The new HP Enterprise is now the #3 high value IT services provider
Love this merger or loathe it, the marriage of HPE and CSC has just spawned the third-largest high value IT services provider in the world – and happened just in the nick of time for our 2016 HfS IT Services Top 25: Click to Enlarge So, let’s ask HfS’ lead analyst for market sizing and […]
HfS unveils the first application testing blueprint report
The lifeblood of the IT outsourcing industry has always been application testing – it’s not sexy, but it’s a huge portion of ITO spending – and massively important to the revenues of the major ITOs. And while much of the traditional app testing market is commoditizing, with advances in remote management and automation, the proliferation […]
Implementing Portion Control at CSC
After all these years, CSC is finally separating out its public sector and commercial businesses. So what does the HfS analyst team think of it all? This week’s announcement that CSC would be dividing into two new entities, one for US Public Sector contracts and the other for Global Commercial contracts is a welcome and […]
East meets West in a cloudy love-match
The cost-competitive offshore scale and expertise of HCL meets the onshore domain expertise, legacy integration skills and data center resources of CSC
It’s hard to be CSC
It’s hard to be CSC. A perennial subject of acquisition chatter, it has built in poison pills in the form of gnarly government contracts with lots of limitations on who can own them and what can be done with them. This represents a disproportionate part of their revenue when compared to their competitors.
CSC stakes its claim to prosper in the new IT services ecosystem
CSC has struck out in a new direction sketching out a long-term position as a “service integrator” and laying out a cloud strategy that goes beyond the usual hype. The real test is whether CSC can channel its pricing and engagement models, its ser…
Oracle’s High BI Bar: Managed, Multifaceted and Actionable
Oracle’s newest BI release is massive, spans multiple product categories, and raises the bar for competitors in dramatic fashion. In my prior post I focused on its rollout and competitive posture. The market has waited a long time as the reconciliation of many moving parts was accomplished – most notably the convergence of the Hyperion […]
NightWatchman Server Edition
Photo via Tom Raftery In a bid to help companies tackle server sprawl, 1E launched v2.0 of its NightWatchman Server Edition yesterday. 1E’s NightWatchman software comes in two flavours – the desktop edition to allow for central administration of the power management of laptops and desktops (including Macs) and the server edition. The power consumption […]
