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Timing is Everything

John Barrows

Unfortunately, they developed it in 2006 when the market wasn’t ready, so it died. I remember making 400 dials a week with a generic elevator pitch selling outsourced IT services. It was basically Salesloft + InsideView + Nova.ai baked directly into Salesforce. Uber wasn’t the first Uber. G2 is all about intent data.

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Q&A for SearchCIO: The State of ROI from IT

The ROI Guy

Between utility computing and offshore outsourcing, it's a pretty safe bet that the data center of tomorrow won't look like the data center of today. Three areas will be the focus of investments: Continued consolidation of servers and storage to minimize the assets and associated TCO needed to deliver services.

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Can App-V in the Cloud makes a good ROI even better?

The ROI Guy

Delivering on the promise of VDI to cut costs, Microsoft App-V Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) enables IT to securely deliver applications to the users as virtualized, centrally managed network services that never need to be installed on individual client PCs / devices. How does this help reduce costs?

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Although it’s not time to Party Like its 1999, There is Plenty to Celebrate

The ROI Guy

Annual growths in 2006 is expected to top 6%, and although projections for 2007 show a more conservative sentiment, spending increases are likely to continue with consensus estimates of 5% to 6% expected according to IDC and Forrester Research. of revenue in 2004, to only 3.3%

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server? Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency.

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Does the Vista view include ROI?

The ROI Guy

Frugal CIOs and CFOs want to understand how investing in the upgrade will yield immediate and direct benefits – particularly how it will help reduce IT costs, while at the same time improving user productivity, service levels and capability. Patch management adds average cost of around $2 per PC annually.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

As computing infrastructure has moved towards commoditization it still needs to provide a solid infrastructure of service and performance in order for the company to achieve higher goals. These projects should seek to deliver solid service levels while lowering total cost of ownership. Vendor ROI: Can it be trusted? Not exactly.

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