Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Speakers
Raj Badarinath, Vice-President, Industry Marketing, Patni Americas Inc.
Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group

Webinar Highlights
In an interactive one-hour Webinar, Executives from Everest Group and Patni addressed key questions, providing CIOs with insight into:

• Everest’s point of view on market forces driving change within IT
• The role that cloud computing and global delivery can play in reshaping IT
• Sourcing Managed Services with cloud computing in mind (when, where and how its deployment makes sense; the services that should be sourced from it; and the corporate services that should be transitioned to it)
• Cost levers impacting IT capex and opex spend, including additional approaches that can be used to transform IT for dramatic, near-term cost savings with virtually zero impact on service levels

Recognizing the promise of ‘cloud’ to drive down operational expenses while improving IT effectiveness, besides its potential of being a change agent enabling the complete recast of the role that IT plays within the organization, key issues of interest were discussed, namely:

• How does cloud computing fit within the spectrum of outsourcing?
• What is the impact on applications, integration costs, and risk?
• Will these costs yield any gains?
• How can cost transformation benefits be realized apart from the hype?

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