Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Businesses have always wanted a crystal ball to predict the future. Now they can almost have one if they combine Big Data, analytic prowess and deep domain and process knowledge. For the first time, analytics is becoming predictive and can help executives make less risky decisions that affect their corporate futures. The key is you …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
In late September, high-profile cloud storage start up Nirvanix told its customers to stop replicating data on its servers and migrate to other providers like Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer and Amazon S3. For several reasons, Nirvanix, sitting on a tidy $70 million in funding, was shutting down . Users had until October 15 to download …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
For centuries, banks have built their business models on the foundation of customer confidentiality. Secrecy and security are by-words in the world of banking. How can they be expected to embrace social media, a platform where things appear to be “open” and “public”? There is much for banks and financial institutions to worry about when …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
The IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model began as a way of provisioning IT services, infrastructure and support for businesses that did not really understand how to create or run IT services. The ITaaS model does this at scale in a cost-effective and predictable manner. Put another way, ITaaS is a pay-as-you-go model aimed at SMBs who want …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The BPO landscape is changing as fast as the colors on the leaves as summer turns into fall. Why now? Professor Ilan Oshri, Professor of Technology and Globalization at the University of Loughborough, says the maturity of the BPO industry, experienced buyers gained with both captives and third-party service providers, and the providers use of …
Debbie Fisher, Business Writer, Outsourcing Center
Small cells that is. Whether you’re a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deploying services in urban or rural areas, a city official modernizing your infrastructure to attract and retain citizens, or a high tech start-up looking to join the ecosystem of suppliers emerging to address the ever growing data traffic demands, a small cell solution …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The key to any successful business is its talent. What would you do if you couldn’t find the people you needed in the entire country, even though you were paying above market wages? And you can’t offshore the jobs because of government regulations. That is the current situation in Singapore. Finding and affording the talent …
Mark Walker, Business Development Director, Ubertas
Fear of surrendering control is probably the main factor holding many IT directors back from realizing the benefits of outsourcing IT services. But if you can find an IT services supplier who will work with you in a genuine partnership, understanding the specific needs of your business, it soon becomes clear that this fear is …
Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer
It’s hard to find a business enabler that’s evolving as quickly as Big Data analytics. This undisputed darling of the loyalty program and retail world has now infiltrated nearly every industry, from transportation and healthcare to insurance and supply chain management. It’s the catalyst for a new marketing mindset, where targeted offers are not only …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Almost 40 years after Ross Perot launched outsourcing by offering to take over a company’s IT, outsourcing has become an accepted business practice. Yet it’s surprising how much resistance there still is in the market. The Outsourcing Center asked recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and recruitment technology service providers why they believe companies still refuse to …
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