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Response to Steve Kaplan blog on Virtualization

The ROI Guy

Both tools are powerful instruments, allowing organizations to explore various scenarios for virtualization and analyze savings, return on investment and payback. As Kaplan points out, there is conflicting information from each vendor on which solution provides higher consolidation ratios, management benefits, integration, etc.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. Our partner IDC's CMO Advisory Practice projects that the global marketing budgets of IT vendors will increase by 7% on average in 2006. [1] Worldwide annual growth in global IT spending is expected to be 6.3%

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

The ROI Guy

based Alinean LLC, a company that develops tools to measure IT value and ROI, talks to SearchCIO.com about which current trends merit attention -- and what CIOs should be doing to stay ahead of the curve. I've heard analysts and vendors alike say that so many things will change when the uptick begins.

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Does the Vista view include ROI?

The ROI Guy

At Alinean, we incorporated the IDC research, along with research from GCR and WiPro into predictive models and tools to estimate the costs and benefits of migrations, and easily project these figures for any company or situation. On average the additional costs are expected to be $30 to $250 per PC.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools. Did the Alinean Business Value Tools drive incremental sales, reduce sales cycles, increase deal size, generate more demand, and improve sales / consulting productivity as anticipated?

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Best 150+ Sales Tools: The Complete List for 2023 (Updated)

Sales Hacker Training

And then, there are inside sales tools… The human element of sales will never go away — that’s a fact. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach. Fortunately, we’ve been tinkering with many of these inside sales tools for quite a while.