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whitepaper A significant number of projects go over budget and don't meet their timelines, due to missing, incorrect, or changed requirements. Compared to traditional Information Technology (IT) projects, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects face more...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal application, or even just a Web page - one can't seem to get programmers to deliver on time, on budget, and with the level of quality...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Ineffective or failed project delivery is the bane of every IT user and tales of budget overruns, cancellations and time lags are legion. It is quite alarming that significant numbers of IT projects still fail to deliver key benefits on time and to...
[09 May 2008]
whitepaper Hear how email hosting will help you focus on projects that are strategic to your business and allow you to free up your budget, staff and infrastructure from the challenges of managing a complex in-house email system.
[08 May 2008]
Comment This debate might be fuelled by accountants looking for better accountability or by IT professionals frustrated by continued budget constraints in organisations that do not understand the cost of provisioning services to the business.
[21 Apr 2008]
Comment As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget. Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT...
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper With 64 percent of all data migration projects delivering late and 37 percent coming in over budget, you need a firm grasp of how data migration issues can impact your business's bottom line. It reveals key findings from a recent study of the data...
[16 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Join Remedy, along with our featured speaker from META Group, William Snyder, in an educational webcast to explore: How a solid asset management strategy can reduce costs, increase utilization and improve budget predictability; How new legislation...
[10 Apr 2008]
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]
News But more than half of silicon.com's 12-strong panel of IT chiefs are feeling the budget pinch as they plan to scale back spending on external contractors - though many are planning to replace these workers with permanent staff to ensure they still...
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper To an employer, a good project manager is one who delivers projects on time and on budget. As economic and business factors change, the role of project manager adapts to meet new needs and to solve new challenges.
[24 Mar 2008]
Comment I think there should be budget available from the public purse as this affects all UK residents, not just businesses. The world has moved on in terms of how innovative projects that use technology are delivered, so must the NHS and the government.
[20 Mar 2008]
Comment Blowing the budget, delays and terminations are rife. The report revealed that 105 projects had overrun costs of more than £9bn, with an average over-expenditure of 30.5 per cent. With the recent news that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP...
[12 Mar 2008]
Comment If my business really wants to handle the fears of recession the best way to do it is to increase IT's operational budget by 100 per cent. So despite pressure to improve services, decrease downtime, deliver new and increasingly ambitious projects...
[03 Mar 2008]
News The first budget would assume a continuation of the status quo, while a second would act as a back-up in case of a business slowdown. Gartner has come up with a six-point plan to help companies cut budgets successfully, including devoting the best...
[26 Feb 2008]
Comment Perhaps the most unlikely element so far is the idea of the government finishing such a major project without it running a fair few billion over budget and a couple of years late - or just getting scrapped.
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment It's very conceivable that if you have your own business unit budget, you can start deploying projects bypassing your IT department completely by deploying them to the cloud. He believes it will be tempting for groups to run their own projects on...
[19 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Most software projects are either delivered late, over budget, don't meet customer needs, or are cancelled altogether. So the fact that it remains the most inefficient and unpredictable area within IT today is a serious problem.
[14 Feb 2008]
News Major IT projects at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are millions over budget and years late, it has been revealed. It is supposed to help cut the amount of red tape affecting the industry, and Defra claims it will...
[07 Feb 2008]
News The spokesman said the review has not been triggered by the government's lamentable track record on delivering IT systems on budget and on time - such as the £70m overspend for the national fire control centre system or the National Offender...
[01 Feb 2008]
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