European IT spending will remain flat throughout next year, according to one recent survey - but another analyst house is claiming that budgets will continue to grow as more money is devoted to EMU and ecommerce projects.
This all means no self respecting corporate sales person turns up to a sales call without their ROI or total cost of ownership (TCO - that other addictive TLA) template in their kit bag. At worst, it can stand in the way of getting budgets approved...
With tech budgets under intense scrutiny and vendors waiting for a surge in spending, there's probably never been a better time to look at project success. According to a recent poll of IT directors from medium and large businesses, they will spend...
Today Andy McCue takes a reading on what IT budgets look like this year. The downward trend for IT budgets and pressure to reduce costs has been a fact of life for most CIOs over the last few years but 2004 saw signs that things might finally be...
Financial services companies are likely to trim back their technology budgets this year, so IT executives will have to find ways to free up funding for new investments. Although spending by finance firms outstripped companies in other sectors...
CPM software aims to support speedier processes, greater visibility of the budget figures and ownerships, improved data quality and less budget gaming (negotiating artificially low revenue or high expense budgets in order to maximise bonuses).
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