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IoT Platforms: Build or Buy? Implications for Clients & IT Services Vendors
Apr 03, 2018, by Dominique RaviartThere is an abundance of IoT platforms on the market. Many technology firms (e.g. IBM Software, AWS, PTC/Thingworx, Microsoft), major manufacturing firms (GE, Siemens, ABB, Bosch, Schneider Electric) and some large IT services vendors (e.g. Accenture, TCS, and Atos via Worldline) have invested in their own IoT platform products. History is repeating itself, as the build or buy que[...]
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Infosys HANA and S/4HANA Tools: Automating Migration to Drive Value
Feb 21, 2018, by NelsonHall AnalystAs a follow-up to our research project focused on SAP HANA and S/4HANA services that was completed last fall, NelsonHall recently had a briefing with Infosys to take an in-depth look at components of their migration toolset and understand how it is automating the activities of existing SAP clients migrating to HANA or S/4HANA. SAP is focused on speed and agility in HANA and S/4HAN[...]
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IoT Beyond Connectivity: Deutsche Telekom & T-Systems Open Up to Partnerships & Packaged Offerings
Feb 07, 2018, by Dominique RaviartT-Systems recently held an analyst event which specifically covered the IoT capabilities of parent company Deutsche Telekom AG Group (DTAG) and its own Digital Division. Here are the key takeaways. IoT Connectivity Services IoT is clearly important for DTAG and for T-Systems for connectivity reasons: NelsonHall estimates that most of its IoT revenues come from traditional SIM c[...]
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Wipro’s Appirio One Year On: Investing in Digital Consulting, IP & Verticalized Offerings
Jan 29, 2018, by Dominique RaviartWe recently met with the senior management of Appirio, acquired by Wipro in November 2016, for an update on developments in 2017 and priorities for 2018. As part of Wipro, Appirio has been able to accelerate the development of its digital consulting units and its investment in IP and accelerators, working alongside Wipro’s industry units, and also to expand into other geographi[...]
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Getronics Under New Ownership Sets Sights on Revenues of €1bn by 2020
Dec 11, 2017, by John LahertyNelsonHall recently had a briefing with senior management at Getronics to discuss the merger of Connectis under the Getronics portfolio. In this short blog, I look at what the Connectis business brings to the wider Getronics group, the aspirational growth targets that have been set by new CEO Nana Baffour, and some of the key focus areas for Getronics moving forward. Baffour becam[...]
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How IT Services Vendors Can Help Organizations Meet GDPR
Nov 09, 2017, by Mike SmartIn this, the second of two articles on GDPR, I look at how IT services vendors can help companies meet GDPR compliance in several areas. You can read the first article, ‘The Impact & Benefits of GDPR for Organizations’, here. Application services Application services can help organizations in ensuring that new and legacy applications meet the GDPR articles perta[...]
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HPE Unveils Pointnext Brand to Refocus its IT Services Capabilities
Apr 18, 2017, by Dominique RaviartWe recently talked to HPE Technology Services (TS) about its recent Pointnext branding campaign. Despite the divestment of its Enterprise Services unit, HPE has retained very significant IT services capabilities, provided through Pointnext. Technology Services is a sizable unit with FY16 revenues of ~$7.9bn (for the period ending 31 October 2016), and has a headcount of 25k across 80 countries[...]
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CSS Corp: Focused on Automating Enterprise Cloud Adoption for Consumer-Facing Clients
Mar 15, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystCSS Corp. is a privately held Milpitas, CA-headquartered IT services and tech support vendor that NelsonHall estimates had revenues approaching $200m in FY16. The company has a new leadership team, many of whom are ex-Infosys, and it is now looking to expand beyond its core technical support offerings into the growing digital transformation and cloud migration market. CSS Co[...]
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Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems Puts IoT at the Heart of its Digital Strategy
Dec 16, 2016, by Dominique RaviartI recently talked with T-Systems about its digital strategy, and here I take a look at the organization’s Digital Division, and specifically at its Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives. Digital transformation is a strategic offering for T-Systems’ parent Deutsche Telekom group (DTAG). The company set up its Digital Division in 2015 with the intention of aggregating exp[...]
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Unisys Puts Security at the Heart of its Corporate Transformation
Nov 17, 2016, by NelsonHall AnalystUnisys recently held an analyst and advisor day in New York, entitled UnisysNOW. However, with a relatively new leadership team in place and a broad corporate transformation underway, the focus of the event was not so much on the current shape of Unisys’ business but on the company’s aspirations and plans for achieving them, encapsulated in a new tagline: Securing Your To[...]
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IBM Reinvigorating Its Enterprise Application Services by Developing Watson-Enabled Industry Solutions
Sep 14, 2016, by NelsonHall AnalystUnsurprisingly, given its investment in, and focus on, Watson, IBM declared at a recent Alliances Analyst Day that 2016 is 'the year of cognitive'. The intent of the meeting was to look broadly at how IBM is working with its key alliance partners, including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, and it is clear that IBM’s focus is on incorporating cognitive capabilities and broadening th[...]
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Tech Mahindra Accelerates into IoT Performance Testing for Connected Cars
Aug 16, 2016, by Dominique RaviartNelsonHall has reported previously on how Tech Mahindra is developing its performance engineering capabilities through its Tech Mahindra Performance Engineering (TMPE) practice. TMPE has transitioned its services portfolio from performance testing initially to performance engineering, shift-left, and production (see here), helping client organizations to take performance into account at the so[...]
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3 Key Ways IT Service Vendors Are Enabling Clients’ Cloud Journeys
Jul 29, 2016, by NelsonHall AnalystThe rise of self-service provisioning and automation of public cloud environments gives companies autonomy in managing their infrastructure and flexibility in meeting fluctuating capacity demands. From the perspective of an IT service provider, however, if clients can provision new cloud environments in a few minutes and then use the same screen to orchestrate and manage that cloud environment[...]
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Rio 2016: How Atos is Helping the IOC Redeploy its Budget from Run to Digital
Jul 08, 2016, by Dominique RaviartFour years ago, at the time of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games, NelsonHall reported on the work Atos does for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) though its Major Events unit. See our previous commentary here. This week we visited its center in Barcelona to get an update on the work it is doing for the Rio Games starting next month, The Olympic Games remain a fantastic o[...]
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The New CSC Targeting Topline Growth Within 3 Years: Is Organic Growth Possible?
Nov 17, 2015, by Dominique RaviartCSC has just laid out the financial targets of the standalone business which will retain the CSC moniker when the U.S federal company, CRSA, breaks off. As well as CSC’s global commercial business, it includes non-U.S. public sector businesses (~$700m revenues in FY15). In its FY15 (ending March 31, 2015) this part of CSC achieved revenues of $8.1bn, and an adjusted operating margin[...]
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IBM Aligns its SAP and Oracle Capabilities Around Mobility, Big Data and Cloud Computing
Nov 12, 2014, by Dominique RaviartIBM recently held its annual IBM Alliances event, focusing on SAP and Oracle (other major IBM-wide partners include Microsoft, Infor, Cisco, Juniper Networks and Citrix). IBM Alliances manages major relationships with technology vendors that cross several IBM service lines, e.g. GBS, GTS, Systems & Technology, and Software. Those seven major partnerships are significant and command ~15% of ove[...]
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T-Systems Elaborates on Dynamic Workplace Offering
Aug 19, 2014, by Dominique RaviartT-Systems recently updated NelsonHall on its virtual desktop service offering, Dynamic Workplace, its new brand name for Future Workplace, a virtual desktop offering introduced in 2013. T-Systems Dynamic Workplace was introduced to address client needs for virtual desktop and mobility overall, based on a centralized approach to applications and data. T-Systems with this offering has taken sever[...]
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IBM Removes Major Inhibitor to Hybrid Cloud Adoption by Patenting Technique to Manage Location of Cloud Data
Aug 09, 2014, by John WillmottIBM has patented a technique to allow users to dynamically choose or change the location where public and private cloud data is stored.This is clearly a very important development in legitimizing cloud use for production applications, where country and industry regulators can take a very strong view on the geographies in which data, particularly customer data, can be stored. Potentially th[...]
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CSC Expands Partnership with IBM to Enhance Capability as Cloud Service Integrator and Manager
Aug 09, 2014, by John WillmottCSC has expanded its partnership with IBM to enhance its ability to offer hybrid cloud and mobility services. In particular, the partnership emphasizes CSC's continuation and development of its role as a cloud service integrator and manager, rather than as a direct provider of capital-intensive IaaS services. CSC has a large client base for traditional data center management, frequently using [...]
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Russia Placing New Demands on ISPs on Storage of Personal Data
Jul 08, 2014, by Mike SmartThe Russian parliament has passed a law to require internet companies to store the personal data of Russia users inside the country’s borders. Although the bill has passed through the Duma, it still needs to be pass in the Federation Council of Russia and President Vladimir Putin before it comes into effect. If put into law, all internet companies operating in Russia will be required to s[...]
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