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Is your IT system an asset or a liability?

Publication: Metal Center News
Publication Date: 01-APR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Is your IT system an asset or a liability?(From the Editor)

Article Excerpt
As one software vendor lamented when interviewed for this month's article on scheduling and costing systems, service centers will spend a million dollars on a new slitter with little hesitation, but procrastinate for years on a much smaller investment in information technology. Why? Because they readily understand the value a new slitting line will bring to the company. The value of new software is not as easy to observe.

Taking the question of software's misunderstood value proposition...

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