2005 News

Alinean Expands IT Value Management Practice

Former IBM and SAS Business Value Expert Joins As Vice President

ORLANDO, Fla. (September 14, 2005) — Alinean, Inc., the market-leading provider of IT benchmarking and ROI measurement tools, today announced that it has appointed Greg Shanker as vice president of its IT Value Management Practice. As an IT Value expert with more than 20 years progressive experience with IBM Corporation, SAS Institute Inc., and Oracle Corporation, Shanker will focus on helping Alinean’s Fortune 500 clients improve IT Value Management capabilities in order to ensure high-confidence IT investment decisions.

Aimed at IT and financial professionals, Alinean’s EntepriseROI™ IT Value Management suite is the first complete budget and planning platform for creating collaborative business case analyses. With today’s increased focus on IT governance, EntepriseROI enhances portfolio management efforts by ensuring consistency and accuracy in the crucial selection of IT investment alternatives. Shanker will work along with other Alinean thought-leaders and next generation technology professionals who understand that technology solutions should be measured by the business value they generate.

“Greg’s Fortune 500 experience and IT Value expertise add immediate value to our market-leading clients looking to improve shareholder value and competitiveness from their IT investments,” said Bill Johnston, Alinean’s president and ITVM practice leader. “He truly understands our market and the competitive advantage our tools deliver.”

As an ITIL-certified competitive analyst at IBM with expertise in product development, solution sales, training, and competitive analysis with other industry leaders such as Oracle Corporation, and SAS Institute Inc., Shaker was responsible for using Alinean’s ROIAnalyst™ and PeerComparison™ tools to identify opportunities for IBM to drive client innovation and value creation.

“Alinean’s proven ROI technology provides IT executives with a unique set of tools that measure and communicate business value,” said Shanker. “By deploying Alinean’s suite of IT investment decision support tools, companies can turbo charge existing IT governance initiatives to move from ‘doing things right’ to ‘doing the right things right’.”

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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 professionals and consultants. Its research methodologies and software tools are used by consultants, vendors and Fortune 500 enterprises have helped justify billions of dollars in IT spending and derived value. For more information, visit www.alinean.com or call 407.382.0005.