Title :
Return on Infrastructure, the New ROI
Author_Institution :
Philips Healthcare
Abstract :
IT executives frequently must be able to communicate value in real economic terms, characterizing how technology infrastructure financially benefits the business relative to the company´s financial performance objectives. A new financial metric-return on infrastructure employed (ROIE)-recognizes IT as both an asset and a service.
Keywords :
economics; financial management; investment; IT asset; IT investment; IT service; ROI; business; economics; financial metric; financial performance objective; return on infrastructure employed; technology infrastructure; Aggregates; Books; Context-aware services; Costs; Enterprise resource planning; Finance; Investments; Productivity; Software maintenance; Wide area networks; IT professional; ITVM; ROI; ROIE; assets; business; data center design; financial; infrastructure; investment; management; metrics;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2009.82
