Enabling Outsourced Service Providers to Think Globally While Acting Locally.

Authors :: Ioannidis, Yannis
Scholl, Marc H.
Schmidt, Joachim W.
Matthes, Florian
Hatzopoulos, Mike
Boehm, Klemens
Kemper, Alfons
Grust, Torsten
Boehm, Christian
Wilkinson, Kevin
Kuno, Harumi
Govindarajan, Kannan
Yuasa, Kei
Smathers, Kevin
Nanda, Jyotirmaya
Dayal, Umeshwar
Source :: Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006; 2006, p1106-1109, 4p
Publication Year :: 2006
Abstract: Enterprises commonly outsource all or part of their IT to vendors as a way to reduce the cost of IT, to accurately estimate what they spend on IT, and to improve its effectiveness. These contracts vary in complexity from the outsourcing of a world-wide IT function to smaller, country-specific, deals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]