IT Enterprise Objectives

IT Enterprise Objectives vary over time, across industries, market conditions, etc, however if you were to try connect the dots and draw similarities a pattern emerges.

• Lowering costs of software development, 
• Lowering costs of IT support and maintenance,
• Lowering overall cost of IT ownership,
• Increase portability of applications,
• Improve interoperability between systems and networks,
• Engage in open systems,
• Improve the ease at which systems components can be exchanged or upgraded,
• Maximize ROI on existing infrastructure,
• Minimize risk on future investments,
• Reduce complexity in IT infrastructure 
• Improve ability to address enterprise wide issues, such as regulatory compliance and security,
• Improve overall IT operations efficiency,
• Improve the flexibility to make, buy or outsource IT solutions,
• Simplify buying decisions,
• Improve procurement speed,
• Integrated, heterogeneous multi vendor support network.