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As businesses adjust to the “new normal” we keep hearing from people that there is a consensus that innovation will play an important role in our new world. Whether we are talking about information technology to drive employee productivity or transportation systems that move our products around more quickly and efficiently. Read more
In environments where the peak demand for processing resources drives infrastructure provisioning, the rapid and elastic provisioning of Cloud computing could be very interesting to your organization. The concept of elasticity within the cloud speaks of resources being scaled up or down to address activity that grows or decreases over time. If your peak usage patterns are known and the processing requirements can accept your Cloud vendor’s speed of provisioning, then you could create a very compelling TCO. Read more
A recent Salire customer used the results of the ValuePath financial analysis we completed for them to justify the transformation of their voice network. A solid ROI helped them to gain Executive approval to replace their existing PBX systems with Cisco Unified Communications. Their initial investment was $500K, which will allow them to remove their old, multi-site platform and migrate to a centralized environment to serve all of their hospital locations.
As of late I have been writing a lot of jQuery scripts for our Advisor Invest framework. jQuery has been a very powerful technique for making our web application faster, cleaner and slicker for the user experience. We are continuously looking at ways to improve performance in all arenas of our Advisor Invest framework. From minifying script and style sheet files to optimizing our server side code. Read more
This article pointed me in the right direction on how to make our products iPad friendly. It includes a few points on what iPad does and does not support. If you are interested in building an iPad friendly site, check out: http://www.messagingnews.com/onmessage/ben-gross/preparing-your-site-ipad
Salire’s Portfolio toolset just helped a major healthcare company justify the purchase and installation of Unified Communications. The financial model delivered solid ROI, IRR, NPV results which resonated with the company’s executives and explained the business value of the purchase.
When you have several projects that depend upon an infrastructure upgrade, it may make sense to create a combined ROI that includes multiple technologies and their shared infrastructure. Read more
Salire finds that the new communications platforms are making their way into our business value analysis and ROI studies. This article provides some interesting insight regarding use of the IPad2 as one of the new evolving communication platforms in the workplace. http://www.cio.com/article/679938/My_First_48_Hours_with_iPad_2_One_CIO_s_Story
The best time to make a new technology acquisition is the ‘perfect’ time. When is the ‘perfect time’? At a high level, this means that your old technology is at its end of life and you have no more depreciation or lease payments remaining. Your equipment is not failing more often due to age. Your business units indicate to you that they are exactly ready for new technology but up until now the old technology has not yet impacted their ability to meet business goals. In addition the new technology that you need to adopt is mature enough that it is proven leaving no risk for your company and yet the technology is leading edge enough that it gives your company an advantage over your competitors.
Ok, so let’s get back to reality. Rarely do the stars align so perfectly for these type of acquisitions. The rush of the market forces never let you stand still with your technology acquisitions. In fact, often you have to make such acquisitions at a less than optimal time. Sometimes when you think you are saving money by not moving forward, there is an unmeasured cost in standing still. Read more
This week I found myself researching methods to optimize site performance. While I usually get more in depth to particular technologies, such as techniques for faster Jquery calls to the DOM (Document Object Model), this article proved to be a good stepping stone for those that may not know where to start. There are some 35 suggestions for areas which a developer could dig into to optimize their web site or web application. Most of these techniques are very basic and easy to implement. For example minimizing Javascript and css saves file size and speeds up browser request time for those files. Check out the following article, you might find an idea that you had not thought of previously. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
