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10 good reasons for law firms to make the switch to managed services
By Helen Newman, on behalf of e-know.net Limited • June 2011 Take a quick straw poll of IT directors in large law firms and you’ll find a certain resi...
30 June 2011 | Resources,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,2011: outsourcing predictions
Predicting what will happen over the next 12 months is never easy – but here are the main topics I expect to be hitting the outsourcing headlines in 2...
26 January 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, Asia/Pacific, China, Global, All Columns,2nd Annual Business of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has moved from headline grabber to key IT strategy. Enterprises, large and small, have turned to cloud computing providers for savings...
04 May 2012 | Events, Conferences, IT, North America / Caribbean, USA,4th Cloud Computing World Forum 2012
Whether you're an IT vendor, government official, telco representative or enterprise leader, the Cloud Computing World Forum 2012 will bring you ...
10 August 2011 | Events, Conferences, IT, Europe, UK,A Logica Progression
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 Andrew De Cleyn is MD, UK Outsourcing at major IT, BPO and consult...
28 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Business Platforms
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 As the cloud model evolves, how businesses use cloud technologies, and...
28 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Canadian outsourcing trends: June 2011 update
The Canadian outsourcing industry continues to grow in 2011 after an overall positive year in 2010. BPO registers a year-on-year (YOY) growth of 2.25 ...
26 July 2011 | Logistics, Customer Service, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance & Accounting, Articles, Legal, Functions Other, North America / Caribbean, Canada, All Columns,China, the Cloud and building bridges
It’s been busy for the last few weeks as we drew a line under 2010. In Australia we are all starting to drag ourselves back to work after our break (a...
20 January 2011 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, China, Australia, Global, All Columns,Chris Ward
Chris Ward is editor of Business Cloud News, a UK-based daily news site dedicated to providing commentary on the cloud computing and IT industry. He i...
29 September 2011 | Columnists, IT, Global,Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa
The Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa will focus on how traditional enterprises can successfully adopt cloud computing, featuring industry though...
08 May 2012 | Events, Conferences, IT, Middle East/Africa, South Africa,Cloud awards shortlist revealed
The Cloud Computing World Forum, due to take place June 29th-July 1st at London’s Olympia, has announced the shortlist for the Cloud Computing World S...
04 June 2010 | Articles, IT, Europe, UK,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: facts and fiction
There is a buzz about the cloud at the moment. Microsoft is pushing its own solution heavily, HP has a solution as does Oracle. Everyone wants to be i...
23 February 2011 | Articles, 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,Cloud Summit East Africa
The Cloud Summit East Africa will host over 150 IT professionals, CIOs, Chief Information Security Officers and cloud computing experts from the top c...
08 May 2012 | Events, Conferences, IT, Middle East/Africa, Kenya,Clouding your business with data protection issues? (Part 1)
In Part 1 of this article we provide an overview of some of the current data protection issues inherent within cloud computing and consider the data p...
01 February 2012 | Legal, IT, Articles, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,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,Compare the Cloud
Comparethecloud.net is a website dedicated to cloud computing for businesses. It combines a unique cloud services comparison engine designed to assist...
28 March 2012 | Directory, IT, Functions Other, UK,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,Cost not the driver of Australian outsource rise
Most Australian companies don’t want to send business functions offshore, but many intend to outsource a lot more roles in the next two years and the ...
11 May 2012 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,Datacenter Technologies Academy London
The leading industry association SNIA is pleased to bring its popular Academy series of events to the UK market on the 19th of May at the QEII Confere...
07 April 2011 | Events, Europe, UK, Exhibitions, IT,Don’t let clouded thinking make you forget the network
According to a recent study by the Cloud Industry Forum, nearly half of UK organisations are using some form of cloud computing, and almost all of the...
02 June 2011 | Articles, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,e-know.net Limited
e-know.net is a dynamic UK managed services provider, delivering outsourced IT solutions from bespoke managed desktops, business continuity and DR, th...
30 June 2011 | Directory, IT, Europe, UK, Global,Enterprise versus mass market cloud
All men may have been created equal, but not all clouds are. Cloud computing has dominated the IT agenda of late and is set to continue grabbing head...
07 July 2011 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Executive interview: why do companies need a BPO provider?
Business is all about people but it’s often easy to become swamped by processes and technologies. In media reporting of corporate issues, we frequentl...
10 November 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Head-to-Head: Duncan Aitchison & Rick Simmonds
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 In the second instalment of our new Head-to-Head series, we turn to the ...
06 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Head-to-Head: Gary Collins & Tristan Rogers
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 The rise of the cloud model has created a host of opportunities – and ...
28 September 2011 | Articles, IT, Customer Service, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Highlights from the SIG Global Leadership Summit
And the crowd went wild… or at least it seemed that way when we started playing the theme song from the ever-popular 1960s game show, “The Dating Game...
21 December 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,How Diversey and Wipro are creating an ITO (r)evolution
The (r)evolution in the outsourcing industry is happening. Innovative win-win outsourcing relationships are replacing traditional cost-focused procure...
12 January 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,How do small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) best benefit from outsourcing?
The sector of “mid-sized businesses” (at the recent NOA Summit such organisations were defined as those with a turnover of up to £250M) is a major dri...
19 January 2011 | Articles, Europe, Germany, UK, Global, All Columns,How to play host to an outsourcing service
As more companies look to outsource their accounts payable duties, practices have the opportunity to enhance their business by offering a hosted servi...
07 December 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Global, All Columns,Indian ITO: a three-part plan for achieving non-linear revenue growth
Technology has always aimed to change the status quo by making it effective to perform business functions. The success of technology in business is me...
31 January 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, South/Central Asia, India, All Columns,Innovation: a hoary old scab, or something worth talking about? (Part 3)
So, what does it really take to drive innovation through an outsourcing business? You have to want to. You have to think this is important. And you h...
12 July 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Innovation: what is it, and why am I not getting any?
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 It’s one of the most frequently used words in outsourcing – but ...
27 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Is cloud the new offshore?
Promises of substantial cost savings, agile IT, scalability and flexibility – does that sound familiar? Combine that with big question marks over secu...
01 December 2011 | All Columns, Global, IT, Articles,Machine-to-Machine: another white elephant or a big leap forward? (Part 1)
I started researching this series of articles on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) a while ago and, while fascinating, it’s been a bit of a labyrinth; I’ve bee...
20 October 2011 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Moving On Up
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 PR Chandrasekar is the CEO of Hexaware Technologies, a global prov...
28 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, IT, Global, All Columns,Outsource - or cloudsource?
There’s no question that cloud computing is here to stay. A recent infographic released by IT consulting firm Avanade shows that globally, 74 per cent...
16 April 2012 | Articles, IT, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing your business IT functions to the cloud
Outsourcing business IT operations to the cloud is a hot topic for companies at present. Many voices are extolling its virtues, with key benefits from...
18 February 2011 | Articles, IT, All Columns,Planet ITO
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #27 Spring 2012 It is “the backbone of the outsourcing marketplace”, according to ISG’...
05 April 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Platforms make sense in the Cloud!
An October Leading Edge Forum study tour in California, visiting Silicon Valley pace setters. Eighteen months ago I forecast that the real outsourcing...
09 November 2010 | Articles, USA, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Charles Aird, PwC
Charles Aird is Global and US Practice Leader, Shared Services, Outsourcing and Offshoring at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In a glittering career he's...
02 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Craig Wilson, VP, HP Enterprise Services
Craig Wilson is MD and VP UK Ireland for HP Enterprise Services (formerly EDS). Following the recent Gartner Outsourcing IT Services Summit 2010 in ...
22 October 2010 | Articles, IT, Global,Q&A: Dylan Roberts, Leeds CC
At SmartGovLive 2010 one of the most eagerly anticipated sessions was a panel debate addressing the question "G-cloud? Is this the future for pub...
21 May 2010 | Articles, IT, Procurement, Europe, UK,Q&A: Federico Florez
Federico Florez is Global CIO at construction, transportation and infrastructure multinational Ferrovial. In advance of his participation in the 3rd A...
03 May 2011 | Articles, IT, Europe, Spain, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Ian McDonald, Symbian Fdtn
Ian McDonald is the founder and director of Next Gen IT, a blog focusing on developments and evolution in corporate IT with a particular focus on clou...
02 August 2010 | Articles, IT, Global,Q&A: Julianne Hately, Molson Coors
Julianne Hately is Global Finance Manager (Record to Report) at brewing giant Molson Coors. Ahead of her appearance at the forthcoming Shared Services...
16 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Europe, UK, North America / Caribbean, USA, Canada, All Columns, Germany,Q&A: Krist Davood, Schiavello
Krist Davood is CIO for Schiavello Group, an Australia-based construction, design and manufacturing organisation. Prior to his appearance at the 11th ...
27 April 2011 | Articles, IT, Asia/Pacific, Australia, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Norm Judah, Microsoft
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #27 Spring 2012 Two decades into his career with Microsoft, Norm Judah has risen to th...
05 April 2012 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns, USA,Q&A: Wolfgang Benkel, Forrester Research
Wolfgang Benkel is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, working out of Frankfurt, Germany. His latest report looks at the outsourcing of IT infras...
31 March 2011 | Articles, IT, Europe, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, Other, All Columns,Risks of outsourcing and cloud computing
By Chris Cann, on behalf of e-know.net Limited • June 2011 Law firm consultant Chris Cann was one of the very earliest adopters of managed services ...
30 June 2011 | Resources,Seeing Through the Cloud
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 “Cloud” is the word on everyone’s lips – but what does the advent ...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Siemens signs VMware vCloud deal
Siemens IT Solutions Services has confirmed a deal to become a VMware vCloud service provider partner, it was announced this week. The partnership “f...
04 August 2010 | Articles, IT, Global,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,Social Issues
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 Does “social” equate to more or fewer opportunities for outsourcers...
04 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Some none too subtle shifts in the commerce of outsourcing
Transformational change always takes longer than the early adopters believe is either likely or reasonable – but if the drivers for the change are rea...
11 October 2010 | Global, UK, Articles, All Columns,Sourcing unravels in the Arab world
Just about anyone can write a piece about current events and even go so far to paint the future. Heaven knows that prophesy is seldom remembered or re...
02 February 2011 | Middle East/Africa, Articles, Egypt, Global, All Columns,Supercloud: the many clouds which will shape the future
I was speaking to a senior relationship manager from one of the most powerful global vendors over drinks a short while ago. Not surprisingly, the conv...
07 October 2011 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Taking the At-Home Agent Model to the Next Level
Introducing an outsourced secure, cloud based approach to work-at-home agents. Download the Taking the At-Home Agent Model to the Next Level PDF here
08 February 2012 | Resources, Customer Service, Global,The Australian outsourcing journey
Outsourcing has evolved and seen a number of major changes over the last 15 years. For a long time the industry in Australia was battling negative per...
05 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,The cloud: security risk or risk management opportunity
The word "cloud" has become everyday vernacular in the business community - and even some may say a bit of an overused buzzword. Many don’t ...
01 July 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,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 impact of the new carbon tax on the Australian outsourcing industry
Australian treasurer Wayne Swan says new Treasury data shows the impact of a carbon tax on emissions-intensive industries would be negligible compared...
11 July 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,The Legal View: Storm Clouds on the Horizon?
Cloud computing has the potential to revolutionise outsourcing - but along with the advantages of new models might come some pretty hefty legal challe...
15 December 2010 | Articles, IT, Legal, Europe, UK, Global,The Managed IT Services Journey
In this podcast from Managed Services Specialist e-know.net, Managing Director Nigel Redwood explains just how do you choose the right IT provider and...
30 June 2011 | Audio,The View from the Board: Editorial Board Roundtable Winter 2010
Outsource: John, you're hosting, so let's kick off with you: looking generally at the trends for 2011 how different a year do you think its ...
17 December 2010 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global,Touching Base
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 A cloud solution can help a diffuse workforce maintain a coherent,...
28 June 2011 | Articles, HR, IT, Customer Service, Global, All Columns,Why Cloud will Change the Future of Sourcing
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 Euan Davis presents the Executive Summary of HfS Research’s ground-break...
29 March 2011 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
