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Finger-pointing from the vantage of hindsight Last year, nearly 18 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, three former Department of Homeland Security secretaries urged the U.S. government to place cybersecurity at the top of the national threat list. The call to action was issued prior to any knowledge of a looming pandemic, and adherence to […]
IT services revenue will retain its low single-digit growth trajectory through 1Q20 before it begins to decelerate due to COVID-19 IT services year-to-year trailing 12-month revenue growth, at 2.2% in USD, was up 30 basis points sequentially in 4Q19 and down 400 basis points against the year-ago compare. During 4Q19, benchmarked IT services vendors continued […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We asked 205 IT leaders who are decision makers for cloud purchasing about the current impact of COVID-19 on their companies and their expectations for the future. These responses were collected between March 17 and March 24. Initial findings show disruption to ongoing projects and increased importance of cloud capabilities in the future. The impact […]
In our new weekly blog series Two Back, Three Forward, we look at two numbers in TBR reports from the prior week as well as three numbers from our upcoming reports, highlighting the analysis TBR provides and the vast amount of data — the numbers — we’re working with every day. It’s all about the […]
