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ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, 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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Reduce Costs and Increase Performance: The SaaS Advantage for Contact Centers sponsored by inContact WHITE PAPER: This paper examines current economic and business trends as well as challenges impacting the contact center market. It provides guidance and recommendations for contact centers looking for an alternative to on-premises contact handling solutions and more. Posted: 03 Dec 2009 \| Published: 03 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Call Center Management \| Call Center Services \| Call Center Software \| Call Centers \| Software as a Service \| TCO

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

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

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment: Best Practices and Performance Considerations sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: Through a series of test scenarios that are representative of SQL Server application fundamentals, this document provides best practice recommendations on running SQL Server in Windows Hyper-V environment. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Center Consolidation \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| QOS \| Server Consolidation \| SQL Server \| TCO

Storage in a Tough Economy: Five Targets for Lowering Total Cost of Ownership sponsored by Xiotech Corporation WHITE PAPER: When determining a potential storage system's TCO, you must include both capital and operating expenditures, some of which are easy to calculate and others are less obvious. Read this whitepaper to identify target areas for cost savings in your new storage system. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| IT Spending \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Spending \| Storage Systems \| TCO

Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Service Management \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Data Center Management \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Service Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

CRM Built for IT: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets IT Needs sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides everything the CIO and IT team must know to evaluate a CRM system based on the critical business and technical issues that matter to IT directors and chief information and technology officers. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Services \| CRM Software \| CTOs \| IT Departments \| IT Management \| IT Service Management \| IT Utility Services \| TCO

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

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, Ltd 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

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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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