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ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, TCO Calculators DEFINITION: TCO (total cost of ownership) is a type of calculation designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess both direct and indirect costs and benefits related to the purchase of any IT component. The intention is to arrive at a final figure that will reflect the effective cost of purchase, all things considered. When you decide to buy a computer you may go through a TCO analysis: for example, … Definition continues below.
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Advance Your Data Management: Reduce Cost and Risk through the effective and efficient Management of Master Data sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Master Data Management \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

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

SAP Business Transformation Study: ConAgra Foods sponsored by SAP AG CASE STUDY: ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Inventory Management \| Inventory Management Software \| SAP (Product) \| Supply Chain Event Management \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chain Software \| Supply Chains \| TCO

Giving Service Companies a Fast Start sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships - with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Published: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Consulting Services \| Business Intelligence \| Consulting Services Industry \| ERP \| IT Services \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

The Intelligent Choice for Microsoft® Windows Server Virtualization sponsored by Dell and Microsoft DATA SHEET: To fully benefit from Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) technology, a fully engineered virtualization solution is needed, that is both cost effective and easy to manage whilst simultaneously ensuring high availability with enterprise performance and stability. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Published: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Consulting Services Industry \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management Services \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| Virtual Machine \| Windows Server 2003

Are You Ready for Economic Bounce Back? sponsored by Micro Focus, Ltd WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Customer Satisfaction \| Data Migration \| Economic Environment \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Linux \| SQL Server \| Systems Management \| TCO \| UNIX \| Windows Server 2003

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

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

Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches sponsored by VM6 Software WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model. Posted: 27 Oct 2009 \| Published: 27 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| IT Infrastructure \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SMBs \| Systems Management \| TCO \| VM \| WAN

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

Presentation Transcript: Optimize Business and IT with New Generation Application Lifecycle sponsored by SAP Community Network PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript provides a complete overview of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discusses how SAP's integrated and open approach to ALM can accelerate innovation, ensure business continuity, reduce risk and lower TCO. Posted: 26 Oct 2009 \| Published: 26 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Life-Cycle Management Software \| Application Monitoring \| Application Security \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| SAP (Product) \| Secure Application Development \| Software Implementation \| Software Quality Assurance \| TCO

Video Whitepaper: The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build sponsored by Oracle Corporation VIDEO: This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| Oracle (Product) \| TCO

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

eBook: Smart Data Management: 3 ways to boost development productivity sponsored by IBM EBOOK: As IT budgets get tighter and skills get more expensive, companies are starting to think of ways to get more out of their existing workforce. This e-book proposes three solutions that can help your developers and architects realize the best possible value from their existing infrastructure. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Storage \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| TCO

TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Software \| Systems Operations \| TCO

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

How NOT to waste 50% of your virtualization budget sponsored by HP, Citrix, and Intel WEBCAST: In this webcast, viewers will discover a new combination of tools that can help them transform their IT systems into agile, virtual infrastructures. Discover how to leverage this approach for a quicker return on investment and reduced operations, management and networking costs. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Citrix XenServer \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

Tips to Manage Compliance and IT Risk, Improve Visibility and Reduce Operating Costs sponsored by Lumension WEBCAST: In today's highly regulated IT environment, organizations frequently overspend on compliance. The first step in becoming compliant is understanding your level of risk. In this webcast, get advice from the Aberdeen Group that aids your organizations in providing greater visibility, mitigating technical and operational risks, and reducing costs. Posted: 14 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 14 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Data Security \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Assessment \| Security \| TCO

Performance Management Applications Overview sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| CFOs \| Oracle (Product) \| Productivity \| Regulatory Compliance \| TCO

Podcast: Optimize Business and IT With New Generation Application Lifecycle Management sponsored by SAP Community Network PODCAST: This podcast provides a complete overview of application lifecycle management (ALM) and discusses how SAP's integrated and open approach to ALM can accelerate innovation, ensure business continuity, reduce risk and lower TCO. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Life-Cycle Management Software \| Application Monitoring \| Application Security \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| SAP (Product) \| Secure Application Development \| Software Implementation \| Software Quality Assurance \| TCO

Sun™ Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| TCO

Aberdeen Report: Five-Step Mobility Management Plan for Lowering TCO per Mobile Employee, Reducing Risk and Increasing User Productivity sponsored by BoxTone ANALYST REPORT: This complimentary Aberdeen report details how best-in-class companies are using a 5-Step Mobility Management approach to take control of their burgeoning mobile infrastructures. A must read for IT executives looking to cut mobility TCO and support costs, reduce security risks and increase mobile user productivity. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Regulatory Compliance \| Smart Phones \| TCO \| Wireless Computing \| Wireless Security

How to Calculate The ROI & TCO of Your Mobile Users Before Cost Overruns Blindside You sponsored by BoxTone ANALYST REPORT: This handbook is designed to help senior IT management calculate their organization's mobile ROI and TCO -- using an enterprise environment of 2,000 mobile users to demonstrate the approach -- and includes a 5-step analytical approach for reducing that TCO by as much as 15-20 percent. Posted: 08 Oct 2009 \| Published: 08 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Operating Systems \| ROI \| Smart Phones \| TCO \| Wireless Computing \| Wireless Security

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of PC's with Citrix XenDesktop sponsored by Citrix PRODUCT OVERVIEW: If you're thinking about a move to virtual desktops, then XenDesktop offers you the best in efficiency, security, and flexibility. Watch this informative video to learn more about this exciting technology. Posted: 06 Oct 2009 \| Published: 06 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| Personal Computers \| TCO \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Optimize your Technology Infrastructure Podcast Series sponsored by IBM PODCAST: Companies with a flexible IT infrastructure credit their success to an ability to adapt to change. Listen to find new ways to lower IT complexity and improve operating efficiency in your company. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ROI \| TCO

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TCO DEFINITION (continued): … the greater cost price of a high-end computer might be one consideration, but one that would have to be balanced by adding likely repair costs and earlier replacement to the purchase cost of the bargain brand.TCO analysis originated with the Gartner Group several years ago and has since been developed in a number of different methodologies and software tools. TCO analysis performs calculations on extended costs for any purchase - these are called fully burdened costs. For the consumer's purchase of a computer, the fully burdened cost may include costs of purchase, repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. …
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