But the biggest savings can come from those who telework. This means enterprises also have to factor their employees' welfare into the financial equation by devising work-life balance programmes that also yield cost savings, even though monitoring...
The survey of 100 IT executives at the IDC European IT Forum in Paris in September was conducted by research firm TNS for Nortel. Analyst firm Gartner recently warned users to look for tangible business benefits of voice over IP (VoIP) networks...
But those savings - totalling £174m - are classed as "non-cashable", meaning they don't come from a reduction in staff or assets but from improved productivity and other efficiency benefits as a result of the single standardised IT platform that...
But further cost-savings from local e-government will be an increased priority beyond 2005, party in response to the Gershon efficiency review, according the report. The National Projects programme, which supports 22 projects to create standard...
According to Daniel Fliescher, senior research analyst at IDC, cost is still a major barrier. IDC's Fliescher said while there are a lot of PR brownie-points to be won around green IT it is still only a question of economics.
Chris Ingle, consulting and research director for IDC's European systems group, said the next generation of server hardware needs to perform like never before - fulfilling increasingly complex business needs, without costing the earth.