IBM to buy Salesforce.com consulting specialist Bluewolf
IBM sees customers of Salesforce.com as key to growing revenue at its Global Business Services consulting division.
IBM sees customers of Salesforce.com as key to growing revenue at its Global Business Services consulting division.
If growth goes as planned, mobility solutions and services provider Mobile Mentor will look to add around 15 employees to its current work base and double the business year-on-year in the next 12 to 18 months.
UXC's Red Rock Consulting will have its contract with the Ministry of Health extended by three years, says the board director of National Health IT Board, Graeme Osborne.
Christchurch-based Clarus is doing IT consulting in a different way, the company says, providing clients with specialists at contracting — rather than consulting — fees and at the same time offering its contractors an attractive deal.
Gen-i has set up a business consulting unit, after hiring four senior Cap Gemini NZ consultants from the Hewlett-Packard subsidiary.
Accenture last month announced plans to invest US$250 million (NZ$311 million) to enhance services for datacentre management, green computing, data security and business transformation.
Lend them your watch and they’ll charge to tell you the time. So goes the old and rather unkind joke about consultants. But whether its earned or not, the consulting profession has developed a bit of reputation for hiding behind fluent management-speak. How can you guarantee, or even measure, your return on investment when you are dealing with nebulous concepts like cross-brand marketing opportunities or potential business upsides?
Gartner’s closure of its consulting arm in Australia and Hong Kong in May should serve as a warning to global players who don’t get intimate with the local market, analyst firms have claimed.
A competitive environment for talent makes now an ideal time for experienced IT professionals to consider a move to consulting. Whether it’s viewed as a bridge to eventual retirement or as an open-ended career change, consulting is breathing fresh air into many successful IT careers.
A total of 140 jobs reportedly to be cut in Australia and NZ