CenterBeam
Press Release, 4/21/03: CarrAmerica Signs Two New Leases Totaling 45,517 Square Feet in San Jose
WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CarrAmerica Realty Corporation today announced that it has signed two new leases in San Jose, California: a 32,023 square foot lease with CenterBeam, Inc. at Rio Robles Technology Center and a 13,494 square foot lease with SCM Microsystems, Inc. at Valley Business Park II.
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Outsourcing
Gartner, 4/17/03: IT Outsourcing Contracts: Crunching the Numbers
Abstract: The value of the average IT outsourcing contract is $47 million and the average duration is six years, according to an analysis of 1,055 contracts awarded over 14 years.
By Bruce Caldwell
Recommendations
Enterprises and outsourcers should develop historical databases of contract awards relevant to their specific objectives, markets and industries.
Contract database analysis should be understood as a strategic guide, not a tactical guide, because of the impossibility of obtaining exact data on all contracts.
Enterprises can enhance contract negotiations and outsourcers can enhance competitive positioning via contract database analysis.
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Gartner, 4/17/03: Weigh the Costs of Moving to Outsourced Service Delivery
The costs associated with conducting a formal evaluation and making the transition to an external service provider can be high. Yet, making the right upfront investment will reduce the risk of a suboptimal deal in the long run.
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Meta Group, 4/15/03: European IT Outsourcing Market: What to Expect in 2003 Service Management Strategies, Outsourcing & Service Provider Strategies
Stratos Sarissamlis
Cost-efficiencies will continue to drive outsourcing transactions during a challenging 2003. Users should avoid mortgaging near-term savings for long-term losses. This year promises to be another challenging period for the European IT professional services market. Confidence that the market has stabilized is growing, but uncertainty lingers regarding the timing of a market upturn and the strength of recovery. Indeed, even if the economy recovers during 2H03, uptake in services demand will occur six months later, at best (services typically trail the hardware and software markets).
However, outsourcing has been relatively immune to the economic downturn that negatively affected the consulting, application development, and systems integration services. Indeed, businesses aiming to forgo capital spending will increasingly focus on outsourcing, including business process outsourcing (BPO).
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IT Services
Gartner, Services Fast 50 Short-Term Forecast: April 2003
Abstract: After showing virtually flat growth in 2002 —the lowest growth rate in the past three years —the IT market is expected to grow slightly in 2003.
By Kathryn Hale
Recommendations
With little recovery expected in the IT services market through 2003, vendors should continue to exploit offerings that offer immediate payoff, expanding established client relationships, or allow buyers to successfully "make do with what they have."
Vendors can prepare for higher growth in 2004 by continuing to develop their sales pipelines for relatively larger and more ambitious contracts.
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IT Management
Gartner, 4/16/03: CIO Update: To Control TCO, It Must Be Measured and Managed
Controlling total cost of ownership (TCO) requires measurement and management. Each phase of TCO control demands a consistency that enables it to be a common element for communication, relationship management and governance.
In these difficult economic times, it is essential that IS organizations understand and manage their costs. Controlling total cost of ownership (TCO) requires measurement and management. Each phase of TCO control demands a consistency that enables it to be a common element for communication, relationship management and governance.
Meta, 4/03: Defining the Enterprise: Strategic Views and IT “To Do’s” Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies
Philip Allega
FOCAL POINT
The word “enterprise” communicates an especially difficult undertaking — both a readiness to engage in action and a unit of economic organization. For enterprise architects, such descriptions resonate with respect to their work effort. The architect’s first and most difficult task concerns definition of the word “enterprise.” The definition of this term communicates breadth and depth, an expectation of scope, and the demarcation lines of the enterprise for its enterprise architecture (EA), the enterprise program management office (EPMO), and the discipline of IT portfolio management (PfM).
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Gartner, 4/18/03: Server Consolidation Chargeback Models and Benefits
Consolidating servers or IT systems can strain or break IS organizations' cost recovery methods, and business units may worry about fairness and other issues. Rethinking chargeback models can lead to collateral benefits.
Server and IT systems consolidation can cause dissatisfaction among business units because combining workloads or equipment conflicts with the perceived interests of users. Some methods of funding IT systems and people allocate costs to the departments that are linked to dedicated systems and directly funded equipment. However, rationalization of resources can lead to better overall efficiency for the enterprise. Consider potential changes to cost recovery methods as part of an overall plan for consolidation success.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 4/22/03: Slow uptake for Windows Server 2003
By CAROL SLIWA
Few corporate IT departments are expected to race to adopt the long-delayed Windows Server 2003 operating system that Microsoft Corp. will launch this week.
Several IT managers contacted last week by Computerworld said they have no plans to migrate to the new operating system this year -- especially those who have recently finished or are in the process of completing a move to Windows 2000 Server.
"We tend to lag behind on upgrades. It allows a shake-in period and means less risk," said Bob Farrugia, director of application delivery at London Life Insurance Co. in London, Ontario. "We will also skip upgrades if there's no immediate need or benefit."
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Future Think
ZDNet, 4/22/03: Surrounded by new opportunities
By Ray Ozzie, Groove
COMMENTARY--In the late 1980s, the immediacy of CNN's 24-hour-a-day global broadcasts helped shrink the globe. Distances got even smaller after the Web allowed individuals to become more personally engaged in distant events shaping their lives--from crises over nuclear reactors in North Korea to the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong.
Tech visionary Mark Anderson offers the view that we've since been building what he calls the "Global Computer," in which every transistor is connected to every other around the world through the two-way pipe of the Internet. Some might think we've already explored the depths of this vision, but the reality is we've barely dipped beneath the surface.
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