CSPs Are Driving Out SI and Custom Code Overspend in Software

By lowering integration costs, CSPs are finding greatly improved efficiencies in their operations.

If you dig down into the annual reports from communications service providers (CSPs), you’ll see billions of dollars spent on systems integrators (SI), external management consultants and software consultants. A large chunk of that is being spent on making sure software systems play along with one another and ensuring that processes perform in a relatively robust way. But one of the major problems with this expense is that it is never ending, with systems requiring constant customization by expert software engineers to meet the business needs of the operator. Read More