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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

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It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

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What we did do is model the licensing and implementation cost advantage claims independently, comparing typical environments and using list price for all competitive licenses and Open pricing for Microsoft (available to most organizations). Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. to 1 consolidation ratio.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

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The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advi. Is Marketing Too Busy? Latest Research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing IT Projects for Success The book written by Nicholas Carr, “Does IT Matter,&# continues to stir debate with various pundits, and certainly remains a hot topic in recent budget planning meetings between the CIO and Cx-level executives.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO.

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Results from the ShoreTel TCO Tool are supported by ShoreTel’s Lowest TCO Guarantee program, so that if ShoreTel’s TCO Tool and/or additional independent data determine our TCO is higher than a competing solution, ShoreTel will lower its price to beat the competition. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to.

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Operations However the most important trend from the survey is not positive spending growth, it is that CIOs are paying for needed infrastructure upgrades via cuts in operating budgets – essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul. cut in operating budgets. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. Latest Research.