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Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment Hold on - a £12.4bn project that saves £1.14bn - doesn't add up to much ROI. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.e-cops Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police [20 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment From my experiance with Open Source i can say that Open source software can reduce the ROI for companies and organisations and there are many companies like JBOSS whcih also provides support at very competative rates and also the source can be... [20 Sep 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment ROI calculations tend to be overly simplistic with too few criteria. The truth is that vendor-led ROI calculations are part of consultancy selling, an invidious way of making you think the vendor is partnering with you and sharing your risks and... [13 Aug 2007]
10 mobile trends: Should you care?
Comment While ROI may be hard to determine, much as is it for mobile email, mobile SFA generates hard benefits as well as soft. On the verge of this year's big 3GSM show in Barcelona, silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and... [09 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: The big picture
Comment It's not for the faint-hearted, at hundreds of thousands of dollars or pounds per room, per location, but the ROI figures can stack up, if you happen to be an organisation where there are large amounts of business travel. [24 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world
Comment And this is where I think resources for R&D funding need to be focused, in a sector with the potential for a far greater ROI. It would be easy to come to the conclusion that the whole planet is supplied and powered by a handful of mega-corporations... [10 Jul 2006]
Q&A: Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS
Comment How do you quantify the ROI for your R&D? silicon.com's managing editor Will Sturgeon met up with Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS - the world's largest privately-owned software company - to discuss his company's strong commitment to R&D, his thoughts... [30 Jun 2006]
Leader: Why we must embrace mobile working
Leader So beyond companies providing employees with mobile working technology and meeting associated costs (with a fairly clear ROI) - and beyond businesses providing customers with wireless access - there must be a bridging of issues. [14 Jun 2006]
Leader: Where's the value in IT?
Leader A shocking statistic in an e-Skills UK survey of 1,000 organisations this week found that just one in ten has a proper process for calculating the return on investment (ROI) of IT expenditure. Think you should be earning more money? [24 May 2006]
Opinion: The importance of failure
Comment Often cases for innovation or introducing forward-thinking technology are based on standard and quite conservative return-on-investment, or ROI, arguments. The ROI argument is a difficult one in the world of IT. [01 Feb 2006]
Leader: Microsoft faces a tough sell for Windows Vista
Leader Many on the CIO Jury said they will need to see real business benefits and ROI before considering an upgrade to Vista. It may be early days but the Microsoft hype machine has already started to kick in around its next incarnation of Windows, now... [03 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we heading towards a new dark age?
Comment The same is true of innovation, where we have to look at things like return on investment (ROI) as opposed to the kill rate, or indeed the number of deaths per dollars spent. Written from the BA lounge with free Wi-Fi, Miami Airport, Florida [14 Jul 2005]
How to make sure projects don't go down in flames
Comment They need to understand the implications of delays and budget constraints on one project on the overall programme and the effect on total ROI of the programme of a single project's failure. The blame for project failures is often placed at the foot... [04 Apr 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment But Nick Applegarth, vice president of EMEA sales at voice technology company Envox, reckons UK companies more commonly use unified communications in a customer facing situations rather than in internal deployments "because there is typically a... [18 Feb 2005]
Small business IT: Keep it simple
Comment So although they need technology to help them with their priorities, they need it delivered in a reliable, tightly packaged way, with value for money so that they can get a quick ROI and concentrate on running the business. [15 Feb 2005]
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