Companies spent lots of money and almost as many hours transforming their applications for optimal performance. Phew! We’re done! Not so, says Ed Quinn, vice president, applications management, HP Enterprise Services. In his experience, corporations need to keep their newly transformed applications optimized. Senior Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal questioned him to find out how to [...]
Can you even remember what it was like to have to be in a “place” to make a call? When a flat tire meant a search for a pay phone? When email was something that accumulated between Friday and Monday, until the office computer was powered back on? It’s hard to believe that when the [...]
Definition: “Cloud computing provides on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that users can rapidly provision and release with minimum client or provider interaction.” — From Cloud Sourcing for the Corporation by Ben Trowbridge, CEO, Alsbridge “I think there will be an explosion” in the near term, predicts Steven Morris, senior [...]
Applications have personalities? Yes, they do, according to HP Distinguished Technologist, E.G. Nadhan. Nadhan is the Lead Technologist for Global Strategic Capabilities within HP and the Chief Architect for HP’s Applications Process and Tools Framework. Nadhan explains that as HP helps its customers manage their applications, it is important to help the IT executives categorize [...]
Why go it alone when you can harness HP’s applications expertise, proven methodologies, and global resources within the most comprehensive integrated solutions across business and technology to transform environments, create a competitive advantage, and position you for growth. HP is the second-largest information technology services company in the world, with 210,000 services employees supporting more [...]
Outsourcing Center asked leading outsourcing service providers about their predictions as to the biggest changes that will impact outsourcing buyers over the next five years. Their answers clearly point to a need for buyers to alter their thinking about how, when, and why they engage with providers of outsourced services. Extreme performance requires elasticity Joanne [...]
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 [...]
Like a pre-storm sky, a look at the investments outsourcing service providers are currently undertaking presents evidence of tremendous change over the next five years. They’re mapping out a new course, and buyers of outsourcing services need to understand where providers are headed so they can make informed decisions. Outsourcing Center asked 12 leading ITO [...]
What will be the speed of adoption of outsourced cloud computing solutions over the next five years? How will the cloud evolve and change outsourcing arrangements? How can buyers of outsourcing services optimize their cloud opportunities and manage the risks? Outsourcing Center interviewed industry executives about developments in outsourced cloud computing solutions. In this article [...]
Charlie Bess, HP Fellow, HP Enterprise Services, says the outsourcing industry is facing “a different kind of IT and support environment than what we had just a few short years ago.” Here’s how he describes this new environment: More sensors deployed in more parts of a customer’s business giving organizations a deeper understanding of their [...]
Outsourcing Center assembled a panel of industry experts to discuss the changes in outsourcing contracts and pricing models over the next two to five years. Their insights reveal buyers and providers will approach outsourcing initiatives differently than in the past. Q. Outsourcing pricing models and contract vehicles have evolved over the past few years. How [...]
Which industries will experience a surge in outsourcing in the next few years, and what risks will buyers of those services face? Are there business processes or functions that will begin turning to outsourcing in the next two to five years? What value opportunities and risks will they bring? In what geographic regions will companies [...]
How does an enterprise move IT money from support and maintenance, which can devour up to 80 percent of its IT budget, to innovation? HP has found a way. “We’ve developed a different way to look at the applications in a corporation’s portfolio. The goal is to align the applications to the business’s overall strategy [...]
In a recent HP survey, almost half of the CEOs and senior business leaders agreed that their corporate IT departments have trouble keeping pace with rapidly changing demands of the business. Further, they stated the bulk of their IT spending is directed to “keeping the lights on.” Most companies find it difficult to redirect resources [...]
Do you know whether it’s more costly for your organization to stay on a previous version of Windows or to migrate to Windows 7? If you see value in migrating to Windows 7, what is the best way to begin? This white paper discusses the value conducting an assessment to determine the impact that the [...]
April 30, 2014. That day should concern any company still using Windows XP as an operating system. That is the last day Microsoft Corporation will support the popular operating system. “For those who have not migrated, the day represents an eviction notice for XP users,” says Julie Watkins, Workplace Product Marketing Manager for HP Enterprise [...]
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