1. IT – Towards User Defined Services
IT – Towards User Defined Services

2. … mass-customized solutions”
Current Scenario
Current industry trends suggest that the evolution of IT services will follow the path of utilities. The utility model implies that customers can flexibly adapt service delivery to their current demand…
Gartner Dataquest, for instance, identifies “… a fundamental shift in
services delivery to…
… mass-customized solutions” 2

3. Current Scenario… Standardization Individualization IT Service
Without standardization, however, there will be no viable business model for these service offerings. Yet the demise of first generation service models of application service providers (ASP) indicates that
fully standardized services leave many customer requirements unfilled.
Thus it is critical for demand-oriented service offerings to balance standardization and individualization of service delivery.
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4. User defined IT Services – Emerging Technologies
Thus the advent of Emerging Technologies like Cloud Computing , SaaS and Platform BPO…
They address the growing needs of user defined IT service features
Movement from Capex to Opex
Revenue based on consumption/transaction
On demand availability
On demand scalability
Reduced complexity
Improved agility
Global capability
Platform for innovation
Reduced time to market
Business continuity during disasters 4

5. Cloud Computing Cloud Computing – Is it the rainmaker?
CII-PwC Survey results
Among IT users – increased flexibility, lower implementation time, easier maintenance and lower TCO stand as the primary reasons for adopting cloud.
67% of the users want to adopt infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), followed by Software as a Service (SaaS) at 50% and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Cloud Computing is…
“An approach to consume technology in a pay-as-you-go model where consumers only pay for what they use.”
Cloud Computing Services offered
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Key elements of Cloud Computing
Speed, revenue based on consumption, clearly defined services managed to appropriate service levels, on demand availability and scalability, location independence, complexity hidden from view 5

6. Cloud Computing… Cloud-oriented environment enables the following:
Efficiency – through automation, which becomes essential to handle the scale of operations that can be supported
Flexibility – through the ability to configure and provision systems and resources on demand, effectively scaling systems up or down as needed.
Control IT costs – by eliminating the need to over-buy and over-provision IT resources far ahead of demand, relying instead on an on-demand pay-for-use only when you use it model and virtualisation of shared computing resources
Scalability – enables organisations to scale resources up or down as needed.
Extensibility – through hybrid clouds, organisations can extend the scalability of their private cloud temporarily through linkages to public clouds based on pay-per-use model
Cloud Computing Success Stories
GE – Global procurement hosting 500k suppliers and 100k users in six languages on SaaS platform from Aravo to manage $55B/year in spend
Bechtel – Reduced infrastructure cost by 30% in part by achieving 70% server utilisation.
Washington DC – Google Apps used by 38k employees reducing costs to $50/user per year for , calendaring, documents, spreadsheets, wikis and instant messaging
Eli Lilly – Using Amazon web services can deploy a new server in 3 minutes versus 50 days and a 64-node Linux cluster in 5 minutes versus 100 day 6

7. Platform BPO
Platform BPO Model – Poised to address the changing landscape of outsourcing…
Platform BPO is… “a technology-integrated BPO that provides a complete business solution by packaging a technology platform with a domain application.”
As per PwC-CII survey, about 34% of IT users are planning to avail platform BPO services and they intend to avail them for benefits like operational efficiency and process standardisation – thereby better quality.
Platform BPO
Shared Service Platform
- Integrated offering
- Powered by industry best business management solutions
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Shared Services Outsourcing model
- Client specific customisations
Industry best practices
- Pre-configured platform
- Reusable industry frameworks
- Defined processes
Move from Capex to Opex
- Pay-by-volume (transaction) pricing
- Ease of scalability
- Optimal utlisation of resources 7

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