Top 10 Sneaky Tactics Technology Suppliers Use to Jack Up Your Costs Preface Nearly all clients are seeking greater prosperity in 2024. While client organizations are still focused on cost reductions to meet the challenges of their new economic and market realities, the pent-up demands of the business are increasingly calling for innovation, automation, and organizational performance improvement. Digital Transformation has emerged as the #1 Way to Boost Performance and Savings concurrently. Client organizations that are digitally transforming are harvesting greater value by: Automating tasks (RPA) to streamline efficiencies Unlocking data ...
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Preface Many client organizations who are long-time users of Atlassian's Jira are suffering from supplier-imposed changes over the last several years that have resulted in sharp increases in costs, pressure on their relationships, and the opportunity for other providers to gain a foothold in the gap Atlassian has put between themselves and their customers. Of course, this has been happening right at the time when client organizations can least afford to be distracted by this small but annoying problem. Background Atlassian has been forcing cost increases on their customers in several ways, including: Changing the licensing model: Atlassian ...
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Introduction Many of you will remember last year’s very successful blog regarding the Top 10 India-Based IT Services Companies for 2022, where Mphasis was rated as the #1 overall performing “India-Based” IT Services Company. We decided to expand the focus this year beyond “India” to include the rest of the world, and while India remains a critical region for offshoring talent, and certainly India-based firms are disproportionately represented in the analysis, the India-based firms are also competing (and winning) head-to-head with the global elite, so there is no reason why we can’t measure them in the full context of the highest demands of ...
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In 2022, we published a 4-part series on IT Services Contracts, which included: The Top 4 Reasons Why NOW is the Time to Review Your IT Services Needs The 8 Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself About Every IT Services Project The Top 10 India-Based IT Services Companies for 2022 (2023 Update Forthcoming) Our Top 25 Recommendations on How to Negotiate Best-in-Class IT Services Contracts March is generally the time of year that many clients review, renew, reconsider, and/or renegotiate their IT Services Agreements and for the most part, all the content from our previous 5-part blog series remains true today (with some updates for 2023 on ...
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BREAKING: The Mainframe is not dead. While smaller companies continue to get off the mainframe, it’s still too soon to write an obituary, as mid-sized businesses grew mainframe consumption from 5 to 15% and large enterprises grew from 15 to 20% in 2021. Recent analyst reports suggest that as much as half of the world’s information is still processed on the mainframe. The mainframe was a $2.3 Billion Industry in 2021, is expected to increase another 8% in 2022, and is projected to grow at a 3.2% CAGR from 2021-2029. Major hardware, software, and services companies that stand to benefit from this decade of mainframe market growth include Atos, ...
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Introduction Welcome back to our 4-part series on IT Services Contracts, where we continue to explore the growing need to review your IT Services contracts and plans for 2022. There is a lot of market activity in the early months of this year with IT Services Companies. There are four major reasons for spike in activity, and one of them is the disproportionate number of renewals we see in March, due in large part to the fiscal year ends of: TCS Infosys Wipro For this reason and more, we invite you to read our related article on this topic: The Top 4 Reasons Why NOW is the Time to review your IT Services Needs The industry forces outlined in ...
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Introduction Thank you for joining us again this week as we continue to explore the growing need to review your IT Services contracts and make your IT Services plans for 2022 in our 4-part series that runs from Monday – Thursday. Yesterday, we published a new original article: 1. Monday: The 4 Reasons Why NOW is the Time to review your IT Services Needs Today, we are publishing another new original article (Part 2 in our 4-part series): 2. Tuesday: The 8 Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself About Every IT Services Project Please come back tomorrow to check out our new original blog on our research of over 50 India-based IT Services ...
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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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