Getting the Most From Your Marketing Events: The ROI of In-Person Seminars, Trade Shows, and Webinars
sponsored by Citrix Online
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This paper discusses the results of a recent survey of marketers using different types of events in the marketing mix, offers quantitative formulae for calculating your own event marketing ROI, and offers guidance for marketers and organizations to create and optimum event marketing strategy.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009
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WebLogic Suite ActiveCache and Increasing ROI: A Technical Perspective
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Oracle ActiveCache enables organizations to predictably scale applications running on Oracle WebLogic Server with simplified integration to Oracle Coherence. Learn more about the benefits of Oracle ActiveCache in this free white paper.
Posted: 27 Nov 2009 | Published: 27 Nov 2009
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Measuring Return on Investment of Real-time Feedback Analytics
sponsored by MarketTools, Inc.
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This white paper demonstrates how Real-time Feedback Analytics (RFA) has very high ROIs, even under conservative estimates, both in absolute terms and relative to the many productivity investments.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Nov 2009
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Creating Exponential Value Through Intelligent, Enterprise-Wide Web Conferencing Deployments
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
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This paper makes that case that, just like email and telephony, web conferencing should be deployed as part of a regular enterprise-wide toolset.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Nov 2009
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Strategies and Best Practices: Reduce IT Costs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Software
sponsored by Red Hat
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CIOs are focused on raising the ROI of IT, expanding business impact, and making innovations real. This whitepaper focuses on two high return optionslicense 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
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Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
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This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.
Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009
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Business-Driven Virtualization: Optimizing Insight and Operational Efficiency in the Dynamic Datacenter
sponsored by Hyper9, Inc.
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In this profile you will explore how to maximize future investment returns in more detail and review the key requirements for optimization solutions. You'll then be introduced to the Virtualization Management Maturity Model, an assessment and planning guide for achieving greater operational efficiency at any stage of virtualization.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009
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Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for Business Intelligence and Analytics to Achieve Rapid ROI
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning
sponsored by Virtustream
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This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009
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Enhancing Your Infrastructure in an Uncertain Economy to Support Your SOA Business Initiatives
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organizations SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009
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Operational efficiency how to save big with BMC Software
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009
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Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
sponsored by Salesforce.com
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IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform.
Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009
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Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale
sponsored by SAP AG
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This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.
Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009
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The Return on Investment of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance
sponsored by IBM
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Compliance with PCI DSS has become a global requirement for any business or entity that processes credit card transactions as payment for goods and services. This paper explores the ROI implications and opportunities of PCI.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Remote Office and Branch Locations, Small to Medium Businesses and Web Hosters
sponsored by VM6 Software
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VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures
sponsored by VM6 Software
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This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Business Intelligence in SAP® Business All-in-One
sponsored by SAP AG
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With the business intelligence functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, your company can gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability to increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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The Importance of Measuring ROI: The Indicator of Business and IT Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
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A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009
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Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology and Windows® 7: Better for Business
sponsored by Intel Technology Provider
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Technical decision makers are faced with many challenges in today's economy: help users get more work done faster and with fewer difficulties, protect the network and individual systems from attacks or malicious code, and much more. Find out how the Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology complements the new Windows 7 operating system.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Building on SOA for greater business value
sponsored by IBM
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To thrive in todays 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
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How CIOs can drive growth, business flexibility and innovation in a flex-pon-sive* company
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009
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ROI Evaluation Report: IBM Cognos Software
sponsored by IBM
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Companies that use IBM Cognos software are able to improve productivity, reduce or avoid headcount, reduce financing costs, and increase profitability. These benefits are achieved because when employees can rapidly access and analyze data in consistent ways, they are better able to make business changes that both lower costs and increase revenues.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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No Paper Weight - IT Briefing
sponsored by IBM
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Organizations face a tremendous challenge in meeting the many different regulatory compliance issues driven by legislation, auditors and litigation.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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Adding Business Value With Cross-Platform Solutions: Linux running on IBM Servers
sponsored by IBM
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This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009
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PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell Inc.
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PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009
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