Webinar: IT cost transparency and control

Another great webinar is coming up. I'd like to highly recommend this one if you are being asked about IT cost controls. 

Barclays Global Advisors is a newScale customer and they have one of the more thoughtful, complete visions and execution plan for transforming IT.  Given the stress financial markets are undergoing -- stresses other industries are also beginning to feel -- this is a timely topic.

The business demands more visibility into the cost of IT services. Yet most IT shops struggle to answer questions like "What services does IT offer?" - and now more than ever, "Where can you cut another 5% out of the IT budget?" Attend this case study Webinar to learn the answers!

Find out how Barclays Global Investors – one of the world’s largest investment firms with $2 trillion under management – achieved greater control over IT costs with their Service Catalog and Service Portfolio initiative.

Topic: Service Catalog – IT Cost Transparency and Control

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 noon ET / 5:00 pm UK

Duration: 1 hour

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Speakers: Nilesh Patel Barclays Global Investors Principal Ramshankar Ramdattan Infosys Technologies Principal Consultant Nick Schneider newScale, Inc. Senior Director

Attend this Webinar and learn how Barclays Global Investors moved IT from a “black box” to a “glass box” – to gain visibility into IT spend and improve credibility with the business. Hear first-hand from the experts on how to:

	Define a standard portfolio of IT services;
	Create a service-based cost model for your Service Catalog;
	Provide a more effective IT budgeting and allocation process;
	Measure IT performance and align IT with business demand.

Don't miss this Webinar! Learn from a real-world Service Catalog case study to achieve IT cost transparency and improve control over your IT budget.