At a local Analyst and Advisor Event in Frankfurt, Germany, TCS gave an update on its strategy and operations for the Central Europe (i.e. mostly German) region. Being the largest of the Indian IT service providers in Germany, with estimated revenues of €130m in FY 2011, the company has progressed significantly in building out its localization strategy for the German market. [...]

Third quarter results from both EVRY and Tieto both point to the growing importance of consulting and systems integration (C&SI) to the Nordic region’s domestic IT services providers.

German companies are aware of Big Data challenges with regard to data analytics. Both topics are far from just being hypes. To meet these challenges they are considering in-memory data analytics. However, they regard this as one of different options.

Companies are facing the challenge of having to compute, manage and analyze huge amounts of data (big data). In addition to the increase in data volume, companies also need larger capacities for data analyses: Various divisions within companies demand a fast deployment of analysis results, while requiring increasing depth of detail. In-memory computing-aided analysis systems can accelerate the evaluation of [...]

Through by and large the Russian IT market is perceived to be an emerging market, but in certain industries, notably banking and telecom, the demand seems to have become sophisticated enough and the market seems to be attaining a certain level of maturity in 2011. Moreover, the IT implementations in the main retail players have reached some saturation, at least [...]

Kimmi Alkio, the CEO of Tieto has set out his masterplan for turning round the fortunes of the Nordic IT services champion over the next four years. The key themes of the group’s new strategy are: reducing costs; tightening the focus around core verticals and geographies; investing in the consulting and systems integration (C&SI) practice; and expanding the global R&D [...]

Arnold Aumasson manages the Business Development Team in France and several consulting projects in the field of Marketing Strategy and Sales for PAC’s clients. Arnold also carries the PAC’s expertise in the field of Transports, Testing and IT Quality.

Biswajit Banerjee’s main responsibilities include market analysis and strategic consulting for the software and IT services industry in APAC with main focus on India. As a senior analyst he is responsible for hardware maintenance, system infrastructure software and project services product segments. His main focus verticals in this region include Manufacturing, Transport, Telecom, Banking and Insurance industry.

Christophe Châlons is member of the management board of PAC Group, with a special focus on methodology, quality management and multi-national projects. As Vice President Quality he is responsible for ensuring corporation-wide quality in customer-specific reports and consulting services as well as in the production and delivery of PAC’s renowned SITSI® Program

Dominic Trott is responsible for the production of the annual public sector and telecom vertical reports for the UK, and leads PAC’s off-the-shelf reporting programme covering the Nordic region. Dominic also writes a number of reports profiling leading SITS providers to the UK Nordic markets, and is heavily involved in the production of bespoke consulting projects.