In his first article, Cappelli examines the thorny topic of cost-justifying IT spend - and suggests that old ways of measuring return on investment don't work. This is an important trend for IT decision makers because it so happens that ROP is far...
On this week's Behind The Headlines programme, Richard Sykes, former CIO at petrochemicals company ICI and now chairman at sourcing consultancy Morgan Chambers, and Rene Caryol, ex-IT director at IPC Magazines and Pizza Hut, both said that...
A machine that is designed to undertake tasks automatically with accuracy and precision. Return Path The return path is typically a modem attached to a telephone line. Return on investment. Some products allow user reporting in multiple server...
Internal methods include measuring the budget as a percentage of revenue as well as setting a target for the number of new customers to be generated from an investment - and checking to see if the goal was met.
Each element of data within the computer can have a number of access 'methods' associated with it - create, change, view, use and destroy, for example - and different processes can be provided with permission to use some or all of these methods...
Some of the problems involved in measuring returns from virtualised estates arise from the fact many of the tools for measuring IT performance and return are designed for physical environments, said Ingle.