I don't know about you, but for a lot of folks money is tight--very tight. If you are in that boat it's time you took a serious look at your IT spending habits and processes. Fed up? You can implement a core technology portfolio management infrastructure that helps your enterprise save a bundle--and you can do it for pennies. The odds are as high as 90% that you are paying for goods or services that you don't need; don't receive; or could easily discount. Think I'm kidding?
Real World:
The vast majority of companies spend as much as 50% more for software than necessary.
Nearly any company can be guilty of paying nearly double for hardware over the life cycle of the product.
Tech support & maintenance? You are virtually guaranteed to be tossing cash down the drain.
Every one of these issues holds as much truth for the company owning three computers as it does for the company with thirty thousand computers. Every one of these issues also holds just as much truth for PCs (notebooks or desktops), Macs, minis, and mainframes.
Would you like to stop the IT spending madness? Here's an enormous hint: You DO NOT have to invest more money to save money on IT asset management or, if you would rather redefine the concept, in IT life cycle management / technology portfolio management.
Any company--ANY company--can start an effective technology portfolio management program today--right now--by investing in nothing but a little more focused use of existing internal brain power. Want to know the steps to finding money inside that out-of-control IT budget? Log in and start reading--or contact us for advice. There are literally dozens of simple every day methods of cutting IT costs--without reducing services--inside this site.
Fair Warning: In the very near future we're going to change the way we dish out our tactical and strategic technology portfolio management advice. You'll have to log in to get the full Knowledge Briefings. We're still not charging for the information...
If a link or resource is broken or missing, please send us a note. We'll fix it so you can gain the knowledge you need to succeed! I'm Alan Plastow and I guarantee you can achieve cost reductions through the basic technology asset management principles we provide.
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA.org ) recently published the latest in their series of sponsored studies of the impact of software piracy on global economies. Interestingly enough, in the last few years, these IDC (IDC.com ) studies have quietly changed their stripes from how horribly software piracy was impacting the copyright holders to the (what many consider as a highly dubious) documentation of the "global economic impact" of software piracy.
I have always had difficulties with these enforcement industry sponsored studies--most especially when there are so few solid details available regarding how the numbers were genuinely acquired. Read on for my commentary on this latest release as posted on the cNet News web site.
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We have found that, in as many as 90%+ of copyright non compliance settlement announcements, the published costs of a software piracy audit generally have
very little to do with the actual financial impact of the non
compliance (piracy) confrontation. In our training programs for
software asset management and software & copyright compliance
assurance we work through the actual audit scenarios to show how multiple
hidden costs can add up to as much as 3 to 6 times--sometimes even more--the published
fine.
What's more, in our experience, fewer than ten percent of actual copyright violation audits are ever even made public. The end result?
The true economic impact of these predatory copyright violations & piracy audits has been hidden from the public eye for decades.
Read on for
more details on how you can build a low cost foundation for reducing your risk of a software audit while increasing the delivered business value of your entire technology portfolio.
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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.” Great quote, Steven...
I'm sorry, but that pretty much sounds to me like corporate-speak for: "We were paying for a whole lot of useless projects." Don't feel bad, Steven, most of us are likely floating around on that same leaky pontoon.
When it comes to software asset management, we've 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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