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Below is a collection of reports and tools which have proven particularly useful to our customers. Follow the links to get more detail on the products and get an even better idea of the kind of products we carry. Whether you’re looking for business management data or IT metrics, you’ll find the research you need. We collect tools from dozens of providers and hand select those that will benefit our customers the most in the areas of business planning & strategic IT planning. For the most recently added information technology research & recently added business management tools, be sure to visit our What’s New page.
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 2008/2009 IT Spending, Staffing & Technology Trends Report
(CE-4101)
Justify your IT budget and stay ahead of evolving techology trends.
Developing, presenting, benchmarking, or defending information technology spending or headcount plans can be a difficult exercise. The 2008/2009 IT Spending, Staffing and Technology Trends study from Computer Economics, which has been published annually since 1990, makes the job easier by providing hundreds of useful staffing ratios, IT statistics, and other metrics for IT budgeting, headcount planning, hardware and outsourcing trend analysis, and understanding the adoption rates and cost/benefits of new technologies. Data is provided by industry sector and organization size for businesses and governmental organizations in North America, based on an annual survey of over 200 IT executives.
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 IT Strategy and Architecture: Creating an Enterprise Model to Support IT Strategic Planning
(BG-0051)
Develop an IT strategy.
In order to improve competitiveness, organizations must urgently address the growing dislocation between the business requirements and IT deliverables. This issue is directly impacting the enterprise’s ability to make quick, accurate decisions and is causing slow implementation of the IT strategy. This report discusses how to develop and implement an IT strategy and the role that IT architecture should play in IT strategy.
In this report you will learn:
- How organizations can bridge the gap between strategy and deliverables
- How to measure the effectiveness of an IT strategy
- How IT policy can provide support for strategy implementation
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 Managing Data Center Costs and Effectiveness Bundle
(EX-9270)
Managing the data center efficiently and effectively presents an on-going challenge to management.
This bundle presents a collection of research covering the effective management of the data center. It includes:
- Recommendations for reducing power and cooling requirements
- A review of the energy conservation technologies that were showcased at this year's Consumer Electronics Show
- A discussion of the different environmental monitoring tools that are available that can handle the existing data environment
- Data center audit guidelines that can be used when faced with the task of migrating and/or consolidating data centers
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 IT Staffing Ratios: Benchmarking Metrics and Analysis for 13 Key IT Functions
(CE-5003)
Over 100 specific IT staffing metrics.
What are typical staffing levels in various IT jobs? Are you understaffed or overstaffed in each of these IT positions? Can you justify additional headcount, or should you be cutting staff? This report is a valuable source of information for IT executives interested in benchmarking their staffing levels with those of similar organizations. The staffing ratios provided for each job function are tailored specifically to provide insights not only on typical staffing levels but in many cases they provide useful productivity measures for each job function.
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Quarterly IT Salary + Skills Pay Survey Reports
The most accurate and current IT total compensation data
IT compensation surveys that are out-of-date or whose job titles don't accurately match up with what your employees actually do on the job making it virtual impossible to get any usable data from them. But the Quarterly IT Salary + Skills Pay Survey Reports solves these problems. It is corrected for job title/job content mismatches, updated quarterly, includes accurate job descriptions, and gives you a complete view of total pay for these jobs and skills in 20 Tier 1 U.S. cities or 44 Tier 2 U.S. cities from our survey of more than 75,000 IT workers in more than 1,800 employers in the U.S. and Canada:
- Base salary
- Cash bonus
- Premium pay data for all IT skills and certifications critical to performing jobs directly related to Applications Development/Programming.
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 Opportunities & Challenges in IT Cost Reduction
(IN-6308)
Which IT cost cuts will hurt the least?
Which areas of IT are the best candidates for cost cutting?
- Staffing & Salaries
- Project Portfolio Management
- Vendor & Outsourcer Management
- Discretionary Spending
Learn the challenges of each area of cost reduction and the best practices for delivering success. This report also includes an interactive IT Cost Reduction Analysis Tool to help you assess which focus areas your organization should examine closely for potential cost reduction activities.
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Directory of Top Computer Executives
(AC-1300)
Contact information for over 64,000 IT executives in the U.S. and Canada.
Since 1972, the Directory of Top Computer Executives has been the source that computer industry marketers turn to for up-to-date IT management contact information. It provides immediate access to over 34,700 CIOs and top executives, 7,100 software development managers and 7,700 operational managers at more than 33,000 of the largest U.S. and Canadian IT organizations. Every entry is positively verified no less than once a year by telephone interview.
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 HR Navigator 2008: Essential Information for HR Professionals
(ME-2619)
Do you have a global workforce?
The HR Navigator Report contains critical information for any business with employees scattered around the world. Covering 76 countries in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa regions, this report provides business leaders and HR professionals with a fresh understanding of current conditions, including the economic scenario, compensation practices, benefit practices, human resource mobility information and travel expenses.
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