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Who is working from home? Do they have everything they need? Can they stay connected? Are they OK? Companies around the world have been struggling to answer those questions in recent weeks as the COVID-19 virus became a global pandemic and suddenly forced many workers, and their employers, to adjust to remote working. As human […]
Economic activity currently appears more in cessation than recession. It is as if the world is suspended, untethered between two trapezes. As activity resumes, we know inquisitive humans will turn to easy-to-assemble technology to meet the emerging business demands and consumer pain points materializing daily. We will see a flurry of IoT-enabled endpoint applications that […]
“IT vendors — especially those exposed to the most volatile sectors such as industrials / manufacturing, retail and travel — will see a challenging period, says Boz Hristov, Professional Services Senior Analyst, Technology Business Research.” — InfoTechLead
“Boz Hristov, Professional Services Senior Analyst, Technology Business Research, Inc, said IT vendors — especially those exposed to the most volatile sectors such as industrials/manufacturing, retail and travel — will see a challenging period. The financial services sector will face headwinds, especially banking and capital markets, and less so insurance. This will further pressure Indian […]
“‘The contractors with more ‘progressive’ partnership/alliance strategies will be able to ‘unite the clans’ in their subcontractor network and quell any trepidation by sharing as much of the risk and the risk-management as possible,’ Technology Business Research Senior Analyst John Caucis told me. Caucis, who watches public sector IT for the market intelligence firm, pointed […]
COVID-19 delays the already slow process of taking S/4HANA customers live For decades, service partnerships have been of utmost importance to SAP (NYSE: SAP). Migrating customers onto S/4HANA is a key part of SAP’s growth strategy, and none of those deployments happen without the involvement of partners. At the end of 2019 SAP reported a […]
It takes a village, but a distant one For years, IT services vendors — and now increasingly consultancies — have been building business models around supporting enterprises’ IT and business processes, largely by leveraging the human arbitrage model and price-competitive offshore centers. While in recent years many vendors have begun to build on-site and/or nearshore […]
Not all news related to the pandemic is bad news Just a couple of months ago, the term “going viral” lightly referred to the match-to-kerosene-like spread of images, videos or other content across borders and populations. Today’s news has literally gone viral, carrying coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in an unfortunate and devastating new realization […]
COVID-19 will pressure Accenture’s short-term performance but could accelerate adoption of automation as the company maintains pricing agility While a global health pandemic is not something vendors typically prepare for as part of their business continuity plans, for many, including Accenture, the COVID-19 outbreak will certainly test the resiliency of their business models. As a […]
Accelerated automation Following market leader Accenture (NYSE: ACN), IT services vendors will aggressively adopt automation tools to drive down their own costs, improve remote delivery and retain clients during the global economic downturn. Automation will help ensure standardized delivery, even as engagements, implementation cycles and large-scale integrations change amid more remotely managed IT environments. IT […]