This opinion piece describes the failure of city-building and professional services business AECOM and cloud transformation business IBM to buy into their $2.3bn IT outsourcing deal, with both looking for a way out of the deal.
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Deal Watch: IBM and AECOM fail to prime workforce for transformation
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Anushree Agarwal
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Anushree Agarwal is an Analyst and member of the IT Tools and Insights team. She works on the IT Service Contracts Analytics (ITSCA) service. She tracks IT services contracts globally and updates the ITSCA database. Anushree also supports the Banking Software Contracts Analytics (BSCA) service.
Anushree has more than 10 years of experience in market research and has authored several reports identifying and analyzing IT service contracts and other IT service trends. Prior to joining Omdia in 2013, Anushree was a senior analyst with the MarketLine unit of Cognizant, where she worked on company profiles and SWOT analysis projects, as well as news coverage and content in the retail, energy, and technology verticals. Anushree holds a postgraduate diploma in management from the All India Management Association (AIMA) and a bachelor's degree in commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
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With 38 years’ industry experience, David tracks the evolution of the applications-centric service provider out of IT services, SI, telco and applications vendors, and analyzes the implications for the digital enterprise. He specializes in analysis into global services contracts, enterprise managed services, and global telecoms and IT service providers. David also provides research into managed and professional services, as well as large enterprise and MNC users, their sourcing requirements, and service provider relationships. As practice leader, David supports telco and enterprise clients in their service evolution through product launches and marketing campaigns, and in contract renewal negotiations for deals worth up to $100m. He also helps emerging service providers develop their regional-to-global business plans.
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