Posts Tagged ‘value’

The U.S. Stimulus and Job Impact for IT Purchases

Friday, August 14th, 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 requires agencies spending stimulus funds to report on the number of jobs created or retained as a result of that spending. In this white paper, IDC applies its understanding of complex technology value chains, the IT market, and economic modeling to the question. (more…)

Using an IT Business Value Program to Measure Benefits to the Enterprise

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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 that reflect business benefits. Read Using an IT Business Value Program to Measure Benefits to the Enterprise (355KB, PDF) to get the latest on the success of the ITBV program.

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IT Business Value Metrics Program

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

How do you measure the value that new technology implementation brings to an organization? Intel IT’s focused metrics program measures the value of IT products, services and support in terms that reflect business benefits. Find out more about the program in this classic white paper. (more…)

Tackling the IT Cost Challenge

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Ron Miller, Intel IT Business Relationship Manager, offers insights from Intel’s own business value program including the best practices that Intel IT has learned around getting business value from mobility and determining optimal refresh cycles. (more…)

Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Intel IT offers guidelines for achieving quick returns and long-term value with Intel® vPro™ technology, based on the first year of a multi-year deployment program. This paper describes the methodology used in planning, developing and deploying Intel vPro technology and quantifies our cost savings for this deployment. Download Implementing Intel® vPro™ Technology to Drive Down Costs (401K, PDF) from intel.com.

Productive High Performance Computing for Upstream Petroleum with the IBM Cluster Solution

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Driven by an increasing dependence on sophisticated multidimensional seismic imaging and very accurate multi-component, multi-scale, reservoir models to further increase the probability of finding and recovering oil, there is a continuing investment to develop new algorithms and enhance applications for parallel computing environments. This brief from the Cabot Partners Group proposes that these investments will be protected as newer and more powerful cluster systems become available and that the payoff will far outweigh the investment as energy costs continue to escalate. (more…)

The Ghost of Christmas Future, Part II

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.

So how does it happen?
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The Ghost of Christmas Future: Identity Management in 2033

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.

It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel. (more…)

Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Processors

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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 animations. But most importantly, get the details on our analysis that demonstrates that higher-end processors significantly enhance server performance for a minimal increase in total cost of ownership. (more…)

Pharmacy Department Accrues Wide Range of Benefits in Mobile Point of Care Pilot

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

The Macclesfield District General Hospital, part of the East Cheshire NHS Trust, introduced a Mobile Point of care pilot designed to evaluate the business value of using Mobile Clinical Assistants, based on Intel® mobile clinical assistant reference design, to better manage pharmacy workflows. One result: 27 per cent reduction in the number of missed doses and improving both patient safety and quality of care. Read more about the pilot in this case study. (more…)