ROI Reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CASE STUDY: Read this Dell case study to learn how a restaurant franchisee gets its IT cooking with the right reporting from Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2007

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

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: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for several great tips for selecting the right ERP vendor for your organization. This paper breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps, beginning with the basic questions decision-makers should ask.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Increasing cost controls and unpredictable cost increases are leading many enterprises to rethink how they support their business-to-business (B2B) operations. As a result, many enterprises are choosing to outsource B2B integration by partnering with a managed services provider.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This paper brings an in-depth look at the results of this survey and tries to clearly define and measure the state of data quality. Read this paper to learn what 193 respondents who completed the survey from all around the world had to say about the state of data quality.

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 | Published: 31 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Premiered: Aug 28, 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This flexible, easy to use tool enables you to rapidly evaluate a wide range of scenarios and gather compelling proof of the dramatic impact that Lumension Security’s effective application and device whitelisting can have on your bottom line.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT: The following report features Michael Fauscette, group vice president of IDC's Software Business Solutions research, answering questions posed by Oracle's customers regarding business efficiency and end-user productivity.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Information management is integral to successfully maintaining a competitive advantage. The value of all your data can increase or decrease over time depending on how you manage it. Read on to learn how to gain the insights into information management you need to succeed and gain that competitive edge that is now more important than ever.

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Jul 2009

BROCHURE: Infor CRM Epiphany helps you make the most of customer interactions and improve your sales, marketing, and service operations in order to increase loyalty, enhance brand preference, and boost profitability.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Sea Star Line worked with Esker Professional Services to help implement Esker DeliveryWare as their solution and the benefits that resulted from Sea Stars decision to use Esker DeliveryWare, which includes better visibility, productivity, and time and cost savings.

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 | Published: 13 Jul 2009