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Calculate the Costs and Benefits of a PC Upgrade
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This year alone, companies will spend nearly $2 trillion to implement and maintain their technology infrastructures. Yet, while IT managers understand the value of deploying technology, many struggle to quantify the investment benefits.
Intel and Alinean are jointly delivering PC ROI Analyst* to calculate the costs, risks, and benefits associated with a proposed deployment. Developed by Alinean, a leader in the field of return on investment (ROI), total cost of ownership, and value measurements, PC ROI Analyst is based on Alinean ROI Dashboard* methodology. This innovative modeling weighs intangible benefits and risks alongside traditional ROI metrics that help managers measure the affects of workforce mobility, client security, and heightened client-side availability and uptime. Together, these components deliver a realistic scenario showing companies how a proposed deployment may influence their business.
Succinct cost-benefit analysis lets managers create personalized business cases, and apply sophisticated analysis and reporting to take the guesswork out of ROI discussions. By using PC ROI Analyst to test and formulate numerous deployment scenarios, IT departments can fine-tune deployment plans to create proposals that reflect peak impact and efficiency—a crucial issue for IT managers struggling to fund key projects.
PC ROI Analyst also generates results using several common methods of evaluating investment options within companies, including:
  • Return on Investment: Conveys gain against total cost as a ratio.
  • Net Present Value: Expresses costs and benefits over time in today's dollars.
  • Internal Rate of Return: States a project's financial return as an interest rate.
These reports offer insight into both costs and benefits, so that you can evaluate the outcomes and change your inputs, such as the percentage of your workers with laptops. This lets you model scenarios that optimize the returns for your company, based on your needs and your parameters. In this way, you can use this tool to uncover what's most cost-effective for your situation.
Intel and Alinean are jointly delivering PC ROI Analyst so IT managers can weigh tangible benefits such as deployment-related expenses, intangible benefits like increased employee productivity and faster time to market, and risks such as user acceptance issues. This comprehensive approach to estimate ROI helps IT managers understand and communicate the full impact of a client upgrade.
Want to know the impact a client refresh will have on your business? View or download a demonstration, or download PC ROI Analyst* Ver. 2 for free to find out. Version 2 now offers language support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

PC ROI Analyst* System Requirements 

  • 400 MHz Intel® Pentium® processor-based computer with 128MB of RAM or better
  • Microsoft Windows 2000* or Microsoft Windows XP*
  • At least 20MB of disk space
  • 256 color SVGA video
  • 800x600 resolution with small fonts (Windows 2000) or 96 dpi normal setting (Windows XP)
  • Administrative or power user privileges on your system Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01* SP1 or higher
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader*
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