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Kostenoptimierung:

10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Cost Structure
I&O is a major target for cost optimization since it consumes 60% or more of IT spending. When fully implemented, our 10 cost reduction recommendations can reduce I&O cost structure by 10% or more through 2010, and 25% or more over the longer term.

Mitigate Risk and Optimize Value in SAP Enterprise Agreements
SAP enterprise licensing can increase costs when customers are unsure about their plans to deploy and use software. Use this research to effectively plan for and negotiate flexible SAP enterprise agreements that deliver cost, service and business outcomes.

Delivering Optimal IT Costs Is the Focus of the Upcoming IT Finance, Procurement and Asset Management Summit
This spotlight summarizes some of the research Gartner will present at its 2009 IT Financial Procurement and Asset Management Summit in November. Gartner insight will help summit attendees to optimize their investment in IT assets.

Anwendungen:

Plan to Implement Some 64-Bit Versions of Windows 7
Organizations must decide whether to implement Windows 7 in its 64-bit version or to stay with a more-traditional 32-bit implementation. Several factors make decisions less straightforward than with previous operating system incarnations.

Tibco Software Acquires DataSynapse and Extends Its SOA Platform Vision
Tibco Software has advanced its public and private cloud-based service-oriented architecture platform strategies with the acquisition of DataSynapse, and has picked up over 100 enterprise customers in the process.

BI & Information Management:

The Growing Impact of Commercial Complex-Event Processing Products
Enterprises are implementing more continuous-intelligence applications, including near-real-time business dashboards, smart devices and other sense-and-respond systems. IT managers should become familiar with commercial complex-event processing products that are used in many of these systems.

Geschäftsprozess-Optimierung:

CRM: Enter the Marketing Matrix for Productivity and Customer Experience
When evaluating technology, marketers should balance objectives for increasing productivity with efforts to improve customer experience to better address tactical and strategic objectives.

Gartner's Information Management Grand Challenges: Opportunities for Resolution
Enterprises continue to face four key unresolved information management challenges. But thanks to IT and new processes, progress has been made. We have identified four major innovation forces that will have a significant impact on transforming how organizations can leverage information as an asset.

Innovation Forces That Will Change the Nature of Information Infrastructure
Amid economic challenges and cost-optimization mandates, IT leaders must focus on innovation to spur recovery and long-term growth. Gartner's information infrastructure research agenda cites four major innovation forces that will impact on organizations' ability to leverage information as an asset.

Listen to the Customer in the Customer-Centric Web
Capturing, investigating and acting upon the voice of the Web customer is becoming a critical factor for ensuring the ongoing success of an organization. Additional surveying is essential to provide more-accurate and useful insight.

Use 10 Best Practices to Improve Your Storage Management
CIOs are confronted with rising amounts of data to store with shrinking IT budgets. Encouraging the dedicated storage team to implement these best practices will cut costs and ensure effective and efficient storage management.

It Is Time to Rethink the IT Budget Process
New economic realities and the accelerating rate of change require new approaches to the annual IT budget process.

Optimizing IT Configuration Management
IT organizations that are mapping out their configuration management strategies should assess the ways in which configuration management tools can supplement the process. With a plethora of such tools in the market, it is critical to understand the segmentation of the tools by domain and function.

The Collective Imperative: Thriving in Chaotic, Out of Control and 'Normal' Markets
Collectives (aggregations of people bound by a common action or opinion and outside the control of the enterprise) affect the success of every enterprise. This research explores what we mean by the collective and how business executives should incorporate it in their planning.

Clearly Define Your Goals Before Creating a PMO
Before creating a PMO, pursuants should answer a few key questions, including what core business problem they are trying to solve and what three main goals they would reach by solving the problem.

Are You Spending Enough on Storage Management?
Vendor revenue shows that organizations are spending more money on managing servers and network resources than on storage. To manage storage infrastructure costs effectively, an increased investment in management tools is required.

Sicherheit:

Defining the Next-Generation Firewall
First-generation enterprise firewalls must improve to provide new features to meet the changing threat and technology landscape. Gartner defines the next-generation firewall capabilities required for increased enterprise cybersecurity.

Understanding the Maturity of Your Security Architecture Process
Security architecture is a process that requires an ongoing focus on continuous maturity improvement. This requires consistent indicators for assessing the maturity of the security architecture process.

Enterprise Architecture:

Federate Information Management, Application Integration and SOA Initiatives to Gain Business Benefits
In most organizations, the disciplines of information management operate independent of the disciplines of application integration and service-oriented architecture. We show how senior executives and architects can federate these disciplines through enterprise architecture to gain business benefits.

How to Approach Integration in Advanced SOA Projects
Maximizing the benefits of a service-oriented-architecture-based application portfolio is challenging. CIOs, application managers and others engaged in SOA initiatives need to prepare for the future.

Sourcing & Anbieter-Beziehungen:

Analysis of Chile as an Offshore Services Location
Chile has an IT services industry that is niche and limited in scale, but can work well in specific areas, because it has the right conditions to develop high-quality, cost-effective offerings.

Analysis of Ukraine as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Ukraine identifies it as an attractive location for low-cost IT services. However, its current economic fragility and political instability pose challenges.

Analysis of Argentina as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Argentina confirms that it has a low-cost, educated labor force, but struggles with weak data protection, a recovering economy and limited labor available to support technical work.

Analysis of New Zealand as an Offshore Services Location, 2009
New Zealand has a small population and is best-suited to smaller projects that use its experience in IT, utilities, and legal and accounting processes.

Analysis of Australia as an Offshore Services Location, 2009
Australia is suited for niche and high-value services, regional hubs needing experienced and specialist staff, data centers, multilingual support, and financial control processes.

Analysis of India as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of India shows that it still retains a three- to five-year lead over other countries competing for offshore services delivery.

Analysis of Singapore as an Offshore Services Location
Companies should use Singapore's good infrastructure, legal systems, skilled labor pool and hub status to develop new intellectual property and to situate regional business headquarters.

Analysis of Thailand as an Offshore Location
Thailand has significant potential, but buyers of IT services will have to be rigorous when selecting and managing providers.

Analysis of Poland as an Offshore Services Location
Poland has a strong political and economic environment, and very good cultural compatibility, but areas such as infrastructure need to improve.

Analysis of Romania as an Offshore Services Location
We rated Romania as a fair "nearshore" destination for flexible service providers that need a small, qualified IT labor pool with competitive costs.

Analysis of Spain as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Spain reveals that many leading outsourcing companies are already using it as a "nearshore" or offshore location.

Analysis of Vietnam as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Vietnam indicates that it is still an emerging offshore destination with attractive advantages that show promise, but certain shortcomings remain.

Analysis of Morocco as an Offshore Location
Morocco's government is aggressively promoting IT development; however, some issues with intellectual property rights and corruption continue.

Analysis of Russia as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Russia reveals highly educated resources, a strong education system and a maturing vendor base, but rising costs are challenging its long-term potential as an offshore services location.

Analysis of South Africa as an Offshore Services Location
South Africa rates favorable for language skills and cultural fit but scores lower for its high costs.

Analysis of Hungary as an Offshore Services Location
Our assessment of Hungary identifies it as a good nearshore location for Central European buyers.

Analysis of Mexico as an Offshore Services Location
Despite challenges, Mexico is a primary nearshore location for U.S. enterprise buyers.

Outsourcing Lessons Learned: Establish Demand Management Discipline to Optimize Sourcing Performance
Effective outsourcing requires more than a good contract and sound vendor management. CIOs and sourcing managers must develop demand management disciplines to align and govern the sourcing ecosystem (supply) to meet dynamic business expectations (demand).

A Successful Outsourcing Strategy Requires a Clear View of Future Market Disruption
Enterprise buyers of IT services must understand the changing dynamics of the IT services provider landscape to understand the implications on their sourcing strategies and overall portfolio.

CIO & IT-Management:

First Catch Your Business Assets: Map Their IT Dependencies to Strategize for Business Value
We identify eight core business asset types and analyze how much they depend on IT to identify IT organization priorities for contributing to strategic business transformation and supporting ongoing activities.

Four Megatrends Converge in the Post-Recession New Normal
In the past decade, a series of diverse, yet interconnected trends have irrevocably changed the business and social environment, creating what some observers term the "new normal." Business and IT leaders must prepare for an era of "technology as air," personal involvement and external influences.

Business Leaders Must Prepare for a Surveillance Society
Modern technology and empowered communities have eroded the capability of organizations to keep secrets. Business leaders must work on the assumption that all decisions and events are being recorded and respond accordingly.

Assessing the Case for CIO Membership of the Enterprise Executive Committee
Changing economic circumstances and the advancing role of IT necessitate a review in many enterprises of the relationship of the CIO to the enterprise's most senior executive management group. We present a framework for assessing the situation and for taking action.


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