AI and the Future of Managed Services Contracts: Lessons from MSP Earnings Calls October 7, 2025 Scott Braverman Reading Time: 6 minutes “AI is no longer a niche. It’s becoming essential to how businesses operate at scale…we see AI as a force… Read More Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Managed Services
Why You Are Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, and PwC’s #1 Priority—But Not in a Good Way March 27, 2025 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Struggling with SI contract negotiation? Learn how you can cut costs, regain control, and secure better terms with top consulting… Read More Categories: Accenture, Contract Negotiations, Deloitte, IBM, System Integrators
System Integrator Assets and Accelerators – It is Not Just About the People Anymore March 16, 2022 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes With the introduction of SAP’s S/4HANA platform and the evolution of the concept of the Clean Core for ERP, we… Read More Categories: System Integrators
SAP SI Selection Criteria: Resource Considerations January 11, 2022 Ted Rogers Reading Time: 6 minutes Much has changed over the last few years since the introduction of SAP S/4HANA, including conversion services, the introduction of… Read More Categories: System Integrators
What Can You Learn from $20B in IT Projects? June 16, 2021 John Belden Reading Time: 2 minutes This month, UpperEdge’s project staffing database will bring the total value of all projects completed over the last 5 years… Read More Categories: Benchmarking
10 Ways to Get Value From Your System Integrator’s Quality Review August 11, 2020 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Though the SI's proposals focus on the benefits the client is intended to receive from these quality reviews, the SIs… Read More Categories: System Integrators
IBM, TCS and Accenture Offer Compelling Cases to Combine AMS and IMS Support July 7, 2020 Greg Hall Reading Time: 3 minutes Cost optimization is a doctrine that IT organizations have continuously lived by, but it has taken on a higher degree… Read More Categories: IT Services
4 Lessons from the Hertz vs. Accenture Disaster March 10, 2020 John Belden Reading Time: 7 minutes A tremendous amount of information and specific insight can be gleaned by analyzing digital transformation projects gone wrong. Here are… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management
3 Considerations When Looking at SAP and Accenture’s Integration Partnership February 4, 2020 Chip Hanna Reading Time: 3 minutes During SAP’s Q4 FY19 earnings call, Co-CEO Christian Klein stated that 70% of their ERP customers have not yet moved… Read More Categories: SAP
5 New Significant Developments in the Hertz vs. Accenture Case November 8, 2019 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’ve followed the saga of Hertz vs. Accenture, you know that the surprises aren’t over. To quickly get you… Read More Categories: Accenture