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Enabling Outsourced Service Providers to Think Globally While Acting Locally

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Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006 (EDBT 2006)

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Enterprises commonly outsource all or part of their IT to vendors as a way to reduce the cost of IT, to accurately estimate what they spend on IT, and to improve its effectiveness. These contracts vary in complexity from the outsourcing of a world-wide IT function to smaller, country-specific, deals.

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  1. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto, CA, 94304

    Kevin Wilkinson, Harumi Kuno, Kannan Govindarajan, Kei Yuasa, Kevin Smathers, Jyotirmaya Nanda & Umeshwar Dayal

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  1. University of Athens, Greece

    Yannis Ioannidis

  2. University of Konstanz, P.O.Box D188, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

    Marc H. Scholl

  3. Sustainable Content Logistics Centre, Hamburg, Germany

    Joachim W. Schmidt

  4. Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748, Garching b. München,  

    Florian Matthes

  5. Department of Informatics, University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, 15771, Athens, Greece

    Mike Hatzopoulos

  6. IPD, Universität Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe,  

    Klemens Boehm

  7. TU München, D-85748, Garching, Germany

    Alfons Kemper

  8. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Torsten Grust

  9. Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München,  

    Christian Boehm

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Wilkinson, K. et al. (2006). Enabling Outsourced Service Providers to Think Globally While Acting Locally. In: Ioannidis, Y., et al. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11687238_70

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11687238_70

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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