Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Management Consulting Research on the subject of emerging trends in cloud computing usage for KPMG’s global cloud Pulse survey looked at what is driving the adoption of cloud computing by end-user organizations. A primary driver typically cited in the market today is reducing IT costs and this was supported by [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research Over 400 of KPMG’s consultants across our global network of member firms have provided their insights from the ‘front lines’ of cloud computing usage for the inaugural KPMG global cloud Pulse survey. On the subject of cloud adoption levels globally, it was interesting to see that just seven [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG recently released a comprehensive global market study on cloud computing adoption and usage. On November 15th, I will be leading a webcast discussion related to the study. An initial analysis of the results identifies some interesting findings. One of them is the disparity of cloud services adoption [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG will release the first edition of its global cloud Pulse survey via a webcast on November 15th. The cloud Pulse survey is modeled after the sourcing advisory Pulse family of research studies. Results are based on surveys and interviews with advisors globally in KPMG member firms’ Management [...]
Dave Brown, Principal, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG LLP ( US) Information technology outsourcing (ITO) continues to push the capabilities of service delivery to buyers using more efficient and seamless interfaces. Cloud computing services begin to take the next step by attempting to hide the entire infrastructure and allowing you to simply pay for [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory In the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse survey, we polled the firms’ sourcing advisors as well as leading third-party business and IT service providers to assess the skills of typical end-user organizations around various cloud computing capabilities such as understanding the technical underpinnings of [...]
Carl-Henrik Hallström, Head of Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in Sweden Our 2011 Nordics IT Service Provider Performance and Satisfaction Study is the most extensive to date, both in terms of the level of participation and the insights gained. This year, more than 300 different organisations participated and evaluated over 700 unique IT outsourcing contracts. The value [...]
Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research, KPMG in the US In terms of macro trends, a hot term in the market today is ‘new normal’. New normal in terms of the economic conditions and new normal in terms of debt, unfortunately. But also what we see is a new normal in terms of how [...]
Cliff Justice, Service Network Leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG in the US If we stand back and look at our firms’ clients, and look at what they are planning in terms of business services, the market in general has clearly matured. Clients have become more sophisticated in how they design and deploy their [...]
Bill Thomas, Partner, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK The second quarter 2011 KPMG Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey findings have now been announced and, again, offer a valuable insight into trends in end-user organisations’ usage of shared services, outsourcing and third-party business and IT services. Findings are from KPMG firms’ advisors and leading global [...]
