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- The Brazilian IT market will grow to $24 bln
- IDC predicts that the year 2008 will close with total spending on hardware, software, and services in Brazil at $23 bln, nearly equal to the $24 bln expected in the Spanish market. Northeast region of Brazil is the fastest growing region for IT investment in Brazil even though it is...
- Tags: Brazil, IT Investment, Region, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment
- Gone are the days when IT spending was simply another line in the budget, like telephones, maintenance, or transportation. Today, IT spending is increasingly recognized as an investment that will enable the business to continue growing well into the future. But like all good investments, reliable information is essential....
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT-spending, Strategy, Investment, Management, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-03-31
- Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?
- Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?DuhhSo here is the key sentence that shows what's wrong here:"The report indicated that application integration and management and SOA and master data management are top priorities for IT investments."Do small and medium sized companies even run these tools through IT or consider them IT...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Wiki, Strategy, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, small and medium enterprise, Forrester Report, Web, information technology, IT investment
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Get Clean, Stay Clean - Competitive Advantage through Data Quality
- The purported benefits of advanced IT investment are many. Systems promise to provide executives with comprehensive, timely, and accurate data to support better decision making. Whether the strategic goal is better customer targeting and servicing Customer Relationship Management, streamlined logistics Enterprise Resource Planning, or an integrated view of the enterprise...
- Tags: Data Quality, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, IT Investment, Netrics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Consulting Services Help Building Services Provider Maximize IT Investment
- CPG Corporation CPG is a Singapore-based infrastructure, building development and management services provider with clients throughout Asia Pacific. The company needed rapid and effective IT deployment, best new technology utilization, proactive support, and guidance on IT issues. CPG also wanted to maximize business value from its IT investments to drive...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Proactive Services and Quick Response Help Service Firm Maximize Value of IT Investment
- Rapidly growing HDR relies heavily on Microsoft software to provide employees with access to business resources around the clock. For many years, HDR purchased telephone support incidents from Microsoft Services as needed. As HDR expanded globally, it needed more cost-effective and proactive support to ensure successful deployment of new technologies...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Should CIOs Capitalize Or Expense IT Investments?
- CIOs frequently wonder whether to capitalize or expense an IT investment initiative. Often these decisions are made with insufficient financial analysis — it is not as simple as doing the math and making the call on a standalone basis for individual projects. The consequence of flawed decisions can get in...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, IT Investment, Forrester Research Inc.
- Research reports 2006-12-28
- Effective IT Portfolio and Investment Planning: Getting the Most Out of Your IT Investments
- For most IT executives, the annual dance of creating next year's IT investment plans has become increasingly complex. The plan must be sound enough to communicate how IT will help the business meet its goals, while remaining agile enough to adjust to an ever-changing competitive landscape. IT executives need to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Investment, IT Investment, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-10-01
- 10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs
- Building a better bottom line is just as important for an IT department as it is for the whole organization at the enterprise level. It involves an understanding of the main drivers of IT costs, aligning IT spending plans with overall business strategy, using financial resources efficiently, viewing IT expenditures...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT-spending, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-05-31
- IT Investment Decision MakinG
- Getting to "yes" and avoiding "no" Getting to "yes" requires accessing and influencing key decision makers especially those in the finance department. And along the way, there are plenty of others who can say "no"
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2006-01-11
- HSS's .NET COE: A Technology Centric Business
- Despite all the attention given to returns on IT investments, little progress has been made in linking all the elements of IT to what the business is trying to do. Managing IT investments, and demonstrating it's value to the businesses are more challenging than ever, and most businesses seem to...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Information Technology, IT Investment, Business, HSS, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-02
- IT Investment Strategy
- The 90's saw a period of unprecedented creativity and investment in IT, launched by the emergence of the Internet as a widespread mass communication medium; the World Wide Web as a means of linking textual "pages"; the search engine; the rapid reduction in prices of computer workstations; and the adoption...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, University At Buffalo, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management
- White papers 2005-12-12
- IT Service Management Practice: Getting Your IT to Deliver Value
- Information Technology is today recognized as a critical enabler and key differentiator for business success. CEOs/CIOs/CTOs and senior management are concerned about optimizing their IT investments and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of IT resources to support business requirements. IT investments are key for Businesses to successfully deliver products and...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT Service Management, QAI, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Achieving Measurable Value: Optimizing the IT Investment and Demonstrating Value
- This paper explores using Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard methodology to first align an IT organization with the business it serves, then assist in driving continuous improvement and demonstrating the value delivered in a clear way. CIOs and other IT executives, faced with the challenge of increasing the focus of...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- 72% of small-cap investors increasing their IT investments in 2005
- 72% of small-cap investors surveyed by Silicon Valley Bank and SVB Alliant said they were increasing their technology investments in 2005 over 2004 and half of those investors say they will increase their investments by 15-25%.
- Tags: investor
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- IT Value Mapping: A Quantitative Approach to Maximize Returns on IT Investments
- Why do some IT organizations create unprecedented shareholder value, while others earn the contempt of their business leaders? It is no secret that aligning IT with business improves IT ROI, what is often in doubt is how to make it happen. Can you say with certainty that your IT is...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-03-25
- Achieving Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Using Your Existing IT Investments
- The impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act looms large on today's corporate radar. Achieving and maintaining compliance can be a complex, labor-intensive task. But don't despair - there are solutions available that are specifically designed to streamline this process and lighten the burden on your company's resources. By taking advantage of...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Compliance, IT Investment, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts
- Putting a Successful Plan in Place to Measure and Monitor the Value of IT Investments
- 90 percent of IT executives say IT value is critical or very important, according to a survey of CIOs and IT executives from Deloitte & Touche. But two-thirds acknowledge that they have not been successful in measuring and communicating value, and nearly half say that executive management consistently understates the...
- Tags: Monitor, Information Technology, IT Investment, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Kent County Council's IT Investment Projected to Save £10.9 Million Over 5 Years
- Faced with a growing mandate to improve public services, Kent County Council, the largest county council in the U.K., began evaluating ways it could "harvest" information technology to improve public service delivery while controlling costs. A study by INSEAD established that by implementing Oracle applications for financial and human resources...
- Tags: Staffing, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, E-government, Human Resource Management (HRM), Hardware Upgrade, Government, Hardware
- Case studies
- Mutual of Enumclaw Maximizes Return on IT Investments With VMware ESX Server
- Few companies know the value of efficiency like Mutual of Enumclaw. When its growing hardware base began exceeding space limits and outlasting maintenance warranties, the company investigated how to make IT more efficient through server consolidation. By enabling the team to run multiple applications and operating systems - each in...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, VMware Inc., TCO, VMWare ESX Server, EMC Corp., VMWare ESX, Roi/Tco, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
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