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View this webcast to learn about the techniques and technologies that can help you prove the value of IT to the business by understanding the true cost of today's IT services and those that will be necessary to deliver future success.

Join our panel of experts and in just one hour you will gain real insight into how you can get a clearer picture of your IT spend and hear advice on how to deliver greater accountability and governance of IT budgets.

Key Takeaways

What can you expect to take away from this webcast?

  • How to get a better picture of your IT spend
  • What information you need to enable better business decision making
  • Techniques to help deliver greater accountability and governance of IT budgets
  • How cost optimisation can help you improve your forecasting

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More about this webcast

Good IT financial management is central to an organisation's survival in the recession and the key to its prosperity in the upturn. It delivers accountability, predictability and better governance to organisations. It allows IT leaders to calculate with confidence the business value IT delivers and provides the basis for both tactical short-term and strategic long-term investment.

View this webcast to learn about the techniques and technologies that can help you prove the value of IT to the business by understanding the true cost of today’s IT services and those that will be necessary to deliver future success.


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Experts

Mike Simons

Mike Simons, Editor, ComputerworldUK
Mike is the Editor of ComputerWorldUK, joining IDG from Reed in 2006, where he worked on Computer Weekly and ComputerWeekly.com since 1999. He was News editor at the launch of ComputerWeekly.com in 2001 and news editor of a combined Computer Weekly and ComputerWeekly.com operation from 2003. Mike helped Computer Weekly secure the Periodical Publishers Association awards as either "magazine of the year" or "campaigning magazine of the year" for four years out of five. Mike joined IDG as launch editor of ComputerworldUK and has recently also taken over responsibility as editor of sister site Techworld. Mike also sits on the SAP Global Quality Awards judging panel.

Chris Ingle

Chris Ingle - Associate Vice President, Consulting, SIS Group
Chris Ingle is consulting and research director for IDC's European Systems Group. He provides research and consulting services to CIOs and IT professionals, IT vendors, IT resellers and systems integrators, investment banks, and government agencies. Ingle focuses on managing IT for maximum value and identifying the technologies and strategies that can contribute to business success.
His projects and research areas cover: analysis of datacenter design and management, servers, storage, client devices, systems management, and virtualization technologies.

Scott Rogers

Scott Rogers, IT PMO Director, TriNet
Scott Rogers is the Director of the IT PMO at TriNet (a Professional Employee Organization). He has been with the company for over 5 years and his areas of responsibility include Portfolio and Project Management, IT Governance, Vendor Management and Release Management. With regards to the HP BTO product suite, Scott lead the application evaluation and selection process back in 2007 and is currently the owner of the PPM module.

Tiffany Webb

Tiffany Webb, Manager, Quality Assurance and Configuration Management, TriNet
Tiffany Webb is the Manager of Quality Assurance and Configuration Management at TriNet (a Professional Employee Organization). She has been with the company for 2.5 years in the capacity of a Senior Project Manager. Tiffany leads the HP BTO implementation for the BTO suite of products. Currently TriNet has PPM, Service Center and Quality Center deployed. Tiffany’s primary role is to support each owner of the different HP Centers ensuring alignment with target end state of a fully integrated BTO solution.

Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes, Marketing Manager, HP Software and Solutions
Peter is a Marketing Manager in HP Software and Solutions. He has been working in IT since 1984 and has been a programmer, pre-sales specialist, consultant and marketeer. Much of his experience has been gained internationally in the areas of ERP, Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management. Prior to joining HP he worked for Intergraph, Baan and Mercury Interactive in senior marketing roles. He has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA.

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