Cost Benefit Analysis

WHITE PAPER: Did you know most companies adopt cloud for anywhere access, not for its cost-cutting potential? According to an independent global survey, 82% of companies save by adopting cloud, but most save less than 20,000 U.S. dollars. Explore more about the real drivers and benefits behind the adoption of cloud computing in this exclusive summary.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

ASSESSMENT TOOL: The Managed File Transfer benefit calculator shows you how much FTP is really costing you. Answer the questions to generate a customized benefit report that provides insight into areas of potential cost savings, metrics that help make an ROI business case, and examples of how other companies have saved with Managed File Transfer.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

IT BRIEFING: This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

IT BRIEFING: Examine the economic costs and benefits of cloud-based applications. Learn how cloud-based applications can help your organization solve ongoing business challenges such as collaboration, high operation costs and scalability. In addition, explore how you can prepare to transition to cloud computing now.

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011

WEBCAST: Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as a cost reduction/containment strategy. Learn how to justify your cloud investment and realize the short and long-term financial benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is a lab test report of a solution that integrates the function of primary storage, de-duplication, cloud backup, automated cloud archiving & tiering and cloud based disaster recovery into a single appliance that radically simplifies the storage infrastructure and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data storage 60-80%

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managed print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Published: 06 Sep 2011

PODCAST: This podcast provides strategies for SAP customers which can optimize their systems for increased functionality while still reducing costs. Listen now to hear about the concerns of today's SAP customers, the changing role of the CIO and low-cost strategies for optimizing SAP environments.

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 | Premiered: 15 Jul 2011

EGUIDE: Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 27 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to leveraging user credentials securely through federated identity management.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: In an exclusive survey, members of the CIO Forum on LinkedIn have weighed in on the business impact of application performance. These CIOs and IT leaders say they directly associate application performance with end-user and customer satisfaction, along with the potential to increase productivity and lower costs.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how the right application monitoring solution can help to protect revenue by monitoring the quality and timeliness of mission-critical applications. Quickly prioritize, triage and diagnose performance issues for better user satisfaction. 

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDG Research Services study demonstrates that CIOs and IT leaders recognize the business impact of application performance. It's all about end-user and customer satisfaction, increasing productivity, and lowering costs. 

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides tips on how to migrate from legacy server infrastructure to low-cost, high-performance blade servers across such diverse industries as education and healthcare to media and retail.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the results of a Forrester Consulting survey on the total economic impact and potential return on investment of deploying click to call and click to chat solutions. Continue reading to learn about the evaluation methods, results and more.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: NOSQL data stores are proliferating as a means of supporting web-scale data. There are a wide variety of NOSQL systems, each with their own set of use-cases and advantages. This paper describes the primary NOSQL data sources in the market today and how to integrate them with other sources using the Composite Data Virtualization Platform.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper is designed to review how desktop virtualization can save you money. Some of these points will be more applicable to one situation, company, etc., than another, but the idea is to stimulate and encourage thought about the technology and its use.

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Schalleur, Devine & Surgent (SDS) is a mid‐sized Certified Public Accounting agency with over 30 employees comprised of CPAs and other certified professionals based in Devon, Pennsylvania.

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011