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Whitepapers
Business Conversation Manager: Facilitating People Interactions in Outsourcing Service Engagements
Sep 2010
People involved in outsourcing services work through collaboration, conversations and ad-hoc activities and often follow guidelines that are described in best practice frameworks. There are two...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Security of Relational Databases in Business Outsourcing
Oct 2008
The author addresses the problems of proving ownership and unauthorized data distribution (leakage) for relational databases. The author use business process outsourcing scenarios as the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Impact of Offshored and Outsourced Call Service Centers on Customer Appraisals
Oct 2007
Firms are increasingly relying upon offshored and/or outsourced call centers to provide post-sales assistance to their customers. Although the motivation to engage in these practices is efficiency...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Outsourcing and Backsourcing Under Demand Uncertainty
Sep 2010
This paper examines the value that firms create by building outsourcing and backsourcing flexibility while operating under demand uncertainty. Unlike earlier studies, it provides an analytical...
Provided by Syracuse University
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White Papers
Outsourcing, External Collaboration, and Innovation Among U.S. Firms in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Mar 2009
This paper examines the outsourcing patterns of U.S. firms in the biopharmaceutical industry. Data from an exploratory survey of 86 companies suggest that the outsourcing of strategic activities...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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White Papers
Valuate Outsourcing Contracts From Vendors' Perspective: A Real Options Approach
Aug 2008
To date, most applications of Real Options Theory (ROT) in outsourcing literature are modeled from the clients' side. Little attention has been paid to vendors' options in outsourcing. This paper...
Provided by Decision Sciences Institute
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White Papers
Modeling Outsourcing and Strategy Alignment Into a Business Game
Feb 2008
This paper introduces a conceptual framework for modeling outsourcing into business games. A review of the Simulation and Games and ABSEL literature reveals that virtually no work has been done in...
Provided by Rochester Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Bodyshopping Versus Offshoring: Determinants of Outsourcing Behavior by Indian Software and Information Technology Firms
Nov 2007
Investigations of offshore outsourcing of information systems have presented little evidence on developing country software and Information Technology (IT) industries. Yet it is these developing...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
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White Papers
Logistics Outsourcing and 3PL Selection: A Case Study in an Automotive Supply Chain
Oct 2006
Outsourcing logistics functions to Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers has been a source of competitive advantage for most companies. Companies cite greater flexibility, operational efficiency,...
Provided by Sabancý University
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White Papers
Fast Networking With Socket-Outsourcing in Hosted Virtual Machine Environments
Aug 2009
This paper proposes a novel method of achieving fast networking in hosted Virtual Machine (VM) environments. This method, called socket-outsourcing, replaces the socket layer in a guest Operating...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Heterogeneous Offshore Outsourcing Demand Pull Innovation: Theory and Evidence From the Information Technology Hardware Industry
Jan 2009
This paper examines how heterogeneous offshore outsourcing demands affect an insourcing firm's innovation choices, how its choices affect an outsourcing firm's decision on what to outsource, and...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing Support Vector Machines With Random Transformation
Jan 2010
Outsourcing the training of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to external service providers benefits the data owner who is not familiar with the techniques of the SVM or has limited computing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Secure Outsourcing of DNA Searching Via Finite Automata
Apr 2010
This paper treats the problem of error-resilient DNA searching via oblivious evaluation of finite automata, where a client has a DNA sequence, and a service provider has a pattern that corresponds...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Wage Inequality, Outsourcing, and Education
Jun 2009
This paper present a simple model to explain why wage inequality in the U.S. increased in the 1980s but decreased in the 1970s, in which the authors argue that educational investment might...
Provided by National Taiwan University
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White Papers
The Blind Stone Tablet: Outsourcing Durability to Untrusted Parties
Nov 2008
This paper introduces a new paradigm for outsourcing the durability property of a multi-client transactional database to an untrusted service provider. Specifically, the authors enable untrusted...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
Secure Data Outsourcing Based on Threshold Secret Sharing; Towards a More Practical Solution
Aug 2010
Database outsourcing is a noteworthy solution to improve quality of services while reducing data management costs. When data is stored and processed out of the territory of its owner, security...
Provided by Sharif University of Technology
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Webcasts
7 Tips and 2 Models: Find a MSSP that Fits Your Business
Nov 2010
Tune in with John Ramsey and hear about 2 models for handling network security and 7 tips on choosing a managed security services provider. You'll learn the benefits of working with an MSSP, and...
Provided by Megapath
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White Papers
European Software Development Outsourcing Challenges 2010 Revealed
Jan 2010
According to the findings of IT Sourcing Europe's All-European IT Outsourcing (ITO) study 2010, delayed product deliveries and missed project milestones are reported to be the most critical...
Provided by IT Sourcing Europe
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White Papers
Expert Opinions on the Future of Central and Eastern European IT Outsourcing Market
Jan 2010
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) has just pre-released its "Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2010" aimed to improve business viabilities and the...
Provided by IT Sourcing Europe
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - Outsourcing 2.0 or a New Business Model for IT Provisioning?
Sep 2009
The term cloud computing is sometimes used to refer to a new paradigm - some authors even speak of a new technology - that flexibly offers IT resources and services over the Internet. Gartner...
Provided by Technische Universitat Munchen
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White Papers
Token-Based Cloud Computing: Secure Outsourcing of Data and Arbitrary Computations With Lower Latency
May 2010
Secure outsourcing of computation to an untrusted (Cloud) service provider is becoming more and more important. Pure cryptographic solutions based on fully homomorphic and verifiable encryption,...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Call Center Simulation Modeling: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities
Oct 2003
Using stochastic models to plan call center operations, schedule call center staff efficiently, and analyze projected performance is not a new phenomenon, dating back to Erlang's work in the early...
Provided by San Francisco State University
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Services Plus - Helping Arnott's to Transform Its Business
Jan 2011
As Australia's favourite biscuit maker for more than 135 years Arnott's is a local icon. In recent years, Arnott's has faced cutthroat competition in the Australian grocery market, including a...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Vs Mission Critical System Failure
Jan 2011
Australian courts are under relentless pressure to achieve predictable court schedules and reliable operations in the face of escalating case numbers. South Australian Courts rely upon their...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Towards Virtualization: A Competitive Business Continuity
Jul 2010
The ultimate goal of all businesses no matter in which sectors they operate is to maintain their profitability and growth. There is a relationship among the capital, investment, and the personnel...
Provided by Academic Journals
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White Papers
Query Integrity Assurance of Location-Based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases
Jun 2009
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the popularity of Location...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Analytics
Dec 2010
Based on real customers' data, this comprehensive study walks through detailed return-on-investment (ROI) calculations for compliance and streamlined access, and guides you in computing cost...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Lowering the Service Delivery Costs of IT Outsourcers With Intel vPro Technology
Sep 2008
The IT Outsourcing (ITO) market is very competitive in North America and worldwide. The use of global IT resources, remote management tools, improved processes, and creative business models has...
Provided by Wipro Technologies
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White Papers
Global Cloud Computing Adoption: Transformation Is In The Air
Feb 2010
Cloud computing represents a radical new set of principles and practices - paying for what you use, flexibility in contracts and commitments, and ease of use - that are changing the IT status quo....
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Outsourcing
Nov 2010
Cloud computing represents a radical new set of principles and practices - paying for what you use, flexibility in contracts and commitments, and ease of use - that are changing the IT status quo....
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Early Experience With Mobile Computation Outsourcing (Preliminary)
Aug 2010
End-user mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablets, offer the promise of anywhere, anytime computing and communication. Indeed, users increasingly expect their mobile device to...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Fixed Price Distributed Agile Projects in Outsourced Product Testing - An Experience Report
Feb 2011
Agile Software Development and the breed of Agile Methodologies (XP, SCRUM, DSDM, etc.) have gained popularity since 2001. Primarily founded as methodologies for software projects executed at a...
Provided by MindTree
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White Papers
Encryption Techniques for Secure Database Outsourcing
Sep 2007
While the idea of database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular, the associated security risks still prevent many potential users from deploying it. In particular, the need to give full...
Provided by Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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White Papers
End-of-Life Solution Management for Mobile Devices Reduces MNCs Security, Compliance and Sustainability Risks
Feb 2011
An investigation conducted by SustainMobile shows that, while the vast majority of European Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) express they have adequate solutions in place for handling EoL mobile...
Provided by Sustain Mobile
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White Papers
Is SOA Superior? Evidence From SaaS Financial Statements
May 2008
The authors use audited financial statements to examine claims that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leads to higher profits relative to traditional software delivery models. Specifically, the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers
Feb 2010
Several trends are contributing to a growing desire to "Outsource" computing from a (Relatively) weak computational device to a more powerful computation service. For years, a variety of projects,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Efficient Access Control of Sensitive Data Service in Outsourcing Scenarios
Feb 2010
With the rapid application of service-oriented technologies, service and data outsourcing has become a practical and useful computing paradigm. Combined use of access control and cryptography was...
Provided by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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White Papers
Business Process Offshoring to India: An Overview
Apr 2008
Over the last 10 years, reduced international trade barriers have resulted in an increasingly interlinked global economy and intense global competition, putting pressure on business managers...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Mondi Recycling Outsourcing the Supply Chain
Dec 2010
In the developing world, recycling is essentially driven by economic necessity, with the associated environmental benefits being a useful and positive by-product. The main incentive for recycling...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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White Papers
Recruitment Process Outsourcing - The Right Talent Strategy for Your Organization?
Oct 2007
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a type of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Business Process Outsourcing is defined as the contracting of a specific business task to a third-party service...
Provided by Nelson Staffing
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White Papers
Cloud Computing and Business IT Outsourcing Services
Jun 2009
Cloud computing is something that is used everyday by millions of people. Except most don't know they are using it. It saves the time, it allows to access information from almost anywhere, and it...
Provided by Oriso Solutions
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White Papers
Outsourcing Your Human Resources Functions
Feb 2009
One of the hot topics in human resources (HR) today is the trend toward outsourcing. In a recent survey by The Conference Board, more than three-quarters of companies who responded reported that...
Provided by Nelson Staffing
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Case Studies
MCPS / PRS Alliance - Committed to Outsourcing
Jan 2010
The MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society), in alliance with the PRS (Performing Right Society), is one of the world's largest music copyright licensing and royalty distribution societies....
Provided by Metron Technology
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Webcasts
HP - Application Management in 2010: how to manage your internal and cloud apps
Jul 2010
Watch and learn from the experts at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and HP on solutions that allow IT organizations to detect, prioritize, isolate, diagnose, repair, and prevent problems...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
ITO Trends in the Mid-Market: Overcoming Challenges in the Current Climate
Jan 2010
This webcast offers the attendee the insight on the ITO Trends in the Mid-Market and the Overcoming Challenges in the Current Climate. The presenters of this webcast are Paul and Anthony...
Provided by CIBER
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White Papers
Speeding the Search for Off Shore Developers
Nov 2009
How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring? Is there an easy way to locate developers and evaluate their quality? CEOs are often forced to make difficult outsourcing decisions that will...
Provided by Accelerance
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Webcasts
Outsourcing Webinar: Getting Ahead and Staying Ahead
Jan 2010
This webcast is presented by Doug Brown, co-author of the "The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges and Opportunities", and Scott Wilson, co-author of The Black Book of...
Provided by CIBER
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White Papers
Application Outsourcing for Manufacturing Companies
May 2009
Java Server Faces (JSF) is a Java based web application framework that is suitable to make things easier for the development and progress of user interfaces for enterprise Java applications. This...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Application Outsourcing: Leveraging Its Intrinsic Benefits
Oct 2008
MainTrend is a software and solution provider that connects high-level information technology and organization architecture professionals. It is the sole provider of the discussed solution for...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Cloud Computing - What does it really mean?
Jun 2010
With Cloud Computing services you can now access advanced business services at a fraction of the cost and management overhead of doing it yourself and pay on a fixed and predictable cost basis,...
Provided by Star - The Business ISP
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White Papers
Can cloud computing give you the freedom to be more strategic?
Jun 2010
In a recession, the obligation to do more with less and maximise efficiency can break a business, and the reliance on fast, secure IT systems means that the enterprise's success is often...
Provided by Star - The Business ISP
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White Papers
A day in the life of Racker Support
Jun 2010
Rackspace's managed hosting customers experience dedicated support teams. Watch Linux Systems Administrator David Corn and his team deliver Fanatical Support® for a day.
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
Software as a Service: The Value of SaaS Messaging
Apr 2010
The costs and time to market benefits of outsourcing business services like payroll, data storage, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, and company websites has been proven to be...
Provided by Movius Interactive
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Whitepapers
The benefits of email archiving
Jun 2010
Email archiving lowers the risk of being unable to find important documents and help in achieving regulatory compliance and answering litigation requests.
Provided by Bloor Research
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Whitepapers
Email archiving in the cloud
Jun 2010
An email archiving service based in the cloud must provide a complete service, including guaranteed availability, coverage of all email systems, a tamper-proof database, and provision of reports...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Case Studies
G4S Security Systems Case Study: Vanco
Jan 2010
The world's fastest growing virtual network operator Vanco commissioned G4S Security Systems to install a networked security system across their Global Offices. Vanco's reliance on G4S Security...
Provided by G4S Security Systems
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Whitepapers
The Relevance of Cloud Infrastructure to Enterprise Challenges
Jun 2010
This white paper reviews the evolution of data center outsourcing, and introduces cloud offerings within this historical framework. To help clarify the playing field, it presents a high-level...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
The Agile Business Architecture Creating Service Provider Value Through Smart Sourcing
Jul 2009
The service provider industry has experienced rapid and significant transformation over the past five years as broadband has proliferated, networks have enabled ubiquitous mobility, and IP has...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
International Truck Drives Growth and Business Value With an Optimized IT Strategy
Dec 2009
While cost control is essential in the global truck and engine market, great products are what make customers buy. To keep its resources focused on product development and overseas growth,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
What Is the Future for Multishore Outsourced Customer Contact?
Dec 2008
Navigating the challenges of the current economic situation means that enterprises across industries must develop strategies for ensuring Long-term customer satisfaction, while at the same time...
Provided by SITEL
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White Papers
Logistics Outsourcing and the Role of Logistics Service Providers From an Industrial Network Perspective
Aug 2008
The aim of this paper is to analyse logistics outsourcing and third party logistics from an industrial network perspective. The analysis of outsourcing from a network view clearly illustrates that...
Provided by IMP Group
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White Papers
Spatial Outsourcing for Location-Based Services
Nov 2007
The embedding of positioning capabilities in mobile devices and the emergence of location-based applications have created novel opportunities for utilizing several types of multidimensional data...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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White Papers
Managing Culture as Critical Success Factor in Outsourcing
Sep 2009
Outsourcing was originally confined to peripheral business functions and mainly motivated by a cost saving logic, but has now developed into a routine strategic management business model that...
Provided by Swiss Management Center
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White Papers
Cultural Intelligence and Offshore Outsourcing Success: A Framework of Firm-Level Intercultural Capability
Aug 2008
This paper discusses the importance of firm-level cultural intelligence in the context of international business ventures such as offshoring. The paper identifies the recent movement toward global...
Provided by Decision Sciences Institute
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White Papers
The Do's and Don'ts of Hosting for Your Small to Medium Business
Apr 2010
Whether you're researching hosting solutions for your website, a custom application, an email messaging and collaboration system or even an entire technology infrastructure, a good hosting company...
Provided by Robson Communications
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White Papers
Why Today's Businesses are Looking to the Cloud to Lower Costs and Boost Innovation
Apr 2010
By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets. (Gartner Summary Report, "Gartner Top End User Predictions for 2010") Decreased budgetary and staffing pressure, significantly reduced time to...
Provided by Robson Communications
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White Papers
For SMB's: Switching to a New Hosting Provider, How to Achieve a Seamless Transition
Apr 2010
There are many reasons why switching hosting providers might be on your radar. Perhaps your website is outgrowing the services your current web hosting company can supply or technical support has...
Provided by Robson Communications
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Case Studies
Avaya University: Avaya University and Accenture Pioneer Comprehensive, End-to-End Enterprise Learning Outsourcing
Mar 2008
The challenge was significant. Avaya possessed an extremely talented learning team, but did they have the capacity and scale to transform the learning organization for these new strategic...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Agile Dedicated Teams or How to Make Outsourcing Software Development More Reliable
Apr 2010
The Internet is flooded with papers about outsourcing software development and success stories about it. However, IT outsourcing involves certain risks, too. So no wonder that the next typical...
Provided by Acceptic
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Case Studies
Honorable Ayuntamiento del Municipio de Durango Improves Administration of Public Resources
Mar 2010
Honorable Ayuntamiento del Municipio de Durango wanted to establish a flexible, scalable, and unified IT infrastructure to provide visibility into financial procedures and facilitate governmental...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
IT Outsourcing, Off Shore Support, Cost Cutting and IT Department Changes
Mar 2010
Businesses everywhere are looking to shore up their bottom lines by cutting costs. As a result, cost centers, like IT departments, are prime targets for outsourcing and off-shore maintenance. The...
Provided by R3Now.com
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White Papers
Kaseya Industry Alert: Top Ten IT Systems Management Pain Points
Apr 2010
From dealing with rogue "IT hobbyists" to naive bosses, Kaseya presents common IT systems management pain points and our solutions. Did you know that more than 40 percent of total resolution time...
Provided by Kaseya International
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Case Studies
Lower Costs, Improved Processes and Increased Flexibility: EDS, an HP Company and Avaya Create a Best in Class Contact Centre Platform Across EMEA
May 2009
The EDS agents in EMEA support more than 24 different languages. EDS wanted a system that could operate across EMEA with multi-media handling, uniform reporting, universal queuing and complete...
Provided by Avaya
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Unisys Managed Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Helps Telecoms Operators in France Stay Ahead of the Competition
Oct 2008
Unisys performs more than 3,000 installation, maintenance and support operations a month for the main telecoms operators in France. Unisys works closely with these major operators to provide them...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Unisys Helps Mercuri Urval to Overhaul Its IT Operations
Mar 2009
Mercuri Urval was confronted with major organizational challenges during its transition to meet an increasing demand for its international assignments. The company needed overall restructuring to...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: The Brussels Airport Company Benefits From Faster Check-In, Customer Service and Baggage Handling
Mar 2009
Brussels Airport was looking for a solution which would enable it to issue tickets, route baggage and generate boarding passes 24/7 using a common infrastructure that could be shared by more than...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
Outsourcing Partnership Key to Expanded Citizen Services for the City of Minneapolis
May 2009
The City of Minneapolis wanted assistance in committing to excellence and creativity in IT operations to help the City better serve residents and realize an improved return on taxpayers'...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
Lessons Learned in Successful Implementation of Enterprise Learning
Mar 2010
Many companies believe that learning is one of the primary experiences their staff should be having as an employee. An effective enterprise learning system must be structured and implemented with...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Secrets in Choosing a Reliable Vendor
Oct 2007
The main consideration of companies when deciding to outsource is to save money. Cost efficiency is on the top of their list of things to consider for a vendor. Thus, most companies end up...
Provided by Xoriant
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White Papers
Product Engineering Outsourcing: Looking Beyond Cost Savings
Oct 2007
One growing specialization under IT outsourcing is product engineering. Many leading IT companies have strategically planned PEO in order to realize significant cost savings. However, most of them...
Provided by Xoriant
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: The Next Generation of Outsourcing
Nov 2010
Cloud computing represents a radical new set of principles and practices - paying for what you use, flexibility in contracts and commitments, and ease of use - that are changing the IT status quo....
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Early Experience With Mobile Computation Outsourcing (Preliminary)
Aug 2010
End-user mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and tablets, offer the promise of anywhere, anytime computing and communication. Indeed, users increasingly expect their mobile device to...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Fixed Price Distributed Agile Projects in Outsourced Product Testing - An Experience Report
Feb 2011
Agile Software Development and the breed of Agile Methodologies (XP, SCRUM, DSDM, etc.) have gained popularity since 2001. Primarily founded as methodologies for software projects executed at a...
Provided by MindTree
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White Papers
Encryption Techniques for Secure Database Outsourcing
Sep 2007
While the idea of database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular, the associated security risks still prevent many potential users from deploying it. In particular, the need to give full...
Provided by Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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White Papers
End-of-Life Solution Management for Mobile Devices Reduces MNCs Security, Compliance and Sustainability Risks
Feb 2011
An investigation conducted by SustainMobile shows that, while the vast majority of European Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) express they have adequate solutions in place for handling EoL mobile...
Provided by Sustain Mobile
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White Papers
Is SOA Superior? Evidence From SaaS Financial Statements
May 2008
The authors use audited financial statements to examine claims that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leads to higher profits relative to traditional software delivery models. Specifically, the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Non-Interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers
Feb 2010
Several trends are contributing to a growing desire to "Outsource" computing from a (Relatively) weak computational device to a more powerful computation service. For years, a variety of projects,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Efficient Access Control of Sensitive Data Service in Outsourcing Scenarios
Feb 2010
With the rapid application of service-oriented technologies, service and data outsourcing has become a practical and useful computing paradigm. Combined use of access control and cryptography was...
Provided by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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White Papers
Business Process Offshoring to India: An Overview
Apr 2008
Over the last 10 years, reduced international trade barriers have resulted in an increasingly interlinked global economy and intense global competition, putting pressure on business managers...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Mondi Recycling Outsourcing the Supply Chain
Dec 2010
In the developing world, recycling is essentially driven by economic necessity, with the associated environmental benefits being a useful and positive by-product. The main incentive for recycling...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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White Papers
Recruitment Process Outsourcing - The Right Talent Strategy for Your Organization?
Oct 2007
Recruitment Process Outsourcing is a type of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Business Process Outsourcing is defined as the contracting of a specific business task to a third-party service...
Provided by Nelson Staffing
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White Papers
Assessing the Role of CSR in Outsourcing Decisions
Nov 2008
How do organizations view Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in IT outsourcing (ITO) decisions? That is the focus of this research paper. Organizations have recognized offshore outsourcing of...
Provided by EDSIG
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Whitepapers
Quality Management in 3 Minutes
Mar 2011
Rational Quality Manager helps you collaborate, automate and govern your software delivery process. Watch the Quality Management in Three Minutes. You're a test manager. People are always coming...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Secure Data Outsourcing
Sep 2007
The networked and increasingly ubiquitous nature of today's data management services mandates assurances to detect and deter malicious or faulty behavior. This is particularly relevant for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Over-Encryption: Management of Access Control Evolution on Outsourced Data
Sep 2007
Data outsourcing is emerging today as a successful paradigm allowing users and organizations to exploit external services for the distribution of resources. A crucial problem to be addressed in...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
ProofInfused Streams: Enabling Authentication of Sliding Window Queries on Streams
Sep 2007
As computer systems are essential components of many critical commercial services, the need for secure online transactions is now becoming evident. The demand for such applications, as the market...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Integrity Auditing of Outsourced Data
Sep 2007
An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is a major concern...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases
Jan 2011
In an Outsourced DataBase (ODB) system the database owner publishes data through a number of remote servers, with the goal of enabling clients at the edge of the network to access and query the...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
Privacy-Aware Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases With Applications to Historic Data Integrity
Feb 2008
It is often desirable to be able to guarantee the integrity of historical data, ensuring that any subsequent modifications to the data can be detected. It would be especially convenient to extend...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
An Examination of the Effects of Offshore and Outsourced Development on the Delegation of Responsibilities to Software Components
Apr 2009
Offshore and outsourced development is the latest facts of life of professional software building. The easily identifiable advantages of these trends - such as cost benefits, continuous delivery...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Privacy-Preserving Computation and Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases
May 2009
Outsourced databases provide a solution for data owners who want to delegate the task of answering database queries to third-party service providers. However, distrustful users may desire a means...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Incentivizing Outsourced Computation
Aug 2008
This paper describes different strategies a central authority, the boss, can use to distribute computation to untrusted contractors. The problem is inspired by volunteer distributed computing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Managed Services Demystified - An Overview for Telecom Service Providers
Aug 2006
Facing increasing competition and commoditization from traditional telecom products, service providers are either in the process of or planning for the move to next generation, converged, network...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Impact of Network Outsourcing on Key Performance Indicators
Jun 2006
As networks converge and become more complex, service providers continue to search for ways of streamlining their operations. The continuing effort to reduce costs and increase the quality of...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
The Benefits of an Outsourced IT Infrastructure
Mar 2011
Access to company applications and the critical data stored within them has become the heart and soul of a successful, strategic business. Companies are making tactical decisions to utilize...
Provided by SACA Technologies
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White Papers
Independent Software Testing: Why You Should Consider Outsourcing Your Software Testing
Feb 2007
This Caritor white paper outlines the benefits and challenges that are associated with each of three different software testing engagement models. Those models include testing services provided...
Provided by Caritor
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Whitepapers
Implementing Managed Print Services Globally
Apr 2011
The beginning of any managed print services (MPS) deployment can be challenging, even more so when done for a company with many locations around the globe. Typically, global MPS deals are very...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP MPS brings cost-efficiency, visibility to print environment
Nov 2010
Cost reductions, feature-rich devices, more project time for technology staff-PerkinElmer points to HP Managed Print services (MPs) as the solution that transformed an inefficient,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Latest Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series Adopted for Japanese Cloud Computing Service Designed to Meet Local Needs
Sep 2009
KDDI Corporation faces the challenges to offer a highly reliable cloud computing service from a Japanese company, secure profitability by increasing density of virtualization and server rack...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Managing the Extended Enterprise for Profitable Growth
Apr 2011
Find out how to build a sustainable extended enterprise, one that extends business processes beyond the firewall by outsourcing, enabling subsidiaries and business partners to share information...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Inter-Organizational Fault Management: Functional and Organizational Core Aspects of Management Architectures
Jan 2011
Outsourcing successful and sometimes painful has become one of the hottest topics in IT service management discussions over the past decade. IT services are outsourced to external service provider...
Provided by Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
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White Papers
Airline Crew BPO ? Market Potential and Offering Development Methodology
Mar 2011
The increasing fleet of global commercial airlines and the resulting rise in the number of flight and cabin crew make crew management imperative for airlines. Efficient crew management helps...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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White Papers
Perspectives on Crowdsourcing Annotations for Natural Language Processing
Mar 2011
Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new method for obtaining annotations for training models for machine learning. While many variants of this process exist, they largely differ in their method of...
Provided by National University of Singapore
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White Papers
Secure Optimization Computation Outsourcing in Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Linear Programming
Apr 2011
Cloud computing enables an economically promising paradigm of computation outsourcing. However, how to protect customers' confidential data processed and generated during the computation is...
Provided by Illinois Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Integrity Verification of Outsourced XML Databases
Jun 2009
Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties. A major concern in database outsourcing paradigm is integrity verification. Two...
Provided by Stevens Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Private-Pond: Outsourced Management of Web Corpuses
Jun 2009
With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of large-scale service...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Whitepapers
Winning with Managed Services: How to Facilitate Rapid, Lean Growth with Professional Services Automation
Dec 2010
Managed Service Providers (MSP) deliver network-based services, applications, and equipment to corporate clients. Common types of managed services include monitoring and management of IT networks,...
Provided by ConnectWise
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White Papers
CrowdDB: Answering Queries With Crowdsourcing
Apr 2011
Some queries cannot be answered by machines only. Processing such queries requires human input for providing information that is missing from the database, for performing computationally difficult...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries
Jan 2011
Database outsourcing is an emerging data management paradigm which has the potential to transform the IT operations of corporations. In this paper the authors address privacy threats in database...
Provided by UC Regents
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Secure Multidimensional Range Queries Over Outsourced Data
Mar 2011
In this paper the authors study the problem of supporting multidimensional range queries on encrypted data. The problem is motivated by secure data outsourcing applications where a client may...
Provided by University of Texas
