http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm An Insider's View on Outsourcing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:33:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en K. I. S. S.  –it’s a well worn acronym “Keep it simple s____” (you can fill this one in) –it’s the advice given by every speech teacher I ever had, and one which we all wish would be applied to the tax code. 22,400,000. The number of results from a Google ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2008/02/19/ms-and-kiss/ One of the key value propositions for B2B Outsourcing is the ROI gained fromcontracting for B2B expertise and infastructure at a lower TCO than keeping all the people and infastructure in-house.   I'm not going to re-hash ROI model here as the growth of Managed Services sales (and those selling these solutions) ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2007/10/15/b2b-managed-services-and-saas/ My fellow blogger Melanie has been waxing eloquently on both the state of grace which can be achieved by effective B2B data management only to reminded by another fellow blogger John about how far there still is to go in the integration space. Both of these posts re-enforce (and refine with ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2007/09/28/managed-services-the-road-to-data-quality-and-integration/ SaaS – Software as a Service is huge -A quick Google produced 1,620,000,000 hits.  Even SAP is jumping on the SaaS bandwagon – although not large customers.  (SAP Big business won't be interested ) SAP is making the bet they can deliver ERP services using a SaaS model to small clients ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2007/09/27/b2b-as-a-service-can-it-be-done/ I'm really not that into fashion - just ask my co-workers, but my wife and daughter really enjoy 'Project Runway'.   If you've seen the show at all you'll have heard Tim Gunn use the title phrase of this blog.  "Make it Work". I'm told, not being a fan of the show, ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2007/08/31/make-it-work-the-managed-services-motto/ My intent with this blog is to have a conversation about both current state as well as the future direction of B2B Managed Services, and so I’d like to begin by offering a view of what a B2B Managed Service actually is.   I’ll begin with the name “Managed Services.” Is this ... http://blogs.gxs.com/mixterm/2007/08/24/managed-services-%e2%80%93-what%e2%80%99s-in-the-name/