Cost Benefit Analysis Reports

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: 31 Dec 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This evaluation tool provides a high level analysis of your infrastructure so you can weigh the costs against the risks of maintaining existing processes. Compare four migration scenarios and determine which makes sense for your organisation.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 28 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable.

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 | Published: 20 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

WHITE PAPER: Take a moment to see how many of these top 10 benefits you’re realizing with your HP Software solutions. And then remember: With IBM, you can achieve them all.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding mission-critical environments, there are still some differences in their efficiency and resulting total cost of ownership.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

EBOOK: This e-book explores the value of BI, including its return on investment, the pros and cons of purchasing versus custom-building a BI application and how recent trends are changing the BI landscape.

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Forrester Consulting studied the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that healthcare facilities may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Learn more about the financial impact of moving from a traditional one-PC-per-user model to a centralized, hosted virtual-desktop delivery model.

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 | Published: 04 Aug 2011

EBOOK: In this week's issue of Computer Weekly we talk exclusively to one of the top CIOs in UK government about the challenges of innovating with IT at a time when the public sector is forced to make huge cuts in spending. An informative buyer's guide on desktop virtualisation is also featured, plus much more. Download this issue now.

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 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: 24 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a business case for considering Vietnam as an offshore outsourcing destination, and offers specific examples from the IT and software industries, including a US software testing firm with a facility in Vietnam.

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 | Published: 14 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discussed the origins of the solution and examines its key features which provide compelling benefits such as improving time-to-market by up to 30% and reducing testing costs by 40%.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Many organizations today have IT assets that are not managed to maximize efficiency. To avoid costly expenses, IT pros must employ a due diligence checklist when purchasing assets.  Access this expert e-guide to discover three methods for improved asset management to save your time and money.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 24 May 2011

WEBCAST: VMware vCloud Director gives you the ability to build secure private clouds that greatly increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Premiered: Apr 25, 2011

WHITE PAPER: Five tips for improving the ROI of your software investments.

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 | Published: 22 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: This paper profiles four of the more than 200 Oracle customers who have migrated to a Teradata solution. The companies profiled in this paper have achieved performance improvements, additional business benefits that justify the migration cost, and successful integration of the Teradata Database with the Oracle OLTP environment.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: In this eGuide, get expert tips for reducing support and maintenance costs, and read about fast payback projects to help you get the most you can out of your ERP applications.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com made room for new service and customer growth with Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing promises large gains in efficiency and flexibility at a time when demands on data centers are growing exponentially. Intel’s vision for the future of this technology focuses on key principles to make the vision a reality. View this resource to learn more.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

EBOOK: In this e-book, you'll learn how to manage data quality efforts during an economic downturn and find out what trends are emerging in the data quality market. You’ll also learn about common mistakes, the financial costs of poor data quality and how data quality tools and strategies can improve data quality.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In conducting in-depth surveys with 154 IT decision-makers in North America and the UK, Forrester found that enterprises achieved better IT efficiency and better support for corporate goals by providing integrated, real-time, and accurate information through the implementation of customizable, real-time dashboards.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The key takeaway here is that inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. In a market where all enterprise-class APs cost roughly the same, removing the controller hardware and feature licensing from the equation results in an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Lacking a strategic solution for Enterprise License Optimization most organizations are greatly overspending on some licenses and out of compliance on others, putting them at risk of costly software license audits. FlexNet Manager Suite is a comprehensive and proven solution for Enterprise License Optimization and license compliance management.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Manual and siloed document processes can leave you literally drowning in paper with higher operational costs, less visibility and reduced agility. ECM can bring greater speed, reliability and efficiency to business processes as well as provide better assurance and process visibility to managing contracts and slash document processing costs.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In today’s global economy, information exchange is vital. Competitive advantage goes to the companies that can share information and collaborate quickly and accurately in the most cost-effective manner. Read this white paper now to learn how to effectively lower the costs of your business's document capture process.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011