TechRepublic Resources
- Is Your IT Spending Too Conservative?
- Most corporations have frozen IT spending for 2002 - no big secret there. While this isn't necessarily bad, as it has allowed many IT departments to finish deploying software bought in the boom years, it will make meeting objectives for major cost reductions and revenue improvements more difficult - maybe...
- Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, IT-spending
- White papers
- Reducing IT Spending Through Improved Manageability
- Faced with the ongoing challenge of reducing operational problems and expanding services on a limited budget, organizations are increasingly looking to enhanced manageability tools to reduce IT spending. Download this informative white paper from Insight Direct to learn how Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) can drastically reduce your total...
- Tags: Insight Direct, IT-spending, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers
- Fundacion Santa Fe De Bogota Controls IT Spending to Meet Core Business Needs
- Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota is a private, non-profit healthcare organization committed to offering the best medical services. The company wanted to implement a Healthcare Information System HIS that provides suitable storage infrastructure and quick response time to support hospital management applications. The challenge was to maintain sufficient resources to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, IT-spending, Hospital Management, Fundacion Santa Fe De Bogota, Financial Accounting, Finance
- 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
- CIOs express surprising optimism about 2008 IT spending -- Poll: What do you think?
- A survey of CIOs by financial services giant UBS in February showed that the 2008 outlook for IT spending is surprisingly upbeat. This contradicts the dour outlook issued by Dell and Cisco recently and supports more upbeat reports from IBM, HP, and Sun. Of the 100 CIOs...
- Tags: Desktop, CIO, IT-spending, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Gartner: Worldwide IT spending will top $3 trillion
- Worldwide IT expenditure will top $3 trillion this year, or an 8% jump over last year, according to analyst firm Gartner. A full one-third of IT spending also occurs outside of "North America, Western Europe, and Japan." Gartner notes that the response from IT leaders should...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Strategy, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Cisco's John Chambers spooks Wall Street and techies with sour remarks about IT spending
- On Wednesday, Cisco Systems reported strong quarterly earnings, beating Wall Street expectations. However, for those who keep a keen eye on the technology sector, some of the remarks of Cisco CEO John Chambers were enough to inspire frowns and raised eyebrows. Chambers referred to IT demand from big U.S. companies...
- Tags: U.S., John Chambers, Larry Dignan, IT-spending, Cisco Systems Inc., Wall, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Cisco's John Chambers spooks Wall Street and techies with sour remarks about IT spending
- Is your IT budget under pressure and do you see it changing any time soon?I posted the sour remarks of Cisco's John Chambers about U.S. IT spending:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=567Does this reflect what you're seeing? If your budget is under pressure, do you see a possibility of IT spending turning around any time...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Jason Hiner, Cisco Systems Inc., John Chambers, IT-spending
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Using a Network Monitoring System to Optimize IT Spending Decisions: Linking IT Assets to Business Processes and Performance
- Today nearly every organization relies on some form of Information Technology IT. Companies of all sizes are increasingly dependent upon computer systems and networks to enable a wide range of critical business processes. It follows that companies are allocating increasing amounts of their overall budget to the IT department for...
- Tags: Business Process, Performance, Network, Information Technology, IT-spending, Network Monitoring, Cittio, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers 2007-06-27
- Gartner: Worldwide IT spending tops $3 trillion
- Gartner: Worldwide IT spending will top $3 trillionDo share with us more on your IT department's annual budget.Really? we can trust this?nope, it comes from Gartner, they have spewed so many lies that nothing they say can be trusted to b truthful.
- Tags: paulmah@..., Gartner Inc., IT-spending
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Topic Overview: IT Spending And Forecasting
- Every technology decision is made in the context of technology purchases and spending, whether it is an enterprise buying a software application or IT service or a vendor choosing what industries to focus on and how much to invest in marketing. Forrester's IT spending research delivers clear insight into how...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Forecasting, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2007-06-04
- Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 Servers: Redefining x64 Industry Standard Servers
- Organizations are striving to align IT services with business goals and to use their IT services to gain competitive advantage. When deploying x64 servers in the data center, they are expecting not only excellent value, but also the kind of reliability, security, and agility needed for an enterprise-class IT infrastructure....
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Industry Standard, Industry, IT-spending, Enterprise Network, Sun Fire, Organization, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- 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
- Trends 2006: Retail IT
- The retail IT spending outlook is positive: Retailers have finally figured out how to compete with Wal-Mart and are now organizing themselves to deliver differentiation. Many retailers have tackled aging POS platforms, with most initiating a POS upgrade or replacement in 2004 and/or 2005. So where will 2006 take us?...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Information Technology, Retail Company, Investment, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., IT-spending Outlook, Retail, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2006-03-14
- Leading Recruitment Firm Enhances Project Management and Cuts IT Spending
- The French branch of the Vedior group, the world's third largest human resources and staffing corporation, depends on a complex IT infrastructure to support its operations. The company historically managed IT projects using largely manual processes. To increase efficiency, reduce costs, and standardise operational processes, Vedior France deployed the Microsoft...
- Tags: Staffing, Information Technology, IT-spending, Microsoft Corp., Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2005-10-01
- CIO Confidence Poll: Q2 2005
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CIOs remain positive about the current health of their industry — 70% report strong or very strong business conditions, and 77% have increased IT spending over 2004. Despite these positive views about the present, doubt about the future is beginning to show. Q2 brought: 1) a drop in...
- Tags: CIO, IT-spending, Smb/Sme
- Research reports 2005-06-06
- 10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs
- By Jeff RelkinThis article is also available as a PDF download.Building a better bottom line is just as important for an ITdepartment as it is for the whole organization at the enterprise level. Implementingsound financial management within an IT framework is broader than simply beingmore efficient. Many factors are involved:...
- Tags: baseline cost, information technology, IT-spending
- Technical articles 2006-05-31
- Study: IT spending to slow down in 2007
- Re: It Spending to slow down in 2007well this article isn't very imforitive, what does this mean for it students who have government loans/assistance? i myself am a MOS & A+ Student in my second term with 1 to go before presuning my Networking + & Cicso Cirts Not...
- Tags: a+, it, it management, it student, IT-spending, microsoft office specialist, networking, pc, student, support, thepcpractitioner@...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-12
- Forrester: IT budgets to jump 7 percent in '05
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- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Vertical industries, information technology, Forrester Research Inc., IT-spending
- Technical articles 2004-12-21
- Novell sees weakness in IT spending
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- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., IT-spending
- Technical articles 2004-08-20
