But the truly creative and destructive forces of the cloud are also beginning to take hold on the customer side in the form of fresh thinking about what IT should be and what it can achieve, new products and services and business models made possible by and those freed-up IT dollars, and new ideas unlocked by those innovative approaches.
The services survey includes transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, business services, personal services, computing and IT, and hotels and restaurants, but does not include the retail sector.
Technology Services revenue was flat year over year, Application and Business Services revenue grew 1% and IT Outsourcing revenue declined 3% year over year.
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Technology Services revenue was down 1% year over year, Application and Business Services revenue was flat, and IT Outsourcing revenue declined 6% year over year.
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This is not entirely bad news as it is likely to improve margins in the long terms and make its business less sensitive to the slowing PC market and allow it to concentrate on the more lucrative services business.
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About 750, 000 jobs in IT, finance and business services are expected to be outsourced by 2016, and automation is having a similar cumulative toll, particularly at the lower end of the pay scale, where grocery check-out clerks have been replaced by electronic scanners, and over 250, 000 postal workers have already lost their jobs due to automation of mail processing.
We can stop speculating, hopefully stop cloudwashing, and get down to the real business of incorporating cloud services and platforms into our formal IT portfolios.
So, increasingly, is Mr Salmond's vision of Scotland's economy: his have-cake-and-eat-it approach to business and public spending, and enthusiasm for financial services, are ominously reminiscent of New Labour's.
It is a fexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet.
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For the past two years it has been decentralising business advice and other services to regional development agencies.
Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.
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Central European countries are toughening visa regimes and customs services, making it harder for Russians to go and do business there.
It is a trend TomTom will need to negotiate carefully as it expands its content and services business.
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If 2011 is going to herald a change in the way we do business, it will greatly depend on effective social business services from vendors, in addition to products and technology.
Congress tried to facilitate the process back in 1999 when it passed the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act, dedicated to redressing what it calls a lack of appropriate services for veteran entrepreneurs.
"Sophisticated entrepreneurial activity is going on in remote areas, and it needs business-to-business telecommunications services, " Storey says.
And its services business is mainly about keeping IT systems running, not about helping firms reinvent themselves (as IBM does).
Equifax this morning said it has agreed to acquire the credit services business assets and operations CSC Credit Services, a unit Computer Sciences Corp.
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All the websites operate the same basic business model: they make it easy for sellers and buyers of services to find each other, they arrange for payment and they take a cut.
Mike Schaffner directs the information technology project management group for the oil and gas products and services company, Cameron, in Houston and aims to infuse a business-based approach to IT management.
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"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
HP's business spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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In his view, the growing adoption of hybrid cloud architectures has resulted in the need to mange a new cloud IT mission and the launching of cloud-enabled business services.
As these services begin to recover, many business and IT leaders are wondering how they will resume normal operations to ensure the long-term financial viability of the company and the livelihoods of their employees and how they will serve their loyal customers.
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And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
Dash has announced that it is exiting the consumer hardware business and focusing on providing its network services to other manufacturers.
It was a nice niche business that Snyder soon expanded into field sales and services for telecommunications companies.
The key is to begin by defining an employee-centric cloud strategy that recognizes the value that cloud services can provide and that maps IT policies to business objectives.
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ISPs, with about 500, 000 subscribers, has already announced plans to move away from flat fees: in exchange for usage-based fees, it will offer higher quality connections and services aimed at small business.
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After the ISM business services survey came out, Brian did a quick comparison between it and the consumer confidence survey.
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