total cost in comment and analysis
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is investment banking and Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, says the focus over the last 18 months or so has been away from... [06 Jun 2007]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile At DHL one of his main tasks is the IT integration following that acquisition, which is expected to take around three years in total. Integration was one of Underwood's big achievements at Exel where he embarked on an aggressive cost-cutting... [06 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Throw in flight time plus taxi transfer at the other end and I've found it all makes for a total travel time of more than four hours and 30 minutes door-to-door, during which you're pretty much on the move the whole time, bar 30 minutes on the... [04 Jun 2007]
To outsource or not to outsource?
Comment Network outsourcers can make the total cost of ownership (TCO) equation look even more attractive as they are able to source equipment from suppliers at a substantially cheaper rate. This allows them to offer the same service as the internal team... [16 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up If it takes 600 x 300ml tins of beans to fill a 180 litre bath tub, at a cost of 79p per tin, the cost of setting up this stunt is £474. This year the charity hopes to crash through the £300m mark in terms of total funds raised, which is a... [16 Mar 2007]
McCue Interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
Comment In terms of the future of India as a location for IT services Robinson believes the pure cost advantage won't last forever. Alongside outsourcing, simplification is a big theme for IT at Norwich Union as part of companywide plans to slash £250m off... [27 Feb 2007]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment That, combined with Microsoft's aggressive 'Get the facts' advertising campaign, which aimed to dispel the 'free Linux' myth and paint Windows as having a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), stopped the Linux desktop movement almost dead in its... [08 Nov 2006]
Open source: The new front
Comment For a while now, the discussion about the introduction of open source solutions has surrounded fundamental questions of reliability, security and total cost of ownership (TCO). If the TCO argument isn't conclusive, then we have to start looking... [11 Oct 2006]
Leader: Don't judge a Google book by its cover
Leader It sounds like an over-cautious, penny-pinching concern but Gartner reports that around three per cent of a company's total revenue is currently spent on print costs. type print jobs is nothing new, the introduction of whole novels to that list... [31 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - so watch out
Comment The availability and spread of broadband; the fall in the cost of IT equipment that now sees the majority of homes having at least one PC; the majority of kids now capable of driving a PC really well; and the sheer growth in content and... [21 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: An overlooked way to save money
Comment On average, the hardware price of a printer represents just five per cent of the total cost of ownership. Operating costs amount to 45 per cent of the total cost. The fundamental premise behind print management is analysing the total cost of... [13 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world
Comment Written at and despatched from a Xian hotel via a low cost wi-fi service In the UK for example there are more than four million SMEs for a total population of around 60 million people. It would be easy to come to the conclusion that the whole... [10 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net
Comment Written at and despatched from a Beijing hotel via a low-cost wi-fi service. Needless to say, the amounts of money at stake are huge, with the network providers enjoying a total market value in excess of $300bn; in the newcomers camp the number is... [07 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: Apple staying in the minority?
Comment If existing users are holding on to their machines for longer then the total number of existing Mac users will not be truly reflected just by new sales, which are likely to be slower sales than for Windows machines. [12 Jun 2006]
Analysis: Security, compliance and CRM in one
Comment PA Consulting's Hughes explains: "In the UK, [banking industry body] Apacs has developed a total authentication system for banks. As ever, the question of cost is a central consideration. Anthony Plewes takes a look at three key areas to consider... [15 May 2006]
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