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Report:Market Overview: Data Center Services In China

Traditional Market Leaders Must Adapt To A Rapidly Shifting Market

Forrester believes that the explosive growth of emerging data center services like as-a-service and virtual private cloud services over the next three to five years will spark increased demand from...

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Report:Outsourcing In China: Key Lessons Learned

Multinational Corporations Are Increasingly Considering Outsourcing To Local Vendors

Most leading multinational corporations (MNCs) have already established their business in mainland China, and now other MNCs are planning to expand their go-to-market plans in the world's...

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Report:Database Appliances Are Gaining Momentum In China

Hardware-Centric Solutions Continue To Have Strong Local Appeal

Mature IT customers in China are facing challenges in analyzing large data sets. Demand for database appliances — a combination of hardware and software integrated with and optimized for a...

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Report:China's SAP Services Market Is In Flux

Sales To SMBs And Expansion In Tier Three And Tier Four Cities Are The Market's Key Growth Engines

The major SAP services customer base in China is evolving from large enterprises to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) — an evolution that parallels SAP China's business transformation....

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Report:Lessons Learned From Outsourcing In China: Part 2

Local Vendors Are Ready to Be On MNCs' Radar

This report follows up on an outsourcing services market report published in Q3 2012 that outlined key lessons for multinational corporations (MNCs) seeking to leverage outsourcing engagements in...

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Report:Market Overview: IT Services In China, 2013

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...

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Blog:Consolidation Of The Chinese IT Services Market: The Race To Delivery Maturity

Gene Cao, Frederic Giron, Michael Barnes On August 10, rival IT outsourcers hiSoft and VanceInfo announced their intention to merge. The resulting entity will comprise a much bigger organization,...

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Blog:Local Outsourcing Providers Should Be On Your Radar In China

Over the past three years, multinational companies’ (MNCs’) approach to outsourcing in China has steadily matured as they seek to leverage broader outsourcing models and source from a...

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Blog:Are You Ready For China's Outsourcing Market?

Dear Forrester Community, I would like to take couple of minutes to introduce myself and the research topics I’m working on. I came to Forrester through the acquisition of Springboard Research...

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Blog:Microsoft Public Cloud Services Land In Mainland China

with Rita Xia On November 2 in Shanghai, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 365 and Windows Azure services for customers in mainland China; both have been available in Hong Kong for...