by Frank Ridder | July 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The weather over here is brilliant – blue sky, sunny and very hot. That leads to clouds and a high risk of thunderstorms. The relation of both is very well known in the science world. But are there any parallels between cloud providers, sourcing and some key elements of thunderstorms? Lightning: It is interesting how [...]
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Category: Cloud sourcing Tags: Buying, Clouds, sourcing, Thunder
by Frank Ridder | May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
An article from EquaTerra executive Peter Iannone, published on equaterra.com recently caught my interest. I share the observation that many organizations currently try to speed up their outsourcing deal process to shorten the time to realise the benefits, especially in economically rough times. But what reads like a promotion for EquaTerra’s term “Speed Sourcing” can [...]
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by Frank Ridder | April 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Will it be software companies such as SAP, scared about a potentially stronger competitor? Will it be companies such as HP, scared that a new end-to-end value proposition will sit at their clients’ tables? Or could it be mid market companies or SaaS providers, since a powerful cloud service provider might be the offspring of [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Acquisition, Oracle, sourcing, Sun
by Frank Ridder | April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
I am a twitter user since quite some time and I am happy to be now a newcomer the GartnerBlog family as well. My coverage in Gartner is IT Sourcing - or to be more precise – IT Services Sourcing. Especially in economic tough times, oursourcing has been an often considered way to face the challenge. In [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: crisis, outsourcing, sourcing
