Extending the Radar Considerations

Initial strategy focus should be on where to gain the most benefits from highly collaborative processes or computing tasks that are highly intensive and which can be distributed in a parallel processing environment.

Return on investment for peer-to-peer collaboration is equal to the cost savings from increased end user productivity and from reduced administration divided by the cost of the project:

Return on investment (collaboration) = (Cost savings from end user productivity + Cost savings from reduced administration) / Cost of peer-to-peer platform software

Return on investment for distributed processing is equal to the cost savings from reduced hardware purchases divided by the cost of the peer-to-peer project in terms of hardware, software, and systems integration resources.

Return on investment (distributed processing) = Cost savings from reduced IT purchases / Cost of peer-to-peer project