IBM Global Financing Literature

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.

With the conflicting issues of tightening budgets and high business demand for more technology, sourcing professionals and their finance department colleagues are looking at financing options such as leases or loans to fund their IT purchases.

RFG believes the majority of IT and business executives understand their responsibilities for safe data destruction and hardware disposal at end-of-life; however, significant confusion regarding end-of-life best practices still remains.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

The global economic recession is driving organizations to adopt aggressive green IT strategies and flexible financing options to fund them.

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.

On April 30, 2009, IBM Global Financing (IGF) announced that it is dedicating $2 billion in financing to help U.S. organizations implement technology-based infrastructure projects related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Acknowledging both the degree of global economic interconnectedness and its international capabilities, IBM Global Financing announced the expansion of its $2 billion economic stimulus interim financing program, targeted for U.S.-based initiatives, to a worldwide $5 billion program.

On October 20, IBM Global Financing announced a comprehensive suite of financing programs and offers that highlight the financier's breadth of capability, global reach, and integration with other IBM business units.

Every IT administrator knows that 2009 is the year of 'do more with less', so we can dispense with the now trite review of today's economic climate and its current impact on IT budgets and staffing levels. We rather think it's a good time to focus on finding new ways to do more.

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.

RFG believes certified pre-owned equipment can play a valuable strategic and tactical role in IT operations, as enterprises struggle to meet new business demands with limited available funding, tight credit markets, and constrained resources.

Our conversations with the IT staff at Gwinnett discuss their view of the key benefits of its ongoing business relationship with IBM Global Financing (IGF).

Supply Chain Financing helps companies improve margins, reduce working capital, and improve supplier relations by extending supply chain management principles from product and information flows to financial flows.

When all factors are taken into account, Robert Frances Group's total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis shows that Fair Market Value (FMV) leasing, coupled with in-place upgrades is a far more economical approach to server management for Unix server farms with increasing workloads.

Robert Frances Group believes enterprises should adopt a holistic view of PC refresh that incorporates all hard and soft cost PC lifecycle components.

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.