The Business Case for Cloud Computing
A cloud computing cost analysis from Infosys, the big outsourcing provider based in India, came up with interesting results. In the first year, the on-premise system appears much more costly than the hosted cloud-based system. By the third year, the cost gap between the two is not substantial. By the fifth year, the on-premise system [...]
Mainframe 101 for C-Level Executives
IBM made a big announcement today involving its mainframe computers — the $16 billion-a-year business everyone thought went the way of the dinosaur yesterday. Yet here is IBM announcing a new mainframe that is more powerful and less costly per pound of computing capacity than anything that came before.
The new mainframe, called the IBM System [...]
IT Optimization for Finance
IT optimization is a big thing these days, part of the getting more bang for the buck, working smarter, and doing more with less management mentality. Nobody quibbles with the need to get the most you can out of your IT investment. The question is how.
The IT vendors have jumped on the IT optimization [...]
SaaS Revisited
So what is it about software-as-a-service (SaaS)? Does it deliver the killer cost advantages as presented in a recent Hurwitz & Associates study or should organizations reevaluate their use of SaaS as Gartner suggests? The answer, like so many IT questions: It depends.
What it depends on is the organization’s size, its IT capabilities, the particular [...]
Electronic Payments Boost the Cash Picture
What would it take for your organization to give up the paper payment habit? Or at least cut it back a little? That’s the message from Aberdeen Group’s third annual payments report titled “Global Payments: Maximizing Cash Flow with Electronic Payments and Process Automation”. The study was jointly underwritten by Sage Payment Solutions and Syncada, [...]