Cost Benefit Analysis White Papers

WHITE PAPER: In today's economic climate, IT organizations are looking for ways to achieve cost savings in the short term. Based on this study, the IT organizations achieved this goal by realizing an average payback period for JBoss Operations Network of a short 5.3 months - recovering their initial investments well within the first half-year of deployment.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today’s economic climate, no manufacturer can afford to fund any supply chain management (SCM) project that fails to deliver results. This white paper describes seven success factors for today’s SCM projects, which have been identified by seasoned executives with decades of experience in the field.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we detail these four mechanisms and introduce several case studies and examples to show the increased economic value that Cloud Computing brings to an organization.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Despite widespread awareness of the impact of cybercrime, cyber attacks continue to occur frequently and result in serious financial consequences for businesses and government institutions.

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Businesses are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of change to their software applications. By strategically automating release management, companies can create a crisp, accurate Release Management function that dramatically boosts the competitive edge gained from application change. Control application change or let it control you.

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 | Published: 18 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: You may have heard the term cloud computing or 'the Cloud', but could you describe what it is?

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of services on 4G networks, and examines how a strategic BI implementation can help to transform the services a company provides while managing costs of providing them. It also considers the variety of practical applications of a BI system.

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing can help you organize and streamline your test environment. The business model of cloud computing facilitates better use of existing resources, allowing you to do more with fewer resources. As a result, you can achieve a highly simplified and so much more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of enterprise performance management that can help organizations thrive through the recovery, including; integrating the financial close and reporting process, managing the transition to IFRS, centralized enterprise dimension management.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: For customers running Sybase ASE 12.5 on Solaris 8, the long-planned end of support for that platform means that they must move their workloads to a new environment or face special support contracts. Moving to HP infrastructure brings immediate payback through lower support costs and reduction in power and cooling requirements.

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, we’ll introduce the mechanisms of cost savings with SIP trunk consolidation, using Siemens Enterprise Communications’ OpenScape Exchange overlay solution.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data is the lifeblood of organizations but few organizations take an asset-based, comprehensive approach to it. It drives too much cost because of redundant proliferation, poor synchronization across applications and lack of comprehensive availability policies. Read this paper to learn how effective data integration strategies can help.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: January 1, 2011 may have seemed very far away when the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was signed into law in October 2008. As the date gets closer, however, many investment managers are still looking for guidance on the bill’s cost basis reporting provision—the first phase of which kicks in on that date. Read this paper to find out more.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: The powerful functionality and continued development of the QSystems Management Suite is driven by our commitment to meet the ever-changing, real-world needs of our customers. Learn more about money and time saving strategies available for your business by reading these examples.

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 | Published: 27 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

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: 01 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: 01 Mar 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: 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: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Organizations have to backup and store data. Compliance requirements demand that data be stored for periods of time. Reducing the cost of backup and storage starts with reducing the amount of data that is backed up and stored. Learn how deduplication, along with server-based backup processes can reduce your storage management costs.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 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: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Oracle's comprehensive industry leading configuration management and provisioning automation solutions help you reduce application management costs while delivering greater control and compliance.

Posted: 15 May 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009