Cost Benefit Analysis

WHITE PAPER: CIOs are focused on raising the ROI of IT, expanding business impact, and making innovations real. This whitepaper focuses on two high return options–license cost optimization and migration to a lower total cost infrastructure to deliver the same or better business value.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: SQL Server 2008 has many compelling features, but not all of them are necessary. See what's a good fit for your enterprise and what can wait.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. This benchmark study is a roadmap for reducing overall manufacturing costs through the utilization of manufacturing technologies.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of Platform HPC Workgroup Manager (HPC-WM). HPC-WM dramatically simplifies both the installation and ongoing management of Linux clusters, making them accessible to even the smallest organizations.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the evolution of private clouds and discusses how many organizations that have implemented grid or virtual machines are moving towards private clouds. It also describes how organizations can successfully implement this new IT delivery model using a phased approach that starts with cloud management software.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: BI capabilities are becoming a must-have for independent software vendors. But customers and prospects are no longer satisfied with basic home-built solutions and offerings from legacy vendors.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and respond to them quickly and decisively.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates that solutions exist today, both as traditional software and Software as a Service, with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The IBM Dynamic Infrastructure initiative is a combination of programs, products and services designed to improve service to users, reduce costs and more effectively manage risk across all components of organizational IT infrastructures.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Increasing energy efficiency with x86 servers. Robert Frances Group (RFG) explains why Intel/IBM is a winning combination.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper argues that while the current economic climate might suggest delaying data center upgrades, the opposite will save you money. Learn how upgrading to Sun Fire servers can put more on your bottom line.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Wainhouse Research application brief explores the costs of audio conferencing – specifically whether organizations consider cost to be a problem and what they're doing to control it.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Wipro analysts gathered information from 106 IT organizations in North America, Great Britain, and Germany in March 2009. This whitepaper explores contributing factors that determine the optimal refresh rate for laptop and desktop PCs, using examples from the firms that participated in the survey.

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: You can't afford to ignore email archiving, security, internal policy or regulatory requirements, but can you afford to keep paying for it as multiple systems on top of your email system? This paper will list and discuss what your email infrastructure is really costing you as well as talk about cloud based services.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the problems IT operations can encounter in coordinating the activities of application and infrastructure specialist teams, and it proposes an approach-- consolidated operations-- designed to get incidents to the right person with the right information fast so problems can be resolved quickly, with no duplication of effort.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations need technology that can unlock the value of information. Information can drive new insights to help transform and significantly improve the business, especially critical in an uncertain economy. This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to...

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on 11 questions every CIO should ask their IT manager, and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the global retail industry's movement towards the attainment of total immersive shopping experience (ISE) abilities, and discuss how integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software suites will represent the key technological enabler to achieve this fundamental strategic business objective.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009