Blogs
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Big Data + Big Analytics = Big Business Insights
by Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer at Dell Services
Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer at Dell Services, discusses how Big Data and Big Analytics can provide businesses with Big Insights
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Private or Public cloud, which is best suited to your business?
by Jon Milward, Operations Director - Integrated Solutions, Northdoor, the IT consultancy and solutions provider
The initial challenge for most businesses when assessing their cloud computing options is overcoming the confusion surrounding cloud terminology. With so many labels and technical jargon, there are many varied interpretations with terms meaning different things to different people.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Outsourcing: The shift toward smaller, specialised and standardised deals
by Andy Jones, director and general manager, Large Enterprise, Xerox Europe
The outsourcing market is booming. According to the ISG Global TPI Index, 2011 was a record-breaking year with 870 contracts awarded across the outsourcing market worldwide, well above the average for the past five years.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
London 2012: The Benefits of Mobile Working
by Julian Dyer, CTO, Cobweb
With ‘the Games’ fast approaching, businesses in London are being encouraged to look at flexible working initiatives to ensure they remain operative during the upcoming summer months.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Private cloud services will soon take over from the ‘public’ cloud
by Robert Rutherford, managing director at QuoStar Solutions
Although there are many different definitions for cloud computing, it essentially means that your applications, systems and data are stored at a remote location and accessed via a network connection, typically over the internet, rather than in your own office.
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BYOD – bring your own dictator?
by Maxine Park, DictateNow
The current big IT issue BYOD – bring your own device, blurs the line between the use of technology at work and at home.
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Outsourcing Governance: Does it do what is says on the tin?
by Paul Hart, Senior Managing Consultant IBM Relationship Alignment & Governance Practice
In this series of blogs, Paul Hart, IBM, shares his observations and thoughts on outsourcing governance to consider during your next governance meeting
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Why outsourcing is essential to keep finances fit and healthy part:1
by Adam Simon, Managing Director of Client Services in Europe and Asia-Pacific, PRGX
The practice of recovery audit is about combing through large volumes of spend data to identify overpayments that can be regained from suppliers. Handing over this task to an outside agency may seem akin to washing your dirty laundry in public. But there’s growing acceptance that overpayments occur naturally in almost every organisation, regardless of size or standing, and that recovery audit is a healthy routine to have in place.
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Navigating the cloud minefield
by Pontus Noren, director and co-founder, Cloudreach
Cloud computing as a concept has been a hot topic for at least the last five years. For much of this time it has managed to be, simultaneously, the next big thing, the new big thing, or yesterday’s marketing buzzword that has run its course.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
A shambles of Olympic proportions
by sourcingfocus.com
It has certainly been a high profile couple of weeks for outsourcing.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
4 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Procurement Any More
by Charles Clark, CEO, Rosslyn Analytics
Procurement has a vital role to play in every business. Unfortunately, most employees don’t appreciate the value they bring because what they do is often hidden away from sight.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Recession-weary companies look to the Cloud for their silver lining
by John Vincent, partner at Broadgate Consultants
Without a doubt, the economic challenges of recent years have brought with them an increased focus on operational efficiency. Indeed, ever since the early 2000′s, businesses have been looking for new and innovative ways to reduce costs across the board and many of these have been successful, at least in terms of meeting their short-term objectives.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
MTI Managed Service Series for the CIO: Part 3
by Simon Walters, managed services director at MTI
Part 3: How the proactive management of IT environments and outsourcing can benefit business lines, from time and cost-savings to innovation and minimising downtime.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
MTI Managed Service Series for the CIO: Part 2
by By Simon Walters, managed services director at MTI
Increasing volumes of data are a major concern for CIOs up and down the country. At the forefront of their minds are questions about how to manage and monetise it. Struggling to deal with not only the amount, but also the rising complexity of this data, CIOs are not receiving the extra resource they need to handle the challenge.
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Friday, July 06, 2012
The Development of Cloud Technology and its Future Use
by By Ray Bricknell, Head of Technical Services at Capital Support
Cloud Technology can be argued to be the merger and rebranding of a number of predecessor concepts enabled by technological developments in the IT industry. These include:-Outsourcing, Managed Services Provision, ASP, Virtualisation, Centralisation, DC Co-location, Standardisation, ITIL and Best Practice, Web Technologies, Server Based Computing, Fibre Optics, IAAS and SAAS to name but a few.
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
The Operations Phase
by Andrew Humphries and Linda McComie, SCCI Ltd
The operations phase is about all the mechanics of managing a collaborative relationship throughout its productive life to ensure that it is efficient, effective and that there is continuous performance improvement. Operational oversight will involve working very closely with the partner organisation to meet joint objectives on a day to day basis.
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The Decision Phase
by Andrew Humphries and Linda McComie, SCCI Ltd
This is the process for selecting new partners. The company must be clear about its objectives from the outset. These will only be broad statements of intent which will be crystallised and reconciled with the selected partner.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Harnessing Cultural Synergy
by By Jeff Toms, Marketing and Client Services Director, Farnham Castle
In theory, the more diverse the skill set and cultures of those within a team, the greater potential to create synergy from difference. However, in reality, getting team members from the same nationality to cooperate and work together is always a consistent management challenge.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
PART 2: Managing and monetising big data
by By Simon Walters, managed services director at MTI
Increasing volumes of data are a major concern for CIOs up and down the country. At the forefront of their minds are questions about how to manage and monetise it. Struggling to deal with not only the amount, but also the rising complexity of this data, CIOs are not receiving the extra resource they need to handle the challenge.
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Breathe new life into old books
by Tony Collins, Chairman of OPAL, specialists in outsourced administration, product launches and distribution services for the fin
In today’s ultra-competitive financial services market, many firms are looking at the role that ‘closed books’ can play as part of a wider business strategy for selling insurance policies and pensions.
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Monday, July 02, 2012
CRM - A Vital Part of Corporate Armoury
by Duncan Wood, CRM Product Manager, Sage's Enterprise Division
With increasingly more companies realising the potential benefits of software applications within business, CRM is becoming a vital part of the corporate armoury.
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