This is the age of IT savvy business executives. they have a keen insight into the benefits and pitfalls of IT. This crop of Business executives constantly challenge the IT departments/CIO's on both merit and value of implemented technologies. The recent downturn has further increased the scrutiny in to the exact spend and benefits of IT investments. This resulted in a significant reduction of spend on Big ticket/Big Toys(Large SMP servers, Storage and Network Overhauls) and Growth oriented Buzzword deployments(BI/CRM etc). The New Mantra for CIO's is to plan and execute growth oriented projects with S.A.M.E (Simple, Agile, Mobile, Efficient) and Greener IT : Simple – CIO's are looking for simpler more transparent closed ended deployments of software and hardware infrastructure at a predictable cost. This driving the adoption XaaS - (X as a Service -SaaS-Software, PaaS-Platform, IaaS - Infrastructure etc) in the Enterprise. Agile- The Projects generating unique Intellect