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Software is the infrastructure of the 21st century, developers are one of the most important tech professions. In a benchmarking study with Kearney, we found: Agile methods can help increase the efficiency of processes and developers.

You don't have to look to India first: IT salaries also differ significantly in European countries. We compared two regions in the south of Germany as well as cities and countryside in Bavaria.

Our contribution as Crown Commercial Service Supplier to the “Government Business” magazine: Best value and best price of IT services in the public sector on page 18/19.

In 2023, IT budgets suffer somewhat from uncertainty, and because of inflationary pressures, IT costs also come back into focus. Otherwise, IT remains on track in all strategic topics.

The demand for IT consultants is high, the supply is limited. As a result, prices for consultants in infrastructure and application development are rising rapidly. The retreat of the pandemic is not easing the market either.

Costs of IT operations are usually too large, inflexible and misallocated. Often it is a matter of selecting areas with low risks for operations or security - not jeopardising the business benefit.

Conventional, in-depth surveys of IT user satisfaction often return average values and take a long time to conduct. They need to be supplemented with short, quick analyses.

One of the key success factors in outsourcing is an adequate pricing model. Especially in Managed Services, Tier Pricing is being used more and more frequently. What are the advantages?

Spending on IT security is rising steeply, and it's difficult for companies to determine their position: Am I investing enough in security?

Metrics - founded in 2001 as Maturity - turned 20 years old. Turbulent times between the dotcom bubble and Corona, during which many clients have continuously supported us. Therefore, it is time for us to give something back.

Metrics - founded in 2001 as Maturity - turned 20 years old. Turbulent times between the dotcom bubble and Corona, during which many clients have continuously supported us. Therefore, it is time for us to give something back.

Metrics - founded in 2001 as Maturity - turned 20 years old. Turbulent times between the dotcom bubble and Corona, during which many clients have continuously supported us. Therefore, it is time for us to give something back.

Metrics - founded in 2001 as Maturity - turned 20 years old. Turbulent times between the dotcom bubble and Corona, during which many clients have continuously supported us. Therefore, it is time for us to give something back.

Dark data refers to unused data in the company that eats up money and energy. How can IT organisations and business units mitigate the problem?

IT budgets are aiming upwards in 2022, at least according to companies' plans towards the end of the previous year. No wonder that the self-confidence of many IT managers is very high.

In many IT sourcing agreements, tensions between the partners can be resolved with a market price benchmark - if the clause in the contract is well designed. Otherwise it can lead to further dicey situations.

It is a well-known fact that a market price benchmark can score advantages over an RfP in the case of an expiring contract. We show how the contractual option of the benchmark performs during the term of the contract.