Innovations in service delivery

Deal Architect
I blogged recently about The Outsourcing Famine – little innovation in “business models and global delivery models and their partnering with interesting new technologies” with exceptions in firms like Cognizant and emerging ones like Appirio and Corefino...

The Outsourcing Famine

Deal Architect
Most recent innovation in application management services has come from SaaS vendors like salesforce and NetSuite, data centers from cloud providers like amazon, systems integration from next gen service firms like appirio which does SaaS implementations and develops its own software and process services from firms like Corefino, which is blending BPO and SaaS into its services.

Cloudy 2010

Deal Architect
I will be joining Phil Wainewright, Dennis Howlett and Narinder Singh, one of the co-founders of appirio in a session on cloud trends on Wednesday, January 13.

Appirio’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map

Deal Architect
They showed it to me on a printout a few months ago, and I kew I had to go get new glasses – it’s their cloud ecosystem map, which you can magnify on-line. Gives you an idea of the bewildering pace at which cloud vendors are proliferating.

A day in the clouds

Deal Architect
"I was invited to present at and participate in an invigorating day organized by Appirio last week with a number of cloud computing pioneers. Google, amazon, salesforce.com and Appirio shared their experiences with several CIOs from a variety of industries and locations."