Benefit Cost Analysis

WHITE PAPER: Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

PRESENTATION: Ian Campbell, board advisor for Value Retail, talks about what CIOs need to do to ensure they are “on the same planet” as the CEO and board members of any organisation in this PowerPoint presentation.

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 | Published: 10 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: In today's economic climate, IT organizations are looking for ways to achieve cost savings in the short term. Based on this study, the IT organizations achieved this goal by realizing an average payback period for JBoss Operations Network of a short 5.3 months - recovering their initial investments well within the first half-year of deployment.

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: End users sold your CIO on hybrid cloud. Now you have to sell them on management tools. Here is an in-depth list of 5 tools and use cases, as well as 5 tactics, to help you sell your CIO on hybrid cloud management tools.

Posted: 09 May 2017 | Published: 05 May 2017

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

EBOOK: ERP implementation projects require the complex coordination of people, process, and technology. If one part is mismanaged, the entire implementation can go off track. Project management can make or break ERP implementations. This e-book explains the tools and best practices that can keep an ERP implementation on time, in scope, and under budget.

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 | Published: 27 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we detail these four mechanisms and introduce several case studies and examples to show the increased economic value that Cloud Computing brings to an organization.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In today’s economic climate, no manufacturer can afford to fund any supply chain management (SCM) project that fails to deliver results. This white paper describes seven success factors for today’s SCM projects, which have been identified by seasoned executives with decades of experience in the field.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

WEBCAST: In this educational webcast, human resources management expert Gretchen Alarcon explains how HR teams can ramp up their contribution towards meeting business goals by using actionable insights from both embedded and predictive analytics - along with "what if" modeling – to manage the workforce effectively and in real time.

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 | Premiered: Jan 16, 2014