Introduction Thank you for joining us as we explore the growing need to review your IT Services contracts and plans for 2022 in a 4-part series that will run from Monday – Thursday this week. During this time, we will publish 2 new original articles: 1. Monday: The 4 Reasons Why NOW is the Time to review your IT Services Needs 2. Tuesday: The 8 Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself About Every IT Services Project Followed by a new original blog on our research of over 50 India-based IT Services companies, where we will reveal our choice of the Top 10 firms, including highlighting who we think is #1 and why. 3. Wednesday: Top 10 ...
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Introduction Kyndryl is the new name for IBM’s managed infrastructure services business (what they refer to as IBM Global Technology Services), which spun out of IBM in November of 2021. Over the last 10+ years, IBM has fallen from a technology titan to a member of the walking dead, so how must Kyndryl feel about itself knowing that it is the discarded most unwanted stepchild of this unholy monster? Unlike Microsoft, IBM has proven unable to reinvent itself as a cloud company. IBM was very well positioned to become a big benefactor of the cloud revolution, and the explosion of the data center utility model, but IBM continues to suffer from a ...
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SAP Market Alert: Proceed with caution. With SAP Cloud Revenue exceeding expectations and SAP Management cheering on the RISE program, it looks like they finally have been able to get some traction with a business change program. Some SAP customers that have been delaying their ERP refresh, maybe thinking they are running out of time to make a final decision on what to do with their SAP R/3. Not coincidentally, the RISE program seems to come at the right time for some, as an easy option when they are already on an SAP Platform. We caution our Clients however, in taking a shortcut in your deliberations and not disregard the natural ...
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Introduction Anaplan connects people, data, and plans in real-time in its cloud environment to help customers democratize decision-making across all lines of business and business activities, from strategic to operational levels. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) As a step beyond traditional business intelligence, Anaplan offers a cloud-based subscription for its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software — enabling planning, modeling, and collaboration services to power better business decisions and drive better enterprise performance. Anaplan offers a simple interface to its Smart Business Platform, combining connection, ...
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Your Virtual Bouncer If you need security from the occasional undesirable intruder in your enterprise and need to convey strength in the way you control access to the information you hold most dear, by restricting access to unwelcomed guests and bouncing them from your cloud, you may very well need to learn more about Okta. In 2021, we named Okta as the #3 technology supplier to watch - largely based on its growth in the enterprise space as a Single-Sign-On platform. In March 2021, Okta acquired Auth0, and by doing so, moved from a cloud-based identity and access management company that provides single-sign-on access for employees to a ...
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How You Can Win Against an 800-Pound Gorilla Salesforce became the market leader in 2013 and has dominated the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) jungle ever since. With its fiscal year-end in January, now is the best time to review and optimize your Salesforce spend. In the early 2000s, Siebel was the market-leading (and most expensive) CRM (and remained so long after it was acquired by Oracle in 2006 for $5.8 billion), until it lost so much market share that the once unassailable technology goliath finally met its inglorious end. Technically, Siebel is still part of Oracle’s lifetime support policy, but for all practical purposes, it's ...
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Virtualization Before viable public cloud options were widely available, enabling enterprises to buy processing power and data storage ‘by the drink’, the best way to get past the physical constraints and limitations of the technology assets in your data center (to achieve greater value from higher utilization of those investments), was to virtualize them and serve them up to your applications as virtual machines rather than physical servers. VMware was the market leader in this space for 10+ years and was extremely successful in being able to consolidate technology spend in the enterprise. In fact, they consolidated more enterprise ...
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Watson: IBM’s Healthcare Moonshot Flatlines and Dies And in so doing, the last body of the Ginni Rometty era at IBM is buried. We have written extensively on this topic: Admittedly, NET(net) has been an outspoken (but fair) critic of IBM and Ms. Rometty over the years. Shortly after she was named CEO, we documented our Top 10 Reasons Why Ginni Rometty Will Fail as IBM’s New CEO, and fail she did. The following year, we were honestly a bit surprised at how quickly she was failing, and published another article called IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Failing Fast, where we outlined the cannibalizing culture and performance of missed expectations she was ...
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The Rise of the Consumption-Based Pricing Model One thing is clear in 2022: The technology industry is moving away from per user per month subscription models and moving towards consumption-based pricing models, and it’s no wonder why. With the ability to capture value from all customer consumption, the revenue-capture and resulting earnings of firms like Snowflake have significantly outpaced even the most successful subscription-based companies, and this is pushing enterprise valuations into a completely new stratosphere, providing ample incentive for technology suppliers to migrate towards consumption-based pricing models. Executives like ...
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Introduction Workday was ranked #1 in NET(net)'s Top 10 HCM HRMS Suppliers for 2021 blog. The cloud-based system mostly known as a Human Capital Management (HCM) platform for global workforces is delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and offers the following modules: Human resource management Business process management Reporting and analytics Benefits administration Compensation management Talent management Survey framework Employee and management self-service Program and Project Management Payroll and Workforce Management Professional Services Automation Enterprise Planning Higher Ed Student Support Spend Management Many ...
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