Latest Research articles from ISG

Sociable Robots Contribute to Enhanced Passenger Experience at Airports

By Avimanyu Basu

Revenues that are not directly related to aeronautics contribute significantly to the growth of airports and the airline industry.

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Three Lessons from the Agile Enterprise Summit

By Blair Hanley Frank

Agile transformation requires some fairly radical changes for businesses that are used to working in a waterfall mindset.

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Digital Demand Remains Robust, Even as Broader Market Shows Signs of Slowing

By Steve Hall

Our 3Q19 ISG Index™ showed record global demand this last quarter for cloud-based services.

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2019 ISG Momentum® Market Trends & Insights Service Line Report

By Paul Reynolds

An average of nearly 10 outsourcing contracts were signed each day in the first six months of 2019, with both the ITO and BPO segments on a pace to set their single-year contract volume records.

Categories: ISG Momentum® Research

DXC Changes the Guard, Moves into Growth Phase

By Ron Exler Stanton Jones

After an extensive search process, DXC Technology’s Board of Directors has appointed Mike Salvino as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective September 11, 2019.

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Stelligent Acquisition Ties Mphasis Development Capabilities to AWS Transformational DevSecOps

By Jan Erik Aase

IT services company Mphasis has a unique pedigree including parent organizations EDS, HP and Blackstone and a dramatic 2018 financial turn-around story that marked its 20th year in operation.

Categories: ISG Provider Lens™ Research

HCL Strengthens its SAP Partnership with the Launch of SAP Cloud Natives Labs in London

By Akhila Harinarayan

HCL recently launched London-based SAP Cloud Natives Labs to focus on client-facing ideation, prototyping and development of new cloud-native solutions.

Categories: ISG Provider Lens™ Research

Orange Business Services Transformation – Finding the Right Strategy for a Competitive Market

By Jan Erik Aase Heiko Henkes Avimanyu Basu

Orange Business Services (Orange) has been progressing steadily from being a major French enterprise communications and related managed services provider to becoming a global player delivering end-to-end IT and integration services.

Categories: ISG Provider Lens™ Research

India Remains a Potential Sourcing Market for French-based Airbus

By Avimanyu Basu

Outsourcing has become increasingly prevalent across several segments of the commercial aviation industry, from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to airline operators and logistic vendors managing specific parts of the airport operations.

Categories: ISG Provider Lens™ Research Travel and Transportation

Edge Computing: The New Paradigm in IoT

By Manali De Bhaumik Monica K

Data is the core of connected systems, and service providers are focused on extracting meaningful insights from it to deliver quick action.

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What Enterprises Need to Know About Microsoft’s Latest Licensing Changes

By Blair Hanley Frank Louis Pellegrino

Enterprises planning to run Windows Server in the cloud outside the bounds of Microsoft Azure are going to have a more complicated situation on their hands come October 1.

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An IT Service Provider’s Roadmap for a Successful SAP S/4HANA Transformation

By Kartik Subramaniam

The application and infrastructure requirements of enterprises today present a unique conundrum to IT service providers.

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Localization is Key at New Infosys Innovation Center

By John Boccuzzi Jr.

​The Infosys Technology and Innovation Hub in Hartford, Connecticut, shows the provider’s leadership in a movement that other offshore and nearshore service providers will likely follow soon.

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What Happened to the Billon-Dollar Deal?

By Stanton Jones

Third-party IT and business process relationships are getting smaller in value and shorter in duration as companies look to prioritize speed over cost reduction.

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Understand RPA Pricing Models When Using Multiple Vendors

By Amar Changulani

RPA software pricing is quickly evolving. Our interactions with clients and vendors indicate that subscription-based pricing is overtaking perpetual licensing as the commercial model of choice.

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The Power of Collaboration in the Workplace

By Ron Exler

Enterprises that can tie revenue increases to their investment in digital technologies are doing so by combining emerging technologies with flexible office spaces to facilitate employee collaboration

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Incremental Application Modernization Eases Digital Transformation

By Ron Exler

Although most enterprises have been working on it for decades, they still struggle with modernizing their legacy applications.

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What to Expect from Leadership Changes at Cognizant

By Stanton Jones Sashidharan Balasundaram

New Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries is re-shaping his senior leadership team.

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Despite Macro Risks, Demand for Digital Drives Global Market Forward

By Steve Hall Blair Hanley Frank

Macro risks looming over the global economy have yet to land their punch on the global market for IT and business services.

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Using an Evaluation Framework to Assess Ever-Growing Number of RPA Vendors

By Amar Changulani

The $675 million dollar robotic process automation (RPA) market is growing more than 50 percent year over year, with new vendors entering and exiting quickly.

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