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Outsourcing of BI Services

As a BI professional, have you ever worried that your position might be outsourced, offshored, and never seen again? Well, if you have not worried, you should!

Symphony Services is one of a growing number of global outsourcing firms for analytic services. They provide an end-to-end services from data integration, reporting, data modeling, and predictive analytical models, focusing on the marketing area. In addition, they claim to have substantial expertise in specific domains, such as CRM, SCM, and retail.

What is their secret? They are using the business practices and infrastructure of their primary business - complete development lifecycle services for software vendors, such as Ascential, BMC, Hyperion, Oracle, Web Methods, and Yahoo! By focusing that capability toward Business Intelligence, outsourcing companies like Symphony Services are likely to capture a large share of BI systems development work from global corporations.

Are you worried yet?

  Posted by rhackathorn on August 4, 2006 8:00 AM |

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