There are expectations of adoption rates picking up across all verticals as the market is entering a new phase of accelerated growth. As the PO market evolves, service providers are coming out with innovative ways to serve their clients and attract untapped segments. Like in all areas, here also 'more for less' remains the mantra...

The procurement service provider landscape is a mixed lot with different types of players competing together. This includes source-to-contract and procure-to-pay service providers, FAO service providers, advisory firms, supply chain management firms and so on. With niche offerings coming up, specialty players are also expected...

Like most other outsourced services, procurement too is undergoing lots of transformations in this tough phase that demands enterprises to look for newer ways of doing things. Buyers are looking at PO not just as a cost saving initiative but the way to desired business outcomes and this has added to its strategic significance....

 Leading Mid-tier OPD Vendors                                                     Beyondsoft Corporation  Cybage Software Private Limited  Globant  Hildebrando  iGATE Corporation  Luxoft  MindTree Limited  

Leading organisations are realising that cloud computing is far more than a better IT solution-it is in fact a better business solution. Cloud computing has the potential to accelerate business innovation and address the challenges facing today's CIO. Business leaders are exploring the option of cloud computing to simplify...

When assessing the risk associated with migrating applications to cloud services, buyer should focus first on how the insider threat environment changes, as follows: The most privileged users with the power to wreak the most harm are no longer your employees. The cloud provider's IT staff are now the ones with unimpeded...

Cisco forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016 and the global cloud traffic, to grow sixfold - a 44 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) - from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016. For the period 2011-2016, Cisco forecasts...

Gen Y's craving to stay connected is blurring the line between work and social life/family life. In the future, the urge to stay connected always will be relevant and valuable than ever before, creating unprecedented opportunities for countries, business and individuals. Nine of 10 respondents (young adults, 18-30 years...

In a free flowing chat with Global Services he talks about the future of outsourcing industry. GS: In regard to Big Data and Analytics Outsourcing what is the outlook for 2013? What are some of the new drivers for these segments? What shifts do you observe in these segments and overall IT outsourcing? AH: We expect...

  Descriptive: 1990s  (What happened?)   > 2000s  (Why did it happen?)    Predictive: Late 2000s (What could happen?)  Perspective: 2010s (What should I be doing?) The journey of analytics outsourcing commenced around 15 years back, but the current obsession with this term is completely unprecedented. Analytics...

Beni Lopez,Chief Globalization Officer, Softtek, The recent scope for increased spend we're seeing is in 5 major areas: 1) Rationalization of Application Portfolio Management 2) Coding or Migrating Applications to Cloud 3) Mobility, which has been driven by more and more clients and executives experiencing what they...

  Explaining this further Beni Lopez, chief globalization officer, Softtek, articulated, "True global delivery is not a single, low-cost location or very off-shore centric model but rather the trend is toward less overhead and more regional-based models. For instance, a company with needs in Brazil will look to Latin America...