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Mindtree and L&T Infotech Merger: A Story of Scale
May 13, 2022, by NelsonHall AnalystThere is history behind this merger. Known as India’s first hostile takeover bid in the IT sector, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) acquired a 60% stake in Mindtree in July 2019, despite the opposition of Mindtree’s founders and board members. LTIMindtree will be the sixth largest India-headquartered IT services vendor Since then, a merger of both these firms has [...]
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The Three-Headed Challenge of SAP ERP Cloud Migration Services
Mar 02, 2021, by NelsonHall AnalystAs we have previously written, cloud services overall are poised to be the fastest growing area of IT services in 2021. The changing nature of cloud adoption, from non-production and non-critical applications to core business applications means that SAP environments will be no exception. In our recently published SAP Cloud Migration Services market analysis, NelsonHall estimates d[...]
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Enabling Enterprise Agility with Coforge’s Office of Enterprise Architecture
Feb 12, 2021, by NelsonHall AnalystAs the rapid rise of the pandemic demonstrated in early 2020, a company’s ability to react and respond to the changing business environment is a critical capability. Even prior to the pandemic, a NelsonHall survey of ~1k IT service buyers showed ~60% placing high importance on increasing the agility of existing core productions applications. Companies are looking for agility in[...]
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Cloud Services 2020: Pandemic Accelerates Long-Term Trends As Buyer Demand Evolves
Jul 27, 2020, by NelsonHall AnalystAs financial results that reflect a full quarter in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic are being released by IT service vendors, one of the key themes is that while discretionary budgets are being hard hit, clients’ investment in migrating to the cloud is not slowing. For vendors, clients’ cloud adoption has acted as a mitigator of other areas where clients have delayed [...]
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everis: Digital Transformation Pivots from Discretionary to Fundamental
May 11, 2020, by NelsonHall AnalystDigital experience consulting has been a critical focus area for IT services clients over the last several years. NelsonHall estimates that digital experience consulting services revenues grew by 15.8% globally in 2019, and projects a CAGR of around 12% from 2021 through 2024, after the COVID-19 pandemic eases. However, with COVID-19 still spreading, digital transformation project[...]
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Indian-Delivered IT Services in 2020: Innovation in Many Forms
Mar 26, 2020, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall was recently invited to present at NASSCOM Technology & Leadership Forum 2020, one of my last foreign trips for some time, I suspect. While in India, in addition to presenting, participating on panels and conducting interviews, we had an opportunity to sit down with leaders from across the IT services landscape as well as venture beyond the Grand Hyatt Mumbai to delive[...]
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The Changing Focus of User Experience Services (vlog)
Mar 05, 2020, by NelsonHall AnalystUser experience and user interface (UX/UI) consulting and design has traditionally been focused primarily on external, customer-facing web properties. However, the scope and focus of experience design services has expanded as companies realize design thinking and experience-centric design has greater applicability than solely in interfacing with users. In this vlog, David McIntire pr[...]
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Digital Experience Consulting in 2020: From Fishing to Teaching Clients to Fish
Jan 23, 2020, by NelsonHall AnalystIn a recent NelsonHall survey of IT services buyers, the most highly-sought benefit of digital transformation engagements was improving customer experience and customer satisfaction (highly important to ~68% of buyers globally). This focus has driven IT services vendors to invest heavily over the last several years in expanding their experience consulting and design capabilities. In [...]
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TCS Pace: Integrating Capabilities to Drive Innovation
Dec 09, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystIn NelsonHall’s 2019 survey of IT service buyers, when asked about the key capabilities sought in vendors, a significant majority cited a range of digital consulting capabilities. More than 65% of respondents placed high priority on capabilities such as the ability to take a business perspective to apply digital, provide a roadmap for adoption of digital, and undertake a digita[...]
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Infosys Innovation Centers: Localizing Innovation & Talent
Sep 05, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystInfosys is undergoing an internal transformation to become what it calls a Live Enterprise with the objective of accelerating its service delivery and adaptability to changing client needs. The core of Live Enterprise entails the expanded use of data and automation to support an evolving workforce. Infosys has introduced a number of tools and accelerators to orchestrate its services and facili[...]
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IT Service Buyers in 2019: Four Key Trends
Jun 24, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall has recently completed compiling and analyzing data from a survey of over 1k IT services buyers globally. This research is being published in a series of sector reports (all are available to subscribers here), spanning the 18 sectors analyzed, with geographic breakdowns incorporated within each. While completing these individual reports we noted several themes that were[...]
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TCS Research & Innovation: Balancing Horizons to Drive Client Value
May 29, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystAt the recent TCS Innovation Day held in New York, NelsonHall had an opportunity to talk to TCS about how it approaches its research and innovation function, balancing longer-term open-ended research and more immediately applicable innovations to evolve how it delivers services. (For more on the event itself, see the blog by Andy Efstathiou here). TCS has developed an overall appr[...]
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Integration & Autonomy: Common Traits of Successful Creative Acquisitions in IT Services
Apr 23, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystIn recent years, many IT services firms have been aggressively acquiring new capabilities in creative areas such as design. One of the key challenges they face in acquiring such firms is managing what can be a significant culture gap between the flexibility of small creative firms and the regimented, industrialized nature of a global IT services firm. Successful acquisitions strik[...]
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DXC Bets $2bn on Recovery of Luxoft to Scale its Digital Capabilities
Jan 08, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystYesterday morning, DXC announced its intended acquisition of Luxoft in an all cash transaction of $59 per share, around $2bn. This represents a 48% premium over Luxoft’s average closing share price over the previous ninety days (and ~86% premium on Friday’s closing price). The deal is expected to close by end June 2019. In recent years DXC (including as CSC) has made a number of[...]
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Highlights of Cloud Advisory, Assessment & Migration Services (vlog)
Jul 05, 2018, by NelsonHall AnalystDavid McIntire, IT Services Research Director, talks about NelsonHall's recently completed market analysis project on Cloud Advisory, Assessment, and Migration Services. In this vlog, he touches on the changing nature and scope of large enterprise cloud adoption, market size and growth, and where IT services vendors are focusing their investments.[...]
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Is Amazon the Biggest Threat to AWS’ Enterprise Public Cloud Domination?
Apr 20, 2018, by NelsonHall AnalystOver the last several years, the public IaaS market has grown rapidly, with major public IaaS providers growing at 45% or more annually, as estimated by NelsonHall. However, large enterprises are only moving a small portion of their application landscapes to public cloud, maintaining larger application footprints in private cloud or on-premise environments. This hybrid approach re[...]
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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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Digital Transformation Continues End-to-End Journey in 2018
Jan 18, 2018, by NelsonHall AnalystTo date, many digital transformation initiatives have been primarily focused on customer-facing technologies. Changing customer preferences and the rise of new digitally native competitors have driven incumbent firms to see customer experience as a source of competitive advantage or as table stakes to maintain relevance. In NelsonHall’s recent survey of IT service buyers across[...]
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Impact of Digital on IT Services: Buyer Perspectives from Across Industry Sectors (vlog)
Dec 15, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystDavid McIntire, IT Services Research Director, talks about NelsonHall's recently completed project looking at the attitudes and intentions of IT services buyers. Based on interviews with ~1,000 buyers across 17 industry sectors, the project analyses buyers' key business and IT priorities, digital initiatives, IT spending projections, and the characteristics they look for in&n[...]
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The Impact of Digital on IT Services: 2018 IT Spend Projections
Dec 05, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall is conducting an analysis of the needs of IT services clients to understand their IT and business priorities and how the growth of digital is impacting their business. In a survey of ~1,000 IT services clients across 17 industries and every region of the world, NelsonHall has identified distinct patterns of user intentions, both in terms of how clients plan to change their[...]
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NIIT Tech’s PACE Framework: Enabling Personalization to Differentiate Travel & Hospitality Companies
Oct 19, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystAs part of NelsonHall’s series of reports focusing on the business priorities and digital initiatives of IT services buyers, we found that buyers in the transportation industry have a significant focus on improving the customer experience. Eighty-five percent of transportation companies are pursuing an operational objective of increasing average revenue per customer to a high e[...]
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The Impact of Digital on IT Services: What Clients Want from their Vendors
Sep 20, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall is conducting an analysis of the needs of IT services clients to understand their IT and business priorities and how the growth of digital is impacting their business. In a survey of ~1,000 IT services clients across 17 industries and every region of the world, NelsonHall has identified distinct patterns of user intentions, both in terms of how clients plan to change their[...]
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My BIG Opportunity to Help Sourcing Buyers
Jun 27, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystI am excited to be embarking on a new role at NelsonHall, having enjoyed serving as a Customer Management Services industry analyst for almost five years. As the new advisor for NelsonHall’s Buyer Intelligence Group (BIG), I get the opportunity to work more closely with our buy-side clients and broader BIG community, helping them to engage around hot industry topics and to get [...]
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NelsonHall Reports from 2017 SAP Sapphire Now Conference
May 17, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystIn 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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The Human Side of Digital Transformation: Why Digital is Driving the Need to Invest in Non-Technical Capabilities
Apr 28, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall 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[...]