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ALSO CALLED: Return On Investment, ROI Calculators, Cost Calculators, 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 … Definition continues below.
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Getting the Most From Your Marketing Events: The ROI of In-Person Seminars, Trade Shows, and Webinars sponsored by Citrix Online WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| Marketing \| Marketing Information Systems \| ROI

WebLogic Suite ActiveCache and Increasing ROI: A Technical Perspective sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Application Server Software \| Java \| Oracle (Product) \| ROI \| TCO \| Web Applications Management

Measuring Return on Investment of Real-time Feedback Analytics sponsored by MarketTools, Inc. WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| Economic Environment \| Investments \| ROI \| TCO

Creating Exponential Value Through Intelligent, Enterprise-Wide Web Conferencing Deployments sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Collaborative Product Development \| ROI \| Teleconferences \| Teleconferencing Software \| Web Conferences \| Web Conferencing Software

Strategies and Best Practices: Reduce IT Costs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Software sponsored by Red Hat 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 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Desktop Virtualization \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Linux \| Linux Desktop Environment \| Lotus Notes \| ROI \| Software Licensing \| TCO

Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: CIOs \| Collaboration \| Collaborative Applications Software \| Communications Software \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Service \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Productivity \| ROI \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Business-Driven Virtualization: Optimizing Insight and Operational Efficiency in the Dynamic Datacenter sponsored by Hyper9, Inc. WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Management Software \| ROI \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Systems Management \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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 WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Warehouses \| Partnerships \| Reporting Software \| ROI \| SaaS ERP \| SAP (Product) \| Software as a Service

Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning sponsored by Virtustream WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Applications Software \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability \| ROI \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Enhancing Your Infrastructure in an Uncertain Economy to Support Your SOA Business Initiatives sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Systems \| CIOs \| Databases \| IT Infrastructure \| ROI \| SOA

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 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Systems \| ROI \| SOA \| TCO

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 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Cloud Computing \| Platform as a service \| ROI \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Sales Force Automation

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 TOPICS: Business Management \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Productivity \| ROI \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

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 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Credit Cards \| Payment Card Industry \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| ROI

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 TOPICS: Downtime \| High Availability \| Network Management \| ROBO \| ROI \| SAN \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SMBs \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Web Hosting

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 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Distributed Computing \| Downtime \| High Availability \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Remote Offices \| ROBO \| ROI \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management \| TCO

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 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| ERP \| ERP Software \| ROI \| SAP (Product) \| SMBs \| TCO

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 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Business Systems \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Spending \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

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 TOPICS: Computer Hardware \| Desktop Virtualization \| Multi-core Processors \| Notebook Computers \| Productivity \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| Windows

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 TOPICS: Business Development \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Operational Support Systems \| ROI \| SOA

*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 TOPICS: Business Management \| CIOs \| IT Management \| ROI \| SOA \| Systems Management

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 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Integration Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Reporting Software \| ROI

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 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Enterprise Content Management \| Record Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Reporting Software \| ROI

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 TOPICS: Linux \| Linux Server Hardware \| Mainframe Networking Hardware \| Mainframe Operating Systems \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Open Source \| ROI

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 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Network Capacity \| Network Monitoring \| Reporting Software \| ROI \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Virtual Machine

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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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