I don't know what is more disconcerting: the large number of predictions and prognostications that we usually see being publicly made about the forthcoming IT spending year as one year ends and a new one begins, or the lack of such auguries--at least publicly--from the usual suspects in the IT consulting racket. But at least some of the analysts at Gartner have the itch to predict, and they made some calls recently about the outsourcing and the business intelligence software markets.
The amount of money that companies worldwide spend on outsourcing is just staggering. In 2007, the global outsourcing market accounted to $408 billion in sales, according to Gartner, and will grow another 8.1 percent in 2008 to reach $441 billion. Interestingly, the number of big bang outsourcing deals done by large public companies with a single outsourcing provider are down, according to Gartner, falling by 50 percent in 2007.
