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Down to business: Forrester reports more companies looking to IT services firms for help on green IT strategy
ZDNet Technology News (May 22 2009)
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Most businesses are still going it alone when it comes to figuring out their green IT projects, but Forrester Research reports that an increasing number of companies are turning to a professional services provider for help. Many of the usual suspects in the enterprise IT services business are morphing in response, including Accenture, Capgemini, Cisco Systems, Dell, Deloitte, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, Tata and Wipro. Approximately 10 percent of the companies surveyed by Forrester's green IT analysts in October 2008 were engaged with an outside company, compared with 6 percent the previous year. Approximately 30 percent of the surveyed companies were considering a project with an outside consultant, compared with just 18 percent in the year-earlier survey. The base for October...
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