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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 »December 15, 2008 — CIO —
Companies are showing renewed interested in managed services to help manage and mitigate their risks associated with technology decisions—particularly in the current economic environment. Forrester sees some macro-economic factors, including rapid technology evolutions, a coming investment wave in information technology, and market constraints on capital, increasing the attractiveness of managed services over the next 24 to 30 months. Managed services providers will have to hone their execution and sales skills to gain share in this burgeoning market. Why?
Managed services allow business to concentrate on business decisions—not IT management. Increased revenue, reduced cost, and improved efficiency drive interest in managed services, and we believe that this will fuel market growth of managed services of all kinds over the next 24 to 30 months. 67 percent of 911 IT decision makers in Europe and North America that Forrester surveyed in Q1 2008 buy managed telecommunication services for expected cost savings, while 51 percent cite simplified operational management as the primary reason and 47 percent buy managed services for the improved quality and reliability.