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- IT budgeting 101: Best practices for strategic IT Investment
- IT spending should be a strategic tool for improving the business, but a lot of IT departments fall into the common trap of being reactionary with their IT spending. I recently did a Webcast called Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment where I had a broad discussion with Josh...
- Tags: Budgeting, Information Technology, IT Investment, Best Practice, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Maximizing Customer Service Through IT Investment
- NEXT Financial Group, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a financial services broker/dealer that prides itself on delivering the highest possible service to independent investment representatives tired of relying on broker/dealers that have impersonal customer service. In order to consolidate control of its IT architecture, NEXT decided to implement a SAN....
- Tags: Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- The ROI of IT: Preparing Project Plans for Budget Battles
- More than ever company's are being put to task with justifying each planned expenditure and proving the value of each IT investment. This webinar will focus on current IT spending and justification trends, what is expected from a thorough and credible technology investment business case, and present a methodology for...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, ROI, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Microsoft Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 01 of 11): Realize the Value of IT Investments
- As an IT manager, one can use infrastructure optimization to realize the value of the company's IT infrastructure investments and make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset. Ultimately, infrastructure optimization helps organizations connect with people, information, and business processes to increase market responsiveness and helps eliminate inefficiencies. To that end,...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- Does IT Matter?
- In this Webcast, the author of the controversial Harvard Business Review article and the senior vice president of SAS provide their points of view on questions like: Do IT-driven initiatives produce expected returns?, What area of IT investment yields the best ROI?, how do the returns on operational investments compare...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, SAS Institute, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- Aligning Business Strategy and Gaining Control of Your IT Investments Through Effective IT Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management is enjoying a period of renewed interest on the part of many business decision-makers interested in or needing a holistic view into the organization's spend relative to its investments (assets, projects, systems, innovation research). The overall goal of IT portfolio management is for the organization to invest and...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, SAS Institute, Portfolio Management, Organization, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Five Ways to Maximize Value of Future IT Investments
- This white paper discusses several key issues that will impact your company as it moves toward a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services technologies. The paper drills down on five critical strategies that can help you transform your existing infrastructure to a next-generation model, including the need to: ...
- Tags: RTO Software, Information Technology, IT Investment, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- UK Local Authorities Drive National CRM Programme With an IT Investment of Just £7,000
- The National CRM Programme is an e-government initiative helping local authorities across the UK deliver better service to citizens. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets hosts the service, and with the help of Microsoft Gold Partner Silversands, implemented a collaboration tool based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. From here, comprehensive...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Authority, Microsoft Corp., CRM, National CRM Programme, E-government, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Government, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- How Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of BI without additional IT Investment
- This interview between Steve Lucas, Vice President of On Demand Software and Services for Business Objects, and Ron Powell, Co-Founder of the B-EYE Network, explains how Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of a complete BI platform without additional investments in their IT infrastructure.
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, IT Investment, Benefit, Business Objects, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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- Microsoft Webcast: How Microsoft Maximizes Its IT Investment Through Infrastructure Optimization
- As a company grows, its information technology infrastructure must also grow, typically becoming more complex, more costly to maintain, and subject to continually increasing demands. Often, the IT infrastructure does not align well with strategic business needs, making it difficult for the organization to realize the full value of its...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
- 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
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- UK Based Digital Communications Agency Achieves Rapid Payback on IT Investment Via 10% Increase in Sales Force Productivity and 50% Reduction in IT Maintenance Headcount Costs
- Moonfish Ltd is a successful and well known digital communications agency based in England. The challenge facing Moonfish is to position itself better as the larger, traditional marketing and advertising agencies develop their digital marketing services. To help capitalise on the revenue opportunities in the market, Moonfish management decided to...
- Tags: Marketing, Dell Computer Corp., Agency, Information Technology, Sales Force, IT Investment, Sales, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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