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We at pliXos – operating the B2B Marketplace for software service providers and customers – believe that it is very important for customers and service providers to be on the same page and have trust and common respect for each other. Our B2B Marketplace extends our offering of SaaS tools covering the whole sourcing lifecycle... Continue reading Full Set of Pre- and Post-Contract Sourcing Solutions – by pliXos

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We are at the beginning of 2016 and many bloggers and companies are reviewing what happened in 2015 and what the new possibilities are in the Year to follow. This is the news of every company big or small. There are a lot of good articles out on the net explaining the major shifts happening... Continue reading Outsourcing 2016

Nearly any company nowadays relies on Software for its business. Not to mention the current effect of innovative digital business models on the market.

With mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets being a central part of everyday life, they are also becoming more and more pervasive at work. Although the impact of mobile technologies in the B2B sector is currently not as big as in the B2C sector, it will certainly be in the future. That’s because employees... Continue reading Mobile Usage of B2B Applications – Extending the plixos B2B Marketplace to the Mobile Channel

Munich, Dec 01, 2015 You are interested in our results? Please contact us at fabian.lajtkep@plixos.com We offer: Comprehensive analysis related to relationship quality in IT outsourcing Novel approach to automatically identify relationship quality with the help of metrics from social network analysis Insights into new and creative approaches to manage and control outsourcing projects Wir... Continue reading Social Network Analysis – A Method to Identify Relationship Quality in IT Outsourcing

“The first impression is the last impression” or “you never get a second chance to make a first impression”. Those phrases are well-known around the world.  

Are you an IT Service Provider? Are you losing out on outsourcing business while trying to win new projects? Scratching your head and asking yourself where you are going wrong? You may be the best at what you do but still having trouble convincing IT Outsourcing Customers that you are trustworthy?

Since decades military and political leaders have used a strategy of “divide and conquer” (from Latin “divide et impera” as implemented in the Roman Empire, to tackle complex challenges. Our interpretation of a recent article by McKinsey & Co. on large scale Software projects as well as our understanding of agile practices lead to the... Continue reading “Divide and Conquer” – Historic Strategy Applied for Large Scale SW Projects by Building on Agile Process and Automated Governance

The impact of Digital business models is a hot topic for nearly all corporates and one of the key areas strategic advisors focus on. In 2014, McKinsey issued a series of articles on Digitization. In one titled “Reinventing IT for Digitalization” they state that “companies seeking strong digital performance must thoroughly transform their IT functions”.... Continue reading McKinsey on Reinventing IT for Digitization: Efficiency and Scalability in Sourcing plus Agility are Necessities