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Steven Bandrowczak, the Nortel CIO,
wants to reduce his software application portfolio from 1,100
titles down to 100 over an 18 month period. (Read
Andy McCue's ZDNet/Asia article.) According to Bandrowczak, "When
I came we had a lot of projects not necessarily 100 per cent aligned
to key initiatives.” When it comes to software asset management,
we have found that a majority of companies could benefit from some
serious licensing, support, and maintenance house-cleaning.
Unfortunately, it isn't going to happen until we take a good look at
changing the status quo.
If you could reduce the costs of IT assets while continuing to deliver the same-or even better-services, would you take action? Read on to discover some of the key reasons technology asset management and portfolio management initiatives fail--or, even better, succeed.
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Jack Wallen at TechRepublic has written an interesting commentary on Gartner's recent prediction that by 2012 90% of all businesses will be using open source. THAT is one easy prediction to make. Check out the ZDNet Asia article. Here's why and here's how you can begin a drastic reduction in the money you currently invest in operating systems, software, implementation, support, and maintenance--today--while maintaining, and even improving, existing services--No need to wait until 2012.
Read on for more common sense solutions to software asset management and IT cost reduction problems.
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