Center for Outsourcing Research and Education (CORE)

About CORE -

CORE is a non-profit organization, governed by a Board drawn from its sponsoring organizations, which have deep outsourcing expertise. We are devoted to the issue of making outsourcing work more effectively, and we will leverage the skills and capabilities of many organizations in achieving this goal.

CORE‘s management consists of its President/CEO, Molly Pellecchia, Board Chair, John Simke and Corporate Secretary, Richard Corley. Charu Murti is CORE's Research & Program Coordinator.

We are also building a network of alliances with organizations also interested in outsourcing. These include business and technology associations, industry groups, media organizations and public sector enterprises.

You cannot outsource risk

According to Gartner, more than 60% of companies do not do any security risk mitigation when outsourcing development.

Rob Rachwald has some suggestions.

IT trends in banking: key focus for 2009

European banks will this year invest in IT to improve risk management, increase flexibility and reduce complexity. And they will outsource and offshore more…

Outsourcing can offer good returns

IT outsourcing has proved disappointing for many companies, failing to live up to the promises of the business case or deliver the expected return on investment. But good management can turn it into a success, as Liz Warren discovers.

MS Licensing Options

Ø There are two distinct types of licenses at Microsoft - internal use licenses and commercial services licenses.
Ø Licenses acquired through the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Full Packaged Products (FPP), Open, Select, and Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs are for the use by the contracting entity and its affiliates.
Ø Service Providers cannot acquire licenses through these programs in order to provide commercial or hosted services to their customers.
Ø The Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) provides 3rd party commercial use rights to service providers
Ø Customers Providing Own Licenses
o Service Providers can provide services to their customers by having their customers provide all the necessary Server and Client Assess Licenses (CALs).
o End users cannot use their own Client Access Licenses to access services from a server which is licensed by the service provider. These end user customers will retain licenses to their Microsoft software if their relationship with the service provider terminates. When end users choose to outsource services to a service provider, but acquire their own Select or Enterprise Agreement (EA) licenses, the service provider should have their customers submit a Hosting License Verification Form to Microsoft, then retain a copy for their records.