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ROInow! for IBM WebSphere Portal

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If an IBM WebSphere Portal is Right For You

ROInow! for IBM WebSphere Portal is a software tool which will help you build a concise ROI analysis for a corporate or consumer portal. By answering a limited number of questions, ROInow! will generate a complete report with the likely costs and benefits of deploying IBM WebSpheres Portal in an NT or UNIX environment. It will provide you with the tools necessary to calculate the financial costs of deploying an informational content portal, an employee-focused self-service portal, a business to consumer eCommerce or support portal, and even a collaborative workspace portal. The automatically generated report will include automatically generated financial metrics, including Return on Investment (ROI), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV), and Payback Period.

Portals connect people to the applications, content and resources they need. They also connect people to each other, through community pages, shared bookmarks, contact lists, and personal productivity portlets.

ROInow! breaks down your costs into the 8 most important cost categories as identified by IT managers. These include costs for software, servers, network, ongoing personnel, training, support and maintenance, services, and facilities. If you are trying to decide if you should deploy an IBM WebSpheres Portal, then this is the product for you!

Interview Process:		Select from several hundred server options and see the street price. Choose from 17 industry groups (see default costs for employee salaries, benefits, depreciation method and schedule, cost of capital, etc). You can also choose to assign costs on a transaction or on a per user basis.

Results:		The software will combine your responses with our industry knowledge to create the ROI business case. This tool will allow you to avoid the classic 5 mistakes. You will be able to understand how networking costs should be shared across projects. It will also allow you to determine how various warranty and support terms affect your project.

A Step Further:		Once you have reviewed your analysis, you can go back and change any of your decisions or the underlying assumptions. This allows you to easily change your risk analysis models or time to market assumptions, and see how the change ripples through your ROI analysis.

Customized Business Report

CIOview's software creates a complete business case, detailing the costs of possible solutions. For the financial people, it includes cost factor breakdown. For the technical people, it includes a complete break-down of deployment.

With a tool this powerful, you can give everyone the information they want…and look great doing it.

Purchasing Research - Done!

Conducting the research necessary to make a purchasing decision can be very time consuming. The process of reading through reviews, listening to the experience of colleagues, and trying to sift through the marketing materials can make it difficult to reach a clear decision. CIOview's software takes all of the pertinent industry information into account and applies it to your specific situation – giving you the most accurate analysis possible.

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	Extensive What if Analysis After you have reviewed your cost comparison, the software allows you to drill-down and change any of the underlying assumptions. The software is intelligent enough to allow you to change everything from the server model selected, to the cost of the power for the servers. This means you can continue to modify your report until you reach the completed solution you desire.

Respected Independent Third Party

You can be assured that as a third party provider, we provide you with only objective information. This independence is recognized by some of the top names in the IT field through the use of our products and strategic partners with associations such as ISECOM and AIIM.

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Cost Analysis

By answering as few as 20 questions, ROInow! will automatically generate your costs for:

Software
Servers and Storage
Networking
On-going personnel
Training
Support and maintenance
Services
Facilities

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