Hesitant IT Buyers Becoming Converts
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Companies work with their suppliers to aggressively reduce costs.
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Stable Server Environments, Cost-Cutting Leads to Outsourcing Gains
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Server-based outsourcing comes of age.
Renewed Interest in IT Outsourcing to Save Money
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A wave of renegotiations hits the outsourcing world as companies try to reduce their costs.
ASP Model Becomes Mainstream
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Larger companies opt for the ASP model as hosted solutions become mainstream.
IT Becomes a Tool for Business Transformation
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Business transformation becomes the No. 1 reason to outsource.
How the September 11 Attacks Changed Offshore Outsourcing
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Is offshore outsourcing safe in today’s warring world? Here’s what’s happening in India, Russia and the Philippines.
Meet a New BPO Supplier: Compaq
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
IT suppliers are entering the BPO world. Compaq has created an unusual offering melding the two.
Through the Looking Glass, Brightly?
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
We are at an interesting crossroads. The market is still tracking the promise of the ASPs although at a difference pace than we predicted earlier, adds Sanjay Katyal, senior director, marketing for PeopleSoft eCenter in Pleasanton, California.
Can One Size Fit All?
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
MERANT ASaP Revolutionizes the ASP Model – MERANT ASaP provides the complex development tools utilized by software developers to create eBusiness applications. Via the Internet, MERANT allows distributed software development teams the ability to share a single, hosted resource that can store software code and track and archive all changes during the development process. And because their tools are Web-enabled, the a in ASaP, according to Keith White, MERANT’s V.P. and general manager of ASP, is a play on words with an emphasis on the speed of delivery, that we’re able to deliver solutions . . . immediately. A sort of ASP ASAP.
Revenues Determine Rating
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Revenues Determine Rating ASPs Have Their Own Top 10 List – David Letterman popularized the Top 10 list. Now the ASP world is mature enough to have its own. IDC, the Framingham, Massachusetts global market advisory firm, decided to compile this list, which ranks the ASP providers by revenue in calendar 2000. This is the first time IDC has prepared this list ranking the burgeoning ASP market. ASPs have finally reached a maturity level with meaningful revenues, explains Meredith Whalen, vice president, ASP and Internet services for IDC. IDC analysts attempted to put together this list last year but the revenue numbers were too insignificant to be relevant.