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Advanced Benchmarking Tool Helps Lower TCO and Improve
ROI from IT Investments
ORLANDO, Fla. (June 28, 2005) — Alinean,
the leading provider of IT ROI analysis and benchmarking, today
announced an enhanced version of its PeerComparison™ Enterprise
software solution, providing even greater insight into IT spending
trends, and pinpointing the highest-value IT investments across
more than 20,000 public companies.
Alinean’s PeerComparison Enterprise tool quickly generates
a report card that analyzes how any company's financial performance
and IT spending stacks up against the competition, giving IT
executives a clear way to evaluate their spending decisions and
providing vendors with credible, third-party data to help consult
with clients on opportunities and projects. Comparisons can be
made by industry, company size, revenue, geography or company
name.
As companies continue to face budget cutbacks, it’s essential
that IT departments evaluate IT investment performance to justify
technology expenditures and budget, by clearly demonstrating
the impact IT has on bottom-line business performance.
“Alinean continues to raise the bar on how IT leaders
can prove and improve the value of technology investments,” said
Tom Pisello, CEO of Alinean. “By comparing IT spending
and performance to defined benchmarks, all stakeholders are better
equipped to identify the highest areas of opportunity, establish
meaningful spending plans, justify planned projects, prove value
and drive competitive advantage.”
In addition to competitive benchmarking, PeerComparison helps
IT executives identify trouble spots and develop improvement
plans. The evaluation of short- and long-term IT planning offers
insight into projects that are most likely to provide the greatest
contribution to shareholder value.
“Side-by-side analysis of IT business benefit is one
of the most valuable ways a company can assess how well it is
positioned versus the competition,” said Randy Perry, Business
Value Strategy practice leader at IDC, the premier global market
intelligence and consulting firm in the IT and telecom industries
(www.idc.com). “Organizations gain new insight into high-
and low-performing technologies, and discover innovative uses
of IT dollars – where they can achieve true competitive
advantage.”
Alinean developed the first benchmarking standard to effectively
link IT spending with a company’s financial performance
and is being used by nine of the top 10 technology vendors, and
is being adopted by best practice Fortune 100 companies.
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About Alinean
Alinean develops software tools to prove and improve
the value of IT investments. The company’s founding team
pioneered the concept of interactive ROI and TCO software in
1994, developing award-winning solutions for leading IT vendors
and consultants. Its research methodologies and software tools
are used by analyst firms, vendors and enterprises, and have
helped justify billions of dollars in IT spending and derived
value. For more information, visit www.alinean.com or
call 407.382.0005
For Media Inquiries:
Adam Parken
Corporate Ink
617.969.9192
aparken@corporateink.com
For Company Inquiries:
Jan Jahosky
Alinean
407.331.4699
jjahosky@alinean.com
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