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ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, and TCO Calculators DEFINITION: TCO (total cost of ownership) is a type of calculation designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess both direct and indirect costs and benefits related to the purchase of any IT component. The intention is to arrive at a final figure that will reflect the effective cost of purchase, all things considered. When you decide to buy a computer you may go through a TCO analysis: for example, … Definition continues below.
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Advancing your SAP Netweaver: Maximize the value of SAP Netweaver with Atos Origin sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| Business Process Management \| ERP \| J2EE \| NetWeaver \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

Optimizing Your SAP sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and learn how Atos Origin, the number one SAP upgrade partner and has over 20 years experience of upgrading SAP systems we have upgraded every R/3 release from 2.0 upwards, can help you bring your SAP system to where it needs to be. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Migration \| ERP \| ERP Software \| SAP (Product) \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Systems Integration \| Systems Integration Services \| TCO

Advance Your Data Management: Reduce Cost and Risk through the effective and efficient Management of Master Data sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Master Data Management \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

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

Giving Service Companies a Fast Start sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships - with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Published: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Consulting Services \| Business Intelligence \| Consulting Services Industry \| ERP \| IT Services \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

Are You Ready for Economic Bounce Back? sponsored by Micro Focus UK WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Customer Satisfaction \| Data Migration \| Economic Environment \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Linux \| SQL Server \| Systems Management \| TCO \| UNIX \| Windows Server 2003

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

Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches sponsored by VM6 Software WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| IT Infrastructure \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SMBs \| Systems Management \| TCO \| VM \| WAN

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

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

TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Software \| Systems Operations \| TCO

Performance Management Applications Overview sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| CFOs \| Oracle (Product) \| Productivity \| Regulatory Compliance \| TCO

Sun™ Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| TCO

The Business Value of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on HP ProLiant x86 Servers vs. Sun Solaris 10 on Sun Servers sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Database Management \| Database Managers \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| Linux \| Open Source \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

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 TOPICS: ROI \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| TCO

The Tangible Value of Server Virtualization sponsored by Dell India WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Cooling Capacity \| Cooling Equipment \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Power Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| VMware

Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Backup and Deduplication Storage sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| TCO \| Virtual Machine Backups \| Virtual Tape Libraries

Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Network Performance \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| TCO \| Tiered Storage

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 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management \| ROI \| TCO \| WebSphere

Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| C++ \| C++ Compilers \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| TCO

Catalog Based Services: A New Paradigm in Enterprise Application sponsored by Wipro Technologies WHITE PAPER: This paper evaluates the impact of changing market landscape on enterprise application service offerings, and evaluates traditional service models in today's context and attempts to evangelize an innovative service model which meets the need of the hour-- faster ROI at lower TCO. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Published: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Applications Management \| Cataloging (Information Management) \| CIOs \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Enterprise Systems \| Operational Support Systems \| Software as a Service \| TCO

5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support: The Enterprise Guide to Smart Support for Smart Devices sponsored by LogMeIn, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper features real-world examples from US enterprises on how the benefits of keeping mobile devices functioning without interruption are felt on every level of business. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CFOs \| CRM Best Practices \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Help Desk Management Services \| Mobile CRM \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Remote Control Software \| Smart Phones \| TCO \| Wireless Computing

End-to-End Business-to-Partner Integration: A Strategy for Revenue Growth and Cost-Reduction in Uncertain Times sponsored by Sterling Commerce WHITE PAPER: Flexible software solutions that reduce costs while driving revenue expansion are welcome in any business climate. But when money is tight and markets are in a state flux, they are essential. Download this white paper for practical strategies on how to achieve this. Posted: 11 Sep 2009 \| Published: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: B2B \| B2B Integration \| Business Intelligence \| Communications Networks \| Communications Systems \| ROI \| TCO

Cost Savings with Centralized Virtual Desktops sponsored by Citrix WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a close examination of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and how it may dramatically lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this paper to learn about the current cost of PC management and how virtual desktops can be deployed using existing budgets. Posted: 11 Sep 2009 \| Published: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| TCO \| Virtual Appliance \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VoIP and Lower TCO Will Drive Adoption of Hosted On-Demand Contact Centers sponsored by Five9 WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how organizations that have selected a hosted contact center solution have minimized or even eliminated the cost of their IT or telecom support departments. Keep reading to learn what the benefits a hosted contact center solution can have for your company. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Call Center Management \| Call Center Services \| Call Center Software \| Contact Center Management \| Contact Center Services \| Contact Center Software \| CRM \| CRM Software \| TCO

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TCO DEFINITION (continued): … the greater cost price of a high-end computer might be one consideration, but one that would have to be balanced by adding likely repair costs and earlier replacement to the purchase cost of the bargain brand.TCO analysis originated with the Gartner Group several years ago and has since been developed in a number of different methodologies and software tools. TCO analysis performs calculations on extended costs for any purchase - these are called fully burdened costs. For the consumer's purchase of a computer, the fully burdened cost may include costs of purchase, repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. …
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