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A vendor sponsored survey has found that three quarters of firms in the U.S. see services and contract management as a critical initiative for 2006.

Elance, a provider of e-solutions for services. These centre on automation, streamlining and control of purchasing.

The survey found that management of contingent labour and services is critical. IT consulting is the major category of external expenditure.

As usual the survey cites compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley as important.

Top services spending areas are:

1 IT consulting

2 Contingent labour

3 Management consulting

4 Offshore development

5 Third party services/BPO

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