Published monthly, February 2004
 

In this month’s Midmarket Report we recommend effective ways to manage your IT infrastructure and applications, and methods to follow when evaluating business process outsourcing and vendor offerings. Further, in the Midmarket Perspective column, Gartner analyst James Browning provides techniques you can use to quantify and justify the benefits of your IT investments.

Effectively Managing Your IT Infrastructure and Applications
Midsize businesses that manage IT initiatives as a holistic portfolio and rank the value, risk and alignment of each project with the enterprise strategy can realize 20 percent to 40 percent lower project costs over those that don’t.
 
 
How to Quantify and Justify the Benefits of Your IT Investments
The challenges facing CIOs of midsize businesses aren’t expected to become any easier in the near future. Utilizing frameworks and techniques that track the performance of IT investments will help you to deliver on strategic goals.
 
Getting the Most from Your Legacy Applications
Application portfolio management helps to advance the value associated with your legacy applications. How can you preserve and protect useful portfolio investments? What approaches can you take to extend your legacy applications? Find out here.
 
 
Fast Forward
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Retail banks are looking to core technology to reduce overhead, shave costs and become more customer-centric. See how a networked-solution that integrates ATMs, phone and Internet banking can help.
 
 
Business Process Outsourcing: a Key Back-Office Strategy
An effective back-office BPO strategy can help you focus on your first priority – your customers. What should you consider when evaluating BPO and vendor offerings?
 
 

Midmarket Focus: Europe
Enabling Strategic IT Decision-Making for the Midsize Enterprise
Gartner Vision Events takes its successful midmarket event abroad in 2004 to deliver a program focused solely on the information technology challenges and solutions unique to midsize organizations.
 

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Business Process Outsourcing: a Key Back-Office Strategy

Getting the Most from Your Legacy Applications

Midmarket Focus: Europe
Enabling Strategic IT Decision-Making for the Midsize Enterprise

Midmarket Perspective
How to Quantify and Justify the Benefits of Your IT Investments

Fast Forward

Effectively Managing Your IT Infrastructure and Applications
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