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ALSO CALLED: Return On Investment, ROI Calculators, Cost Calculators, and IT ROI
DEFINITION: The law of diminishing returns is a classic economic concept that states that as more investment in an area is made, overall return on that investment increases at a declining rate, assuming that all variables remain fixed. To continue to make an investment after a certain point (which varies from context to context) is to receive a decreasing return on that input. The law of diminishing returns has  … 
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Operational efficiency — how to save big with BMC Software
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: 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


Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings
sponsored by Salesforce.com
WHITE PAPER: 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


Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: 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


The Return on Investment of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: 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


Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Remote Office and Branch Locations, Small to Medium Businesses and Web Hosters
sponsored by VM6 Software
WHITE PAPER: 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


Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures
sponsored by VM6 Software
WHITE PAPER: 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


Business Intelligence in SAP® Business All-in-One
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: 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


The Importance of Measuring ROI: The Indicator of Business and IT Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: 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


Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology and Windows® 7: Better for Business
sponsored by Intel Technology Provider
WHITE PAPER: 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


Building on SOA for greater business value
sponsored by IBM
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


How CIOs can drive growth, business flexibility and innovation in a flex-pon-sive* company
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: 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


ROI Evaluation Report: IBM Cognos Software
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: 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


No Paper Weight - IT Briefing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: 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


Adding Business Value With Cross-Platform Solutions: Linux running on IBM Servers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: 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


PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell Inc.
WHITE PAPER: 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


Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: The data protection market has evolved with a number of alternatives that can save costs. One type of solution is a disk-based backup solution. Implementing a disk-based backup solution can save up to 40% when compared to traditional tape backups.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009


Workload Weighting for Mid-range Storage Array Administrators
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.
Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009


Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them
sponsored by SAP America Inc
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


Project Comparisons: AS/400 WebSphere vs. HP/Oracle/INFINITE
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a detail comparison of AS/400 WebSphere and HP/Oracle/INFINITE. Points of contrast include initial cost, ease of upgrade, return on investment, duration and intensity of training, and total cost of investment.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009


High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Three Steps to Improving Server Virtualization ROI with everRun
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009


Total Economic Impact Of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade
sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: In August 2008, Microsoft Corporation commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by upgrading from SQL Server 2000 or 2005 to SQL Server 2008. Read the results here.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009


Catalyst XPS - The Solution for Cross-Carrier Small Parcel Shipping From the SAP® Environment
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009


The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

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ROI DEFINITION (continued): …  broader applications than economics. In fact, it is one of the most widely recognized economic principles outside of the economic classroom. In a call center, for instance, service level improvements decline in rate in relation to each additional successive agent added. Other real-world examples abound: A student considering one more hour of study after 2 AM.A prospective car buyer evaluating the benefits of a higher grade of luxury vehicleA farmer weighing adding an extra bushel of fertilizer to a saturated field of cornA marketer analyzing the ROI of additional media buys in a long-running … 
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