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Soumit Banerjee

Senior Research Analyst

soumit.banerjee@everestgrp.com

Soumit Banerjee, Senior Research Analyst, is a member of the IT Outsourcing research team. Soumit is responsible for analyzing the IT outsourcing market and developing insights on emerging trends. Recent work includes research on IT infrastructure management tools and how these tools affect infrastructure management models. He has also analyzed emerging trends in the differing segments of IT outsourcing deals. Additionally, Soumit has led joint efforts with other research organizations.

Before joining Everest Group, he worked with a multinational ITO supplier developing technology solutions for financial institutions. Soumit holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

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Value Creation in Cloud Infrastructure: It Varies, but mostly from Good to Excellent

Soumit Banerjee, Scott Bils, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2012 | Document #EGR-2011-4-V-0632 | Viewpoint
Virtualization technology paved the way for improved economics in datacenters of today and tomorrow, thanks to cloud computing. Cloud infrastructure presents a compelling business case from a total co... | More

Remote Infrastructure Management - "Expanding the Wings of RIMO"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Abhishek Singh, Ross Tisnovsky

December 2011 | Document #EGR-2011-4-R-0629 | Report
Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing is at a cusp of transformation. As buyers continued to opt for RIMO in the last few years (including the slowdown), offshore providers strove to mature thi... | More

ITO Request for Information 2011 - A Market Insights Report

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Abhishek Singh, Ross Tisnovsky

July 2011 | Document #EGR-2011-4-R-0574 | Report
Like most industries, post 2008, IT outsourcing industry faced adverse pressures due to the economic slowdown. Service providers tried their best to serve industry need to hedge cost and liquidity pre... | More

Independent Testing Services - "It's Time to Innovate"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

May 2011 | Document #ERI-2011-4-R-0557 | Report
Outsourcing providers started their independent testing practice many years ago, and there have always been independent pure-play testing providers. Why this sudden interest in it? With time, this ser... | More

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in IT Outsourcing - "Deals are Back"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

March 2011 | Document #ERI-2011-4-R-0519 | Report
A subdued M&A market in IT services during the downturn gave way to renewed activities. Large deals made a forceful comeback and more service providers acquire different types of companies. Irrespecti... | More

Service Provider Cloud Strategies - "As Unique as Everyone"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2011 | Document #ERI-2011-4-R-0495a | Report
Cloud computing is getting a mixed welcome. Huge expectations, apprehensions and cynicism are getting cooked in one broth. CIOs believe they need cloud computing, but are not sure why and when. Outsou... | More

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - "Supplier Assessment"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-R-0473 | Report
Seeing the traction Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is getting, the suppliers expectedly have started to profess their capabilities in delivering VDI services. Each supplier claims to have "end-t... | More

Remote Infrastructure Management - "RIMO Strategy - Stick to the Basics, but Fine-tune too"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

September 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-R-0462 | Report
In the pursuit of larger infrastructure deals, RIMO players saw their infrastructure business model converging with that of traditional suppliers. This report analyzes this convergence and the apparen... | More

Predicting ITO in the BFSI Sector

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

August 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-W-0458 | Report
This whitepaper explains why the current state of affairs in the financial services sector is likely to lead to increased IT outsourcing (ITO) activity, and lays down a framework that ITO suppliers ca... | More

Desktop Virtualization - "A Cautious March"

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Chirajeet Sengupta, Ross Tisnovsky

July 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-R-0443 | Report
Desktop virtualization means a lot of things to a lot of people. This research cuts through the myriad of desktop virtualization flavors and focuses on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It analyse... | More

ITO Request for Information 2010 - A Market Insights Report

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Ross Tisnovsky

June 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-R-0427 | Report
The report analyzes over 500 high value ITO deals and discusses key trends across Infrastructure Outsourcing, Application Development and Maintenance outsourcing and Bundling trends in ITO deals. The ... | More

Offshore Suppliers' Datacenter Dilemma: Reluctant Owners or Aggressive Innovators?

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Ross Tisnovsky

April 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-W-0412 | Report
Offshore suppliers are getting pushed from multiple dimensions in their infrastructure outsourcing (IO) business. Large buyers expect the suppliers to own assets and datacenters. To scale their IO bus... | More

Hype and Reality of Cloud Computing – “Mind the Gap!”

Soumit Banerjee, Yugal Joshi, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

March 2010 | Document #ERI-2010-4-R-0402a | Report
Cloud computing is entering the enterprise IT agenda with several promises including flexible IT demand management and cost reduction. Suppliers are adopting multiple strategies to attract enterprise ... | More

IT Consulting as a Catalyst of ITO - The Pursuit of a Vague Synergy

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2010 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0387 | Report
Consulting is a large and dynamic market at the high end of the overall IT services industry. The consulting market is complex. Historically, buyers and suppliers viewed the role of consulting in driv... | More

ITO Request for Information 2009 - A Market Insights Report

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

November 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0373 | Report
Everest conducted an ITO deal-based Request for Information (RFI) exercise in Q2 2009.This report discusses key messages from the IT Outsourcing RFI 2009 and presents conclusions on the market trends ... | More

Remote Infrastructure Management - Impending Crisis of Genre

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

August 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0360 | Report
The Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) market continues to evolve with offshore suppliers maturing as infrastructure service providers, enabled by remote infrastructure management (RIM) technology. As of... | More

Moving from Input-based to Output-based Pricing - Why, When, and How?

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

July 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0357 | Report
Pricing is an integral aspect of any outsourcing relationship. It is frequently complex in nature, with the result that a large outsourcing relationship is usually a hybrid of multiple pricing models.... | More

Adoption of Modular Architecture in IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

April 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0333 | Report
In recent times, companies have started to seriously consider a modular approach to infrastructure service delivery. It is therefore important to understand the adoption of the modularity concept in t... | More

Every Solution Has a Price - Primer on Pricing in IT Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

March 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-R-0330 | Report
Pricing is an integral aspect of any outsourcing relationship. Buyers typically face different kinds of operational issues in their outsourcing relationship, many of which can be resolved through appr... | More

The Pandora's Box of IT Services Pricing

Soumit Banerjee, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2009 | Document #ERI-2009-4-W-0321 | Report
Pricing IT outsourcing services has always been an area of great interest and can be scanned through the lenses of both buyers and suppliers. Several factors such as location of resources, maturity o... | More

Practical Approach to Sourcing Portfolio Optimization

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

December 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0311 | Report
As the sourcing programs of large firms mature, issues are emerging related to the proliferation of suppliers within these firms’ application development and maintenance (ADM) portfolios. This report... | More

Demystifying IT Outsourcing Opportunities in the Financial Services Industry

Soumit Banerjee, Rahul Kumar, Ross Tisnovsky

December 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-W-0310 | Report
Understanding the real opportunity in BFSI and separating it from the general hype around this industry is very important. While often referred to as an industry, BFSI is far from being homogenous an... | More

IT Consulting Services Supplier Landscape Fact Pack

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

November 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0269 | Report
IT consulting has grown significantly to become a considerable contributor to the overall IT services market. It is also one of the most complex segments with a variety of models and flavors, delivere... | More

ITO Request for Information 2008 - Summary of the Results

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0287 | Report
In order to better understand key market trends and how they affect the IT outsourcing market, Everest conducted an ITO deal-based Request for Information (RFI) exercise in Q2 2008. The RFI study is ... | More

Plugging the Gaps - Mergers and Acquisitions in IT Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0286 | Report
The Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) market is going through multiple changes that impact service delivery models, locations of delivery centers, and market strategies of suppliers. One of th... | More

Infrastructure Outsourcing Output-based Price Benchmarking

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0271 | Report
This stand-alone report is prepared to facilitate output-based price benchmarking analysis for IT infrastructure outsourcing deals. This report will provide the comparative pricing data by resource ... | More

Infrastructure Outsourcing Price Benchmarking and Pricing Trends Overview

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0272 | Report
This stand-alone report is prepared by the Everest Research Institute to facilitate comprehensive price benchmarking analysis for IT infrastructure outsourcing (IO) deals. This report includes data ... | More

Infrastructure Outsourcing Input-based Price Benchmarking

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0270 | Report
This stand-alone report is prepared to facilitate input-based price benchmarking analysis for IT infrastructure outsourcing deals. This report will provide the comparative pricing data by resource s... | More

Reading the Alphabet Soup: SI, PI, ERP, Etc. - The Changing Drivers Of IT Consulting

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

September 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0262 | Report
IT consulting is one of the most complex segments of the IT services market. The relative significance of historical drivers of consulting is changing and new factors have become important drivers of ... | More

"Fluid IT Architecture" - The Evolution of Modularity in IT Infrastructure Operations

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

September 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0252 | Report
The concept of modularity created revolutions in many industries (e.g., manufacturing) and firmly established itself in IT. While almost every aspect of IT (e.g., hardware, software) has taken advanta... | More

Emerging Supplier Dilemma in the Remote Infrastructure Management Market

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

June 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0254 | Report
The Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) market continues to evolve with offshore suppliers entering the market through labor arbitrage, enabled by remote infrastructure management (RIM) technology.... | More

ITO 2008 Annual Report

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

April 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0240 | Report
The IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Annual Report sketches the changing world of IO with focus on emerging asset ownership dynamics, delivery location selection in asset-light service, role of labor arb... | More

2008 Spending on IT Services - New Paradigm, or Continuous Denial?

Soumit Banerjee, Ross Tisnovsky

February 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-W-0236 | Report
This whitepaper aims to investigate the likely fallouts in ITO of buyer decisions under certain economic conditions during 2008 with focus on the effect of upcoming cost optimization efforts on IT se... | More

The Outsourcing Engagement Model as a Strategic Element in Expanding Share of the Buyer's Wallet

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2008 | Document #ERI-2008-4-R-0164 | Report
Outsourcing relationships are complex, and the success of the outsourcing deal is driven by the alignment of interests between the buyer and the supplier. The engagement model is one of the main facto... | More

ITO Request for Information 2007 - Summary of Results

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

December 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0227 | Report
In order to better understand key market trends and how they affect the IT outsourcing market, Everest conducted an ITO Request for Information (RFI) exercise in Q3 2007. The RFI studied outsourcing t... | More

How Structural Changes in the ITO Market are Likely to Affect the Industry

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

November 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0168 | Report
Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) industry research is not short of opinions and discussions around structural market trends (e.g., unbundling, consolidation, fragmentation). This abundance of ... | More

The Role of Tools in IT Infrastructure Outsourcing: How Investments in Tools Can Create Competitive Advantage

Soumit Banerjee, Ross Tisnovsky

October 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-W-0216 | Report
The infrastructure tools market has grown significantly over the last 20 years, expanding the tool capabilities into multiple areas of IT infrastructure operations. This paper addresses key developme... | More

Role of Tools in Infrastructure Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

September 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0209 | Report
The world of IT is witnessing the development of various tools which automate multiple functions and tasks in a typical IT infrastructure operation. Within the scope of outsourcing, such tools are s... | More

Impact of the Service-Oriented Architecture on IT Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

August 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0139 | Report
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a rapidly emerging solution for linking business processes to underlying IT systems. Depending on the speed of adoption, SOA can present fundamental challenges a... | More

ADM Partnerships - Moving Beyond Labor Arbitrage

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

June 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0137 | Report
The entry of labor arbitrage into Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) outsourcing has redefined the market and created a US$20 billion offshore industry. Since the emergence and rapid growth... | More

Cost accounting considerations in IT outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

April 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0150 | Report
This report presents an analysis of the costs that a buyer will incur from the point that it begins to explore its options up to the point that a supplier takes over day-to-day operations in a steady-... | More

Selecting Location for Remote Infrastructure Management Service Delivery

Soumit Banerjee, Anand Ramesh, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

March 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0132 | Report
"Selecting Location for Remote Infrastructure Management Service Delivery" offers a high-level picture of emerging global locations for offshore infrastructure management service delivery. This resea... | More

The Growth of Infrastructure Management Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

February 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0131 | Report
The "Growth of Infrastructure Management Outsourcing" report that analyzes key market forces that shape the IMO market and determines the IMO growth prospects. This report will outline the Everest gro... | More

Asset-light outsourcing model. The role of asset ownership in Infrastructure Outsourcing

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

February 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0125 | Report
The ownership of IT assets is one of the key factors in determining the dynamics of an outsourcing engagement. This white paper traces the evolution of approaches to IT asset ownership and transfer ov... | More

Infrastructure Outsourcing Roadmap

Soumit Banerjee, Shiraz Ritwik, Ross Tisnovsky

January 2007 | Document #ERI-2007-4-R-0124 | Report
Infrastructure Outsourcing Roadmap revisits the history of the Infrastructure Outsourcing (IO) market and develops understanding of the prevalent business models in this market (i.e., traditional outs... | More