The survey showed that 89% of CIOs believe that IT could be a leading or a co-leading business initiative and it helps drive business strategies forward through innovation. They also believe that IT should not only support innovation projects; however it should support them.
Accordingly, HP Software has created a portfolio of software solutions for CIOs as a tool to help them learn how to treat and run IT as a business and benefit from IT investments to improve business outcomes.
In addition, HP assists CIOs measure technology not only by technical benchmarks but through business metrics with its software offerings, which include Business Technology Optimisation Software (BTO) that insures that every dollar invested in IT, every resource allocated and every application in development or production meets CIOs business goals.
"CIOs has now realised that the true role of IT is to push the business to compete aggressively and imaginatively", said Mahmud Mounir, Software Director, HP Middle East. He added: "In comparison to the CIOs of the 90s, CIOs are currently aligning IT to business goals to achieve better return on investment".
Previously, assembling the data to justify on annual budget increase was one of the main challenges for CIOs. They are now facing the challenge of using IT to execute their projects more efficiently and reduce costs and risks while delivering these projects at a specific time, on an agreed budget and with high quality.
The research was conducted in July 2007 with a third of respondents from companies with revenues over $1b.
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HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $107.7bn for the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31, 2008.
More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 1100 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Qatar, Oman and 2 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait and Bahrain servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.
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