• Bang for your IT buck

  By John Dix | 09 January, 2012 22:32

  By all accounts the economy is stronger now than it was 12 months ago, but it is also clear that companies are still moving cautiously, and for the bulk of IT that means continuing to do more with what you have, which is at least better than doing more with less.

• Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012

  By Ann Bednarz | 03 January, 2012 22:30

  Despite some hopeful fits and starts, the U.S. economy didn't escape the doldrums in 2011. Unemployment remained stubbornly high, the U.S. debt-ceiling crisis and budget scuffles spurred more economic uncertainty, and Europe's ongoing financial problems threatened global markets. If there's an upside, at least it's familiar territory.

• Gartner predictions for 2012: More Cloud, consumerisation, loss of IT control

  By Ann Bednarz | 03 December, 2011 06:37

  IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerisation and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision for 2012 and the coming years.

• Government agency IT budget cuts confirmed: Swan

  By Hamish Barwick | 30 November, 2011 09:58

  The Gillard government’s treasurer, Wayne Swan, has indicated in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) that there will be a 20 per cent cut in capital expenditure for government agencies with IT projects worth less than $10 million under the knife.

• AIIA commends Victorian budget

  By Chloe Herrick | 04 May, 2011 12:48

  The Australia Information Industry Association (AIIA) has commended the Victorian Government’s proposed budget despite the document’s lack of focus on information technology spending.

• IT Budgets: It's Time to Rethink Your Chargebacks

  By Albert Eng | 26 February, 2010 06:56

  Let's face it: Your department is a cost center without a revenue stream to offset your cost structure. Hence, you are totally reliant on the revenue-producing units within the company to pay your way.

• Inside ERP Budgets: Slicing, Dicing the Corporate Pie

  By Thomas Wailgum | 10 November, 2009 08:12

  Lately, much of the furor encircling ERP costs has revolved around software maintenance and support fees. The global recession has forced customers of Big ERP vendors-SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor-to question the value they receive from the fees.

• 6 things that should be in the CFO's budget -- not mine!

  By Darren Horrigan | 14 September, 2009 07:16

  CIOs are from Venus. CFOs are from Mars. And nowhere is this more obvious than at budget time.

• Tech vendors: ignore those dollar signs behind the curtain

  By Thomas Wailgum | 22 July, 2009 02:50

  As is the case with selling McMansions, Mercedes SUVs and 63-inch HDTVs, pushing expensive technology products and services during a global recession isn't an enviable task. Late last year, when the economic meltdown began and corporate IT budgets went under the CFO's knife, tech vendors had to hastily reevaluate their marketing messages and overhaul their sales tactics.

• CIOs need to get more from the assets they have

  By Tom Jowitt | 16 July, 2009 05:17

  Enterprises facing tight IT budgets should not be looking at cost-cutting but should focus on working their under-used enterprise applications harder.

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