By Phil Fersht on March 21, 2011
One dynamic that has really stood-out over the last three years of the Finance & Accounting Outsourcing business, is the different competitive strategies going on at the high-end of the market versus the smaller engagements.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Capgemini, Enterprise Irregulars, F&A BPO, FAO, fersht, Finance and accounting, Genpact, HfS, ibm, InfosysBPO, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Research, Outsourcing Vendors, The Future of Outsourcing, wipro |
By R "Ray" Wang on February 7, 2011
Disruptive Technologies Remain Top Of Mind Among Business Technology Leaders It’s always a privilege and a pleasure to reach out to clients and prospects around the world. For those tracking my location, I’ve been in London, San Francisco, and Mumbai over the past 9 days. The conversations have ranged from social business and enterprise 2.0 [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 3PM, Accenture, Cloud, deloitte, Deloitte Consulting, disruptive, disruptive tech, disruptive technologies, ecosystem, HCL Technologies, ibm, India, Infosys, innovation, Mahindra Satyam, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, NASSCOM, PaaS, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, strategic advisor, System Integrators, Tata Consulting Services, TCS, Third Party Maintenance, Thought Leadership, vendor strategy, wipro |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 31, 2011
Greeting from London! It’s been a great surprise to enjoy the sunny and warm weather (by UK standards) as I readjust my body clock. Thankfully, I’ve had a chance to catch up with a few new and old clients, several analysts, media moguls, and in real life meetups w/ close relationships (i.e. @grahamhill and @buchanla) [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged @buchanla, @grahamhill, BPO, Capgemini, Cloud, Cloud BPO, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, crm, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), Design thinking, EMEA, Graham Hill, Laurence Buchanan, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SCRM, Social CRM, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Trip Report, wipro |
By Phil Fersht on January 27, 2011
You won’t see a CEO being removed after achieving a double-digit growth rate too often, but that’s just what happened, when Wipro’s co-chiefs Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe stepped down last week
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, F&A BPO, HR Strategy, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Vendors, Sourcing Best Practises, Suresh Vaswani, The Future of Outsourcing, tk kurien, wipro |
By Phil Fersht on January 5, 2011
We’ve been wallowing in white papers, plied with PowerPoint and overwhelmed with oratory, but despite all the chest-pumping, the very latest market picture of F&A BPO sends us one very clear message: the market remains dominated by a small handful of established service providers, while the market entrants of recent years have struggled to make a [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, ACS, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Capgemini, cognizant, Enterprise Irregulars, EXL, F&A BPO, Genpact, ibm, InfosysBPO, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Research, Outsourcing Vendors, The Future of Outsourcing, wipro, WNS, Xerox |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 11, 2010
It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10 Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this annual pilgrimage. Microsoft has made significant investments into the cloud. Many executives from the Redmond, WA, software giant have publicly stated that 90% [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Accenture, Activant, Actuate, Agilysis, agresso, Amdocs, AppFabric, apple, Ariba, AspenTech, Bearing Point, BIRST, BSD, Business Models, CA, Capgemini, Cincom, Cisco, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Columbus IT, Dell, Deloiitte, Deltek, development as a service, Diamond Technology Partners, EMC, Epicor, EscrowTech, Flavors Of Cloud Computing, fujitsu, GE Capital, Google Linux, Grant Thorton HCL, Hexaware, Hitachi, hp, ibm, IFS, Infor, Information Builders, Infosys, Infrastructure as a service, InnovaSafe, Intuit, IronMountain, JDA Software, Key Financial, KPIT, KPMG, L&T, Lawson, Manhattan Associates, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Partners, Microsoft SQL Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure, MIcroStrategy, Mincom, myDials, NCC Group, NetApp, NorthHighland, NoSQL Options, OpSource, oracle, Patni, pivotlink, Plan9, Platform as a service, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Proferi, QAD, QlikTech, Red Prairie, RedHat, Research Report, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, Sage, sap, SAS Institute, SatyamMahindra, siemens, SOA Software, Software AG, software as a service, SoftwareInsider, Sungard, Sybase, Syntel, TCS, Tectura, Tibco, Unix, vendor strategy, wipro, Worldwide Partner Conference, wpc10, Xerox |
By Phil Fersht on June 2, 2010
If anyone had told you a few years ago that Wipro would have a market cap of more than $30bn, you would have made a few discreet calls to their doctor, or perhaps their math teacher. But today, the Bangalore-headquartered firm has firmly shed the tag of That Indian IT firm which makes the vegetable oil, to become a genuine leading global IT services and BPO enterprise, with 105,000 employees.
Posted in Business | Tagged bangalore, BPO, business process outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, Horses For Sources, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, ITO, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, Phil Fersht, SaaS, Suresh Vaswani, The Future of Outsourcing, wipro, Wipro Technologies |
By Jason Busch on January 11, 2010
In the first post in this series, I provided an explanation of the different channel engagement models in the Spend
Management sector, as well as their historical context. In the second part of this column I’ll zero in on
Ariba and how it has m…
Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Arthur Andersen, Consulting, Emportis, Iasta, Outsourcing, Services Procurement, system integration, wipro |
By Jason Busch on January 7, 2010
Earlier in the week, Ariba announced it was partnering with Wipro Consulting
Services in a licensing deal. Ariba’s goal is to get the outsourcing firm’s consulting arm up and running on its sourcing application. Taken alone, the deal is unremarkab…
Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Business Model, Consulting, Jason Busch, Management consulting, Outsourcing, si, system integrator, wipro |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 16, 2009
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*
As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In.
Eliot Axelrod became Senior Account Exec [...]
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