Managed Services: New age of smart-sourcing'

Rather than sweat exhausted assets, Sungard encourages businesses to mix and match a range of services.

Stephen Coombs, head of cloud and managed service consulting, Sunguard.

Sungard Availability Services has been in the managed services game long enough to know better than try and do everything and is now benefiting from a market trend towards more selective outsourcing.

Stephen Coombs, head of cloud and managed service consulting, calls it ''smartsourcing. Rather than hunt down third parties to deliver back services at a cheaper cost, the onus is on finding a partner to help ''land and expand, to play a ...