Alinean Launches free ROI Analyst™ for
Consultants and IT Executives

Empowers IT consultants and buyers to cost-justify
proposed plans and optimize investments

ORLANDO, Fla. (February 2, 2006) — Alinean today announced the release of ROI Analyst™ for Consultants and IT Executives, a free online application for analyzing the ROI and TCO of proposed investments. The ROI Analyst helps decision makers assess various business and TCO opportunities and analyze the costs, benefits and key financial results that can be achieved from various IT strategies, practices and solutions. The ROI Analyst can be found at: http://www.alinean.com/ITexecs.asp. Registration is required.
 

Click here to register - and begin using the ROI Analyst FREE to analyze key projects and optimize your investment portfolio »

The ROI Analyst tool uses time-honored, proven techniques, metrics and research to make ROI/TCO assessment easy for those new to financial analysis of IT investments - but powerful and credible enough to stand up to CFO-level scrutiny. Following a five-step process of collecting opportunity information, specifying a solution’s best practices, reviewing benefits, entering costs and analyzing results, a business case for any IT initiatives can be built in 1 hour or less. Results are risk-adjusted to produce achievable plans. The use of the ROI Analyst culminates in a fully documented ROI/TCO analysis in Word or PDF format, for easy presentation to executives.

To help users get started with ROI analysis, the tool contains the world’s largest library of over 30 of the most popular business and IT ROI and TCO analyses for key IT initiatives, helping IT consultants and executives build compelling business cases for the highest reward/lowest risk projects. Today, these analyses include:
 

This ROI/TCO template library evolves to include new project templates, updated metrics and research. If the existing library does not match the project opportunities or solution set, the user can easily customize and personalized the analysis for any scenario.

“Analyzing the ROI and TCO of proposed projects can be difficult for many IT professionals and consultants.” Says Tom Pisello, CEO and founder of Alinean, Inc. “With our complimentary ROI Analyst offering and world’s largest library of ROI/TCO templates, we seek to make cost-benefit analysis easy for everyone – helping the industry optimize investments and make better decisions.”

For consultants or IT solution providers, Alinean - often working in partnership with leading IT analyst firm and partner IDC - creates customized ROI/TCO tools and templates, analyzing and quantifying the unique value proposition of the vendor’s solutions and services. These customized selling solutions make it easy for any sales professional or consultant to quantify the business value of proposed solutions for prospects.

Alinean customers such as HP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Symantec align their selling strategies with proven value creation, using the Alinean tools to deliver credible, third-party-validated ROI/TCO analysis of opportunities, proposals and deployments. These business value selling solutions have proven results in reduced sales cycles, reduced discounting and improved competitive advantage – generating hundreds of millions in incremental revenue and client value creation for top IT solution provider users. A detailed overview of Alinean’s business value selling solutions can be found at http://www.alinean.com/BusinessValueSelling.asp.

About Alinean

Alinean develops software and solutions to streamline the B2B selling process with business value selling solutions – using ROI/TCO and business case analysis to prove and improve the value of solutions to prospects and customers. The company’s founding team pioneered the concept of interactive ROI and TCO software in 1994, developing award-winning solutions for leading B2B vendors and consultants. Its research methodologies and software tools are used by analyst firms and consultancies such as IDC and B2B leaders such as Oracle, HP, Dell, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec and IBM, and have helped justify billions of dollars in IT spending and derived value. For more information, visit www.alinean.com or call 407.382.0005.
 

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