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Article 3 of 3 The third and last article from short series also deals with the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Within this article we concentrate on the findings regarding the level of satisfaction and of achieving the customer’s targets. At the end we will introduce software... Continue reading Study results show; around 80% of German companies are at least partly satisfied with their IT service providers – pliXos GmbH

Article 2 of 3 The second article of this small series concentrates on the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” which was released several months ago by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Whereas the first article dealt with the problems within an outsourcing relationship, the most widely used pricing models and the selection of... Continue reading Study reveals success factors and the average contract duration of IT Outsourcing by German organisations– pliXos GmbH

Article 1 of 3 The recently published study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” (http://www.ardour.de/), by Ardour Consulting Group shows some interesting results on the German market of IT services which are in line with the pliXos experiences. These results and the corresponding recommendations to act from our perspective will be subject to a series of three... Continue reading Increasing interest in nearshore and offshore Outsourcing – despite challenges in sourcing governance: study confirms pliXos experience

The recent study „IT Outsourcing Study Europe 2013“ from Whitelane Research reveals several facts which are in line with my personal experiences but seem not always to be discussed in public. Thus I am happy to see a recent report by a neutral body clearly indicating interesting results when it comes to IT outsourcing and... Continue reading Perceptions and facts – study reveals Offshore Outsourcing to provide highest customer satisfaction

We gratefully acknowledge the funding by IuK Bayern» www.stmwmet.bayern.de Experiences from the Design of an Artifact Model for Distributed Agile Project Management (PDF) Conference: International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Month: Aug Publisher: IEEE Year: 2014 Abstract: The organization of projects with distributed teams is a demanding task for every project manager. Requirements need... Continue reading 2nd research paper resulting from the project -Global Bus System – GloBuS- with the Technische Universität München

– You are interested in our results? Please contact us at fabian.lajtkep@plixos.com – We offer: Comprehensive analysis and specifications for the evaluation and rating of software services and the providers Insight into new and creative approaches at the steering of IT services Access to our rating system (after completion) or an intern for you to... Continue reading Rating of Software Services – benefit from our work, free of charge

 The sector of “mid-sized businesses” (e.g. those with a turnover of up to £250M) is a major driving force in the German economy. In many ways, the challenges they face and the strategies used to tackle them are similar to those seen by large corporations. However when it comes to using outsourcing solutions and service... Continue reading Off the shelf outsourcing solutions for the SME market / the Mittelstand