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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »November 01, 2006 — CIO —
Business transformation, compliance with government regulations, quality improvement programs and the move to service-oriented architecture are all driving corporate spending on business process management suites (BPMS). These integrated packages of software tools support process improvement activities such as process analysis, design, modeling and simulation, and the coordination of sequences of steps and tasks involved in a process. Sales of BPMS are growing at more than 20 percent annually, according to Forrester Research. Forrester expects the BPMS market to more than double over four years from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $2.7 billion in 2009.
The following vendors, which Gartner included in its “2006 Magic
Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites,” are poised to
capitalize on that growth: