T-Mobile (formerly known as One2One in the UK) has sneaked a range of new charges in with its rebranding exercise in a move which could see the bills of its lightest users increase by as much as 50 per cent.
Payroll and supply chain management also rank highly, according to AMR. One fifth of users surveyed by AMR said they choose application servers based on the technology's ability to leverage existing skills, although at 16 per cent, cost came a...
This is a perception that the major offshore vendors are seeking to challenge, as they seek to move up the value chain from labour intensive coding to full business process outsourcing (BPO) and consulting.
Collaboration is also often rolled out as a part of bigger projects, such as supply chain support, knowledge management or notably enterprise portals. Collaboration has become critical in the manufacturing industry because much of the value chain...
As the market for IT services picks up, Anthony Plewes looks at which skills are in demand and how both small consultancies and individuals should go about moving up the value chain. Developers need to move up the value chain if they don't want to...
The advent of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) should be an absolute godsend for public sector IT, where the need to employ 'joined up' services across organisations mirrors the need to apply processes across different parts of the value chain...