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Measuring Financial Impact of Portals Simplified with ROInow!

Organizations can quickly assess ROI for WebSphere portals

Boxborough, MA -- CIOview, the leading provider of ROI and TCO analysis tools for information technology investments, today announced a new software product for analyzing the costs and benefits of implementing portal technology. ROInow! for WebSphere Portals is specifically designed to assess the return on investment of WebSphere Portals, the fast-selling and widely used portal solution.

"Portals are on everyone's mind," said Ann Palermo, CIOview vice president, "but the business value of portals can be murky. ROInow! for WebSphere Portals clears up the water by allowing companies to simply build a full-blown, comprehensive business case for portals."

ROInow! for WebSphere Portals enables companies to quickly develop a detailed understanding of the costs and financial benefits associated with a portal solution. ROInow! lets you judge the levels of effort and resources required by analyzing the functionality requirements of the portal. It also computes the time and financial implications of adding different components to a portal solution.

ROInow! for WebSphere Portals
Fully 61% of firms are unable to define ROI metrics for portals. Without economic justification, making a decision to move forward with a portal project is difficult for most organizations.

ROInow! for WebSphere Portals provides insight into the level of effort required as different components are added to the portal, such as collaboration, LDAP integration, content management, personalization, device support, user interface, performance, and availability. These components will vary depending upon the implementation approach, and ROInow! takes this into account as well. In addition, ROInow! provides an estimate of the professional services resources required.

The result is a tapestry combining portal functionality and approach, woven for a specific company's planned portal solution. ROInow! allows you to very simply re-weave this tapestry, performing unlimited "what if" scenarios on a portal solution, resulting in a quick, yet comprehensive understanding of the ROI of your portal solution, and the trade-offs required to get to the best ROI. Finally, ROInow! automatically generates a 35-page business case, detailing your results.

Pricing and Availability
ROInow! for WebSphere Portals is available now at www.cioview.com, at a cost of $999 per license.

About CIOview
CIOview is the industry standard provider of software products that configure, cost and compare technology solutions, so that IT professionals make better purchasing decisions. Use by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies, CIOview is the standard for comparing value of IT solutions.