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Trends and Drivers for Sourcing Strategies: 2012 and Beyond

Your sourcing strategies must deliver competitive improvements and cost control, forcing you to focus on cost reduction as a first priority. That isn't the only priority you will have.

These sourcing strategies will become an integral part of IT and business strategies, requiring you to revisit them more frequently to ensure they align with business and economic cycles.

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We can help you build the strategies you need so you can:

• Adjust your sourcing strategy to increase cost reductions enabling business transformation, new business solutions and increased competitiveness.
• Align the requirements to refresh your sourcing strategy to the rhythm of your business and its competitive stance.
• Align sourcing strategies to major business drivers, measurable goals and the enterprise architecture approaches.
• Ensure that multisourcing management capabilities are available and mature enough to support the speed, rate of change and value, and risks.

Harness the Changing Nature of Data Integration

Your cloud delivery model is no longer just for tactical gains — it has become a significant part of your corporate agenda to expand business capabilities and accelerate transformation.

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The need for managing data in the cloud is impacting the data integration discipline. Organizations are increasingly required to access and leverage data across the business, beyond conventional approaches and boundaries, by making information part of a growing business infrastructure.

We give you the tools to:

• Prepare for the changing nature of data integration involving data in the cloud.
• Capitalize on cloud characteristics in data integration capabilities.
• Leverage the diversification of delivery models in data integration infrastructure.
• Plan for governing data movements into and out of the cloud.
• Adopt a long view for an evolving data integration vision.

Outsourcing Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore

Business is changing. "Millennials" are now important consumers, and expectations for the use of technology are higher than ever. Customers have lost patience with complex technology and unresponsiveness, and old IT strategies are becoming burdensome hindrances to success.

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Your business demand for IT is stronger than ever, and expectations have become much more sophisticated. All this puts the onus on you to deliver value. You can only achieve this if you inquire, understand and then anticipate what and how the business defines value.

We will show you the trends and challenges so you can spot opportunities, plan, and determine benefits and risks, such as how to:

• Take a strategic lead in your enterprise's approach to the cloud while managing risk.
• Weather the economic turbulence —balance agility with risk management.
• Formulate strategies for iterative monitoring and analysis of new offerings, vendors and competitors' use of cloud-enabled services.
• Conduct extensive market scans to understand the competitive landscape for business process, application and infrastructure services.
• Measure, assess and ensure progress toward appropriate mature enterprise skills for each of the 10 multisourcing competencies.