It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. If you’re an outsourcing buyer or provider working in the global marketplace, make sense of it all by attending Outsourcing Institute’s Global Sourcing – The Next Generation Road Show on June 19, 2013, in New York City.

From federal regulations to the changing provider landscape to buyers and providers meeting each other’s most pressing needs, discover how to maximize outsourcing in a dynamic and complex global environment.

For decades, companies have based business decisions on transactional data stored in relational databases. But beyond that critical data, every enterprise also has a treasure trove of “Big Data”: non-traditional, less structured data, including weblogs, social media, email, sensor data, and photographs.

When Big Data is mined and integrated with traditional data, companies can achieve a deeper understanding of their operations, resulting in enhanced productivity, stronger competitive positioning, and greater innovation.

This timely webinar will explore the potential bottom line impact of  Big Data. It will also examine current business constraints against Big Data, and will provide useful approaches to overcoming these challenges.

When organizations look to reduce costs by following an outsourcing strategy, it’s easy to think about reducing capital expenditures by avoiding purchases of hardware, software licenses and networking bandwidth. But IT executives and their finance colleagues often believe it’s even more important to use outsourcing to reduce operating expenses, because those costs usually recur and often increase over time even without increases in business activity.