New delivery models, new pricing models, service providers’ new marketing strategies, moving up the value chain to intellectual arbitrage, new technologies, real-time customer interaction, globalization, and new standards and regulations – these factors set the stage for risks for buyers of outsourcing services in the next two to five years. (Read Forces of Change Shaping [...]
Latisys was founded in June, 2007 as Managed Data Holdings LLC (MDH), in conjunction with two high-quality private equity investors: Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors. Strategically, Latisys is aimed at the operation of enterprise-class data centers across Tier I and Tier II markets in the United States to meet the increasing demand for managed [...]
Insigma Technology Co. has a proven track record as a great partner for organizations looking to transform their business. We help companies bring innovation to their business. We are especially known for creative thinking and innovation around complex IT and business issues. We help our clients move beyond their operational constraints, differentiate their products and [...]
Secure-24 delivers IT operations services of an exceptionally high standard for Mission-Critical Application Hosting, IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, and Private Cloud Computing for enterprises and government. By deploying the latest technology, best data center infrastructure tools and skills, our goal is to help each customer meet their unique business and compliance requirements while preserving capital and [...]
You know the feelings that surround a day you’d like to forget. Stress. Anxiety. Embarrassment. Regret. Revisiting a decision. Now place all of that in the context of an outsourcing relationship on a day when something goes wrong – really wrong. A revenue-generating, ERP, or payroll system goes down. A hurricane or tsunami wipes out [...]
Océ Business Services has handled its share of emergencies for Verizon Wireless, including the anthrax scare after 9/11 and the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. And its improved processes have generated savings of $1.5 million rather than the projected $300,000 – exceeding expectationss by 500 percent. Read why this relationship succeeds.
Brinker International serves more than one million guests in its 1,700 restaurants daily. In 2004, data integration was paper intensive and manual and began to encroach on the Brinker dining experience itself. Outsourcing data management was its recipe for success.
This relationship captured the best in show award because it demonstrated excellence in partnering while revamping the city’s IT infrastructure, including installing a city-wide Wi-Fi network. This new infrastructure played a crucial role in the city’s swift response to the I-35 bridge collapse and the success of the Republican National Convention when the entire nation was watching.
A lot of small business owners are great at their business but not at handling their finance and accounting processes. This causes them to make poor decisions that could sink their business. Here’s a flexible outsourced solution for this process, and it’s totally geared to small businesses.
National Life Group was unhappy with its IT supplier. It did not want to alert this supplier it was shopping, so its new supplier had a difficult time pricing the service since it could do no up-front diligence. Both buyer and supplier were surprised at the magnitude of the surprises. But they worked together through the difficult times, laying the basis for a successful future.
BPOMS, a service provider for mid-market companies, offers tier-one services with a willingness to customize the solution and provide on-demand pricing options.
Investors buying loan portfolios want to know about the individual loans in them. Law firms do this for their clients. Before outsourcing, Zarski and Associates hired paralegals who often knew nothing about consumer credit law. Now his supplier iBridge has lawyers in Delhi and Banaglore review the portfolios. I can get an Indian lawyer for $35 an hour and a U.S. paralegal for $50 an hour. Guess which one I’ll take? says David Zarski.
Telekurs Financial, which provides real-time data to the world’s largest banks, was still entering data manually. It clearly needed to offshore to speed up and improve the process. But where should it go? This is its story.
The City of Minneapolis and Unisys won the Best First Steps Outsourcing Excellence Awards in 2004. We went back to see how the relationship has progressed. Did outsourcing really help the citizens of Minneapolis?
How can a regional drug store chain, with just 68 stores in two states, compete with national chains like Walgreen’s or CVS that seemingly have stores on every corner? By outsourcing its retail IT, that’s how.
Managing an extensive product line to quickly serve owners of everything from Abyssinian cats to Zebra fish is a tall order for PETCO. It turned to Software-as-a-Service to update its supply chain. Now it’s both reliable and fast.
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