Keith Tilley, executive vice president of Europe at SunGard Availability Services, said, "IT vendors and senior in-house IT employees need to do much more to educate financial decision makers about the benefits of moving to an appropriate outsourced IT environment and the related use of outsourcing partners."

The research was carried out by Vanson Bourne among 100 CFOs organisations employing between 250 and 1,000 staff.

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