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The Forrester Wave™: Global Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2015by William Martorelli and Wolfgang Benkel, January 13, 2015 | Updated: February 18, 2015

For: Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

KEY TAKEAWAYS

IBM Leads A Mature Market SegmentForrester’s research uncovered a market in which IBM leads the pack by a substantial margin but where other market leaders include Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, CSC, HCL, HP, T-Systems, TCS, and Wipro. Competitive options include CGI, GWA, and Fujitsu. Increasingly, nontraditional suppliers compete effectively with traditional stalwarts.

I&O Professionals Seek Greater Flexibility In An Evolving MarketThe infrastructure management services market is holding its own amid a wrenching technology transition because I&O professionals and their sourcing counterparts cannot easily insource the vast existing base of outsourcing contracts. As a result, a lively battle for market share is underway between traditional outsourcing suppliers and nontraditional contenders including leading Indian firms.

Innovation, Vision, And High Customer Satisfaction Are The Primary DifferentiatorsDespite ongoing differences, vendors that can provide innovation, a strong vision for the future of infrastructure management, and high customer satisfaction are able to position themselves to successfully deliver infrastructure management services to their customers.

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WHY READ THIS REPORT

Given companies’ shift in business focus from cost reduction to growth in revenues and improving the customer experience, infrastructure outsourcing services have become an important part of providing the right level of efficiency, flexibility, quality, and innovation to support business customers’ needs and expectations. Infrastructure outsourcing service providers have responded by expanding their service portfolios to include consulting, transformation and improvement, and cloud and cloud management offerings. In Forrester’s 61-criteria evaluation of global infrastructure outsourcing services vendors, we identified the 13 most significant providers in the segment — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, CGI, Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), Fujitsu, The Getronics Workspace Alliance (GWA), HCL Technologies, HP, IBM, T-Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro — in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals select the right partner for their global infrastructure outsourcing needs.

Table Of Contents

Flexible Infrastructure Is The Backbone Of The Digital Business

Infrastructure Outsourcing Evaluation Analysis

Vendor Profiles

Supplemental Material

Notes & Resources

Forrester conducted interviews with 13 vendors: Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, CGI, CSC, Fujitsu, GWA, HCL, HP, IBM, T-Systems, TCS, and Wipro.

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FLEXIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE BACKBONE OF THE DIGITAL BUSINESS

Infrastructure services are the backbone of systems of records and systems of engagement delivery and the foundation of new innovative digital solutions for the business enterprise. As such, the market for infrastructure outsourcing services remains critically important as enterprises prepare their infrastructure for the new digital age. Cost savings alone is no longer the principal motivation for outsourcing. Today’s buyers also want to increase revenues and improve the customer experience (see Figure 1). Accordingly, the infrastructure outsourcing market is beginning to emphasize qualities that include predictability (through use of analytics), self-healing (with autonomic computing and automation), and self-service (with adaptation to cloud models and use of service “stores”).

The ability to deliver expected results remains in question for outsourcing service providers. While clients seek new levels of innovation to gain new customers and optimize existing customer relationships, flexibility has not always been the hallmark of infrastructure outsourcing relationships. In fact, a lack of perceived flexibility is one of the five top criticisms from customers about their relationships with external service providers (see Figure 2).

Figure 1 Cost-Cutting Is No Longer The Top Goal Of Outsourcing

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“Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your rm’s top priorities over the next 12 months?”(Showing “high priority and critical priority”)

Base: 13,822 global business and technology decision-makers

Source: Forrester’s Business Technographics® Global Priorities And Journey Survey, 2014

Grow revenues 75%

Improving the customer experience 75%

Reducing costs 64%

Improving market differentiation 50%

Improving regulatory compliance 46%




Figure 2 Cost Savings Failures Lead The List Of Outsourcing Customer Woes


“Which of the following are your IT department’s biggest challenges with your existingthird-party business/management consultants, digital agency, or services providers?”

Base: 1,532 business and technology services decision-makers(multiple responses accepted)

Source: Forrester’s Business Technographics® Global Business And Technology Services Survey, 2014

Cost savings are lower than expected 34%

Inability to deliver project as speci�ed 29%

In�exible regarding changing, volume,scope, business needs, or pricing models

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Lack of innovation 23%

Insuf�cient technical expertise 22%

Infrastructure Outsourcing Market Demands Are Entering A Period Of Rapid Change . . .

Suppliers are seeking to evolve their offerings in a variety of ways and for multiple reasons, including:

■ Multisourcing is evolving to a service integration and management (SIAM) function. Customers seek the flexibility of obtaining services from multiple parties in multiple forms while keeping a stable or improved end user experience. With multisourcing still the predominate mode of engagement, there is significant emphasis on SIAM as a way to unify and increase efficiency and agility of service management across multiple participating suppliers. A number of providers are already offering — or plan to offer — SIAM services as independent service offerings meant to help unify infrastructure outsourcing towers from the service management perspective. While SIAM normally refers to IT service management (ITSM) services, a complementary approach, defined by Forrester as “strategic rightsourcing,” is intended specifically for cloud services. Ultimately, SIAM and cloud integration must converge.1

■ Support for hybrid cloud computing tops the infrastructure outsourcing agenda. A transition to a cloud-based outsourcing market is also clearly underway, although it’s still in its early stages.2 One manifestation of this shift entails a move from conventional infrastructure delivery to a cloud-based approach. Meanwhile, suppliers are moving to encompass both conventional infrastructure delivery and cloud-based delivery from a service management perspective; for example, suppliers are beginning to embrace cloud “brokering” solutions.




Different vendors present different approaches to brokering, however. For example, suppliers such as Accenture, CGI, Infosys, and T-Systems have all articulated aggressive visions for cloud brokering, while other participating suppliers have not. Participating suppliers are also seeking to unify hybrid cloud delivery with common terms and conditions.

■ Greater standardization of services increases vendor margins. A variety of factors, including the high flexibility and agility of cloud services, are contributing to far more standardization among all infrastructure services. For example, Capgemini says that 90% of its infrastructure outsourcing solutions that sold in the past 12 months were based on “standard” delivery component descriptions. Suppliers are embracing this approach for the sake of improving margin performance and addressing clients’ needs and expectations. Service standardization enables scalability, increases the level of automation, helps centralize service management with standard processes and tools, but ultimately protects suppliers’ investments in tools and processes and decreases suppliers’ service management and delivery costs.

■ Innovation becomes a key element of infrastructure services. The ability to innovate with support for new and upcoming emerging technologies is one of the primary differentiators among infrastructure outsourcing service providers. This is especially true when combined with an ability to deliver innovation in the context of existing services. Many of the participating vendors are reinvigorating their infrastructure outsourcing services to meet clients’ expanding needs and expectations.

. . . Which Poses Substantial Challenges For Outsourcing Market Leaders

With such profound changes come some significant challenges. Major issues for providers include:

■ A historic market share land grab looms for outsourcing deal renewals. One reason for this is the market’s absolute size. For example, Forrester estimates that the global infrastructure outsourcing market is at $187.5 billion worldwide, with the North American market comprising approximately 58% of this total (see Figure 3). A significant portion of this contract value is up for renewal during the next few years, opening up a historic opportunity for market share redistribution as well as contractual innovation.

■ Most traditional suppliers are experiencing only limited growth — or actually shrinking. Participating suppliers are vastly different regarding their aggressiveness in the market. Some suppliers — particularly the Indian-centric suppliers — are unabashed in their desire to take on new market share. Meanwhile, some of the historically largest providers have become highly selective in pursuing infrastructure outsourcing opportunities, in some cases emphasizing profitability over growth. Taken as a group, the traditional suppliers have demonstrated flat market share growth at best. This market will be disrupted by some untraditional providers — notably those with strengths in cloud computing and service brokering.




■ The looming impact of automation lends new urgency to a market share battle. An arms race of automation is threatening to revolutionize infrastructure outsourcing delivery. IPsoft, a key player in this dynamic, is perhaps the best known supplier in the fledgling automation segment. Several infrastructure outsourcing suppliers are engaged in a wary dance of partnership around IPsoft’s compelling capabilities while hedging their bets with homegrown automation solutions. The stakes are high. The more market share suppliers acquire, the more potential leverage they can gain by achieving IP arbitrage as opposed to labor arbitrage. Those that fail to achieve greater leverage through automation face being automated out of the business. While this threat exists, infrastructure outsourcing pricing and deal size trends were holding steady heading into 2015.

Figure 3 Global Annual Spending On Infrastructure Outsourcing Services Totals US$185.7 Billion


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Evaluation Criteria Emphasize The Breadth Of Offerings And Strategies

After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we developed a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. We evaluated vendors against 61 criteria, which we grouped into three high-level groups:

■ Current offering. Current offering represents vendors’ expertise to deliver infrastructure services such as a global delivery model, global geographic staffing distribution, global client geographic distribution, standard infrastructure service portfolio, ecosystem participation,




SIAM capabilities, innovation, and continuous improvement based on the needs and expectations of customers. We qualify all of these attributes with Forrester client feedback on implementation, account and relationship management, service quality, and general satisfaction.

■ Strategy. For this set of criteria, Forrester examined each vendor’s strategy to understand how the vendor approaches customer value proposition, planned enhancements, plans for growth, investment to support the strategy, and the vision for infrastructure services.

■ Market presence. For the market presence criteria, Forrester analyzed providers’ relative overall presence in the core infrastructure management lines of services (see Figure 4). Additionally, Forrester examined criteria like infrastructure services client base, infrastructure service employees, and total employees.

Figure 4 Infrastructure Services Include Several Offerings Beyond Just Infrastructure


Infrastructure services Explanation

Service desk or help desk Incident and problem management, level 1 and/or level 2 support,including self-help tools and portals

End device management Design, con�guration, testing, standards, software, and related services fordesktops, laptops, and mobile devices

Desk-side or on-site support Break X, iMacs, asset management, and related services

Data center management Data center facility and environmental management

Hosting and servermanagement

Hosting, server management, physical database administration,and related services

Mainframe management Operations, production control, technical support, physical databaseadministration, and monitoring for mainframe environments

Storage management Monitoring, capacity management, backups, provisioning, and related services

Network management Local-area network, wide-area network, voice, voice over IP, telephony

Security management Content and data security, physical security, privacy management,threat assessment (internal and external), security information and eventmanagement, vulnerability management, incident management and forensics,and related services

Email or collaboration Email and collaboration services including infrastructure management andsoftware (application) administration

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

IaaS services or extensions, including desktop-as-a-service and storage-as-a-service

Service management andintegration

Management of different services and providers

Operations and strategyconsulting

Assessments (e.g., cloud readiness), improvements, and innovation services;integration of various services, including cloud solutions




Evaluated Vendors Are The Main Global Infrastructure Service Providers

Forrester included 13 vendors in the assessment — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, CGI, CSC, Fujitsu, GWA, HCL, HP, IBM, T-Systems, TCS, and Wipro. Each of these vendors successfully satisfied the four criteria established for inclusion in the evaluation. Each of these vendors has (see Figure 5):

■ At least $1 billion in applicable infrastructure services revenue.

■ At least 200 infrastructure services clients.

■ Infrastructure services headquartered in all geographic regions of the world (Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa [EMEA]; and Asia Pacific).

■ A sufficient level of interest from the Forrester client base.

These criteria limited the number of suppliers included in this evaluation. Several firms — even leaders from our last published evaluation in 2011 — were thus excluded from consideration. Dell meets the criteria and was invited to participate, but declined.

Figure 5 Providers In The Infrastructure Outsourcing Evaluation Must Meet Four Key Criteria


To be included in this evaluation, selected providers had to meet the following criteria:

At least $1 billion in applicable infrastructure services revenue

At least 200 infrastructure services clients

Infrastructure services headquartered in all geographic regionsof the world (Americas, EMEA, Asia Paci�c)

A suf�cient level of interest from the Forrester client base




INFRASTRUCTURE OUTSOURCING EVALUATION ANALYSIS

The infrastructure outsourcing market evaluation presents a tightly clustered market, but one with clear leaders and laggards (see Figure 6). The following clusters are evident from the analysis:

■ IBM leads the pack by a substantial margin. IBM was far and away the leading supplier in the global infrastructure outsourcing segment, despite limited growth at IBM Global Services during recent operating quarters. If IBM were showing significant momentum, its lead would have been even larger. As it is, it will take time for other providers to catch up with IBM’s breadth of capabilities.

■ HCL, Accenture, TCS, HP, Capgemini, CSC, Wipro, Atos, and T-Systems are closely ranked. The closely ranked middle group in the Leader segment includes suppliers with contrasting strengths. Among these suppliers are the most visible India-centric suppliers: HCL, TCS, and Wipro; strong transformational players: Accenture, Atos, and Capgemini; and historic global infrastructure outsourcing leaders: CSC and HP.

■ GWA, Fujitsu, and CGI are Strong Performers. A third group, just below the closely ranked middle of the pack, includes Strong Performers GWA (known primarily as CompuCom in North America and Getronics in Europe), Fujitsu, and CGI.

This evaluation of the global infrastructure outsourcing services market is intended to be a starting point only. We encourage clients to view detailed product evaluations and adapt criteria weightings to fit their individual needs through the Forrester Wave Excel-based vendor comparison tool.




Figure 6 Forrester Wave™: Global Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 ’15

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VENDOR PROFILES

Leaders

■ IBM. IBM has an enormous market presence — the largest of all the companies that we included in this analysis — although its market share does not appear to be growing. IBM views the current infrastructure management services market as the age of outcomes, IP, and automation. It is pursuing a variety of initiatives, including automation with IBM Workload Automation and integration across systems of record and systems of engagement. Since its acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies in 2013, cloud services have become a major element of its infrastructure management strategy. This is logical because it represents an opportunity for much faster growth than more traditional infrastructure management services. IBM attempts to translate its great strength in big data and analytics to infrastructure outsourcing by leveraging its vast hoard of customer data accumulated during decades of service relationships. IBM has a very strong vision for the future of infrastructure services and also has a very well-balanced global delivery model. Its relatively large investment in strategy was another high point of its response.

■ HCL. HCL Technologies tends to be one of the India-centric providers most often encountered in deals involving the traditional outsourcing giants, even though its overall service market presence is not the highest among India-centric firms. HCL enjoys a solid reputation for flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and technological capability, which gives it an extremely strong value proposition. HCL also has a particularly robust set of planned enhancements. Its relatively large investment in strategy shows its willingness to increase its infrastructure services footprint. HCL is particularly adept at pursuing existing outsourcing customers and transitioning them into the HCL fold. Its vision includes the enterprise workplace of the future, network generation data centers, and zero infrastructure sites. HCL also registered the second highest overall grades for customer satisfaction (GWA and TCS tied for first).

■ Accenture. Accenture possesses great strengths in applications services, infrastructure services, and transformational services. Historically, Accenture has avoided asset-heavy deals and has preferred to embrace its asset-light philosophy, but the company is now seeking to increase its competitiveness in standalone infrastructure outsourcing engagements. Leadership in cloud orchestration and brokering is another focus, which is the rationale for the firm’s significant investments in its Accenture Cloud Platform, a vehicle for integration and service orchestration across various cloud models, including private cloud solutions available from its partners. Accenture enthusiastically touts its partnership with IPsoft for automated infrastructure support services. It is also seeking to serve as the role of service integrator in infrastructure engagements. Generally an asset-light provider, Accenture thrives on transformational engagements. Accenture’s distribution of staff and clients is well-balanced and a source of strength for the supplier.




■ TCS. Tata Consultancy Services is among the most competitive and capable of the India-centric providers in infrastructure outsourcing opportunities. In particular, TCS has a compelling perspective on automation with an eye for sustainability through change. It tied with GWA for the highest customer satisfaction scores in our analysis and also received high marks for its particularly strong vision for the future of infrastructure services. TCS is also pursuing a variety of cloud services — such as iON Cloud ERP (integrated IT-as-a-service for small and medium-size businesses), which was pioneered in India — and utility models in partnership with infrastructure and storage partners. TCS is also focused on automation of infrastructure management activities using its own IP.

■ HP. HP has the second largest overall market presence of all companies included in this analysis. It is particularly strong in workplace and mainframe services, but like other traditional outsourcing leaders, HP has become more selective in evaluating specific infrastructure management opportunities. HP seeks opportunities where it can help clients improve their business performance and progress in what it calls the “new style of IT” (mobility, social, cloud, big data/analytics, and security). While judicious with infrastructure outsourcing, HP is forging ahead aggressively in cloud services. Its recently announced Helion portfolio of cloud products and services enables organizations to build, manage, and consume workloads in hybrid environments. HP has significant market presence on a global basis, including considerable strength in North America. It has a strong historic focus on multisupplier integration and is also aggressively pursuing its own approach to automation. HP has a very well-balanced global delivery model and has globally balanced staff and client distribution.

■ Capgemini. Capgemini is not as visible a supplier in North America as it is in EMEA, but the firm is seeking to expand its market presence in North America. Capgemini’s efforts in this area are bearing fruit, as its infrastructure outsourcing revenues grew by more than 15% from 2013 to 2014. Capgemini’s Dynamic Services vision is intended to bridge the legacy and future technology management worlds and encompasses Capgemini capabilities such as service integration, cloud brokering, service orchestration, service aggregation, and consulting and technology transformation services. Capgemini is notable for its strength in SIAM and is also aggressive in positioning its cloud brokering capability. In Forrester’s analysis, Capgemini received high marks for its capacity for innovation and its focus on continuous improvement. Investment in strategy was another high point of its response. Its geographic staff distribution biased to EMEA was perhaps Capgemini’s primary weakness in our analysis.

■ CSC. Computer Sciences Corp is a significant historic player in mainframe services, with a burgeoning presence in cloud services. CSC became a more serious player in cloud orchestration and management with its acquisition of ServiceMesh, now part of CSC’s Agility Platform. With this platform, it intends to empower customers to act as cloud service aggregators and orchestrators (CSC itself does not embrace the term “cloud broker”). CSC’s commitment to the cloud is apparently sincere. It intends to have all of its own applications in




the cloud by 2015 (“client zero”). CSC has also become more partner-centric as it transforms from a holding company to an operating company under CEO Mike Lawrie.3 CSC is willing to team up with otherwise competing suppliers, as it has done with its cloud-oriented partnership with HCL and its alliance with IBM for solutions in big data and Hadoop. CSC also has a very balanced global distribution of staff and clients and has a solid overall current offering.

■ Wipro. Wipro remains in the first rank of India-centric suppliers in infrastructure outsourcing, a position it has held since its 2007 acquisition of Infocrossing gave it a significant asset presence in the North American market. Wipro subsequently expanded with targeted data center acquisitions. Wipro has the largest market presence of the India-centric providers in this analysis and also the broadest range of mainframe capabilities among the India-centric firms. Wipro is also quite serious in its pursuit of automation and service management with its internally developed ServiceNXT offering. However, it will also consider external alliance partners. Wipro also competes in the cloud market with its iStructure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering.

■ Atos. Although a global consulting firm and provider of infrastructure and application services, this French firm is best known in its native EMEA market. Still, it has a growing international profile highlighted by visible engagements like its work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) including the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, as well as plans to participate in future Olympic events. Despite its acquisition of Siemens IT Solutions and Services in 2012, most of Atos’ clients are in Europe and relatively few are in the Americas and Asia Pacific. The same is true of Atos’ infrastructure services staff. Like many traditional infrastructure outsourcing providers, it has focused primarily on margin improvement during recent quarters and has experienced limited growth. Nevertheless, it has made substantial investments in the Canopy partnership, which provides cloud capabilities that Atos leverages in its infrastructure outsourcing operations. Canopy imbues Atos with significant growth opportunities, which was a notable Atos strength in this evaluation.4

■ T-Systems. Based in Germany and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, it follows that most of T-Systems’ clients and infrastructure services staff are concentrated in EMEA. It has relatively few clients or staff in the Americas and Asia Pacific. Nevertheless, it is seeking to expand its presence in these regions. Among the focal points of its infrastructure outsourcing activities is its Dynamic Cloud Platform, a framework for hybrid computing. T-Systems has been historically highly active in SAP, and one of its major opportunities is to migrate its significant base of managed SAP customers to the Dynamic Cloud Platform. It gets high marks for its complete service portfolio, which includes both traditional infrastructure services and complementary consulting services around transformation, migration, and innovation. T-Systems’ approach to ecosystem participation and investment to support strategy are strengths for the firm.




Strong Performers

■ GWA. The Getronics Workplace Alliance is best known for its end device management services, giving it among the largest service market presences in the world. Additional members of the consortium include Getronics, CompuCom, Tecnocom, NTT Data Getronics, SPIE Communications, KPN, and ServiceOne to cover infrastructure services globally. Local presence is provided by members in each region. GWA’s clients are concentrated in EMEA and the Americas, with a smaller portion in Asia Pacific. GWA’s highest density verticals include manufacturing, pharmaceutical companies, and oil and gas. GWA tied for the highest score in customer satisfaction in our evaluation.

■ Fujitsu. Fujitsu is a global infrastructure outsourcing supplier based in Japan. Correspondingly, its highest service market presence is in Japan. It also possesses a relatively large client base in EMEA and the rest of Asia Pacific, but its client base in the Americas is relatively sparse. Similarly, most of Fujitsu’s infrastructure outsourcing service staff members are based in Asia Pacific and EMEA, with a few staff members based in the Americas. It has yet to become a fully global player, but it is seeking to become just that. Fujitsu maintains a variety of different cloud computing models, and its vision for the future of infrastructure outsourcing is relatively strong.

■ CGI. CGI’s acquisition of Logica in 2012 yielded an entity with infrastructure outsourcing capabilities that span the globe. CGI is making a concerted effort to lead the nascent market for cloud brokerage services and is participating in the Helix Nebula (“the Science Cloud”) partnership between European research institutions CERN, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the European Space Agency (ESA), and other participating technology service providers. It is also pursuing opportunities in service integration in more traditional infrastructure management deals. CGI is well positioned to compete in cloud brokering opportunities, particularly in the public sector — one of its largest vertical concentrations — where it is FedRAMP-certified.5 Because CGI is so focused on vertical solutions, it is less likely to compete on pure infrastructure outsourcing opportunities. CGI lacks discernible momentum in the marketplace and lacks a clear expression of interest from Forrester clients.

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Data Sources Used In This Forrester Wave

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■ Vendor surveys. Forrester surveyed vendors on their capabilities as they relate to the evaluation criteria. Once we analyzed the completed vendor surveys, we conducted vendor calls where necessary to gather details of vendor qualifications.

■ Product demos. We asked vendors to conduct demonstrations of their product’s functionality. We used findings from these product demos to validate details of each vendor’s product capabilities.

■ Customer reference surveys. To validate product and vendor qualifications, Forrester also conducted reference surveys with three of each vendor’s current customers.

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Forrester’s Business Technographics® Global Business and Technology Services Survey, 2014 was a mixed methodology phone and online survey fielded in July and August 2014 to 1,532 business and technology decision-makers located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, the UK, and the US from companies with 100 or more employees.

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ENDNOTES1 Part of the strategic rightsourcing methodology has to do with identifying candidates for cloud migration.

See the March 27, 2014, “Strategic Rightsourcing Application Portfolio Analysis Tool” report.

2 For an explanation of the changes taking place in cloud computing services in the cloud in 2015, see the November 13, 2014, “Predictions 2015: The Days Of Fighting The Cloud Are Over” report.

3 Suppliers were graded on their investment to support strategy on a sliding scale tied to percentage of revenues. IBM’s investment to support strategy was approximately 6%.

CSC CEO Mike Lawrie has characterized CSC as more of a holding company prior to his arrival. Source: Marjorie Censer, “CSC, facing tougher times, brings in new CFO,” The Washington Post, May 20, 2012 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/csc-facing-tougher-times-brings-in-new-cfo/2012/05/18/gIQAkHnVdU_story.html).






4 On December 18, 2014, Atos announced it is acquiring Xerox’s information technology outsourcing business for approximately $1 billion. The planned acquisition would expand Atos’ presence in North America. However, Xerox ITO revenues and assets are not combined with Atos’ revenues assets in this analysis. Source: Atos (http://atos.net/en-us/home/investors/acquisition-of-xerox-ito-business.html.)

5 The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a governmentwide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Source: Cloud.cio.gov (http://cloud.cio.gov/fedramp).

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