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Know Thy Self – KEDARit Assessment Complies with Forrester Research – Part II
The “smartest” IT Financial Management Solution provides an IT Leader the capability to analyze IT spending and budgets from multi-dimensional viewpoints such as line-of-business, department, infrastructure components and/or vendors.
KEDARit has strategically positioned its products and services to help IT organizations accelerate their time-to-value for lean management initiatives by providing the guidance and support needed for them to quickly implement these solutions and adopt best practices “in a single package “as described in the Forrester Research.**
According to the Forrester 2009 whitepaper on Financial Management for IT Services**, spending on IT financial management should grow over the next five years to ...
Know Thy Self – KEDARit Assessment Complies with Forrester Research – Part I
KEDAR Information Technologies, Inc. (KEDARit) is pleased to share news of completion of our Internal Assessment of the State of the Business, and establishment of our current fair market value.
The Internal Assessment was spearheaded by KEDARit CFO, Shelton Tucker. With over 20 years of financial experience Shelton Tucker has held various leadership positions with major corporations, such as State Farm Insurance, and The Coca-Cola Company, and has specialized in aiding companies with developing financial strategies and infrastructure aligned with the firm’s long term business objectives.
KEDARit is engaged primarily in providing a range of management consulting and training services, ...
Why BI, ERP, BP and PPM Solutions Miss the Mark for IT Financial Management
Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions
BI solutions often miss the mark, because of the “garbage-in/garbage-out” syndrome.
The BI approach is challenged to meet the needs for IT financial management, because it centers on extracting and cleansing the data of IT operations. Unless the BI approach is accompanied by a diligent and often expensive business and IT re-engineering effort to improve the data quality, they miss the mark and typically die after the first phase, because unpredictability of the resulting analytics and reports.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions
ERP solutions often miss the mark, because they are priced for business enterprise deployment.
ERP solutions are often the ...
Consulting Company Commemorated 10th Year of Helping Companies Run Lean
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Charles Williams 972.317.3577
LEWISVILLE, Texas (October 28, 2011) – KEDAR Information Technologies celebrated its 10th anniversary by hosting a party for clients, partners and friends who enjoyed distinguished speakers, prize giveaways, hors d’oeuvres, live jazz, and networking. Over 70 guests recently converged on La Cima Club in Las Colinas, TX for the event entitled “Lean Management Strategies.” Representing diverse industries, executives shared how their experience with KEDARit software solutions led to a leaner and more profitable business.
Relating their corporate case studies were: Steve Kepple, VP IT Latin America, Brinks and David Stephens, Director Technical Services, City of Plano. ...
Brinks and KEDARit Partner to Do IT Service Costing for Latin American Countries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Charles Williams 972.317.3577
LEWISVILLE, Texas (October 28, 2011) –KEDAR Information Technologies launched an initiative with Brink’s Corporation to achieve IT service costing and cost-savings using KEDARit's Cost Optimization Service (COp-S™) software for 10 Latin American countries. Brink’s Latin America accounts for $1.3B (41%) of the total revenue for Brink’s. Corporately, Brink’s is a $3.2B company. The Brink’s Latin American regional office has been using business solutions offered by KEDARit including COp-S™ with great success starting in March 2010. “The KEDARit group did a great job of helping us,” explained Steve Kepple, Vice President Information Technology Brink’s Latin America, “now we ...
Computer Economics Announces New Alliance and “BeAM” Consulting Services
October 20, 2002 -- (Irvine, CA) Computer Economics, Inc., a leading IT research firm, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with KEDAR Information Technologies, Inc. (KEDAR) a Dallas, Texas based IT Service Management and Business Process Engineering consulting company. The two companies have joined and developed one of the industries leading methodologies and consulting organization, designed to guide IT organizations close the technology and business alignment gap.
In conjunction with the alliance announcement, the two companies jointly announced the branding of a new consulting service entitled Benchmark and Business/IT Alignment Management Methodology or simply BeAM methodology.
The BeAM methodology ...
ITIL Self-Study Kit and Online Practice Exam Used by Thousands for Certification
Dallas, TX, June 05, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Thousands of business and technology professionals have achieved the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations certification using KEDAR Information Technologies ITIL Self-Study Kit and ITIL Online Practice Exam.
KEDARit—short for Keeping Enterprise Data and Applications Resilient using Information Technologies—is a leading IT Service Management provider that specializes in consulting and training solutions. More specifically, KEDARit offers consulting solutions for IT strategy development; IT services management planning and process implementation; program/project management compliance; and a full compliment of public and on-site ITIL training courses.
These and other ITIL study products are available on the KEDARit website ...
New Financial Management for IT Service Solution Delivers Cost Optimization for IT Organizations
Dallas, TX, January 08, 2010 --(PR.com)-- KEDAR Information Technologies, a leading provider of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL™) consulting services and certification training, today announced a new solution that help CIOs optimize IT costs and establish a service-based costing method that financially demonstrates the value of IT to line of business (LOB) customers.
KEDARIT's Cost Optimization Service (COp-S™) Solution enables IT organizations to quickly adopt a Service Management view of IT to do budgeting and forecasting that is tightly aligned with LOB organizations based on their demand for IT services. COp-S™ simplifies the complexity for IT organizations to develop a comprehensive ...
New Website Offers Access to Hard-to-Find Technology Expertise
Dallas, Texas (Aug. 16, 2005) — Business professionals now have unprecedented Web-based access to expertise in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), SOX/COBIT and Business Process Engineering, as well as practice ITIL certification tests and other essential information, thanks to a new approach and Website by KEDAR Information Technologies, Inc.
KEDAR—short for Keeping Enterprise Data and Applications Resilient—is a leading IT Service Management provider that specializes in ITIL-guided management training and consulting. More specifically, KEDAR offers EXIN-accredited ITIL training for rofessionals seeking ITIL® Foundations certification in IT Service Management.
The company’s new site at www.kedarites.com provides affordable Web-based access to hard-to-find experienced and ...
Morphing IT Budgets
The 80/20 rule applies to IT budgets, and CIOs are being driven to address the issue. The issue is today's typical IT budget each year is composed of 20% new projects/initiatives and 80% K-T-L-O (keep the lights on). Managing the 80% requires more than knowledge of technology capabilities and number of staff. It requires significant knowledge of:
what technology driven capabilities support the lines of business (LOB),
the value of these capabilities to the LOB, and
the unit cost of the each capability defined in terms that the ...
