Over 90% of Multinational Corporations Use Some form of IT Outsourcing
February 25th, 2010Ninety-three percent of multinational corporations (MNCs) have undertaken some form of partial outsourcing or out-tasking projects with data center leading the way, said Orange Business Services Tuesday when announcing results from a recent survey on outsourcing.
According to the company, it surveyed more than 600 IT decision-makers from MNCs operating in a wide range of industries.
Results of the survey indicated that 30 percent of those outsourcing projects are data centers related, followed by desktop management (14 percent) and data networks (14 percent), said Orange Business Services, adding that 13 percent have outsourced fixed voice networks and nearly 11 percent have moved to a hosted model for enterprise applications.
The leading reason for outsourcing a service was not to reduce costs but to gain access to specialized IT skills available from an outsourced provider, said the service provider. Cost reduction was a close second, while improving service delivery to end users …
