Dear reader of Outsourcing News,

I hope you can participate in TheInfoPro’s peer-based study about the sourcing of IT Management Services. All study participants receive a complimentary copy results, which includes narrative commentary from your peers.

—You will have access to the same research that your peers have leveraged to conduct benchmarking and to make informed decisions about vendor selection and negotiation.
—TheInfoPro's research will provide you with the necessary data to effectively address the concerns management or colleagues may raise in opposition to your sourcing initiatives. For example, according to the first wave of our research, over 59% of Global 2000 companies pursuing outsourced IT infrastructure management plan to redeploy and NOT layoff employees.

To get started and obtain the results of our Sourcing study, go to http://www.theinfopro.net/New_IMS_Sourcing.ht... .

Here is some more information about the Sourcing study:
—The interviews focus on the use of external Sourcing providers for management of core functions within the IT infrastructure – Servers, Storage, Security, Networking, Desktop, and Help Desk.
—The study covers key topics such as budgets, roadmaps for areas of IT infrastructure that have been or are going to be sourced, and detailed ratings of your sourcing providers.
—TheInfoPro (www.theinfopro.net ) is the only fact-based and spin-free independent research network for the Information Technology industry.

If you have any questions about TheInfoPro, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Lawrence Hecht
Managing Director of IT Sourcing Research