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Global it budgets to grow 3.3% in 2008, US it budgets to grow 2.3%: Global enterprise IT budget growth remains unchanged at 3.3% in 2008, according to Gartner. While 62% of CIOs reported no change in their 2008 IT budgets, 23% indicated a decline in their budgets, and 15% of respondents reported an increase in their budgets. Of those respondents reporting a decline in...; Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, AM; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Uh oh: The guys controlling the it budget aren't happy: Uh oh: The guys controlling the IT budget aren't happythis translates to possible job losses, no new positions created...and less outsourcing to local consultants.which means.. less money fer me! :(Irrelevant...behind the curve!!Any CFO now thinking of holding back the budget is not doing his org any favors - the recession...; Tags: Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Uh-oh, IT budget, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
Uh oh: The guys controlling the it budget aren't happy: Chief financial officers are pessimistic about the U.S. economy with three quarters of them predicting a recession in 2008 with no rebound in sight until 2009. That happy talk comes courtesy of CFO magazine and Duke University survey of CFOs. What does that have to do with...; Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, CFO, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-13
ROI study: Product portfolio management yields results: Project portfolio management (PPM) software is receiving growing attention from CIOs. Riding this wave, HP sponsored The Gantry Group to analyze key ROI measures for PPM software. Although the results are somewhat coupled specifically to HP PPM Center software, the research is useful to anyone studying the PPM category....; Tags: Project, IT Budget, Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, ROI, Project Portfolio Management Software, Project Statu, Project Management Efficiency, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-07
News to know: Google Health; Yahoo; XP's early days; Your it budget: Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: Google Health makes its pitch BidShift uses Saas to right nursing shortage Comdex days for healthcare IT Garett Rogers: Chatback: Let people comment using Google Talk Google fires up this year's Summer of...; Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., IT Budget, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Industry, Health Care, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Linux, Vertical Industries, Federal Government, Benefits, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Operating Systems, Government, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-02-26

10 ways to trim your it budget: Nobody likes being told to spend less, but the tough reality is that in many organizations, all departments are seeing their budgets cut -- and that includes IT. The question now is not whether to trim the budget, but how to do it so that it's least painful for the...; Tags: Budget, IT Budget, Information Technology, Deb Shinder, Strategy, Management; Download resources 2008-02-25
Amid lackluster IT spending, CIOs say ERP back en vogue: CIOs are expected to increase their technology spending by 2.7 percent in 2008, but the more notable change is the number of executives citing ERP software as their main priority. That's the takeaway from a quarterly survey put out by UBS. According to UBS, 69 percent of...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., IT Budget, CIO, ERP, IT-spending, UBS AG, Virtualization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Storage Management, Utility Computing, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Storage, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Doubling of VA's it budget could tip the market: Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketHow's it going to go... this might be a clueMcKesson is number 3 of the top 100 Recipients of Federal Contract Awards for FY 2008 1Q. (http://tinyurl.com/27sr74)RE: Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketThanks for the report.Good ClueI don't want...; Tags: McKesson, VA IT budget, VA IT, Doubling, IT budget; Discussion threads 2008-02-05
Doubling of VA's it budget could tip the market: The fiscal 2007 IT budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs was about $1.2 billion. The proposed budget for fiscal 2009, which starts in October, is $2.4 billion. That's a lot of IT. That should be very good news for open source. The VA's...; Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, VA, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Manufacturer Shifts 70 Percent of it budget to Proactive Support, Sees Reliability Soar: Del Monte Foods wanted to make IT a driver of business success, but its lean IT staff was continually preoccupied with handling emergencies. By adopting a Microsoft Services Premier Support agreement, Del Monte's IT staff has boosted the time that it devotes to proactive support from 20 percent to 70...; Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management; Case studies 2007-06-01
With it budgets slack, delivering business value is paramount: With IT budgets slack, delivering business value is paramountEnterprise 2.0 Holds More Promise Than NotedNew Science language suggests that the optimal is always in the 'in between'. When purporting an Enterprise 2.0 architecture/approach to a client, the first dependency was for the company to begin to define a corporate function...; Tags: information technology, IT budget; Discussion threads 2007-01-02
British businesses slash it budgets: British businesses slash IT budgets12 Percent of Op Costs; If Only we had that in the USArgh! 12 percent of operations budget going to IT. What are they doing out in Britian? Is this article for real? Sigh. We would all have Vista and Office 7 over here in the...; Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT budget; Discussion threads 2006-12-15
Fed it budgets to drop by 50% in 2007: Fed IT budgets to drop by 50% in 2007Ouch.And this will protect America, how? (Now I'll admit I don't know the details; I'll try to find those from a news outlet that likes to give some details along with the empty sensationalism... but if there is reasonable means...; Tags: Fed IT Budgets, Fed IT, IT budget, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2006-10-15
SOA cuts it budget by half: SOA cuts IT budget by halfThere it is again!Saying that cutting HARDWARE impacts COSTS. The TRUTH of the matter is that SOFTWARE is the major cost of ANY IT project. The "SOA" software that they created eliminated SOFTWARE licenses - which is what brought costs down.But the WHOLE story has...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Middleware, IT budget, knowledge, software, SOA, Microsoft Corp., ISV, Dynamic Systems Initiative, information technology; Discussion threads 2005-04-19
Forrester: it budgets to jump 7 percent in '05: Forrester: IT budgets to jump 7 percent in '05In anticipationfor the virus clean up cost....; Tags: IT budget, Forrester Research Inc., information technology; Discussion threads 2004-12-20
Goldman Sachs: Modest increase in IT spending: The latest survey predicts that in 2004, technology capital spending could outpace overall IT budget growth. Although sentiment eroded slightly from June’s results, CIOs now expect overall IT budget growth of 2.3% over 2003. For technology capital spending, the panel expects growth of 3.9% over 2003.; Tags: IT Budget; Blog posts 2003-09-15

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The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...; Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops: Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...; Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-13
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