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whitepaper Global Consolidation Saves Over $100 Million2009-01-01 gartner
  A Fortune 100 Health Care Company consults Gartner to achieve over $100 million in savings using benchmarking, an updated sourcing strategy and critical program management techniques. The challenge was to migrate to a global IT consolidation strategy and to reduce costs and drive business advantage through a unified application environment. It used benchmarking to reveal optimization opportunities, applied knowledge of sourcing and off-shoring best practices and solutions and applied skills in program management and applications process re-design.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Financial Services Firm Saves $32 Million2009-01-01 gartner
  A major US financial services firm asked Gartner to review its corporate wide initiatives designed to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency ratios. The challenge was to improve service quality while reducing IT delivery costs, to find efficiencies in global sourcing and application management and advance the maturity of key processes to improve organizational agility, flexibility and cost performance. It reassessed sourcing strategy and sourcing roadmap for efficiency.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper An Aerospace Company Saves $26 Million2009-01-01 gartner
  A large aerospace and defense manufacturing group wanted to grow, yet contain costs at the same time. A Gartner engagement helped deliver the vision and exceed cost savings expectations. The challenge was to grow the company while containing costs and generate double-digit growth. Gartner delivered insight in sourcing, performance management and benchmarking to define opportunities for both growth and cost containment.   
whitepaper Government Healthcare Organization Generates Savings With New Identity Solution2009-01-01 gartner
  When a large government healthcare organization needed to comply with a federal initiative for a new identity solution, management called on Gartner for help. Gartner supported both the business case and deployment plan. The challenge was to create a comprehensive identity solution to support several operational divisions and to comply with the HSPD-12 initiative for Federal Employee Identification. It created full financial analysis and business case for an HSPD-12 compliant solution and crafted a sourcing model for a $25Million procurement.

Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Relies on QualysGuard to Conduct Weekly Scans of Its Critical Banking Systems to Meet Growing Bank Regulations and Reduce Risk2009-01-01 Qualys
  In the first quarter of this year, 1,220 new software vulnerabilities were uncovered. More than 80 such vulnerabilities that place business-technology systems at-risk are discovered, on average, each week. The challenge was that American State Bank needed to secure its new online banking services and also meet internal and F.D.I.C. compliance demands. Bank deployed QualysGuard Express enables the bank to quickly and cost-effectively reduce security risks and meet complex banking regulatory demands.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Case Study: Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. Plans for Future Growth with PlanView2008-07-30 PlanView
  This case study outlines how one company plans for future growth with project and portfolio management from Planview. In the past ten years, Old Dominion has nearly quadrupled its size. This level of change means Old Dominion's IT department must be flexible and savvy. "With that kind of growth, you have to have a strong IT department and invest in technology," says Laura Amos, manager of IT Metrics and Business Alignment at Old Dominion. "We wanted to mature our talented IT organization by equipping them with the tools to be proactive so we're poised to continue with this growth and keep up with the demands of the business."

Tags: IT Budgeting, Business Functions, IT Budgeting, Business Functions, Project Management, Project Management		   
whitepaper Hallmark Case Study: Effective Performance Management with PlanView2006-07-20 PlanView
  As IT budgets continue to shrink, the pressure is on to build performance metrics that justify ever-increasing expectations. According to Cheryl Randle, Process & Capability Manager, Hallmark Cards, "With a company as large as Hallmark, our IT department serves a vast internal client base. It had become essential that we see a day-to-day view of our IT projects. Also, we needed to understand which projects to stop when the necessary ROI could not be achieved." From a list of 10 providers, a cross-functional IT team chose the proven experience and functionality of Planview's solution.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting, Workflow Management, IT Budgeting, Project Management, Project Management		   
whitepaper Regional Health Insurer Finds Softscape Flexible and Easy to Use2008-12-08 Softscape
  Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) has been the state's leading health insurer for 67 years and covers more than 670,000 customers. Staff performance and customer service are core values of the BCBSRI workforce and core differentiators for the company. A transition from a paper-based system to an online system was made in 2004, yet functionality was still deficient. In 2006, BCBSRI's human resources department decided to search for a new online system that offered greater flexibility, configurability, and functionality. The healthcare provider's human resources department felt that Softscape's integrated people management platform, Softscape Apex, was the best solution to serve its needs, improve its performance management processes, and enable future expansion into new areas as the needs arise.

Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Market Leading Manufacturer Aligns Individual Goals to Organizational Success2008-12-08 Softscape
  Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) is a Fortune 500 company and the leader in bringing Genuine Ingenuity to everything it makes-marine engines, pleasure boats, fitness equipment, bowling and billiards, and emerging technologies. In response to a company-wide survey that revealed employees were being overrated in their reviews and that ratings themselves lacked meaning and consistency, Brunswick's five divisional human resources vice presidents formed an executive-sponsored task force to overhaul workforce performance management. To improve its performance processes, Brunswick required a better performance management model and system to support it. Brunswick selected Softscape's integrated people management platform, Softscape Apex, as the foundation of its performance management strategy. What appealed to Brunswick was Softscape's configurability and deployment flexibility, particularly Softscape's ability to host the system for Brunswick.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Epicor Software Case Study: Symmetry Medical2008-12-04 Epicor Software
  Symmetry Medical, a leading provider of implants, instruments and cases for orthopedic device manufacturers understands the pressures facing a global midmarket medical device company. In June 2003, the company began its current approach to business - offering Total Solutions - a complete professional services package for medical device manufacturers. Dealing directly with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's), Symmetry provides services that encompass the entire product lifecycle, from design to engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and delivery. To provide the localization, flexibility, visibility, and access to information needed to leverage their resources, Symmetry has consistently invested in capable ERP solutions from Epicor.

Tags: IT Budgeting