Fujitsu signs EUR400m partnership
Fujitsu Services has signed an outsourcing partnership for desktop, network and telecommunication services with AGIS, says Webwire.
The deal is worth EUR400 million over five years and will see 500 jobs moving from AGIS to Fujitsu. Fujitsu's role will be as the main service provider for AGIS, focusing on supply, installation, support and maintenance.
AGIS will carry on acting as a full service provider, managing all of the relevant services, and will be responsible overall for projects, billing and engineering.
IT outsourcing to intensify
IT is the most outsourced corporate function, and more companies are looking to outsource the work, reports ZDNet.
The survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers focused on outsourcing across all industries, and showed some interesting results that apply to technology management. There were 226 customers and 66 service providers interviewed in the survey.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they are outsourcing IT services, 39% said they outsource IT to "a significant extent". And there's room for expansion, as 55% of customers said they will expand IT outsourcing.
IT vital for business outsourcing
Organisations have acknowledged the importance of outsourced business processes such as HR, finance and accounting, and the importance of IT in their business process outsourcing (BPO) success, according to a new survey, reports One Stop Click.
The market assessment, conducted by EquaTerra, found that on a scale of importance to the success of BPO from one to five, respondents ranked IT as 4.2.
Stan Lepeak, EquaTerra's MD of research, said the study showed that BPO buyers know that "IT and BPO cannot and do not operate as islands".
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