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Business technology optimisation survey.


Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems.

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 customer assessment survey. Responses from 1,200 information technology professionals worldwide confirmed that BTO is an important strategy for effectively improving application quality and performance, reducing costs, and aligning a·lign  
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 IT with business goals. Approximately three quarters of the survey respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. , representing a mix of engineers and mid- mid-
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 to upper-level managers, said that they are actively applying BTO in their IT organisations by: aligning IT processes more closely with business priorities (84 percent), improving the quality and performance of business applications (93 percent), and reducing costs associated with the delivery and management of business applications (82 percent).

Of the respondents who are applying the principles of BTO in their organisations, 50 percent are doing so at a project level, 24 percent at a departmental level and five percent employ an enterprise-wide BTO strategy.

Survey results also revealed that customers are using Mercury Interactive BTO products to effectively improve the quality of their business applications (76 percent). Two out of three (67 percent reported improvements in application performance or capacity as a result of using these products, and more than half (52 percent) have measured a reduction in total application lifecycle costs. www.mercuryinteractive.co.uk
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Title Annotation:IT News
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Date:Aug 1, 2003
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