IT spending

Features

• Outsourcing: Crippling Mistakes IT Departments Make

  By Stephanie Overby | 25 January, 2010 06:15

  Researchers at the University of Tennessee have studied a variety of outsourcing deals-from IT and back-office work to manufacturing and logistics-and identified the most common mistakes organizations make when partnering with an external provider.

• Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love

  By Irwin Teodoro | 18 December, 2009 07:12

  I have nothing against CFOs. It's a tough position with a lot of pressures that can easily be misunderstood. That being said, it is the money people who generally stand in the way of engineers and technologists and the spending required to accomplish great things with IT.

• 7 Ways an Outsourcing Advisor Can Save You Money

  By Stephanie Overby | 26 November, 2009 10:50

  When it comes to the outsourcing process, going it alone is one way to cut costs. But working with an experienced outsourcing advisor may save you money during the procurement process and down the road.

• ERP Investments Still Top the List for Corporate IT Spending

  By Thomas Wailgum | 16 November, 2009 08:29

  Corporate IT budgets may have gotten slashed in 2009, but that apparently didn't stop companies from investing in their ERP software this year.

• IT spending will fall by 6 per cent in 2009 say Gartner

  By Siobhan Chapman | 10 July, 2009 00:04

  Worldwide IT spending is expected to decline by a further six percent this year, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• 7 ways to cut your software costs during the economic downturn

  By Eric Lai | 03 December, 2008 08:55

  It's official: IT budgets, once so resilient in the face of three years of worsening economic news, aren't immune to the downturn after all.