{"id":6656,"date":"2013-03-26T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/26\/gartner-predicts-death-traditional-sourcing-model-2015\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T00:32:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:32:39","slug":"gartner-predicts-the-death-of-the-traditional-sourcing-model-by-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-predicts-the-death-of-the-traditional-sourcing-model-by-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner predicts the death of the traditional sourcing model by 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner&rsquo;s been gazing at its crystal ball again, and has forecast that service-led solutions &ndash; software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and so forth &ndash; will displace more traditional sourcing methods by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst house stresses that IT companies need to &ldquo;bridge legacy offerings and new services&rdquo;, again pointing a future to the cloud for service providers.<\/p>\n<p>And cloud services appear to be growing at a much quicker rate than other elements of the IT services market. Hardware and software support will grow slowly compared to IaaS and BPaaS (business process as a service), which will grow 13.1% and 47.3% in 2013 respectively according to Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>There are three recommendations Gartner has for service providers this year; stopping undifferentiated marketing messages, emphasising business value to &lsquo;transform clients&rsquo; existing operations&rsquo;; improving service delivery by reinventing the service portfolio; and determining &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner&rsquo;s been gazing at its crystal ball again, and has forecast that service-led solutions &ndash; software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and so forth &ndash; will displace more traditiona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}