Rudolf Liefers, Senior Advisor, Sourcing Management The sixth annual Dutch CIO Day, held November 15th and 16th, attracted over 800 attendees including CIOs from leading Dutch companies in the financial, industrial, media, high tech and healthcare sectors. Mrs Neelie Kroes, European High-Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, opened the conference with a call to action – [...]
Lee Ayling, Managing Director, Information Technology Advisory, UK Nico Boot, Executive Director, Information Technology Advisory, Europe & Asia Pacific Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research On December 14th Atos Origin and Siemens announced their intention to form a global strategic partnership. According to the release, “Siemens will contribute its Siemens IT Solutions and Services for [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research Tony Rawlinson, Managing Director, Financial Services Advisory (Europe & Asia Pacific) EquaTerra research alliance partner HorsesforSources/HfS Research recently released its requisite top 2011 outsourcing predictions. Making number four on the list was a somewhat pithy prediction that “service integration becomes the new fad, replacing innovation as the buzzword of [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research The answer is a resounding “no.” In fact, EquaTerra research has found that offshoring will continue to grow, and grow faster proportionally than overall third-party services spend, with no wall in sight. For example, more than one-half of ITO buyers in Europe that are currently using near/offshore services plan [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research Results from the recently released inaugural edition of EquaTerra’s global FAO service provider performance and satisfaction (SPPS) study reflect very positively on the finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) marketplace. While this is good news for users and providers of FAO services, what is of more interest is the “why” [...]
Vicki Phelan, Managing Director, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Practice with Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research The first blog in this series assessed the key drivers for the increased adoption of pharma research and development outsourcing (RDO). The second analyzed the benefits buyers seek from RDO efforts. This third and final blog in the series [...]
