Of the Global Services 100 ranking of the top 10 global infrastructure services providers, released by us in February this year, nine providers are offshore players. The only traditional player to have made it to the list is Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS).
In a similar ranking done by us in 2006, the top 10 positions were equally divided between the traditional onshore biggies and the offshore players. (See box for a listing of the Global Services top 10 infrastructure services providers of 2007 and 2006).
This is not to say that the biggies — IBM, EDS, HP, ACS, CSC and Accenture — are losing their edge. Customers continue to engage them in large infrastructure deals — most often the size of the deals signed with these providers is much larger than those contracted with the offshore players.
