In my last post, I noted that many people are having to reduce budgets. One of the keys to reducing budgets wisely is to target the cuts to the things that aren’t as strategic -check out the session If You Had an Application Strategy presented by Andy Kyte to get a better idea of what is (and isn’t) strategic. Another key to smart budget cutting is to understand your current set of applications, which Jim Duggan covers in a number of sessions on application porfolio management (APM) and Application: How to Achieve Success with APM, Best Practices in APM, APM: The First Step for IT Modenization.

I will highlight additional cost restructuring techniques and sessions in future posts…