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whitepaper Oracle Business Brief: Make Compliance Work for You2008-07-08 Oracle
  Learn how to make compliance work for you, rather than the other way around, with Oracle solutions for midsize organizations.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act		   
whitepaper Eco-Positive Rice Producer Expects System Upgrade to Significantly Lower IT Costs2008-07-01 Microsoft
  Lundberg Family Farms, recognized for high-quality rice products and sustainable growing practices, wanted to move to a newer operating system. With Windows Vista? the firm expects to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of its computers through simplified software deployment. Lundberg also expects to minimize time spent on desktop support, enabling it to dedicate more time to high-level IT endeavors that further the company's goals.

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Tags: ROI - TCO, Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI2008-07-28 ASG Software Solutions
  Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiative, this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper level-sets expectations for ROI calculations for CMDB initiatives, provides basic ROI best practices, and gives readers sufficient insight to move forward with their CMDB project. The paper discusses real-world ROI experiences in the larger context of the CMDB value proposition focusing on the pragmatic choices that must be made. A brief EMA viewpoint discusses the merits of the ASG's MetaCMDB solution for those executives concerned with ROI. <-- A Board Room View: Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI -->

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Service Level Management, ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability		   
whitepaper IDC: Running and Optimizing the Business of IT: The SAP Best Practices Approach2008-06-23 SAP
  Read this IDC report to see why the complexity and the rigidity of IT infrastructure keep IT departments focused almost exclusively on managing technology rather than serving the business. While IT must retain a focus on low-level operations, today, business seeks more and wants IT to act less as a technology provider and more as a service provider — one that partners with the business to help it achieve its objectives efficiently and cost-effectively.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability		   
whitepaper Reducing Total Cost of Security Ownership2008-06-19 SonicWall
  The cost of security should be measured not only by list price, but in the sum total of operational performance, implementation, and ongoing management costs. IT is no longer shackled to proprietary vendors and arcane solutions, but can now intelligently select solutions that provide the greatest overall value, while retaining the utmost security and performance. As a relentless innovator in the secure infrastructure market, SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses by engineering the cost out of building and running secure networks.

Tags: Security Standards, Security Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Case Study: Improve Network Security, Cut Carbon Emissions2008-06-04 Microsoft
  The John Lewis Partnership was founded in London 143 years ago. The company, which operates John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, had consolidated its diverse IT infrastructure over several years, which included installing Windows Server® 2003. It wanted to take the next step to improve its network operations. In 2007, the company evaluated Windows Server 2008 features, including new security enhancements. It plans to deploy the Read-Only Domain Controller option to more than 200 remote sites. With the new solution, the John Lewis Partnership anticipates that it will be able to remove at least one server from each remote site. The company expects to improve security, increase productivity, and reduce energy consumption and costs.

Tags: Software Project Management, Network Security, Security Applications, ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Microsoft Webcast: Reducing Total Cost of Ownership by Transforming Natural and ADABAS Applications to the .NET Framework (Level 200)2008-06-03 Microsoft
  Representatives from Microsoft and BluePhoenix explain how one can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by modernizing the Natural and ADABAS applications through the automated BluePhoenix process. Discover how to reduce license and maintenance costs, reduce infrastructure costs, and eliminate the IT resource problem, and increase application performance and throughput. This webcast features the benefits of the Microsoft Mainframe Modernization program, the BluePhoenix Natural and ADABAS automated modernization process, and the Return-On-Investment (ROI) calculation for modernizing applications. This webcast shows how quickly one can start reducing the costs by moving older existing applications to the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Application Development		   
whitepaper Inova Q Embeds Performance, Scalability, Availability, and Low Cost of Ownership Into Flagship Product2008-06-01 Oracle
  Inova Q wanted to meet the needs of IQ-Logistik customers for unrivalled system performance, reliability, flexibility, data security, and scalability and build IQ-Logistik on a world-leading infrastructure capable of supporting clients' mission-critical business processes. The challenge was to ensure low cost of ownership (TCO) while minimizing development costs to enable continuous solution enhancement. Inova Q selected Oracle Database Enterprise Edition as the embedded technology for IQ-Logistik in response to customers' needs for maximum performance, minimal management, and low TCO as well as chose Oracle for its market leadership in the high-availability embedded database market with several hundred million global deployments by thousands of leading ISVs and OEMs.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Business Case for Better Software Practices2008-06-01 Construx Software Builders
  Companies that invest in improved software development practices have found that their investments pay off. Improved software practices offer ROIs of 500%--and significantly more in many cases. The ROI of improved software practices is dramatically higher than the ROIs offered by virtually any other business investment. But only a handful of organizations are operating at the highest levels due to the slow adoption of effective software practices. This whitepaper by Construx Software Chief Software Engineer & CEO Steve McConnell reveals the ROIs for selected software practices and the direct and indirect benefits of improved software practices.

Tags: Software Engineering, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., ROI - TCO, Methodology, Application Development		   
whitepaper Latest Operating Systems Help Farm Equipment Dealer Grow Yet Keep IT Costs Low2008-06-01 Microsoft
  Barker Implement sells John Deere farm equipment from its stores located throughout Iowa. The company wanted to expand its business, improve employee productivity and customer service, and strengthen IT security, without adding IT staff. To address those goals, Barker standardized on Windows Vista? Business for all new client computers and began deploying Windows Server 2008 on its servers. Thanks to the remote assistance, operating system deployment, and flexible security capabilities of the operating systems, two IT staff members are able to support six geographically widespread stores with fewer in-person visits. Rapid file searching and easy connectivity features in Windows Vista also help sales staff access critical information faster, in the office and in the field, to serve customers better.

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Tags: Resources Mgmt., ROI - TCO, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista