Yammer is used by firms including the motor giant Ford and the business services firm Deloitte.
Also reappearing this month is Deloitte, the professional services organization, which specializes in audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services.
The experience of Fred Witt, a fit 58-year-old national director of real estate tax services at Deloitte Tax in Phoenix, mirrors many men's trouser trials.
"They are absolutely struggling with this and there is great concern over their branding, market share and scale, " says Adam Schneider, who specializes in financial services at Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Aimed at the Wall Street crowd, the Cap Markets Guide features a similar mix of analyses from industry experts (Tabb Group, Accenture, Columbia University, Algorithmica Research, Aite Group and more), financial services vendors (Revolution Analytics, BT Global Services, Numerix, Deloitte, Panopticon Software AB, Algo Technologies and more) and Sybase executives.
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In the No. 3 spot is Deloitte, one of the Big Four professional services firms.
Both Comcast and PPG Industries spent more than 10% of total fees to Deloitte on non-audit related and tax services in 2011 and 2010, for example.
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Many investors who outsourced their portfolios to professionals "were massively disillusioned by the perceived performance of their advisers" in 2008, says Ed Tracy, head of a Deloitte Consulting LLP group that provides consulting and other services to financial-services companies.
Autonomy followed the more lax British honor code when choosing which services besides the audit to buy from auditor Deloitte.
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But as the only Big Four firm to not sell its consulting arm after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and the introduction of new scope of services restrictions to support more auditor independence, Deloitte is the biggest and strongest of all the firms in technology and systems implementation, in particular.
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This compares to another 2012 Deloitte study that found 47% of organizations in the financial services industry had more than 100 full-time cyber security employees.
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The Telegraph of London and Reuters reported Deloitte has been selling Autonomy at least as much in consulting services as they were charging for the audit, such as it was.
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Since PwC has the largest share of the global audit services market perhaps they have more risk here than even Deloitte.
So Deloitte has the most exposure to conflict risk in its current client relationships across the services categories presenting the most risk.
According to Deloitte, more than 150 carriers in 60 countries are committed to the deployment or trial of 4G services.
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Deloitte is adding to its workforce of 45, 000 in response to growth across areas such as financial services, heath care and life sciences and technology.
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