1. A method for calculating financial benefits of one or more projects for implementing packaged software applications, the method comprising: identifying deficiencies within an organization; linking the identified deficiencies with business processes, business metrics, and existing information technology (IT) infrastructure; calculating financial benefits of IT solutions for the identified deficiencies within the organization; and generating reports detailing the calculated financial benefits; wherein the financial benefits are what the IT solutions offered by the packaged software application provide in terms of standard financial metrics; and wherein the standard financial metrics comprise income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, net present value, asset turnover ratio, productivity, net profit margin, and return on investment (ROI).