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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
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
For years the holy grail of IT has been to be viewed as an enabler to the business rather than just a cost center. When the business begins to make this transition there still remains a carryover mindset that can really cripple IT as it seeks to invest in the infrastructure required to enable business objectives such as revenue growth, time to market, customer retention and regulatory compliance. Read more
Salire is analyzing ROI for Cloud Computing investments for many customers. This article in CFO Magazine sheds some light on the thinking among the corporate finance community in regard to Cloud Computing.
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14557408/c_14564718
With the growing hype around integrating tablets into UC as a mobility option, I found this article’s “real-world” take on how industry views their use refreshing.
This article helps to understand the benefits of ASP.NET MVC, which is the framework that all Salire tools (Insight, Impact, and Invest) will be built upon. This is an older article so it doesn’t encapsulate some of the latest benefits of ASP.NET MVC such as the ease of HTML 5 migration and mobile browsing, but it does give a good introduction of ASP.NET MVC.
http://code-inside.de/blog-in/2008/11/25/howto-basics-of-aspnet-mvc-or-why-mvc/
In a tough economic climate, reduction in operating expense (OPEX) is often the focus to increase company profitability when sales revenues flatten or decline. Too often reducing headcount to reduce OPEX is the target instead of investing in technology to drive expense reductions. But can new technology truly increase profit?
In short, the answer lies in whether the savings projected for the new technology exceed the capital required to achieve those savings. No magic there, right? Read more
Again and again, I hear it from IT buyers and sales people alike. When a discussion about a proposed investment in IT infrastructure gets down to dollars and cents, the focus of the cost analysis always revolves around the capital cost of the equipment.
This kind of short-sightedness is a loss for both parties, because the true cost of an investment in IT infrastructure involves much more than the shelf price of hardware and software.
For IT buyers, failing to investigate the total cost of ownership of their investment means abdicating control of their future operating budgets to vendors and labor costs. For sales people, it means losing sales to sub-par competitors under false pretenses of “cost-effectiveness.” Read more
