IT Spending

ANALYST REPORT: Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

ANALYST REPORT: When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: More than ever, business and IT must collaborate to meet current business realities. Significantly, CIOs must map out long-term strategies that address business plans over the next three to five years, with the delivery of high-quality IT services as a key element of strategic planning. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Do you know what it really costs to operation your Service Desk? If your organization has not addressed Total Cost of Ownership, you are probably experiencing out-of-control cost increases and reduced service quality for end-user support. Read this white paper to learn about CompuCom's Service Desk solution.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, Fred Richards, Senior Director of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, discusses how new project analytics tools track your program performance and costs, improve project portfolio performance, and deliver insight into project revenue.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 18 Jun 2009, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Increased productivity, better customer interactions and quicker response times are all benefits of using SaaS-based remote support solutions. But how do you quantify these savings? This presentation transcript will address the real dollar savings of using this model and the potential for ROI.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This ESG data protection brief discusses IT spending challenges with the current state of the economy, key data protection/management considerations, and closes by providing an analysis of CommVault^® Simpana^® 8 software.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: FICO™ Blaze Advisor® is the world's leading business rules management system, maximizing control over high volume operational decisions.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations can significantly improve efficiency and reduce operational costs by creating environments with shared access to common data to support Operations and the Service Desk, and evolving and automating key processes between the two groups.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Amidst a macroeconomic global recession, companies are looking for ways to reduce their costs by 25% or more. The following paper represents the top set of cost-reduction initiatives that Wipro clients have effectively implemented.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Written for IT decision makers and practitioners across industry verticals who are responsible for managing fleets of laptop and desktop PCs, this paper provides a TCO assessment framework for optimal PC refresh rates based on Equivalent Annual Cost analysis..

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Downturns give companies a chance to buck conventional wisdom and increase their IT investments. Targeted investments in many areas can generate efficiencies and revenue growth that surpass the savings from straight cost reductions.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WEBCAST: This webcast will address the real dollar savings of using this model and the potential for ROI.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses how The Web has become a primary attack vector most businesses are not yet prepared for. Compliance and data leakage are a growing concern, and the economic downturn is causing every organization to re-evaluate its spending on personnel and IT resources and how SaaS may just be the answer to these

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) storage systems brief discusses the importance of storage efficiency, examines major considerations driving IT investments over the next two years, and makes the business case for Compellent's storage offerings.

Posted: 21 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, Ben Trowbridge, CEO of Alsbridge, Inc. discusses many of the factors that go into evaluating and choosing offshore outsourcing locations.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

PODCAST: It's always important to be diligent about the money we spend on our sourcing contracts - especially in this current economic crisis. This podcast covers how to understand key contractual terms, commitments and options for significant sourcing contracts and how to launch a cost reduction program - using your suppliers help.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Premiered: 19 May 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn how project analytics tools can help your organization better manage their projects, improve project performance and drive project profitability.

Posted: 15 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

PODCAST: Listen to this podcast to learn how to get a great endpoint security solution that includes management without having to invest a huge amount of resources.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Premiered: 14 May 2009

VIDEO: View this videocast to learn how to get a great endpoint security solution that includes management without having to invest a huge amount of resources.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Premiered: 14 May 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008

ANALYST REPORT: As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organizations are indiscriminately cutting costs. This new IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should investigate to help strategize cost reduction during the downturn.

Posted: 07 May 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn the benefits of effectivce Data Center optimization and how implementing dependency mapping technology makes it possible to give IT a clear understanding of exactly what is in the data center, and how it relates to business applications.

Posted: 07 May 2009 | Published: 07 May 2009