Bozhidar Hristov is a principal analyst within TBR’s Professional Services Practice. Bozhidar leverages close to a decade of analytical experience to lead and participate in research and analysis of the financial performances and strategic investments of the companies in the professional services market, including Accenture, Deloitte, KPMG and Infosys. He also leads TBR’s Digital Transformation research, where he focuses on analyzing the evolving business models of ICT market participants as a result of adopting disruptive technologies while addressing ever-changing enterprise buyers’ expectations and managing partner ecosystems. Additionally, Bozhidar is the lead analyst for TBR’s Global Delivery Benchmark. Bozhidar also oversees and contributes to custom research for clients and financial modeling projects and plays an integral role in presenting key findings from reports and thought leadership through TBR webinars. Bozhidar’s commentary has been quoted by online sources such as The Register, CRN, TechTarget, Diginomica, CXOtoday, Nearshore Americas, The Hindu Business Line, IT-TNA, PTeducation, The Economic Times and Livemint.
In early 2023, TBR met with EY’s Kim Billeter, Americas People Advisory Services leader, Jonathan Sears, Global People Advisory Services Technology leader, PAS US-East leader, and Simon Stanaway, Americas Mobility leader, to discuss progress EY has made in growing People Advisory Services (PAS) within a highly competitive market and during a pandemic..
In late April, TBR attended SoftwareOne’s inaugural Global Analyst Summit in Milwaukee for two days of presentations, break-out sessions, and — because it is Milwaukee — baseball. The following reflects the presentations and discussions in Milwaukee, as well as TBR’s ongoing research around SoftwareOne and its peers in the IT services, cloud services and VAR markets.
In a discussion with TBR, SoftwareOne’s regional vice president & transformation leader, explained that the acquisition of Beniva would help SoftwareOne move more expansively into the ServiceNow space, but in a manner that plays to two of SoftwareOne’s strengths: value-added software reselling and ITAM services.
Compounding the emphasis on the services and technology capabilities of Accenture and SAP at the Accenture SAP Leadership Council was a parade of client presentations that reinforced the ecosystem theme in large part through its ecosystem’s diversity, with clients representing the high-tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, telecom and utilities industries, among others.
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In TBR’s view, EY continues to operate through a global effort, complicated by regulatory and compliance requirements that vary by country as well as member firms’ different partnership structures. However, at multiple times during the discussion, EY leaders said the firm knew that cybersecurity services required being “local to be there with clients.”
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