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By Frank Bannister

Purchasing and monetary administration of data Technology goals to noticeably lessen the amount of cash wasted on IT through supplying readers with a finished advisor to all facets of making plans, coping with and controlling IT buying and finance. ranging from a reputation that IT deciding to buy and the monetary administration usually has to be handled in a different way from different sorts of expenditure, the writer attracts on over 25 years of expertise within the box to supply readers with helpful mix of solid methods and customary feel principles which were attempted, verified and located to paintings. lots of those are illustrated through case histories, each one with an ethical or a lesson.

Purchasing and fiscal administration of knowledge Technology presents necessary instructions and recommendation on entire diversity of issues including:

* IT acquisitions policy
* facing suppliers
* Budgeting and value control
* IT price and danger management
* Specification, choice and assessment of systems
* IT worth for cash

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Life is simpler when choices are limited. If the customer’s IT choices are limited to what one supplier can offer, then at least the customer does not have to use complex evaluation and decision-making techniques to select the best course of action. It increases the risk of system compatibility problems. The more suppliers there are, the greater the number of interfaces between one supplier’s product and another. There is a greater management and administrative overhead. Modern distributed systems often have hardware from several suppliers, multiple operating systems, several communications protocols and many software packages running.

Use a consultant or systems integrator to do the negotiating. Aggressive negotiation can be inimical to a good long term relationship. A way around this problem is to employ a consultant to help in the negotiations. With two parties, it is possible to use ‘hard man, soft man’ tactics with the consultant playing for a hard bargain and the user being more willing to compromise or vice versa. Consider a long term agreement. Competitive bidding and tendering is expensive. Over time, a good IT supplier will expect to win around one competitive bid in every four.

Systems integration is where the purchaser employs a supplier or individual to manage the other suppliers on a project. e. they do not have a vested interest in any other part of the project. This is desirable for several reasons which can be summarized as the characteristics that one should seek in a systems integrator. The systems integrator (organization or individual): ᭹ ᭹ ᭹ Should have no conflicts of interest. The only responsibility of the systems integrator should be to its customer. Should be neutral.

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