neoIT in partnership with Lawson Software

BANGALORE: neoIT has signed a partnership with Lawson Software.The

partnership will enable firms to assign internal resources where needed with

Lawson Services Automation, and to engage in and manage a strategic outsourcing

arrangement when external resources are needed due to a lack of internal

resources or expertise.

neoIT’s Services Value Chain Automation technology, sometimes called

"strategic sourcing," allows companies to automate the entire

outsourcing lifecycle — from planning, sourcing and selecting outsourcing

partners to managing the collaborative relationship with these partners once

they are retained.

The partnership between Lawson and neoIT is a response to the growing need of

companies worldwide to more efficiently manage the outsourcing of IT projects

and services, including IT application development, integration and maintenance,

IT infrastructure, back office or entire IT operations. The partnership also

will support companies that make strategic decisions to outsource business

processes like human resources, marketing services and call centers by

simplifying the sourcing, procurement and management of these services.

"The procurement of IT services today is a fragmented and unnecessarily

expensive process," said Gartner principal analyst Ted Kempf. "By our

estimates, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises do not have a formal process

for strategically procuring IT services, or — even more troubling — simply

do not know they need one. As a result, we estimate that Global 2000 companies

that outsource technology projects through traditional methods currently spend

$35,000 to $75,000 per project to identify, qualify and select service

providers. In order for companies to begin to reduce these costs, they first

need to have a tool in place."

The partnership between Lawson and neoIT is designed to address common

sourcing issues by simplifying the processes associated with identifying

strategic outsourcing partners and managing their services delivery once they

are selected. The partnership also will help professional services organizations

serve as "services aggregators" in the services value chain, allowing

them to simultaneously combine multiple partners into a single solution for

their end customers looking for complex outsourcing arrangements managed by one

vendor.

"This partnership is all about breaking down the walls of the

enterprise," said Lawson executive vice president for professional services

Dean Hager,. "Our goal is to make sure that organizations that work with us

are no longer limited by the talents, skills and availability of resources

within the four walls of their enterprise. With this partnership Lawson truly

provides value as an inter-enterprise solution to its customers.

"neoIT’s decision to partner with an enterprise software provider

pointed to Lawson as the leader among services automation technology. We believe

that by combining the two technologies we will fundamentally change the way

companies streamline their services value chain," said neoIT chief

executive officer, Atul Vashistha.

"Through this partnership, we will be able to offer our clients a

services process optimization suite that provides a full view of their sourcing

needs and processes both internally and externally, delivering control,

visibility, cost savings and process optimization."