IT Investment Timing Decision: Related Documents

The ASP Decision
The ASP model is the latest in a long line of silver bullets that are supposed to simplify the delivery of technology’s benefits to the business world. This article provides some simple guidelines for determining if you should consider the ASP model along with thoughts on selecting an ASP.

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12/6/2000

The Return of Manufacturing Investment
The recent economic downturn dramatically changed investment habits for mid-market manufacturers—and not for the better. Nevertheless, some savvy executives have been using the market lull of the economic downturn and stop-and-start recovery to get their corporate houses in order, stabilizing their processes, facilities, and business systems so they’re better equipped to manage rapid growth when it returns. Find out how.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: The Return of Manufacturing Investment The Return of Manufacturing Investment Source: Infor Document Type: White Paper Description: The recent economic downturn dramatically changed investment habits for mid-market manufacturers—and not for the better. Nevertheless, some savvy executives have been using the market lull of the economic downturn and stop-and-start recovery to get their corporate houses in order, stabilizing their processes, facilities, and business systems so they’re better equipped to
11/29/2010 11:09:00 AM

Protect Your Business Intelligence Investment
You’re planning to upgrade your business intelligence (BI) solution and can’t wait for implementation. But are you sure of how to take advantage of its key value drivers, or which functionalities are best for your organization? And can you anticipate—and minimize—implementation risks? Find out how an upgrade assessment done by experienced professionals can help you develop a proven upgrade plan and lower associated costs.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: Protect Your Business Intelligence Investment Protect Your Business Intelligence Investment Source: SAP Document Type: White Paper Description: You’re planning to upgrade your business intelligence (BI) solution and can’t wait for implementation. But are you sure of how to take advantage of its key value drivers, or which functionalities are best for your organization? And can you anticipate—and minimize—implementation risks? Find out how an upgrade assessment done by experienced professionals can
1/30/2008 3:04:00 PM

Document Management Return on Investment Analysis
Find out how a document management system (DMS) can generate a significant return on investment (ROI) for small to midsized businesses (SMBs). The changes in technology pricing over the last 10 years have finally made it possible for SMBs to enjoy the same efficiencies provided by IT systems that large enterprises have enjoyed for decades. These advances in technology can now be applied with ease at the SMB level.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: Document Management Return on Investment Analysis Document Management Return on Investment Analysis Source: Cabinet NG (CNG) Document Type: White Paper Description: Find out how a document management system (DMS) can generate a significant return on investment (ROI) for small to midsized businesses (SMBs). The changes in technology pricing over the last 10 years have finally made it possible for SMBs to enjoy the same efficiencies provided by IT systems that large enterprises have enjoyed for decades.
4/23/2009 5:03:00 PM

Informatica Morphs into Enterprise Decision Support Vendor
Informatica Corporation, long an established vendor in the Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) market space, has morphed themselves into a vendor of solutions for the

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: spite of its high investment in research & development (25% of total revenues for fiscal 1998). Vendor Strengths Informatica has a lead over most vendors in core database extraction technology. In addition, their MX2 metadata initiative gives them a wide-ranging competency with metadata exchange among other vendors. They currently have interfaces to products from tool vendors such as Business Objects, Cognos, and Seagate Software (See TEC News Analysis article: Informatica Conforms to Metadata Standard
1/1/2000

SaaS BI Tools: Better Decision Making for the Rest of Us
Conventional business intelligence (BI) tools are often not available to decision makers and are typically designed for use by trained business analysts. Learn about software-as-a-service (SaaS) BI tools designed to help non-IT people who struggle with the task of mining Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and other unstructured data sources to make sales forecasts, plan for resource utilization, or service customer accounts.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: (KPIs) | Return on Investment (ROI) | Software as a Service (SaaS) | Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
7/8/2010 2:56:00 PM

A Case Study and Tutorial in Using IT Knowledge Based ToolsPart 1: Decision Support Discussion
In going through a business decision process for complex technology selections, more and more use is being made of technologically driven processes using Decision support tools and captured knowledge. The use of these systems and the capability to drive a solution from them assumes an ability to accurately express business requirements and business value within these tools. In this article, we explore the marriage of knowledge management and decision support in forming knowledge based selection systems and procedures that can assist in reducing the current appalling record of IT project failures. This is illustrated by the process to select a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: $30 billion in wasted investment annually. On the vendor side, the challenge of educating the potential client of their offerings results in long sales cycles, meticulous and numerous RFI responses, and potential for a mismatch, resulting in projects that can go awry. These failed projects do not bode well for the vendor, since the sales cycle costs can only rise, and their reputation can suffer. Consequences can be more severe for the client where it can, in extreme cases, lead to business failure. For i
5/30/2001

Enterprise Applications: The Cost of Keeping Current… Or Not
Expand your knowledge on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation.Read IT information in relation to enterprise application. During difficult times it may be tempting to postpone upgrades, treating them as discretionary or optional projects, when in fact they could very well provide a path to doing more with less. Return on investment (ROI) becomes even more important in a down economy. Find out why upgrading may be the most effective and direct way for your organization to increase productivity, improve customer service, and reduce costs.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: with less. Return on investment (ROI) becomes even more important in a down economy. Find out why upgrading may be the most effective and direct way for your organization to increase productivity, improve customer service, and reduce costs. Enterprise Applications: The Cost of Keeping Current… Or Not style= border-width:0px; /> comments powered by Disqus Related Topics: ROI and Success Measurement, Return on Investment (ROI) Related Keywords: Oracle, investment on return, return on
3/10/2010 12:39:00 PM

Are ASP Applications Right for You? Part 2: Decision Criteria
Whether an application is best implemented as an ASP provided application or service, built in-house or purchased, generally depends on the same criteria as what would be used for outsourcing a function or process. This part details that criteria.

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: | Justification of ERP Investments Part Three: Costs of Implementing an ERP System | Supply Chain Portfolio 2004 | Outsourcing 101 - A Primer Part Three: Approaches and Recommendations | Outsourcing 101 - A Primer Part Two: Outsourcing Categories | Outsourcing 101 - A Primer | The Strategic Importance of Asset Management Part One: Changing Attitudes | Supply Chain Decisions - Make Sure You Understand the Dollars and Sense | InsideOut Firewall Reporter Unravels the Mysteries of Your Firewall Logs | Invento
8/24/2001

The Miracle in Detroit: Putting the ROI into ITIL
IT managers understand the difficulty of demonstrating returns on investment for technology projects. The issue is particularly acute for large multiphase deployments, such as IT infrastructure library (ITIL) implementations: massive projects which are hard to sell to management, and which promise returns many years in the future—after significant investment. So how do you get management to buy into your vision?

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: of demonstrating returns on investment for technology projects. The issue is particularly acute for large multiphase deployments, such as IT infrastructure library (ITIL) implementations: massive projects which are hard to sell to management, and which promise returns many years in the future—after significant investment. So how do you get management to buy into your vision? The Miracle in Detroit: Putting the ROI into ITIL style= border-width:0px; /> comments powered by Disqus Related Topics:
12/19/2006 9:04:00 AM

TEC Launches a New Decision Support System: jDICE (just Decide—Ignore [Your Idiot] Customers and Employees) » The TEC Blog

IT INVESTMENT TIMING DECISION: April fools, best practices, decision making methodology, Decision Support Systems, ERP selection process, jDICE, TEC, Technology Evaluation, Technology Evaluation Centers, Technology Evaluation Centers Inc., blog, analyst, enterprise software, decision support.
01-04-2010