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contracts in place with multiple service providers. If we were to invest in a solution to help "govern" the SLAs that we already have in place, won't our service providers take...
Mar 22, 2006
past -- and what took down application service providers...
Jun 23, 2009
I have worked entirely via managed service providers (MSP). From design and tooling engineers to patent attorneys, I have yet to meet my MSPs in person. I know them by name, voice...
May 12, 2010
service-level agreements, service providers and their customers must establish meaningful and realistic performance metrics. Managers must have tools for...
Mar 14, 2006
among the Indian providers.

Service providers are "trimming the fat by eliminating nonperforming employees," Kompella said. And he concurred with Moore that...

Mar 19, 2008
by which companies relied on service providers that offered outsourced data storage, Web hosting, messaging, help desk functions and security.

Traditional...

May 21, 2003
Wipro Ltd. and seeking out smaller providers.

The prodigious growth that has turned the top Indian outsourcing companies into competitors for players like...

Jul 26, 2007
there has been a proliferation of service providers in the hosted VoIP space – many are viable, some are not.

This research note includes: An overview of the hosted VoIP...

Aug 1, 2007
outright opposed -- to using offshore providers? According to Forrester Research Inc., you're not alone.

A new report from the Cambridge-Mass.-based research firm shows...

Jun 2, 2005
analysts said.

"ESPs [external service providers] using U.S.-based labor will find it impossible to compete with ESPs using offshore labor for the lowest billing rates...

Oct 8, 2003
Invoices from telecommunications providers (voice, data, cellular).

It seems to be standard industry practice for their invoices to be wrong. Not marginally wrong, but...

Sep 1, 2007
offshore outsourcing. Its leading service providers offer quality services and maturing processes for managing the transition of work from in-house to the offshore...
Jan 13, 2005
of higher education, 41 service providers, and six federal agencies and nonprofit groups. The group coordinates common definitions and guidelines for security...
Apr 28, 2010
torrid growth of India's top-tier IT service providers, several analysts make the case that India will continue to be the destination of choice for application services -- and...
Aug 9, 2006
final step was to look at my expert IT service providers. Could they take on some of my commodity services? Even better, were there additional expert services they could take on...
Mar 10, 2010
forward-looking provisions for service. (See sidebar)

2. Build relationships knowing that the landscape will shift. IT service provider consolidation is not...

Nov 6, 2008
integrators and specialized service providers (xSPs) will enter the managed services market, creating price competition and confusion. CIOs and their direct reports...
Dec 22, 2004
up that revenue somewhere else. For service providers, they take revenue very seriously, but they also take their relationships very seriously. In the past, they haven't been so...
Jun 27, 2003
of the executives and those of their service providers, according to the findings. For example, the study found that 52% of service providers recommend outsourcing to offshore...
May 24, 2007
of confidence customers have in service providers, they're still spending money on outsourcing. According to Jupiter's findings, IT organizations are spending...
Apr 23, 2003
model, enterprises often gain a self-service interface so users can self-provision an application, or extra storage from an Infrastructure as a Service provider...
Aug 6, 2009
outsourcing as they wait for service providers to make better cases for their capabilities. In order to push these users closer to making a commitment to outsourcing...
May 12, 2003
or management to offshore providers. By 2008, about 33% of enterprises will board the bandwagon.

"To be fair, our study focused on the transitioning of business...

Jul 21, 2003
it as a traditional telephone service, a move that many fear would stifle its potential.

After a fitful start in the late '90s, VoIP has grown into a more reliable...

Feb 15, 2005
paradox. On the one hand, most large providers are saying to customers, "We accept no liability for business lost due to a breach in service." On the other, CIOs are loath to...
Aug 17, 2010
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Service providers are moving from a network-centric to service-centric environment to meet consumer and enterprise demand for...

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the market in decades. Luckily for service providers and telcos, the demand for new cloud services is far from fulfilled. However, to build a successful cloud business, it is...
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MPLS is a 15-year old technology… and under threat of revenue erosion from enterprise IT transformations and a...

Is the Back Office Ready for a Technology Refresh by Transverse
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Cloud services providers need to choose their infrastructure platform carefully to ensure they will be able to service their customers the...

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