source defines the WITCH group as one representing the large, offshore-centric firms: Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, and HCL
Supplementary notes
The traditional services firms are those that have been in the top 10 for many years, including: IBM, HP, Accenture, Fujitsu, Capgemini, NTT Data, and CSC.
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Global IT services: market share of traditional, WITCH, and cloud providers 2014-2016
The statistic compares the relative market share of three groups of IT service providers - the traditional leading providers, the large offshore-centric firms (WITCH), and the born-in-the-cloud IT service providers - from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, the traditional providers' market share rose to **** percent, while the new generation of large cloud providers have risen to control *** percent of the market.
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