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Investment management reveals ROI


Johannesburg, 22 Mar 2006

An IT investment management (ITIM) solution can reveal IT return on investment (ROI) while controlling IT investment, says Paul Viviers, director of PMSight.

ITIM is the "de facto standard to making IT strategy happen," says Viviers.

"CIOs are under tremendous pressure to deliver ROI and because they struggle with this they receive smaller budgets and are expected to do more with less every year," Viviers says. He refers to this challenge as "a magic orange - a fruit that is squeezed and squeezed for juice and expected to never run dry.

"There is great conflict between the CFO and CIO of any company to display the IT portfolio, projects, applications, processes and infrastructure as a cost-effective part of the business," he says.

This misalignment between business and IT can be remedied with ITIM practices, he feels. With a good plan in place, CIOs can not only begin to show ROI for IT processes, but can reduce conflict and demand a larger budget.

Connecting business and IT

According to Viviers, ITIM is the "discipline to deliver IT strategy and IT governance" by combining information into one inventory, giving users a "single version of the truth".

With this heightened visibility, it is easy to see the interconnectivity between departments and how the organisation is best utilising their people, processes and products.

With such a system in place, IT costs become easier to control, evaluate and understand, he says.

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