IBM Global Financing Literature

IT executives currently purchasing their servers should work with their finance staff and preferred server vendor to do a detailed analysis of their server needs to determine if leasing is desirable.

This IDC Insight report provides an overview of IBM Global Financing's November 15, 2012, announcement that IGF will be committing $4 Billion in financing, available through the IBM Business Partner ecosystem, over the next 12 months for companies that ...

Many IT departments today are not pursuing financial best practices for competitive advantage. In this paper, Robert Frances Group discusses how CFOs can construct a strategy and roadmap for IT to follow by adopting new models such as cloud computing and ...

In this white paper we will explore the leasing option for technology asset acquisitions and IBM’s particular suitability to this market.

Finance and IT executives should understand the value proposition of storage leasing and work with their storage vendor or third party lessor to structure a package that best meets current business, financial, and IT objectives

In its latest Magic Quadrant for North America ITAD Gartner recognizes IBM as a leader in the IT asset disposition market.

IBM and IBM Global Financing's (IGF's) commitment of $1 billion in capital over the next 18 months underscores the vendor's intent to grow its footprint within small and midsize companies.

This new Robert Frances Group report on Power Systems lease vs. purchase analysis demonstrates that an in-house upgrade of Unix server farms combined with a well structured leasing program could save an enterprise 15 percent or more over five years.

The new cloud-focused financing programs are also well timed with IBM's recent announcement of its SmartCloud enterprise cloud service delivery platform.

PCs, enterprise technology and business managers have demonstrated the economic value in a systematic and structured life-cycle management strategy. This is the very first in what IDC expects to be a major financing (and services and software) opportunity...

Minimizing PC costs requires IT and business executives to adopt a holistic view of PC TCO that considers breakage, operational, and residual value costs, as well as processes and best practices for managing the PC life cycle.

This latest RFG research shows that a "swap to grow" Intel rack and tower strategy, coupled with leasing can save an enterprise from additional capital and operational expenditures of 45% over five-years while achieving a 1st year ROI of 300% and more ...

IDC reports that a new leasing promotion by IBM Global Financing for Business Partners emphasizes IGF's commitment to partners and to become easier to do business with. The partner can take the price of the entire solution and divides by 36 to determine a...

When all factors are taken into account, RFG's return on investment and total cost of ownership analyses show that leasing, coupled with blade swaps is a far more economical approach to blade server management for Intel-architecture blade server farms ...

Robert Frances Group believes the conventional and accepted approach of building out x86-based blade server farms by provisioning additional purchased blade servers when needed proves to be a poor practice for blade server management.

Robert Frances Group believes IT and financial executives are unable to fund new projects due to financial budget constraints as economic uncertainty has caused a majority of enterprises to take a cautious approach and delay new investments.