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IBM: Winner of the Finance Impact Award, North America 2020
January 15 by SSON EditorsTo address the complexity of the process along with the vast amount of manual effort, the GSI finance team executed a complete transformation of the financial process to improve efficiency and product...
HCL Acquisition of IBM Products – A Risky Bet! [Or is it?]
December 01 by Ankur BansalWhat is a service firm like HCL trying to do by venturing into software products?
Global Location Trends: More SSOs Setting Up in Key Markets
June 16 by Patsy Van HoveA new approach to structuring services delivery capabilities is transforming the shared services industry Each year, IBM publishes a Global Location Trends report describing the latest trends on w...
BYOD Users Are Forcing Changes in Corporate Applications
August 20 by SSONThe Apple-IBM Collaboration Marks an Enormous Step Forward in Users Driving Applications The announcement recently that old rivals Apple and IBM are collaborating on business software for iPhone a...
Amazon Web Services' Results Highlight Growth of Infrastructure as a Service
April 30 by Industry NewsWhat do Amazon Web Services’ Financial Results tell us about Infrastructure as a Service? There is a great deal of interest in Amazon's business model and success, as it acts as an indic...
Robots, earthquakes, and the shrinking conventional jobs market ...
April 23 by SSONI subscribe to a little magazine called The Week, which brings me a summary of everything that's noteworthy in an easy-to-read weekly format. Its recent editorial struck a chord with me, given what'...
Global Location: Shared Services Becoming Smarter
January 25 by Patsy Van HoveIBM publishes an annual Global Location Trends report which each year outlines the key trends in corporate location selection and foreign investment decisions. Their latest report indicates that the...
Integrated Business Solutions: the Motor to Drive German Business?
December 10 by The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network EditorMany companies are focusing on core capabilities and rethinking how their support services fit into the equation. The German market has been slower in taking up this option, but change is on the hor...
IBM Issues New Cloud Solution to Protect From Security Attacks
October 22 by Press Release SSONPartnership with Akamai combines cloud analytics and global network of security experts to help protect and mitigate security risks ARMONK, NY – OCTOBER 22, 2013 - IBM (NYSE: IBM )...
IBM To Sell CRM, BPO Business To Synnex Subsidiary For $505M
September 17 by Press Release SSONSynnex and IBM have announced that Synnex will be buying IBM's worldwide customer care services business for a price tag of $505 million. The sale will close in the coming months and will place IB...
Integrated Business Solutions: the Motor to Drive German Business Forward?
September 17 by Shared Services & Outsourcing NetworkAn assessment of integrated business services in one of Europe’s most promising markets – many companies are focusing on core capabilities and rethinking how their support services fit into the equati...
Why Finance Should Lead the Charge on the "New" Online World
September 05 by The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network EditorBased on the findings of IBM’s Australian Report: ‘A Brave New World: How the CFO’s Role is Changing in Digital’ from August 2013, this article provides, for the US Market, a...