End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value

Sustainable Tech Solutions for Enterprise Scalability The modern economy runs on technology; it is the backbone of all major businesses. From firing packets of information between customers and websites to tracking customer demographics and purchase history–every bit of information that occurs online is captured through data. As businesses scale and transactions grow, the volume of data (and the number of servers required to store it) creates an increasingly complex environment that makes managing and monitoring the overall health of your organization’s technology stack a dizzying task for even the most well-informed IT professional. Fortunately for today’s CDOs, CTOs, CIOs, and even CFOs, the founder and CEO of Fortified, a leading database managed service provider, Ben DeBow has written End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value. DeBow’s patent-pending approach allows IT executives to: Develop a technology environment that’s more efficient Increase server resource productivity Provide better financial transparency into the technology costs Optimize system scalability, performance, and stability Potentially save millions that were previously tied up in inefficient technology practices To determine the health, efficiency, and capacity of their systems, leaders need solutions they can act on. Yet, many technology leaders lack real insights into the health of their technology environment at the organizational level. In a refreshing shakeup of the status quo, DeBow’s book equips IT executives with actionable solutions for managing and monitoring technology health so they can maximize the efficiency of the enterprise’s entire tech stack and deliver measurable value to the bottom line. With the tech health blueprint in End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value, IT leaders can begin to take action to make their systems healthier and more mature. What’s more, these actions can be mapped to key performance indicators (KPIs), or objectives and key results (OKRs), at the top level of the enterprise. An unprecedented, detailed understanding of your technology spend and its alignment with project pricing is possible. Learn from DeBow’s experience improving systems for some of the largest insurance, hospitality, and software enterprises in the world, along with firsthand advice from CTOs, CIOs, and CFOs who are out there fighting for efficiency in their organizations every day.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: There Is a Better Way Chapter 2: Defining Technology Health Chapter 3: The Most Important KPI You’re Not Thinking About Chapter 4: Bringing Financial Transparency to Technology Chapter 5: Can We Afford to Ignore the Environmental Impact of Technology? Chapter 6: What Is Your Technology Really Costing You? Chapter 7: Actions for Improving Technology Health to Create Business Value Chapter 8: Fighting for Efficiency in IT: Real-world Stories and Advice Conclusion About the Author Acknowledgments

About the Author :
BEN DEBOW is the founder and CEO of Fortified, a next-generation database managed services provider. His ability to quickly identify and solve data problems is hailed by enterprises including Allstate, Intuit, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, Global Payments, and Sabre. A noted authority on Microsoft SQL Server, DeBow is creating a movement to replace the era of abundance in IT with the era of efficiency. His patent-pending approach helps companies efficiently scale systems to support data and business growth while minimizing risk and gaining financial transparency. DeBow earned degrees in Information Systems and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati. An avid explorer and BBQ connoisseur, he is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization which enables him to meet fellow game changers from across the world. He lives and works in Charlotte, NC.