Outsourcing

While there are many types of outsourcing, in general it refers to contracting a business process or function previously performed in-house to an outside entity. Research coverage includes application outsourcing, data center outsourcing, and hosting and managed services.

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  • Outsourcing
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

    We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

    US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

    Emerging Asia Steps Up

    In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

    • Downloads: 115
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

    SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

    For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

    • Downloads: 418
  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:China Tech Market Outlook: 2012 To 2013

    The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012

    The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

    US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

    This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

    Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

    Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

    • Downloads: 276
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:European Information And Communications Technology Market 2012 To 2013

    Spending Growth Comes To A Halt As Europe Slides Into Recession

    Overview of the European ICT Market

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey

    Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook

    Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2013

    Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential

    CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Information And Communications Technology Industry Opportunities In Professional Services

    Vendors Should Target This Large And Growing Industry

    The professional services industry presents both opportunities and challenges for tech vendors. The opportunities? Professional services is one of the largest industries in terms of tech purchases,...

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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:European IT Outsourcing — A Review Of A Market In Transition

    The European outsourcing market has continued to see a high level of activity over the past 24 months, with Forrester tracking 340 deals in 2010 and 220 deals in the first half of 2011. However, as...

    • Downloads: 87
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012

    Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012

    The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...

    • Downloads: 1150
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Tech Opportunities In The North American Insurance Industry

    Emerging Technologies Spur New Insurer Thinking And New Vendor Applications

    North American insurers are reorienting from business as usual, where actuaries and underwriter drive product creation and sales, to a "business-as-unusual" model in which insurers sell a customer...

    • Downloads: 805
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Australia, China, And India Set The Pace In Asian IT Services

    Individual Country Dynamics Drive Growth And Industry Maturity

    Different factors will drive the growth of the IT services and outsourcing industries in Australia, China, and India. In Australia, as-a-service offerings, mobile application development, and mobile...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Balancing Custom And Packaged Apps In Your Application Portfolio Strategy

    Conventional wisdom suggests buying before building software. However, as an increasing proportion of product and service value is digital — think of a naval vessel's operation system (Windows...

    • Downloads: 611
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:What CEOs Of Small Software Companies Need To Do In 2011

    How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market

    The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...

    • Downloads: 791
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2011 To 2012

    Canada Is Like The US In Growth, But Different In Mix Of Purchases

    Canada is like the US, only different. This bit of doggerel applies as much to the Canadian information and communications technology (ICT) market as it does to Canada's economy or culture. Because...

    • Downloads: 428
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2010: Functionality

    Demand Centers And Functional Heterogeneity Make Selection More Difficult

    Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Core banking and channels continue as important factors in many regions. Beyond that, regional functional...

    • Downloads: 481
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:Cloud Orchestration Models

    Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud

    Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...

    • Downloads: 1576
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:India IT Market Predictions 2011

    This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the India IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. The India IT market...

    • Downloads: 49
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:India Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

    This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...

    • Downloads: 44
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:SaaS In APEJ 2010/2011: End User Adoption Trends

    This document provides an overview of software-as-a service (SaaS) end-user adoption trends in Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. SaaS adoption continues to accelerate across...

    • Downloads: 37
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:ASEAN Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

    This document provides a comprehensive background of ASEAN countries' (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) data center market dynamics from the end...

    • Downloads: 48
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Report:ANZ Data Center Study: End User Result Analysis

    The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...

    • Downloads: 41
  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Case Study: The Homecoming King

    J.P. Morgan Improves Performance And Responsiveness By Bringing Its Retirement Plan Services' Infrastructure In-House

    As more multiyear infrastructure outsourcing contracts come up for renewal, we see a surge of I&O teams looking to bring infrastructure back in-house. But how do you go about it? J.P. Morgan went...

    • Downloads: 266
 
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