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ALSO CALLED: Layoffs, Job Cuts DEFINITION: In a business enterprise, downsizing is reducing the number of employees on the operating payroll. Some users distinguish downsizing from a layoff, with downsizing intended to be a permanent downscaling and a layoff intended to be a temporary downscaling in which employees may later be rehired. Businesses use several techniques in downsizing, including providing incentives to take early retirement … Definition continues below.
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PODCAST: Best Practices around How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with NAND Flash sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. PODCAST: Listen to this podcast to learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Management \| Disk Backups \| Economic Environment \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Strategic Planning

Presentation Transcript: Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times sponsored by SAP America Inc PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn the business value of PLM in an uncertain economy as well as significant trends in the PLM market. Explore SAP's approach to a new generation of product lifecycle management solutions that will help you remain or become a product and services leader. Posted: 04 Aug 2009 \| Published: 04 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| Globalization \| PLM \| PLM Software \| Product Life Cycles \| Product Management \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| SAP (Product)

Presentation Transcript: Leveraging Virtualization to Constrain Costs sponsored by 3PAR PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 05 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| CIOs \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Economic Environment \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times sponsored by 3PAR VIDEO: Watch this videocast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Premiered: 27 May 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| CIOs \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Economic Environment \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Q&A with the Small Business Administration on Recovery Act Opportunities for Small Businesses sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To provide relief and encourage continued growth, the U.S. Congress recently passed the Recovery Act-legislation that offers economic help to small businesses to help them to survive and thrive. Read the following Q+A to learn how businesses can take advantage of stimulus funds. Posted: 14 Aug 2009 \| Published: 14 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Economic Environment \| Financial Management \| Financing \| Loans \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Quality begins with Requirements sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Learn about the new integration between IBM® Rational® DOORS and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager and how it enables you to implement a successful requirements based testing approach to your development lifecycle. Posted: 05 Aug 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business Environment \| Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| CEOs \| CFOs \| CIOs \| Economic Environment \| Quality Control \| Quality Control Standards \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Reassessing Server Costs for Mid-Size Companies sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper argues that while the current economic climate might suggest delaying data center upgrades, the opposite will save you money. Learn how upgrading to Sun Fire servers can put more on your bottom line. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Published: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Center Consolidation \| Economic Environment \| Middleware \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Reducing Cost and Risk Through Improved Quality Management sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: During the Webcast, we'll show you how adopting a proactive quality management approach to systems and software development can help minimize risk and assist in improving predictability across your development lifecycle. Posted: 05 Aug 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business Development \| Business Environment \| Business Management \| CEOs \| CFOs \| CIOs \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Economic Environment \| Risk Management \| Systems Management

Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn - Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the global retail industry's movement towards the attainment of total immersive shopping experience (ISE) abilities, and discuss how integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software suites will represent the key technological enabler to achieve this fundamental strategic business objective. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| CRM \| Economic Environment \| Global Economy \| Oracle (Product) \| Sales \| Sales Force Automation

Security on a Budget sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: We need to establish cost-effective security as a standard practice. This should be a long-term goal, not just one inspired by a tough economy. This paper explores several innovative ideas to help your organization save money on company security. Posted: 01 May 2009 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Policies \| Security Spending \| Security Threats

Selecting a SAP Managed Hosting Provider: Trends and Myths sponsored by Freudenberg IT PODCAST: Bill Martorelli, principal analyst for Forrester Research, discusses trends in the SAP managed hosting arena, myths about SAP managed hosting, and gives advice on creating RFPs and negotiating SLAs. Posted: 16 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 16 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure Providers \| Application Outsourcing \| Data Centers \| Economic Environment \| Hosting Services \| IT Infrastructure \| Market Trends \| Request for Proposals \| SAP (Product) \| SLA \| SLA Management Services

Selling Through A Slump: An Industry-by-Industry Playbook to Help You Prepare for the Recovery sponsored by Oracle Corporation EBOOK: Selling in today's economy is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in today's economy. There are important dos and don'ts in times like these. This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Retention \| Economic Environment \| Marketing \| Sales Representatives

Smart Decisions for Extraordinary Times sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: With Microsoft Unified Communications businesses can simplify management and maximize budget and resources. You can consolidate costly third-party solutions and avoid capital investments. Posted: 08 Sep 2009 \| Published: 08 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| Messaging Middleware \| Microsoft Exchange \| Telecommuting \| Teleconferences \| Unified Messaging \| VoIP

Smarter Development Environments: A Conversation with Grady Booch sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Join Grady Booch in a freewheeling, interactive conversation on the future of software delivery in the current internet culture and new social media vehicles. Posted: 11 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Agile Manufacturing \| Economic Environment \| Open Source \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Tools \| Software Engineers \| Software Infrastructure

SOA In Any Economic Climate: Keep Ahead of Change with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper from ZapThink discusses how organizations can quickly benefit from SOA, regardless of the economic climate. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| SOA \| Software Architectures \| Software Configuration Management \| Software Infrastructure \| Software Migration

Solid State Drives - Improving Data Center Economics and Bringing New Capabilities! sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation WEBCAST: This eSeminar will provide you with the information that you need to best implement SSDs and achieve the optimal ROI and service level improvements that you require. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Economic Environment \| Solid State Disks

Sun HPC Virtual Tradeshow sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Management \| Disk Backups \| Economic Environment \| High Performance Computing \| Parallel Processing \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Strategic Planning

The CIO's Guide to IT Cost Optimization During the Recession sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company EGUIDE: In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value. Posted: 18 Jun 2009 \| Published: 18 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Business Intelligence \| CIOs \| Economic Environment \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Virtualization

The Economics of Endpoint Security sponsored by Sophos Inc. VIDEO: View this videocast to learn how to get a great endpoint security solution that includes management without having to invest a huge amount of resources. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Premiered: 14 May 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| Endpoint Security \| IT Spending \| Secure Content Management \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Spending

The Top 3 Reasons CRM Initiatives (Still) Fail - And How To Avoid Them sponsored by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at the top three reasons that CRM initiatives fail to achieve their goals and provides clear, practical recommendations for ensuring that your CRM initiative avoids these pitfalls and delivers desired returns. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Change Management \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Software \| Customer Retention \| Customer Satisfaction \| Economic Environment \| Productivity \| ROI

Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns? Posted: 09 Apr 2009 \| Published: 09 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Business Environment \| Business Management \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| Data Center Management \| Economic Environment \| Enterprise Architectures \| Enterprise Computing \| Enterprise Systems \| Environmental Compliance \| Political Environment

Video White Paper: Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM sponsored by Oracle Corporation VIDEO: The best time to streamline and turbo-charge the sales process is when competitors are looking the other way. That's why now is a good time to make the shift to a CRM solution that can catapult your organization into the next round of growth. Posted: 10 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Satisfaction \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Economic Environment \| Sales

Webcast: Hear from Your Peers: Take Action now to Lower your Database Costs sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Is data management costing you too much money? Join us for a webcast where two IBM DB2 customers will discuss proven strategies that they have incorporated into their IT operations that have resulted in lowering their overall database costs. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Economic Environment

Webcast: Five Things You Can Do Today to Cut Costs Using Agile Development sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: In this economic downturn, organizations are looking to cut costs. Agile teams produce higher quality work, are quick to deliver and provide greater ROI. What can these teams do now to cut costs? Join us as Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, provides his expertise and guidance on this pressing topic for today. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Economic Environment \| ROI \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools

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DOWNSIZING DEFINITION (continued): … In a business enterprise, downsizing is reducing the number of employees on the operating payroll. Some users distinguish downsizing from a layoff, with downsizing intended to be a permanent downscaling and a layoff intended to be a temporary downscaling in which employees may later be rehired. Businesses use several techniques in downsizing, including providing incentives to take early retirement and transfer to subsidiary companies, but the most common technique is to simply terminate the employment of a certain number of people.Rightsizing is downsizing in the belief that an enterprise really should operate with fewer people. Dumbsizing is downsizing that, in retrospect, failed to achieve the desired effect.
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