Business Value of IT

This ninth edition of the Intel IT Performance Report takes an in-depth look at how we did in our four strategic initiative areas: people, operations, solutions and influence. You’ll find this 28-page report to be a great reference tool as it documents our best practices and benchmarks for employee, business, strategic planning and data center solutions.

An ever-increasing array of business requirements is mandating unprecedented changes to the IT environment. These include:

• An explosion of the number of servers and storage in the data center
• Heterogeneous, siloed IT infrastructure
• Increased demands of new initiatives requiring a wider array of applications, increased customer support and growth in mobile workers
• Organizational initiatives to reduce operational cost

According to this Gartner report: “Limited capital budgets and IT staff availability have always been reasons for SaaS. Now, add in tight cash conditions, and SaaS becomes more attractive.”

This report can help you assess if software as a service (SaaS) is right for your business based on technical and economic considerations.

Intel IT evaluates IT investment decisions using a customer-focused, data-driven process that demonstrates IT’s impact on the bottom line. Our IT business value (ITBV) program provides a consistent framework for measuring and evaluating IT products, services, and support in terms…

Fast Company reports, “When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Intel have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today’s meltdown with distinctive strategies for not…

This companion worksheet for the IT business value program helps emphasize the importance of value measurements for each IT project. Even if project funding is secured, companies need a consistent tool to financially track results until project completion. This template…

Intel is driven to create bold advancements in technology that enhance people’s lives. Explore how Intel is cultivating the spirit of innovation and promoting the concept of sustainability in our operations and in communities worldwide.

Take the Data Center Efficiency Challenge for a chance to win an Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based server, a trip to IDF San Francisco, and more.

IT professionals are invited to submit a short video featuring their ideas on improving data center…

By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.

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Experience an IT@Intel white paper in a whole new way — with video, sound and animation! Hear Intel CIO Diane Bryant talke about Intel’s savings that come about from standardizing on higher-end processors. See comparison tables come to life with…