Dr. Katy Ring is a Research Director for IT Services at 451 Research. In this role, she covers consultancies, system integrators and outsourcing companies applying advanced technologies to deliver digital transformation services.
Katy has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, providing strategic advice to C-level executives at vendor and end-user organizations. She has developed strong research-based expertise and has focused on areas where the global IT service delivery model is changing, including cloud services, the evolving CIO role, innovation, sustainability and global sourcing of labor. Most recently, Katy led K2 Advisory, a research resource for CIOs, their senior colleagues and suppliers. Before K2, she spent 12 years at Ovum Research, leading research in emerging software and services markets, as well as developing the company's Outsourcing Practice. Before her tenure as a Principal Analyst and Practice Leader at Ovum, Katy was a journalist with publications, including Computer Weekly and Computergram International, and was a founding editor of Software Futures.
Katy holds an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and history from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in the popularization of science from the University of Kent in Canterbury.
The company has taken the message 'be the change you wish to see' to heart with the creation of its Live Enterprise Suite. Infosys is providing enterprises with a suite of platforms, apps and IP to support them as they modernize existing technology while shifting to more agile business models.
Designed to address both IT and business automation challenges, UST is growing its digital transformation credentials with UST SmartOps engagements. The company's investment in the development of its UST SmartOps platform comes at a time when the appetite for starting intelligent automation initiatives is growing among enterprises.
The business models of IT service providers are being disrupted by the requirements of enterprise digital transformation projects as those enterprises continue to respond to digital competition from cloud-native entrants. How is M&A being used to accelerate these changes?
The company sees AI and cognitive technologies as highly disruptive " they help organizations better understand customers, enabling them to create a product or service that is increasing tailored to individual requirements, all secured by the technology infrastructure.
Both the number of infosec transactions and the spending attached to them soared to record levels in 2019. And as we step into a new decade, the drivers that pushed acquisition activity to unprecedented levels appear poised to continue.
The rising tide of 2018's record software M&A market gave way to a top-heavy 2019 as fewer business application vendors fetched a 10-figure price but a record number nabbed even bigger paydays. And while the overall market shrank a bit from 2018's high, last year still ranked much higher than typical years.
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