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Professional Services: Top IT Cost Management Focus Areas

As part of IT cost management efforts, professional services industry shops focus on three IT service areas ? servers and storage, application development, and discretionary spending. Info-Tech's research suggests three key strategies to prioritize i...

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Professional Services: Benefits and Challenges of Application Outsourcing

Professional services firms report greater resource availability and improved deliverable quality from outsourcing enterprise software. Learn how others in the industry are benefiting from application outsourcing, and prevent the most common problems...

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Legal Services: Gain Higher Return on IT Investment by Outsourcing

IT application development and maintenance outsourcing is a very common and popular trend among legal services firms. Learn from peers in the legal trade why they outsource and what benefits they receive by outsourcing. ...

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Choosing IT Application Outsourcing Vendors for Professional Services Firms

Application outsourcing vendor selection errors can cost an IT department time and money, and often result in unsatisfactory results. Learn from peers in the professional services industry about which factors to consider prior to selecting an outsour...

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Professional Services: Not Satisfied with IT Project Managers

Info-Tech recently asked thirty professional services personnel about their satisfaction with their IT project managers' skills and responsibilities. The results show most firms are not happy. Follow Info-Tech's advice to raise performance of IT proj...

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Professional Services and IT Compliance: An Opportunity for Training and Certifications

Info-Tech recently asked 16 participants from professional services about their use of compliance frameworks for IT operations. The results demonstrate the popularity of ITIL and COBIT and indicate an increased need for compliance training....

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BI in Professional Services: Drivers, Benefits, and Challenges

Professional services firms interviewed by Info-Tech have seen clear benefits from their BI implementations, including improved information access and data insight. Common obstacles include data quality and people issues. Firms embarking on new BI in...

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Professional Services: Sending Large Files Digitally Proves Feasible

Professional service firms often rely heavily on courier services to send documents. The sensitive nature and large size of these files justify the need for such a traditional approach. However, with other options now available, revisiting electronic...

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The Sad State of Hotel Network Security

Network security is woefully inadequate in many hotels. Shore up wireless and wired networks before guests' data is compromised....

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Presentation Consultants Relieve the Pain of High-Tech Legal Trials

Legal teams are increasingly leveraging the power of technology to create persuasive trial presentations. Courtroom presentation consultants level the playing field for firms with limited hardware and tech savvy....