Growing environmental concerns, an increasingly mobile workforce and a renewed thirst for access to services will drive enterprise outsourcing decisions in 2008.

Joe Hogan, vice president of strategic outsourcing programmes at Unisys, believes that cost savings, formerly the key factor in outsourcing decisions, will now be a given and not the sole driver, or in many cases even a primary driver.

"A profound transformation in how people work and do business is driving a new set of service requirements and imperatives," he said.