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May 17, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
In this video, NelsonHall’s David McIntire reports from day one of the 2017 SAP Sapphire Now user conference with his thoughts on how SAP is expanding its core business footprint.
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May 16, 2017, by Mike Smart
Last Friday morning, the largest ransomware cyber attack infected an unprecedented number of machines across organizations worldwide. The ransomware named WannaCry demanded $300 in Bitcoins to be paid in three days, otherwise the ransom would double. If no payment was made after seven days, data would be deleted forever.
WannaCry ransom message
Each time this ran[...]
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May 12, 2017, by Andy Efstathiou
This is the second in a series of blogs on current activities, use cases, POCs, and pilots with Blockchain in the financial services industry. In this one, I look at some of what Wipro is doing to support banks and financial services companies in deploying Blockchain solutions.
Blockchain technology & services
Wipro has been active for the past three years in offering Blockchain cons[...]
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May 08, 2017, by Andy Efstathiou
This is the first in an occasional series of blog articles over the next year on Blockchain initiatives related to the financial services industry. Blockchain is an emerging technology for which there are no current operational deployments, with initiatives still primarily at the consulting and design stage. Pilots have been deployed, but are relatively rare despite the rapid growth in experim[...]
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May 03, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
Equifax Workforce Solutions’ 2017 client forum was themed “Expanding Horizons”, and here I take a quick look at three areas in which Equifax is expanding its HR solutions.
Expanding Verifications Business
Equifax’s verification services business is expanding beyond the U.S., launching first in Canada, followed by the U.K., and then Australia. Curre[...]
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Apr 28, 2017, by Nikki Edwards
After attending a HR technology event, I always come back on a high having spent one or two days talking with positive people who are passionate about what they do in the HR tech space. HR tech continues to develop apace, and has become very user-friendly.
Having spent most of my career in HR, I sometimes wonder whether the HR end-users in attendance are there to take a serio[...]
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Apr 28, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
NelsonHall recently completed an analysis of the digital transformation capabilities and offerings of selected IT services vendors. While all vendors are investing in offerings under the ‘digital transformation’ umbrella, their investments range from industry-focused offerings using proprietary IP, to packaged solutions, to digital strategy consulting.
One area of focu[...]
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Apr 27, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
NelsonHall’s latest Learning BPS NEAT vendor evaluation included customer interviews to ascertain current satisfaction levels and future expectations across a range of criteria. Below is a selection of the findings from our interviews with learning BPS customers.
Principal issues & operational priorities
Some of the more prominent issues and operational priorities cited by r[...]
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Apr 26, 2017, by Ivan Kotzev
While Facebook banks on the smartphone camera to digitalize offline relationships, and sales people use Snapchat to sell real estate, the main challenges for marketers to reach this level of interaction are structural – how to visualize huge amounts of disparate data to get actionable insights fast at a granular level. Here I take a look at how one CMS vendor, WNS, is tackling [...]
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Apr 26, 2017, by Gary Bragar
PeopleScout held its annual Client Forum last week, with discussion groups covering employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, employer branding, the talent landscape, total workforce solutions, the impact of industry disruption on best practices, and improving the employee experience.
All these HR themes are important, but here I look specifically at what PeopleScout is doing [...]
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Apr 21, 2017, by Andy Efstathiou
NelsonHall attended the WNS analyst conference in New York last week for a business update and to hear about their current initiatives. Here I take a quick look at WNS’ banking industry business specifically, and at how it is focused on applying FinTech to BPS delivery to support large productivity gains for its U.S. regional banking clients.
Market conditions are driving c[...]
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Apr 18, 2017, by Dominique Raviart
We 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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Apr 12, 2017, by Elizabeth Rennie
By now, most HR leaders within multi-national organizations, particularly those headquartered or operating in Europe, will be familiar with the looming compliance regulation known as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With 100% compliance required from day one and fines for non-compliance up to 4% of global revenue (maximum €20m), the GDPR is arguably the most cri[...]
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Apr 12, 2017, by Andy Efstathiou
The mortgage and loan servicing industry is beginning a period of rapid change in the way business process services are delivered. Over the past few years, mortgage portfolios have not grown rapidly. For example, in the U.S., the largest residential mortgage market in the world, loans have grown only 7.3% from year-end 2012 to year-end 2016, a CAAGR of 1.8%. Some lines of loans have [...]
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Apr 01, 2017, by Nikki Edwards
The nature of finance & accounting is changing rapidly with the advent of new technologies. RPA has already shown its potential to reduce transactional F&A costs by 20% while improving quality of service and the application of cognitive technologies over the next few years will multiply this existing impact several times over. And, with the advent of machine learning, the processes will in[...]
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Mar 31, 2017, by Rachael Stormonth
In this video blog, Rachael Stormonth, NelsonHall's EVP Research, discusses the birth of DXC Technology.
Financial information on the combined company can be found here.
NelsonHall's reaction to the news of the acquisition at its announcement can be found here.[...]
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Mar 31, 2017, by Nikki Edwards
Organizations today are dealing with a myriad of inter-related market challenges:
Political (Brexit uncertainty, European elections 2017-18, etc.)
Economic (budget cut-backs, geographic/industry sector volatility, globalization, etc.)
Social (talent shortages, multi-generational/ageing workforce, etc.)
Technological (data/big data, analytics, “consumerization”, etc.),
Leg[...]
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Mar 30, 2017, by Rachael Stormonth
On March 15, WNS announced its intended acquisition of HealthHelp, in what, at $95m, will be its largest acquisition to date. HealthHelp, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Houston, TX is a 400-FTE strong healthcare utilization management specialist.
In many ways, the HealthHelp acquisition has much in common with WNS’ Value Edge acquisition. HealthHelp, like Value Edge, will become[...]
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Mar 28, 2017, by Mike Smart
NelsonHall recently attended NIIT Technologies European Analyst & Advisor Forum in London. For those readers not familiar with the company, NIIT Technologies is a mid-sized Indian-headquartered services provider, generating annual revenues of ~$410m, of which around 48% from the U.S. and a third from EMEA. EMEA has dominated recent wins (50% of the order intake in the last quarter), and the co[...]
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Mar 28, 2017, by Gary Bragar
ADP’s CEO Carlos Rodriguez began the company’s annual client conference, Meeting of the Minds, by talking about unprecedented challenges faced, including global talent needs, growing compliance burdens, and rising expectations. And though perhaps not the most original of messages, Rodriguez singled out service as the core differentiator that enables ADP to deliver positiv[...]