The trend of using multiple suppliers, multi-sourcing, continues to gather pace. It’s a clear indication that businesses are now demanding diverse expertise and solutions not available through one company.

But finding the right providers for different parts of your IT operations, whether it’s the data centre, business processes or the network, isn’t easy. And while twice as many providers doesn’t necessarily mean twice as much work or twice the cost, it does mean managing them is more time consuming. Not only to get the providers working together for you, but getting them to manage your expectations.

That’s why BT and HP have formed a strategic alliance. Capitalising on our shared strengths, BT's global network infrastructure and communications allied with HP's global IT capability, this synergy enables us to bring innovative, differentiated services and solutions, delivered through a joint approach to service design, transition and management .

Put simply, the alliances’ Integrated Service Delivery allows you to enjoy all the benefits of multi-soucing, but through  a single service approach.

This alliance gives you huge opportunities to increase business flexibility, reduce costs, become more competitive and reduce time-to-market. HP and BT’s global alliance also delivers integrated solutions that enable you to adapt rapidly to changing business and customer demands and to reduce costs by increasing IT and network efficiencies, which then require less support. These solutions can be delivered in a variety of ways, from fully outsourced solutions through to discrete projects. So, you always remain in full strategic control.

You can read the full article here - "Multi-sourcing: Successfully managing complexity and risk".

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