Whatever happened to the story of moving most or all of GTS to Deloitte?
Is that plan still on? Delayed? Cancelled?
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Execute 'outsourcing' sooner than later, the $20 million being spent across multiple platforms today would be instantly saved, no more pointless QBC's or EBC's with vendors who do the dog and pony show ever time. No more catered meals from the vendors or blog posts on various vendor's web sites. No single Senior Director decisioning on platforms. No Internal Pen Test teams planning their next conference to attend. No more vacation coverage planning. No having to micro manage another organization's endpoint coverage progress. All of the above would also decrease salary plus bonus expenses by $10 million as well.
Protiviti was previously leveraged for vulnerability management which was poorly managed by Verizon employees, as well as PCI. Considering the current operations team is no better experienced, that is probably an organization best suited for an approved Verizon vendor like BT Group which would reduce OPEX as well as transitioning the platform operational cost to the vendor versus Verizon absorbing the over price cost it pays today.
@b4: V being no longer on the payroll was by personal choice or due to the failure to complete the assigned duties or unable to complete the annual performance objectives or none of the above??
I suspect the Vivek departure threw a lot of plans into chaos. I also think Verizon is probably finding it hard to finalize an agreement with a vendor. They want a lot from a vendor, but don't want to pay a lot. They may have also learned a few lessons from the C-Ops disaster.
I am hearing small groups, most groups, all, or none around Q2-Q3. In short it is still being discussed, planned, negotiated. Even the architects of the deal have not decided the exact shape and form of it, nor finalized it. It is similar to the 9/24 scare there was some deal nearly finalized around then, then it fell through I guess. That was what was implied in my rumor mill anyways. So I know this doesn’t clear anything up but at least you know it’s still being considered for next year.
This mostly occurs in the first quarter of next year.
@OP Groove is in the heart...