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Businesses Now Have More Options To Drive Competitive Differentiation In China
China has entered a new phase of economic development, driven by government focus on expanding the domestic market. This transition will have a significant impact on private and public organizations...
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...
Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players
Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...
Landscape: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the landscape component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will enable application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros) and their HR business partners to...

Industry Changes Will Drive Opportunities For Vendors
The business process outsourcing (BPO) adoption rate among Japanese organizations has always lagged that of North America and Western Europe, despite the relative maturity of the Japanese market. But...
Tools And Technology: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Building custom business intelligence (BI) solutions is time-consuming and inflexible; therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros heading BI projects should move away from a...
Asset-Based Services Have Become A Prerequisite For Success
New business success imperatives are pushing clients to change the way they leverage IT solutions. IT service providers will have to adapt to these new rules of engagement if they want to remain...

Today, business transformation is often, at its core, about technology transformation. At the very least, business transformation is always technology-enabled, which raises important questions about...
Lessons Learned From A Professional Business Process Outsourcer
Many organizations embark on business process management (BPM) programs that focus on the efficiency of technologies like enterprise resource planning (ERP) and BPM suites (BPMSes). Mature process...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...
This document provides market size estimates for 2010 in Australia and New Zealand, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is based...
This document provides early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in China, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is based...
This document provides an early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in India, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is...
This document provides an overview of IT services within the ASEAN countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam for vendor strategists. The report discusses market...
Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...
Outsourcers like Accenture, Genpact, Infosys, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are making another run at the BPO market. This new line of attack is based on a standard software "platform"...
Core Components Show Maturity While Collaborative Elements Evolve
Human resource management (HRM) applications range from essential tools to hire and pay employees and administer benefits programs to strategic components for assessing and developing talent. More...
Economic Prospects Appear Brighter, But More Regulatory Oversight Looms
Macroeconomic forces and ongoing regulatory changes will have significant impacts on how the office of the CFO carries out its mission-critical responsibilities. Lingering effects of the recession...
Reconstruct Human Capital Strategies To Get Business Back On Track
After a horrendous 2009, human resources management (HRM) business process and applications professionals will gradually see opportunities emerge to rebuild and reinvent HR processes and analytics...
The Company Makes A Bold Services Play
On September 28, 2009, Xerox announced that it was purchasing the business process outsourcing (BPO) company Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), in a deal valued at approximately $6.4 billion. Coming...
Xerox's Acquisition Underscores BPO, ITO, And DPS Convergence
On September 28, 2009, Xerox announced the purchase of business process outsourcing company Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), in a deal valued at approximately $6.4 billion. Xerox's acquisition...
Forrester has noticed an increase in outsourcing questions from banking clients — not surprising, given the tremendous pressure banks face today. These inquiries highlight a variety of...
As sourcing models buckle under market pressure, sourcing leaders are responding by aligning strategies along a continuum of sourcing behaviors. These behaviors follow a road map for value creation...
While 2008 proved to be a tumultuous year in the world economy, IT outsourcers were well positioned to take advantage as companies looked to cut costs and potentially headcount. Despite the fact that...
Many IT service providers are seeking to embed themselves deeper in the core business processes of their customers. In the process, they are uncovering new market opportunities that are increasingly...
