Becoming a High-Impact CIO

To facilitate this change, more IT organizations are instigating a new IT management body called the Office of the CIO. This executive office is defined by AMR Research as including staff responsible for enterprise architecture, portfolio management and investment planning, financial management, vendor management, risk management and compliance. "Globalization and the need to capitalize on technology for competitive advantage has led IT organizations to focus on improving underlying processes and overall responsiveness to business change. This has made IT management software a priority for IT organizations, with the increased demand meaning significant change to the [IT Management] market over the next five years,” says Dennis Gaughan in the AMR Research report “IT Management: State of the Market,” published in January 2008.

IT business management drives the visibility and transparency required by the Office of the CIO to deliver on this new charter, making sure that every IT project, initiative and infrastructure element is connected to the business and delivering concrete value. In short, IT business management is critical to supporting the processes and information needed for high-impact IT.
 
ITM Software, the leader in IT business management solutions, has partnered with business service management leader BMC to deliver the industry’s first complete business software solution for the office of the CIO. Delivered under the BMC Marketzone umbrella, this is the only enterprise software solution to focus on both run-the-business (sustaining IT operations) activities together with change-the-business (business strategy) objectives. The joint BMC/ITM solution optimizes 100 percent of the IT spend, from daily data center and help desk operations, to managing IT finances, vendors, project portfolios and staff.

For more information, please visit www.itm-software.com.