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ALSO CALLED: Return On Investment, ROI Calculators, Cost Calculators, IT ROI DEFINITION: The law of diminishing returns is a classic economic concept that states that as more investment in an area is made, overall return on that investment increases at a declining rate, assuming that all variables remain fixed. To continue to make an investment after a certain point (which varies from context to context) is to receive a decreasing return on that input. The law of diminishing returns has … Definition continues below.
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Roadmap to UC Projects that Reap Rewards sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com E-Books EBOOK: This e-book provides a roadmap for building a unified communications business case and offers practical strategies for implementing short-term projects with long-term payback, establishing metrics for ROI evaluation, and setting the stage for adoption of richer collaboration capabilities in the future. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Published: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Communications Networks \| ROI \| Unified Messaging \| Unified Messaging Systems \| Videoconferences \| Voice Communications Software \| Voice Networking \| VoIP

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

IBM Software Delivery Best Practices eKit : Do More with Less sponsored by IBM RESOURCE CENTER: This e-Kit is for anyone who wants to deliver effective software, while reducing costs and risks in this challenging economic environment. Our white papers, videos, webcasts, and customer success stories provide guidance and best practices while showing you how Rational solutions help you gain both short- and long-term value. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Agile Manufacturing \| ROI \| Software \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Implementation \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

ROI Calculators: Requirements-Driven Quality sponsored by IBM ASSESSMENT TOOL: Check out these three ROI calculators for estimates on your return on investment using one or more IBM solutions. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Investments \| ROI \| Software \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Quality Assurance

Five Easy Ways to Better Returns from Your Software Development Investments sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Discover how investing in software development brings back returns with reduced cost and risk, improved time-to-market, and enhanced productivity by following the simple best practices discussed in this webcast. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Investments \| ROI \| Software \| Software Best Practices \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools

Podcast- The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center sponsored by Akorri PODCAST: This podcast details a strategy to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Get answers on how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. Posted: 03 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 03 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management Services \| IT Infrastructure \| Metrics \| ROI \| Systems Management \| VMware

The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center sponsored by Akorri WEBCAST: This webcast details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. Posted: 03 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 03 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Systems Management \| VMware

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

Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings sponsored by Salesforce.com WHITE PAPER: IDC White Paper: Force.com Cloud Platform Drives Huge Time to Market and Cost Savings Learn how companies like yours built custom apps 4 - 5 times faster at half the cost with Force.com Platform. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Cloud Computing \| Platform as a service \| ROI \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Sales Force Automation

Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| Productivity \| ROI \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

Virtualization, Cloud Computing and the IT Service Catalog sponsored by newScale, Inc. WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn about an IT service catalog that will help you achieve virtualization benefits like cost savings and IT agility. Discover a new operating model that enables effective virtualization and cloud computing management. Learn how IT can become more cloud-like and explore how to pave the way for an internal cloud. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Management Services \| IT Service Management \| Portfolio Management (IT Management) \| ROI \| Server Virtualization

The Return on Investment of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Compliance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Compliance with PCI DSS has become a global requirement for any business or entity that processes credit card transactions as payment for goods and services. This paper explores the ROI implications and opportunities of PCI. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Credit Cards \| Payment Card Industry \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| ROI

Case Study: DaimlerChrysler South Africa - Migrating Mission Critical Application Achieving Over 50% Cost Savings and Improving Service Levels sponsored by Micro Focus, Ltd CASE STUDY: In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: COBOL \| Data Security \| High Availability \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| ROI \| Software Migration \| TCO \| UNIX

Presentation Transcript: Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection sponsored by Data Domain PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript Brad Blake, IT Director for Boston Medical Group, discusses his organization's rapid growth in storage requirements, relationship with Data Domain, and the benefits achieved from implementing Data Domain systems. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| ROI \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Remote Office and Branch Locations, Small to Medium Businesses and Web Hosters sponsored by VM6 Software WHITE PAPER: VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Downtime \| High Availability \| Network Management \| ROBO \| ROI \| SAN \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SMBs \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Web Hosting

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

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

The Importance of Measuring ROI: The Indicator of Business and IT Performance sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT™) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes. Posted: 26 Oct 2009 \| Published: 26 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Business Systems \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Spending \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

Tactical Data Quality Projects Deliver Quick ROI sponsored by DataFlux Corporation PODCAST: This expert podcast offers advice for deploying and completing tactical data quality projects from Forrester's Rob Karel. Posted: 21 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 21 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Auditing \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Modeling \| Data Modeling Languages \| Data Profiling \| Data Quality \| Design Verification \| Quality Control \| ROI

Compression ROI Tool sponsored by IBM SOFTWARE DEMO: The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Database Administration \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Linux \| ROI \| UNIX

Upgrading your PCs? Why the processor makes a difference sponsored by Intel Technology Provider PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Use this guide to explain the importance of choosing an Intel® processor, describe the differences between Intel processors, find the right Intel processor for every customer, and up-sell customers to a higher level Intel processor. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Computer Hardware \| Desktop Management \| High Performance Computing \| Laptop Computers \| Multi-core Processors \| Notebook Computers \| Productivity \| ROI \| Server Hardware \| Workstations

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

Leaner and Greener Because of Intel® Core™2 Processors with vPro™ Technology sponsored by Intel Technology Provider CASE STUDY: Recently, the University of Plymouth, located in the U.K., completed a refresh of their 4,800 desktop PCs, upgrading the systems to PCs with Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology in order to offer students the latest in IT services. The following paper provides an ROI analysis of this PC deployment. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Computer Hardware \| Green Data Center \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| ROI \| TCO \| University Programs

Beloit Creates New Opportunities with Google Apps sponsored by Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Beloit grew their customer base by using Google Apps as a 'win-leader', created additional revenue streams, and deepened relationships with customers and opened up new oppurtunities. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Email Management \| Email Management Services \| Revenue Projections \| ROI

OEM Program eBook sponsored by SAP America Inc EBOOK: Find out how to tap into a long-running program with over 750 OEM partners worldwide, and make SAP BusinessObjects market leading BI platform your own. Posted: 13 Oct 2009 \| Published: 13 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| OEMs \| Reporting Software \| ROI \| SAP (Product) \| Software as a Service

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ROI DEFINITION (continued): … broader applications than economics. In fact, it is one of the most widely recognized economic principles outside of the economic classroom. In a call center, for instance, service level improvements decline in rate in relation to each additional successive agent added. Other real-world examples abound: A student considering one more hour of study after 2 AM.A prospective car buyer evaluating the benefits of a higher grade of luxury vehicleA farmer weighing adding an extra bushel of fertilizer to a saturated field of cornA marketer analyzing the ROI of additional media buys in a long-running …

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