A Springboard To Services

Hi, thanks for all the visits in the last week, some records were smashed for my blog, of interest may be the following PR that we released, it highlights how important Apps services are, and that it is the focus of growth, there is growth of course across the markets, but we see the acceleration of Enterprise Application Integration services as being a critical market.

Yesterday I mentioned how BT is an example of a firm who has both capability and respect as an IT Services provider. Today the news that has been brewing for a while in Australia breaks about the failiure of Commander, and issues following the acquisition of Volante last year. Telco and IT Services are fundamentally different, whilst most services companies in Australia from a traditional IT or process perspective are having very strong years, (both large such as Accenture and smaller vendors such as CSG), Kaz and Commander are struggling for one reason or another.

I am not writing off telcos as valid competitors for IT Services, but it is still a long order to convince me of their long term merit, Infrastructure is hard enough from an IT perspective, application based services is an even harder market to convince me of their merit.