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How to Prioritize Business Technology Investments

Regardless of the size of your organization, the demand for business technology investments always exceeds available funding. If the goal is to leverage technology in order to bring the greatest possible value to the business, what is the best way to prioritize these investments? It should start in the very early analysis of each possible [Read More...]

Update Your Enterprise Apps or Invest More in What You Own?

With consumer spending up for the fifth month in a row, modest growth could be in our future. Large company spending on enterprise solutions is significantly up in 2010 and it’s expected that small to mid-size businesses will follow later this year. If you’ve been waiting for the trigger to consider your own strategy, this [Read More...]

How Intel Measures the Value of IT

When Intel spent $1.1 Billion on IT in 2005, it wanted to be sure it was getting value from its investment. It’s true that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. Any of a number of financial tools could help Intel determine the expected return, but IT executives wanted to measure the actual value delivered, [Read More...]

ROI for Enterprise Software

What is ROI for enterprise software? The traditional definition of ROI for enterprise software is the ratio of costs to savings for an investment, and it’s usually expressed over a period of time.  For example, if a very large company database slows down productivity for 100 employees 5 minutes 10 times a day, and the [Read More...]

Changing Vendors in Changing Times

Bill Yearous, CIO of The Seattle Times, has recently been in the news. After watching his budget get cut in half over the past three years, he decided to reconsider several key vendor relationships. In the end, after watching Oracle’s annual fees increase at twice the rate of any other vendor he was contracted with, [Read More...]