Research on the constitution and identification of IT project economic benefits

IT project economic benefit is the core to IT project economic analysis (national economic evaluation). To identify and measure IT project economic benefit in a scientific way laid the foundation for economic analysis. From the perspective of economic analysis, economic benefits of IT project are calculated in this paper for measuring the project contribution to the national economy. According to the theory of project economic evaluation, the connotation of IT project economic benefit were analyzed profoundly and the classification of IT project economic benefits were first proposed. According to the basic requirements of identification of IT project economic benefits, combined with the characteristics of IT project, we focused on the composition of IT project economic benefits, which were divided into the direct benefit and the indirect benefit.