About IT financing

Tower Report: The Economy....From Crunch to Squeeze
Tower Report: From Crunch to Squeeze: Global Impact of the Credit Crisis on Commercial and Small Business Lending.

Tower Report: The Economy....From Crunch to Squeeze (271Kb)*

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Gartner: Selecting an IT asset disposition service provider
Don’t presume that just because two providers indicate that they offer a particular service as a primary competency that the services are identical.

Gartner: Selecting an IT asset disposition service provider (161Kb)*

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Creative Financing Can Solve New Business Requirements and Constraints
This report makes the case for leasing hardware and, then goes beyond to include sale leaseback, used equipment, software and, even discusses how customers can use the Project Financing model to fund an IT transformation to a "green environment" using technology that is more energy and space efficient.

Download Robert Frances Group report (161Kb)*

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IDC: IBM Closely Couples Financing Options for new z10 Large Systems Platform
Susan Middleton describes "compelling" financing options available for the new z10.

IDC: IBM Closely Couples Financing Options for new z10 Large Systems Platform (79Kb)*

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IDC Insight: Residual Value Implications: System p Servers with Base Lease Extension
IBM and IBM Global Financing (IGF) have increased investment protection and enabled flexible upgrades for the System p 570 server by offering a system upgrade from POWER5 to POWER6 technology facilitated by a Base Lease Extension (BLEX)/Upgrade offering.

IDC Insight: Residual Value Implications: System p Servers with Base Lease Extension (125Kb)*

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Experture Group - Balancing Hardware End-of-Life Costs and Responsibilities
Experture Group - Balancing Hardware End-of-Life Costs and Responsibilities

Experture Group - Balancing Hardware End-of-Life Costs and Responsibilities (137Kb)*

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Evaluating Technology Life-Cycle Management and Lease-Versus-Own Options
IT Capital Investments: Evaluating Technology Life-Cycle Management and Lease-Versus-Own Options

Evaluating Technology Life-Cycle Management and Lease-Versus-Own Options (160Kb)*

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IGF's Rapid Online Financing Tool Gaining Traction: IDC Expects 50% YoY Growth
This IDC Flash discusses IBM Global Financing's Rapid Online Financing (RoF) program, an Internet-based funding tool that gained significant traction from 2006 to 2007. IDC believes the RoF program could achieve 50% year-over-year growth by the end of 2007.

IGF's Rapid Online Financing Tool Gaining Traction: IDC Expects 50% YoY Growth (85Kb)*

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Leveraging Used IT Equipment
Robert Frances Group believes used equipment can serve a valuable role within IT strategies, as corporations are increasingly pressed to meet new business application demands with limited available funding and skill sets.

Leveraging Used IT Equipment (211Kb)*

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Used Equipment Liability: Retired IT Equipment Often Contains Sensitive Data
New computers in, old computers out. It is a common refrain for many IT organizations and many individuals. Ongoing research by BT, formerly British Telecommunications, reviewed the state of used IT equipment available through a variety of secondary market channels to see if it contained sensitive, confidential or personal data.

Used Equipment Liability: Retired IT Equipment Often Contains Sensitive Data(77Kb)*

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Lease Versus Purchase: More Than a Numbers Decision
IDC continues to believe that in many situations, technology leasing offers greater operational, strategic, and financial benefits than outright ownership .

Lease Versus Purchase: More Than a Numbers Decision(134Kb)*

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Gwinnett County Enables IT Change with Structured Financial Solutions
This IDC Buyer Case Study examines Gwinnett County's process of enabling the transition of its IT infrastructure and streamlining its budget process by implementing a strategic financing program.

Gwinnett County Enables IT Change with Structured Financial Solutions(32Kb)*

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Big Blue helps SMBs See Green
IBM has a global technology recycling program for SMBs that eclipses other vendors' programs. Managing global technology assets at their end of life requires a vendor's massive commitment to logistics, operations and customers.

Read the Yankee Group April 19 Whitepaper(150Kb)*

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Grow and Profit with IBM Global Financing
ChannelCorp Management Consultants Inc. presents many reasons why you should add IBM Certified Used Equipment and IBM Asset Recovery Solutions to your company's product and service mix.

Grow and Profit with IBM Global Financing (164Kb)*

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Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - (Total Cost of Ownership) Part Three: Leasing Analysis
RFG believes corporations should fully understand the vendor funding opportunities and cost components of commodity and blade servers to optimize the selection of the proper life cycle and financing options.

Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - (Total Cost of Ownership) Part Three: Leasing Analysis (371Kb)*

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Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - Part Two: Numerical Analysis
Robert Frances Group believes corporations should make server purchasing and refresh decisions based on a holistic TCO approach that incorporates all cost components and common business practices.

Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - Part Two: Numerical Analysis (682Kb)*

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IBM Global Financing Continues Expanding with New Reseller Inventory Financing Program
IDC believes that in many situations, technology leasing offers greater operational, strategic, and financial benefits than outright ownership.

IBM Global Financing Continues Expanding with New Reseller Inventory Financing Program (83Kb)*

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IBM Global Financing Brings Structured Asset Disposition to the Mid-Market
IDC's David Daoud sees IBM's Express Asset Recovery Solutions as filling an important void in IT disposal.

IBM Global Financing Brings Structured Asset Disposition to the Mid-Market (22Kb)*

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Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - Part One: An Opportunity for Leasing
Robert Frances Group believes enterprises should evaluate the cost implications of their commodity and blade server purchasing strategies to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) effectively.

Demystifying Commodity and Blade Server TCO - Part One: An Opportunity for Leasing (377Kb)*

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Software Leasing: Benefits and Pitfalls
Adam Braunstein, Robert Frances Group (RFG) analyst, explains how software leasing offers enterprises the ability to conserve the up-front capital expenditures required when acquiring new software packages.

Software Leasing: Benefits and Pitfalls (176Kb)*

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A Rationale for PC Leasing and Refresh: Power Consumption and Monies Reinvestment
Robert Frances Group believes hard dollar savings alone, especially with the fair market and zero-percent leasing options available from leasing companies, can justify leasing new PC equipment.

A Rationale for PC Leasing and Refresh: Power Consumption and Monies Reinvestment (188Kb)*

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The Downside of Keeping PCs beyond Three Years and How Leasing Can Help
Robert Frances Group believes PC leasing can offer valuable hard and soft dollar savings over purchasing, as well as valuable productivity gains for enterprises lacking effective PC life cycle disciplines.

The Downside of Keeping PCs beyond Three Years and How Leasing Can Help(93Kb)*

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Demystifying PC Total Cost of Ownership: How Leasing Can Help
Robert Frances Group believes minimizing PC costs requires IT and business executives to adopt a view of PC total cost of ownership (TCO) that includes consideration of breakage, operational, and residual value costs, as well as processes that leverage actual cost data.

Demystifying PC Total Cost of Ownership: How Leasing Can Help(237Kb)*

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The Language of Leasing PCs
Adam Braunstein, Robert Frances Group (RFG) analyst, lays out the language of leasing in this Research Note and goes one step further as he dares to compare PC financing from Dell, HP and IBM Global Financing.

The Language of Leasing PCs (232Kb)*

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A Rationale for PC Leasing and Refresh: Risk Mitigation
Robert Frances Group believes hard dollar savings alone, especially with the fair market and zero-percent leasing options available from leasing companies, can justify leasing new PC equipment.

A Rationale for PC Leasing and Refresh: Risk Mitigation (181Kb)*

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