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Benchmarking Tools

Use these applications to benchmark your company's IT initiatives, your strategy, and your pay.

COMPARE YOUR SECURITY PRACTICES: 2006
Security attacks are evolving, and growing in number making it challenging to stay ahead of potential threats. We invite you to benchmark your company's approach to information security against those of its global peers with this fast, informative, and confidential tool.
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2006: ARE YOUR SATISFIED WITH YOUR OUTSOURCER?
How satisfied are you with the performance of your outsourcing vendors? How does your satisfaction compare to that of other customers? Use this free and totally confidential interactive tool to find out. The results are based on a survey of 420 business-technology professionals who evaluated one of six outsourcing vendors in InformationWeek's Analyzing the Outsourcers study. This tool allows you to evaluate your level of satisfaction across thirteen important criteria, including reliability, availability of experts, vertical industry expertise and range of service offerings.
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2006 IT SALARY ADVISER
The IT profession is on the rebound. Find out what your salary should be. Let our 2006 IT Salary Adviser show you.
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2005 INFORMATIONWEEK 500: MASTERING IT INNOVATION
How does your company's IT strategy compare to the nation's best-known companies? Find out with this interactive tool that benchmarks your firm against the InformationWeek 500.
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IT CONFIDENCE INDEX TRACKER (updated for June 2005)
A free and confidential research tool that measures the outlook of business-technology executives who control or influence their companies' IT spending. In the quarterly study, respondents are queried about their near-term confidence in the economy, the fortunes of their industries and companies, the outlook for their IT budgets, and their project plans.
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2005 IT PRIORITIES
How will your company reduce IT spending and operational costs in 2005? Compare your main strategies to the top initiatives of 300 business-technology managers who responded to InformationWeek Research's Priorities 1Q study.
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TEST YOUR PC SATISFACTION (2003 Analyzing The PC Vendors online tool)
How satisfied are you with your PC vendor, and how does your satisfaction compare with that of other customers? Use this interactive tool to find out.
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TEST YOUR PC SATISFACTION (2003 Analyzing The PC Vendors online tool)
How satisfied are you with your PC vendor, and how does your satisfaction compare with that of other customers? Use this interactive tool to find out.
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WINNING WAYS (2004 InformationWeek 500)
Compare your company's business-technology strategy and investment to the leaders in IT innovation--the InformationWeek 500--with our free and confidential research tool.
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YOUR SOFTWARE QUALITY INDICATOR
We invite you to compare your company's software quality-assurance experience against the 200-plus organizations that participated in our recent software-quality study. No sign-up is required to use this fast, informative, and totally confidential InformationWeek software quality-assurance tool.
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CHOOSE THE PERFECT OUTSOURCER
Choosing the right IT outsourcer is often an enormously important decision for your organization -- and your career! Use this interactive tool to help you select the right vendor.
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ARE YOU SAVVY ABOUT IT CULTURE?
Can the long-term success or failure of a company really be determined by the quality of its culture? InformationWeek asked Pittsburgh-based culture consultants George Borowsky and Lou Musante to prepare this brief interactive exercise aimed at helping us find answers to these important questions.
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YOUR SECURITY BAROMETER
Is your company ready to withstand the next round of attacks on its network or customer records? We invite you to benchmark your approach against that of your peers with this fast, informative, and confidential InformationWeek security tool, based on InformationWeek's annual security survey, fielded by PricewaterhouseCoopers. It offers comparisons by industry and size of company.
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WEB SERVICES: UP TO SPEED?
Many companies are looking for ways to speed up and simplify application integration. Are you up to speed with Web services? Test your knowledge by taking our fast, free, and confidential quiz.
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WHAT'S BUGGING SOFTWARE CUSTOMERS?
Is your organization taking all of the precautions it can to improve software quality? While many organizations state that software quality is an issue, few take necessary steps to ensure the implementation of quality products. Here is a quick quiz to benchmark where your firm stands.
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RATE YOUR SOFTWARE VENDOR
How satisfied are you with the overall quality of the software your vendors provide? Take a quick moment to evaluate each of the vendors you use, and compare your answers with those of your peers.
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HOW CREATIVE IS YOUR COMPANY?
Creative companies are a joy to work for. They also tend to be top performers, year in and year out because they understand the economic value of creativity. Here's a quick quiz to gauge where your firm stands.
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GLOBAL IT READINESS TOOL
Find out how your organization's global IT strategy compares to its peers by using our fast, educational and anonymous tool.
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