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| Market Data and Trends |
2007 YTD Industrywide Contracts With
TCV > US$50M: TCV (US$B) of Contracts Awarded
1H07 TPI Index Insider
The
1H07 TPI Index Insider details sourcing
industry activity and trends during the first
half of 2007, analyzing more than 1,900 active
commercial outsourcing contracts that together
will bring approximately US$73 billion of
annualized revenue to service providers this
year.
The first half of 2007 has
delivered mixed results in key areas of the
global sourcing marketplace. Highlights include:
- 25 percent decline in the number
of contracts awarded compared to the same period
in 2006
- Surprising, dramatic decline in
contract restructurings
- Larger average contract values,
fueled by growth in “new scope” (incremental
demand)
- Double digit increases in
annualized revenue in EMEA and Asia Pacific
regions
- Positive movement in the
Financial Services, Manufacturing,
Telecommunications and Energy sectors
Preview the 1H07
TPI Index Insider
Order the 1H07
TPI Index Insider report for
US$2,500
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| Featured Paper |
Server
Virtualization: The New Future for Midrange
Implementation
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By James Lofton,
Project Director, TPI
Teresa
Hart-Sears,
Senior Advisor, TPI
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Enterprises of various sizes and
complexity recently have accelerated their
interest in midrange server virtualization. They
view it as an innovative technique for reducing
hardware, software, environmental costs and
people costs within their IT environments. Chief
information officers and information technology
(IT) managers interested in virtualization would
be wise, however, to first thoroughly assess
their current IT environments and determine if
virtualization is appropriate for their
organizations. After considering the complexity,
challenges and novel characteristics of such an
initiative, if they decide it is viable, they
will need to develop a virtualization
implementation strategy that leads to a
cost-effective, manageable and efficient IT
infrastructure.
This paper discusses the
opportunities and challenges associated with
server virtualization initiatives, presents
issues that enterprises should consider prior to
undertaking virtualization projects and makes
recommendations on how enterprises should launch
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| Blogs |
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Be sure to check out
and join in the discussion on Michael Rehkopf’s
Sourcing
Insight blog on ZDNet Asia, where he
reports on “the real deal on IT and business
process outsourcing trends.”
Michael
Rehkopf, a TPI partner who lives and works in
the Asia-Pacific region has specialized in
operations, strategy and sourcing throughout the
world, working for Australian, Canadian,
American, German and Japanese companies for more
than 20 years.
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| Perspectives |
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Monetization
of Captives: How Long Will the Opportunity
Last?
By Dinesh Goel, Project
Director
Rukmini Priyadarshini, Senior
Research Analyst
Lubna Esmail, Knowledge
Management Editor
During the last few
years, captives – wholly owned subsidiaries set
up with the goal of providing services only to
the parent company – have mushroomed in India
and other offshore locations. See TPI’s view on
the window of opportunity for the monetization
of captives.
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| Upcoming TPI Events |
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We hope you'll join
us for TPI’s European and Americas
Sourcing Leadership Exchange
(SLE) conferences.
Consistent with
TPI’s tradition, these events are only for
buyers/users of sourcing services, assuring you
of a world-class peer networking experience.
At the SLE conferences, you’ll meet
and exchange ideas and experiences with
executives from leading organizations who are
responsible for using or evaluating sourcing
solutions — insourcing, offshoring, shared
services and/or outsourcing.
European Sourcing
Leadership
Exchange
The Future of Sourcing:
Survival of the Fittest
The
Cumberland Hotel
London, United Kingdom
October 8 – 9, 2007
Browse
the Agenda
For more information,
please contact Denise
Colgan
Americas Sourcing
Leadership Exchange
Increasing Value through
Strategic Multi-Sourcing
Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort
Naples,
Florida
November 5 – 7, 2007
Browse
the Agenda
Register
here at the conference rate of US$995 per
attendee. This rate includes pre-conference
sessions.
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Also in this
issue...
Personal
Health Information: Privacy and Security Considerations in
Outsourcing and Offshoring Decisions
Healthcare
executives are taking a closer look at how outsourcing and/or
offshoring strategies may benefit their organizations. Many
question whether these decisions carry undue and potentially
devastating risks in light of HIPAA and the overall regulatory
environment pertaining to personal health information privacy
and security.
The
New World Order: Offshoring Today
There is no question
that offshoring is here to stay, but it is evolving: new
locations are under development, strategies are changing and
different capabilities are being employed.
TPI News
TPI recently launched a new
global program that addresses the specific needs of
outsourcing governance teams. It’s called the Governance
Excellence Program (GEP), and it’s structured as a membership
format exclusively for companies that are managing existing
outsourcing relationships.
To learn more about this
new members-only program, please refer to the GEP
Executive Summary or contact Shawn
McCray
TPI
Co-Chaired and Sponsored Events
Please be our guest
in Philadelphia on Wednesday, September 5,
2007 for the TPI,
ITAA and Forrester Executive Dinner, where the evening's
activities will focus on transition and knowledge
transfer in sourcing transactions. This is a
complimentary dinner, networking and information sharing
session, not a sales or marketing event. Attendance is limited
to 16.
IQPC’s
10th Annual Shared Services Summit West
The Venetian
Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
September 16 - 20, 2007
For more information, please contact Judi Shaw.
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