budget and spends
RSS budget and spendsMoD plans telepresence trial
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a telepresence pilot, as part of its plans to tackle its travel budget.silicon.com Public Sector According to group captain Andy Towler, team leader for the defence modernisation initiative, the pilot is... [03 Jul 2008]
The IBM Lotus Learning Management System - The Right Answer for Increasing Productivity & Reducing Costs
White Paper Learn how the IBM Lotus Learning Management Systems can help organizations; manage their training budget, quickly react to the market, and reach customers in new and innovative ways. The average organization spends an amount equal to 1-3% of... [03 Jul 2008]
Enterprise Information Integration: Integrating the Real-Time Enterprise
White Paper The average company spends the bulk of its application development budget writing programs to link its back-office, front-office, and e-business applications to share critical information for driving the full array of business processes, from... [03 Jul 2008]
IT Optimisation: the low fat approach to IT
White Paper A typical business spends 80% of its IT budget - managing and operating its IT infrastructure, rather than investing in it. This paper looks at ways you can optimise your IT and save money. [02 Jul 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The online service significantly simplifies the process of booking travel and accommodation for services personnel, cutting out paperwork and allowing them to compare budget airlines with scheduled carriers or rail for any given journey. [19 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment It's a big job - the company has a tech budget of around $300m and 900 full-time IT staff supporting 35,000 employees worldwide. All of this feeds back into the goal to reduce the operational expenditure to capital expenditure ratio of the IT... [01 Apr 2008]
Rescue Workers Reduce Costs and Improve Processes With Unified Communications
White Paper The organization spends most of its budget on its people and equipment - with only a small percentage available for Information Communications Technology (ICT). In addition, high PBX support costs significantly affected the ICT budget. [19 Feb 2008]
Rescue Workers Deploy Critical Voice Mail and Unified Messaging and Communications
White Paper The organization spends most of its budget on its people and equipment - with only a small percentage available for communication technology projects. However, budget limitations and poor projected ROI figures prevented the organization from... [09 Dec 2007]
Standardized IT Infrastructure for Higher Business Value
White Paper The average enterprise spends nearly 80 percent of its IT budget on maintaining existing applications and infrastructure. IT optimization can substantially reduce that cost, while establishing a more agile, cost-effective and modular infrastructure... [13 Nov 2007]
CIOs: Reduce Costs By Scoring Applications
White Paper As long as IT spends the majority of the IT budget for "lights on" operational and maintenance activities against existing applications, CIOs will be criticized by business executives for their inability to respond fast enough to new business needs. [26 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment Financial services has traditionally been, and still very much is, the industry that spends the most on technology, both pound for pound overall and in terms of the percentage of company revenues set aside for the IT budget. [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis Financial services has traditionally been, and still very much is, the industry that spends the most on technology, both pound for pound overall and in terms of the percentage of company revenues set aside for the IT budget. [06 Jun 2007]
Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News Harley said the criteria for judging the success of a project included whether it was delivered on time, on budget and to the quality promised. Seven in 10 government IT projects have failed, according to the chief information officer of the... [18 May 2007]
Windows users 'paying $20 patent tax'
News A school with only 50 Windows machines - barely enough for one class of students - is paying $1,000 of its limited budget in patent tax, rather than buying books or other useful supplies. The SFLC, which supports open source software, worked out... [20 Apr 2007]
March 2006 IT Priorities Report
Software infrastructure initiatives remain the dominant budget item among project plans 12 months out, a position held for the past quarter. Networking and hardware planned spends round out the top three usual suspects. [26 Sep 2006]
