Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
LEAN, green, and savings now are the mantras of IT buyers today, according to Richard Penn. Even IT pricing is experiencing a metamorphosis. Here’s what buyers and suppliers need to know in today’s brave new ITO world.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
USA Technologies had been sending its development work to China. This time it added India to the mix. The result: it cut time to market in half and enjoyed savings of 40 percent.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
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.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Outsourcing Center studied cost-reduction data from the 2009 Outsourcing Excellence Awards program. This article discusses the findings from that study including trends in provider selection criteria, factors that led to cost reduction, and the buyers’ use of funds produced by the cost-reduction efforts.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Outsourcing Center studied 42 outsourcing relationships to determine success factors based on characteristics the buyers liked about their service providers. The study revealed some significant findings around which both buyers and providers may want to shift some focus.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
Mitek Systems had a great idea: the applications developer wanted to turn camera phones into scanning devices so customers could make payments and deposit checks. However, the company lacked the internal staff to develop the application which had to work on four disparate systems. Outsourcing was the answer.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Adding scope to an outsourcing contract, whether it occurs before contract end or at the scheduled time for renewal, is a tactic that makes the deal more mutually beneficial over time. Outsourcing Center studied 92 relationships to identify the drivers for adding scope. The study also identified a key factor in enabling the scope-expansion decision.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Why do some buyers decide to renew their outsourcing contracts early before the term expires? Outsourcing Center studied 92 relationships to identify the drivers for early renewals. The study also revealed top qualities of providers appreciated by buyers in early-renewal deals.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Software service providers in Eastern Europe are at a crossroads. Here’s a view of the current and future perspectives, advice on selecting a provider, and how to tell if an outsourcing provider is a follower or a leader.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Our study of the relationships nominated for Outsourcing Excellence Awards in 2008 reveals important findings regarding the impact of service provider selection criteria on the ease and challenges during the transition phase or IT implementation. The study clearly reveals some buyers’ strategies cause the opposite of the intended outcome.
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