Xerox Appears Comfortable Owning the Bottom of the Technology Services Food Chain, Trawls for Treasure with ACS

Xerox announced it is acquiring business and IT process outsourcing firm ACS. What does this mean for the outsourcing market, prospective buyers and existing ACS clients? Following is EquaTerra’s perspective.

From the Trenches: Advice for Negotiating Your Next Outsourcing Deal

When it comes to contract negotiations, you can never be too prepared. Here are four tips to help you improve your position with your service provider.

‘Texans’ Perot and Dell Unite to Take on Titans, IBM and HP/EDS

Stan Lepeak, EquaTerra Managing Director of Research, and Lee Ann Moore, EquaTerra Chief Marketing Officer Dell announced today (Monday, September 21, 2009) that it will acquire information technology (IT) service provider and outsourcer Perot Systems in a deal valued at $3.9B, a hefty 68 percent premium from Perot Systems’ Friday closing share price. The deal [...]

Fact or Fiction: Variable Pricing is Viable Only for Global 100 Organizations?

Randy Hoerauf, EquaTerra Financial Architect The prevailing wisdom is that variable pricing is only applicable to Global 100 companies; however, EquaTerra find this model works for organizations of varying sizes, but the organization must have significant mega-transaction volumes. For example, a local utility company can have a myriad of administrative, low value transactions and not [...]