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2011: mostly cloudy, with sunny intervals
2011 is shaping up to be the year of cloud computing, as the NOA's Andy Rogers reports... How public money is being spent and how it is bei...
24 March 2011 | Articles, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Business analytics and outsourcing: is it the next wave?
Business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) aren’t new concepts (I remember using pivot tables in Excel over 15 years ago and Amazon using ...
08 May 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Cloud computing – is there a silver lining?
I’m often asked what the future of outsourcing is, and, as difficult as it can be to accurately predict what’s going to happen without using a crystal...
04 May 2011 | Articles, Regions, UK, Global, All Columns,Cloud computing: what are you signing up to?
The benefits of cloud services are often cited. They’re low-cost. They’re scalable. They’re permanently state-of-the-art. However, at least with trad...
14 February 2011 | Articles, IT, Global, Europe, UK, North America / Caribbean, USA,Clouding your business with data protection issues? (Part 2)
In Part One of this article, we looked at current data protection issues inherent within cloud computing. Here, we look at the trend towards cloud usa...
16 February 2012 | Articles, IT, Legal, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Complementing traditional outsourcing with the emerging cloud computing
In the last article I discussed the emergence of cloud as a key sourcing option. Media has been publishing so much on the cloud that it is often toute...
11 April 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Crowdsourcing and the enterprise (Part 2)
In the first part of this column article I suggested that all too often crowdsourcing is regarded as a marketing campaign tool to drive engagement wit...
26 April 2012 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Newly emerging offshore centres move centre-stage
A consistent theme at outsourcing conferences and the topic of discussion at seminars and web forums is the rise of China and India as outsourcing pow...
17 February 2012 | Articles, Egypt, South Africa, IT, Middle East/Africa, Mexico, Latin America, Other, Europe, Global, All Columns, South/Central Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Other, Asia/Pacific, China, Other,Q&A: Don Peppers, Peppers & Rogers
Don Peppers is one of the world's foremost authorities on customer-focused relationship management. With his business partner Martha Rogers, he i...
17 August 2010 | Articles, Customer Service, Europe, UK, North America / Caribbean, USA, Global,Racking Up The Wins
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 In the finest tradition of tech giants, Rackspace started life in a ga...
28 September 2011 | Articles, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Silver Lining
The cloud: renewing the importance of service for IT outsourcers The emergence of cloud computing has had many providers of IT outsourcing solution...
15 December 2010 | Articles, IT, Functions Other, Global,The emergence of cloud as a key sourcing option
Cloud sourcing involves sourcing solutions and computing capabilities to run a business through a combination of cloud applications, cloud platforms a...
06 March 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,The Roar of the Crowd
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 Over the past five years “crowdsourced” solutions have started to ...
28 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
