Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT service provider, will not be pushed off its ambitious course. After weathering the recession with positive results, it has room to further its expansionary aims and make the traditional globals nervous.
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Report Table of Contents:
Executive summary
In a nutshell
Ovum view
Recommendations for vendors
Methodology
The make-up of the UK higher education market
Definition of higher education
Market sizing
IT expenditure
Public funding
Tuition fees
The evolving deployment of IT in the UK higher education market
Significant changes are afoot in the IT department
Increasing trend towards outsourcing
Increasing competition may impede collaboration
More demanding consumers
Emerging role of IT as a differentiator
IT decision making is shifting away from the IT department
A looming efficiency agenda will further constrict IT budgets
Institutions are banding together to reduce IT costs
Vendors should strive to be trusted partners
The SIS and LMS are vital solutions in higher education
It is still early days for open source
Future trends
The need to do more with less
List of Tables
Table 1: The number of UK higher education institutions
List of Figures
Figure 1: Business objectives for IT investment of UK higher education institutions in 2008
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