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whitepaper Event Technology Company Improves Performance and Reliability 50%, Lowers TCO $700K2008-03-12 Microsoft
  PSAV specializes in planning, producing, and executing complex presentations and business theater events that require cutting-edge solutions. They needed to centralize applications and data in order to minimize loss from replication issues, reduce staff hours allocated to replication issues, extend the life of the current hardware, and simplify maintenance. Windows Server 2008 was chosen as the foundation for PSAV's key business workloads. Six servers were deployed, running Terminal Services in a load-balanced configuration, and its remote offices were given access to the centralized business applications. The following new Terminal Services features helped support the deployment: Terminal Services (TS) Gateway, Terminal Services (TS) Session Broker, Terminal Services (TS) RemoteApp, Terminal Services (TS) Web Access, and Terminal Services Easy Print.

Tags: Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper Understanding Total Cost of Ownership in Building an Advanced Store Systems Business Case2008-01-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  This paper provides a detailed view of the considerations required to evaluate advanced store systems platforms and how to ensure that the retailer's business priorities are fully addressed in the business value analysis. It examines the importance of using a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model as a more accurate reflection of investment cost and benefit than mere asset purchase. It analyzes research results that show the different store systems evaluation priorities used by different retail industry segments and provides sample retailer models and financial metrics to use as guides, concluding with a review of the full value proposition that can result from a broad, strategic investment in new retail POS technologies.   
whitepaper Can You Believe in ROI?2007-12-03 BMC Software
  Demonstrating ROI is particularly important because most IT organizations are focusing their attention on becoming a source of business value, equal to other revenue-generating departments in the company. This approach requires a heightened focus on the value of every dollar IT spends, and the ability to describe value in terms that business leaders can understand. This paper reviews a framework to help establish whether ROI analysis is effective by determining whether it adheres to four key criteria: credible, conservative, customer focused, and comprehensive.   
whitepaper Quick Start: Real World Definitions of Financial Terms2007-12-01 CIOview
  Real-world definitions of financial terms Return on investment have become such a crucial tool for businesses that several techniques have been developed to measure it. ROInow! uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and capital budgeting principles to generate the most commonly used financial metrics. ROInow! will generate Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV), Payback Period and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).   
whitepaper JD Edwards Post Implementation Systems Assessment (PISA) ? A Way to Ensure You Get the Most Value From Your Implementation2007-10-15 SYSTIME
  A Post Implementation Systems Assessment should allow JD Edwards users to target areas of the system, resulting in increase of their user buy-in and system ROI. Technical improvements, such as improving system performance and stability, and functional improvements, such as automating manual processes and improving data capture accuracy, can increase user buy in and return on the investment. The PISA assessment should also highlight areas that are working well as these processes can be used as benchmarks in other areas that are not as well adopted in the JD Edwards system. The PISA can also be used to merely validate what one already knows about the system, but require third party confirmation.   
whitepaper Global Print Solution Provider Uses New Operating System to Drastically Reduce Costs2007-10-01 Microsoft
  Six years ago Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, a global leader in print solutions, embarked on an innovative IT strategy, which included replacing the company's nearly 14,000 client computers with new models every three years. In early 2007, the company faced the decision whether to continue using Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office 2003 on new computers, or to upgrade to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. After a comprehensive financial analysis, the company realized that upgrading to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system simultaneously will save about 750,000 Euro (U.S. $1.1 million). The company currently has 6,000 computers running Windows Vista and is on track to deploy an additional 5,000 by December 2007.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Act, Don't React: A proactive business continuity solution protects your revenues and reputation2007-03-01 IBM
  For any organization, particularly small and mid-sized companies, a sound strategy for business continuity is imperative to survival. IBM offers solutions that can minimize or prevent the devastating loss of revenue and reputation that often accompanies an unexpected disaster. IBM's business resilience plan integrates IT recovery, information security programs, and a business continuity plan.   
whitepaper Improving Operational Efficiency of your IT Infrastructure2004-11-01 IBM
  IT operational efficiency is a business imperative. Optimizing the IT infrastructure improves operational efficiency by reducing costs, improving agility, and maximizing performance. IBM offers a wide range of offerings designed to help improve the efficiency of your IT environment.

Tags: Back-Office, Business Management, Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper Reducing TCO With Windows Vista: Quantified Savings for Mobile PCs2007-09-01 Wipro Technologies
  Mobile PCs (notebook PCs, Tablet PCs, and Ultra-Mobile PCs) are forecasted to become the dominant PC form factor in large and medium organizations by 20101. As the mobile PC-centric world approaches, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of mobile PCs while improving service and security levels for mobile workers is a high priority for any CIO or IT manager. Since PCs and their supporting infrastructure represent 30 to 45 percent of an IT budget2, IT staff will need to augment their strategy and technologies to deal with a new set of mobility challenges, such as managing resources off the corporate network and ensuring security outside the corporate firewall.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Maximizing the ROI of Windows Vista Deployments2007-08-30 Wipro
  With the release of the Windows Vista operating system at the end of 2006, IT managers now face the decision of when and how to deploy it across their respective organizations. Better IT management tools, increased security, and substantial benefits in end-user productivity, make Windows Vista an attractive choice. Consistent with studies from Gartner, IDC and Alinean (see Appendix A), Wipro Technologies estimates a minimum annual reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of $192/PC in IT labor and user downtime/self-support savings for a 2500 PC organization1. According to IDC, similar sized organizations that use Windows Vista to improve their IT processes and automation can reap additional benefits of up to $430/PC/year2.

Tags: Windows Vista