IT Business Value
Welcome to the IT Business Value Blog. Our team, known internally at Microsoft as the "War on Cost" team, explores a variety of cost and value factors that our customers care about around virtualization, datacenter management, and application por
The Service-Oriented Business: Part 2
Fast forward four years. It’s 2009. Remember that you’re Sara, the CIO of a mid-to-large retail...
Date: 03/28/2011
The Service-Oriented Business: Part 1
It’s 2005 Imagine you’re Sara, the CIO of your retail company with 10,000 employees. You have 500...
Date: 02/16/2011
Using metrics to, you know, actually measure stuff?…that’s crazy talk!
A fundamental part of the work we do on our team is to measure things: the costs of deploying...
Date: 09/27/2010
Information Management - what do the real costs look like ?
As the cloud environment moves from its conceptual state to a real living breathing reality, it...
Date: 05/25/2010
“Tier 1” Apps are Special…But At What Cost?
Greetings everyone, and happy-almost-spring. Lately I’ve been focusing on understanding the costs...
Date: 03/05/2010
IT Maturity Is More Than Process Improvement
For years, IT industry consultancies as well as hardware and software vendors have talked about...
Date: 01/04/2010
Practices vs. Processes
In the world of IT as in most industries, the term “Best Practice” is often used to describe a set...
Date: 12/11/2009
Application Criticality
I recently completed a study of over 500 US-based customers in which I wanted to understand: what...
Date: 09/01/2009
Managing Services, not Apps
I’m currently conducting a study that looks at understanding how enterprise businesses build,...
Date: 06/24/2009
Web Services Adoption Increases – Management Focus Does Not
In a recent study of enterprise customers, I found that most reported an increase in the adoption of...
Date: 06/15/2009
soa Not SOA Is The Ticket
In my last post I referred to a study my team was conducting around SOA and web services management...
Date: 05/05/2009
[Web] Services are at the tip of the app management spear…maybe
I’m in the process of studying what web services (now just called ‘services’) management costs IT...
Date: 03/26/2009
The Role of Information Technology in Today’s Economy
There seems to be a steady stream of books published on the role of Information Technology within...
Date: 02/27/2009
New Virtualization site released
Further to my on-going threads re virtualization – make sure that you have checked out the latest...
Date: 02/25/2009
Microsoft and the War on Cost
Hello to everyone, and our thanks for stopping by our blog. My name is Elliott Morris, and I have...
Date: 02/25/2009
IT Managers: What do you expect when developers aren't incented to build manageable applications?
Greetings everyone. I'm Erik Svenson, a biz value strategist in the System Center team at Microsoft...
Date: 02/20/2009
Finding the Pillars of Virtualization
Hi my name is Brett Williams – I’m the focus owner for datacenter and virtualization on the War on...
Date: 02/09/2009
ROI is Dead - Long Live ROI!
For years, organizations have been chasing the holy grail of “ROI on IT investments”. The typical...
Date: 01/26/2009
Application Archetypes and Management
In general, there are six different types (archetypes) of line of business (LOB) applications...
Date: 01/20/2009
SOA Adoption Blockers: Service Management is Key
Successful adoption of Service Oriented Architecture has been a topic of discussion pretty much...
Date: 01/14/2009
Welcome to the IT Business Value Blog
Happy New Year and Welcome to the IT Business Value Blog. Like others within program management at...
Date: 01/06/2009