take a look at the key […]
Sal’s six stages of sourcing: BPO’s Generations
The BPO industry has been going though an incredible evolution since the first major deals was cast, barely more than a decade ago, that it’s high time we took stock and take a good look at the phases – or generations – through which our industry has progressed. And there are few people who have lived and breathed these generational shifts more closely that Accenture’s BPO leader, Mike Salvino.
Infy procures Portland to soup up its sourcing
InfosysBPO has made its first substantial investment in the sourcing and category management space, picking up the lead Australasian provider Portland Group for $37m.
A tale of two FAO markets: Accenture dominates the enterprise, while IBM sneaks up on the mid-market
One dynamic that has really stood-out over the last three years of the Finance & Accounting Outsourcing business, is the different competitive strategies going on at the high-end of the market versus the smaller engagements.
Why Senator Schumer’s proposed call center tax is detrimental and unproductive for the US economy
When is comes to “bringing US jobs back onshore”, we repeatedly seem to get all sorts of legislation that, quite simply, is focused on restricting our busineses’ competitiveness, when we should be looking at helping them invest in new talent and entrep…
Enter NetSuite – the new admiral of BPaaS?
Hot on the heels of its recent alliance annoucement with Genpact, we caught up with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson to get his take on Business Process Outsourcing delivery, and how he intends to leverage that channel to oust incumbent ERP platforms from midmarket businesses with his cloud computing business management software suite.
