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The IT services market is at a tipping point. Buyers and providers need to adopt new delivery models and methods to improve the quality, predictability and value of services. This report provides insight and actionable advice for IT services buyers, providers and investors to achieve more successful future outcomes.

Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst Linda Cohen discusses how IT outsourcing environments will deal with the globalization and virtualization of companies.

Future of Outsourcing and IT Services Research

The Future of IT Services: Positive Impacts on Service Providers' Opportunities

13 August 2010

Five key forces present positive growth opportunities for service providers: hyperdigitization, automation, analytics, asset ownership shift and leveraging experience. Providers should consider these forces as they strategize and build future business models.

BPM Delivers Agility to Buyers and Provides Leverageable Service Delivery Models for Service Providers

24 August 2010

Business process management is an approach to business process improvement that is being used in all types of IT services. This research, which is part of Gartner's new special report on IT services, examines how BPM will affect the IT services market during the next five years.

User Survey Analysis: Cloud-Computing Budgets Are Growing and Shifting; Traditional IT Services Providers Must Prepare or Perish

12 August 2010

A large-scale survey of 40 countries shows budgets for cloud computing and cloud services from external service providers to be robust and expanding rapidly. There are notable shifts in spending that indicate changes are coming for the ranks of traditional IT services providers.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Gain Insight Into the Future of Business Process Services to Fuel Growth

23 August 2010

This research, which is part of the "Future of IT Services" Special Report, analyzes future trends shaping the business process services market. Understand this future scenario to look beyond mere cost reduction to prioritize the use of BPS for differentiation and growth.

Forecast: Understanding the Traditional IT Services Opportunities Related to Cloud Computing, Worldwide, 2009-2013

3 December 2009

This document contains market sizing and forecast analysis of the worldwide market for IT professional services related to the use of cloud computing and cloud services.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Digitized Content Is Changing How Consulting Services Are Delivered

24 August 2010

The Internet revolution is now affecting how business process consulting services are delivered. Digitized content, business process management approaches and knowledge platforms are bringing speed and predictability to business process consulting service delivery.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Value Gap and Consumerization Could Disrupt Traditional IT Service Providers by 2015

16 August 2010

A widening value gap, IT consumerization and the adoption of IT utilities and cloud services may stall the growth of the IT services market by 2015. When organizations understand the opportunities and threats this potential scenario presents, they can minimize their impact on IT and the business.

Hyperdigitization Creates Major Opportunity for IT Services Providers

19 August 2010

The accelerated digitization of a large and growing sector of the world economy is creating a major new opportunity for IT services providers, one that requires new approaches and new service models.

The Future of IT Services: Five Threats to the Industry, and What External Service Providers Need to Do

18 August 2010

We highlight five potentially worrying trends for IT services providers during the next decade that will affect the future of the IT services industry, as reported in Gartner's "The Future of IT Services" Special Report, and we offer some recommendations about how to deal with them.

The Future of Application Services: Are We There Yet?

25 August 2010

The future of application services -- how to buy, deploy and care for enterprise applications -- will be a buyer's market characterized by relatively lower switching costs, more choices from more providers and an era of IT services delivery, in which the enterprise owns its data and little else.

Marketing Essentials: How to Adapt Your IT Services Value Proposition to a Changing Market

24 August 2010

Changing industry dynamics mean IT services marketers need to take a fresh look at what value they propose to which customers.

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Sourcing Strategy Models

8 September 2009

Cloud computing will affect clients' service sourcing strategies as providers' service delivery models. This new multisourcing and delivery strategy will mostly leverage well-known sourcing models.

The 2001-2010 Reshaping of the IT Services Market: Was Gartner Right 10 Years Ago?

29 July 2010

The turbulent transformation of the IT services market driven by new delivery models (now symbolized by cloud computing) was predicted by Gartner 10 years ago. We examine our past predictions on forces, direction, timing and market impact.

Outsourcing's Wild Ride: Where Will It Take You?

23 August 2010

The outsourcing market is undergoing accelerated change as critical market forces gain momentum. Given that these forces are unavoidable, we discuss what IT services and outsourcing buyers, and providers, must do to unlock the hidden opportunities in these forces for new value realization.

Uncertainty and Low Prices Could Stall the Growth of the IT Services Market by 2013

10 August 2010

A chain of economic and business events could disrupt the IT services market and stall its growth by 2013. Understand this scenario, part of the 'Future of IT Services' special report, to increase opportunities and limit threats through economic volatility and aggressive commercial practices.

Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014

2 June 2010

This report contains market size and forecast analysis of public cloud services delivered by commercial cloud services providers. It provides worldwide and regional data and also worldwide industry sector adoption.

Q&A: Understand the Shift From Traditional Offerings to Cloud Computing and SaaS

14 September 2009

IT and sourcing professionals need to understand specific cloud computing services, such as software as a service, and what it could mean for their businesses, before they can assess whether to adopt the service or remain with traditional IT offerings.

Case Study: Wipro's Pragmatic Use of Cloud Services

15 April 2010

Gartner is constantly in search of examples of cloud services that have been deployed and can be measured to determine business benefits. Here, we present a successful execution of the pragmatic use of cloud services for the provisioning of infrastructure.

The Future Trends for Infrastructure Outsourcing

16 August 2010

This research is part of Gartner's special report "The Future of IT Services." It describes the future service market for infrastructure outsourcing, and how it will evolve based on the demands of clients and changing technology.

SaaS Dynamics Continue to Act as a Catalyst for the Convergence of Services and Software

15 April 2010

Gartner research suggests that the evolution of IT services to industrialization and consumerization will inevitably lead to a level of convergence of the business process, application and infrastructure layers. Here, we examine the application service layer and the implications of these shifts.

Infrastructure Utility Services: The Business Between Outsourcing and the Cloud

3 December 2009

Infrastructure utility services, the delivery of industrialized IT infrastructure managed services, are already affecting price, service and contractual aspects of the more than $120 billion data center outsourcing and hosting market, and will challenge traditional approaches.

What Is "Platform BPO" and When Would You Use It?

28 January 2010

Platform business process outsourcing describes the BPO that includes the underlying application, but this is not new. Many types of BPO have always included the processing application. This research explains BPO service delivery options.

Data Center Managed Services: Regional Differences in the Move Toward the Cloud

7 May 2010

Global trends and regional variations are affecting the main markets of managed data center services. Understand how markets in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific are evolving toward cloud computing to more appropriately market and source these services.

Competitive Landscape: Cloud Storage Infrastructure as a Service, North America, 2010

3 June 2010

Cloud storage infrastructure as a service is a nascent market, evolving quickly as a myriad of new service providers enters the market. As the first to market, Amazon dominates the market, but that could change as standards develop and the market matures.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Dataquest Insight: Impact of Cloud Computing on IT Outsourcing Providers' Opportunities

16 December 2009

ITO service providers cannot ignore the impact of cloud computing. Although traditional ITO business models will remain intact for the near future, some "legacy" ITO value propositions supported by ITO providers will become less relevant.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Forecast: Infrastructure Utility Services, Worldwide, 2009-2013

16 February 2010

Gartner forecasts the infrastructure utility services market and its five-year growth rate. Infrastructure utility services (also known as industrialized outsourcing services) represent a sizable and near-term business opportunity for providers.
Research for Technology and Services Providers, available to Gartner for Business Leaders' Clients

Eight Tactics for Managing the Tempo of Process Change in BPO and Cloud-Enabled Business Process Services

20 August 2010

Companies that use BPO and cloud-enabled business process services often focus on standardizing processes at the lowest cost and discount the need for process agility. This research recommends tactics for managing different rates of process change in sourcing relationships.