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IT
Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control
Publisher: TechRepublic
162 Pages; Metal Bound; plus CD ROM
CD ROM CONTENTS
Foreword
- Budget Basics
- Expense Planning and Calculation
- IT Cost Control and Reduction
- Open Source Alternatives
- Resources
- Case Studies
Budget Basics
- IT managers, prepare to do more with less
- Four ways to spend less but deliver more
- Learn to write a convincing cost benefit analysis
- Budget talks: What you say vs. what they hear
- Readers offer more tips for winning budget talks
- Prevent project cost overruns with these four essential processes
- Learn to juggle a project budget
- Understand the cost of collecting metrics
- Two quick ways to estimate the cost of a new project
- Six budget-saving strategies for an IT project
- Follow these four tips to reduce project costs
- Should you hire a contractor or a full-time employee?
- How to calculate and convey the true cost of downtime
- Are you charging your cost centers properly?
- E-business spending: The risk of too much caution
- Where did all the money I saved go?
- Is that IT investment paying off? Check the TCO
- Make your case with total cost of ownership
- The myth of TCO
- ROI: A deceptively simple budgeting yardstick
- Why ROI can sometimes lie
Expense Planning and Calculation
- Planning basics: What to consider when estimating the cost of deploying firewalls
- Questions to ask when estimating hardware and software costs for firewalls
- Evaluating the real cost of an enterprise firewall
- Figure firewall purchase costs with our
spreadsheet
Example of costs for software-based firewall - A tool to calculate the value of PSA
software
PSA software ROI spreadsheet - CMS strategy: Don't put the cart before the horse
- Consider these factors when determining ROI on a CMS
- Check out our white paper on the costs of
tech support
Managing the costs of tech support
IT Cost Control and Reduction
- Before wielding the budget scalpel, diagnose the company culture
- How to "cut" 10 percent now and save staff later
- Asset management promises cost savings
- Asset management: Know what you want
- Spending wisely during down times
- Waiting to buy hardware may not be the best cost-saving strategy
- Save money on hardware with these 10 tips
- Extend the life of your Windows 2000 server
- Save a bundle by recycling computer parts
- Twenty tips to keep PCs out of the junk pile
- Make laptop deployment cost-effective with these tips
- What invoices don't tell you about the cost of PDAs
- Extend the life of your printers with these tips
- The astronomical cost of misused dot matrix printers
- How to contain development costs in a multiple-machine environment
- Automated testing saves money if done right
- Sifting through the complexities of server software pricing
- Tips for designing a cost-efficient network
- Virtual private networks save money, increase productivity
- Overcome limited resources with a wireless LAN
- Public folders keep e-mail growth in check
- How to begin archiving your organization's e-mail
Open Source Alternatives
- Evaluating Linux: Reality vs. hype
- Is Linux a cost-effective enterprise solution?
- Consider these cost issues before choosing Linux
- Members debate the true cost of Linux
- Save big by replacing NT file servers with Linux Samba
- Give old PCs a new lease on life as Linux firewalls
- Building your own firewall with FreeBSD and Linux
Resources
- Free tutorials help managers write better budgets
- How to get free money for technology R&D
- Member suggests free RFP-finding solution
- Consider these low-cost antivirus solutions
- Save money with these freeware gems
- Freeware programs save you time and money
- Evaluating TCO for iPlanet, Apache, and IIS
- ISA Server's Web cache can save you cash on bandwidth costs
- How to determine the value of IntelliMirror in your organization
- Cut costs with IOGEAR's ShareView terminal server system
- Disk-to-disk backup lowers costs, increases reliability
- Strategies for stretching training dollars
Case Studies
- Store chain is sold on Linux
- Admin finds low-cost VPN solution using Linux
- Member cuts networking costs with a WLAN
- Nonprofit uses open source solutions to build cheap Web server
- Database product saves time and money by breathing new life into bank server
- Software helps manage company resources
- How one government IS manager saved $60,000 in recruiting fees
- How one IT specialist saved his agency $50,000
- XML middleware boosts productivity tenfold
- Online auctions can save hardware bucks
- How PDFs can cut paper costs
- More ways PDFs can trim IT costs
- With careful research, eBay can be a powerful purchasing tool
- Eliminating monthly consultant visits saved IT shop 30 percent
- Budget tips: How tough negotiating saved one manager $184,000
- Use Web-based help desk to save money
- Cut costs and keep customers happy with Web-based support
- Sometimes it pays to keep projects in-house
- An IT manager speaks out: "The most difficult budget challenge I've ever faced"