ROI Reports

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This commissioned study conducted by Forrester on behalf of IBM describes how one company was able to realize a 42% 3-year return on investment by migrating from an open source application server to WebSphere Application Server (WAS).

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 | Published: 12 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Get a holistic view of the potential costs and savings associated with SIP trunk consolidation.  Uncover actual costs and savings models, a review of key technical considerations, primary design considerations, and a discussion of a holistic architecture that can take you from SIP trunking to UC easily and economically.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Provisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: What does sustainability mean for business and particularly for IT? Sustainable IT refers to efforts that increase the useful life and reduce environmental impacts of IT systems, and concurrently offer cost benefits to the business. Read on to learn how your business could benefit from going green.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: In order to ensure regulatory compliance, Northern Trust's IT department needed a better tool to help employees quickly find the latest forms and information. Using the Google Search Appliance, OneBox and User-Added Results, Northern Trust increased both the accuracy and relevance of all intranet searches. Read this case study.

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010

EBOOK: The evolution of smartphones and mobile networks enable new possibilities for enterprise applications and new challenges for IT. The benefits span organizations. But delivering this requires a sound strategy and close collaboration between business and IT. Learn about key mobile trends and how to develop a mobile enterprise application strategy.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Find out how IBM Rational® can provide you with solutions to improve organizational efficiency, reduce your TCO, and position your organization for long-term growth. Choose a solution that addresses one or more of your needs, and the tool will help you determine your ROI or estimate the value your organization could attain with IBM Rational.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

EZINE: To ensure that your migration to the newest version of SharePoint is successful, plan and document your changes, and map the source environment to the new one. Next, choose a tool to help with moving your content, and test your migration before going live.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

EBOOK: Procurement technology brings buyers and sellers together in virtual marketplaces, letting manufacturers aggregate purchases of goods and services to earn volume discounts and negotiate better prices. In this E-Book, experts discuss techniques for managing supplier risk and gaining more control over direct spend on raw materials.

Posted: 13 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: For IT organizations in large businesses seeking a greater return on their enterprise storage investments, a transformed data center is a virtual one with a large virtual pool of resources. The net result is superior data center efficiency, manageability and cost savings. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

EBOOK: MDM has experienced a rise in popularity - with SAP planning to lead the market in master data synchronization to help customers achieve lower TCO in running SAP. Uncover SAP's multiple product approach to MDM as well as changes in SAP's MDM strategy and gain insight on how to design an MDM team for your SAP MDM implementation project.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 10 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: For the VP of Financial Systems for a Fortune 100 Insurance Company, the decision to implement an SAP compliance and reporting solution was initiated as a result of SOX. Now that the Security Weaver solution has been in place for about two years, the VP is convinced that the decision to go with this solution was the best choice for his company.

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 | Published: 08 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at quality strategies which deliver a positive operational return on investment, improving quality whilst reducing cost and risk. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains that as automation tools continue to evolve in a quest to deliver the most comprehensive set of automated capabilities, the notion of writing scripts will be rendered anachronistic. Continue reading to learn more about the shift from scriping to dynamic, intelligent process automation.

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data protection and disaster recovery continue to be overarching challenges for most firms. To remedy a myriad of problems with data protection as well as operational and disaster recovery, companies are replacing legacy backup methods with new approaches. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: As a leader of a SMBs, your expertise lies in improving your business, not the technology that runs it. With virtualization, it’s enough to know that your business can decrease costs, increase IT productivity and protect corporate assets. And VMware is the clear leader in virtualization solutions for SMBs. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2010

DATA SHEET: Read this data sheet to learn about all of the key features and benefits of this dynamic solution.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In the Presentation Transcript of the webcast, “Strategies for improving supply chain visibility with technology,” Julie Fraser outlines strategies for improving a supply chain visibility strategy with the help of technology. Follow the link to learn more.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

TEST RESULTS: This Principled Technologies report commissioned by Dell Inc. compares the benefits of migrating legacy Microsoft® Exchange 2003 infrastructure to Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2009