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whitepaper Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications2008-05-27 IBM
  The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement SOA, makes any business functionality available over the Internet. Another technology that promises to extend that agility to business users is Business Rules Management (BRM) systems. A BRM gives business users direct control over the business logic, allowing them to change it without much intervention from IT. This paper explores how these two technologies - SOA and BRM - promise to help businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Sales Force Automation Comparison Guide2008-05-15 Inside CRM
  Inside CRM's analysts have compiled this comprehensive Comparison Guide that features the top 10 industry SFA providers. This guide offers solutions to help sales and marketing to continue to sell and generate leads and grow revenue in these turbulent economic times.

Tags: Sales Force Automation, Sales - Marketing, ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper On-Premise CRM Comparison Guide2008-05-14 Inside CRM
  If your business needs the flexibility offered by an in-house CRM system, your first step should be to research offerings from some of the industry's biggest vendors. Find out how different solutions address different features, how much you can expect to pay and what kind of technology infrastructure you need in place. This guide from Inside CRM compares solutions from vendors such as Microsoft, SugarCRM, SAP and Infor.

This comparison guide addresses topics such as:
  • SFA (Sales Force Automation) features
  • Marketing features
  • Service and support options
Download this free comparison guide and learn more!

Tags: Sales Force Automation, Sales - Marketing, ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: System Center and the Datacenter (Level 300)2008-05-14 Microsoft Tips
  Businesses are demanding more processing power to succeed in today's digital marketplace, requiring their data centers to rapidly scale and adopt innovations in virtualization, clustering, and server consolidation. In contrast to these demands, challenges of security, automation, compliancy, and green initiatives all add complexity to truly meeting the needs of today's IT organizations. Successful companies are turning their server infrastructures from cost centers to strategic assets to counteract these constraints. This webcast shows how the Microsoft System Center family of products can help the customers deploy and manage their datacenters quickly and easily - reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), improving service levels, and increasing organizational agility.

Tags: Data Center, ROI - TCO, Green IT		   
whitepaper SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: The Solution for Mission-critical Computing2008-05-08 Novell
  Dealing with costly and inflexible infrastructure that doesn't deliver enough value? Your data center should drive business forward--not derail it. It's time for a better choice in enterprise computing, and that's why organizations worldwide are turning to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. This innovative data center powerhouse is ready for your organization. You get maximum reliability and security--and a way to cut your infrastructure costs by up to 70 percent.

Tags: Virtualization, Data Center, ROI - TCO, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Aquarium Enhances Data Access, Security, and Productivity with New Operating System2008-05-01 Microsoft
  The National Aquarium in Baltimore, one of the premier aquatic resources in the United States, presents 16,000 specimens in an award-winning 250,000 square-foot facility.

Limited office space required some staffers to share computers, and lengthy logon/logoff procedures further limited those users' time at the computer. If users didn't log off before leaving their sessions, they ran the risk of exposing confidential data. In addition, the National Aquarium IT staff wanted to reduce the time required to support multiple desktop operating systems. To provide more efficient and secure computer sharing, the Aquarium decided to move all users to the Windows Vista? operating system. This move has reduced logon time from 15 minutes to 5 seconds, provided faster access to information, and significantly reduced desktop support calls.

Download this paper to learn more!

Tags: Data Recovery - Security, ROI - TCO, Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services2008-04-16 Riverbed
  Did you know it's possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this white paper from Riverbed on cost-savings through wide-area data services, you'll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation. It's called Extreme Savings and it's only from Riverbed.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Network Design, Resources Mgmt., ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper F5 Networks Case Study: Brown Shoe2008-04-03 F5 Networks
  Brown Shoe is a leading consumer-driven footwear company, operating nearly 1,300 retail shoe stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. The company was looking to implement a real-time disaster recovery strategy to enable their large number of retail stores to continue operation in the event of a data center failure. The company turned to WANJet to accelerate the AS/400 replication of data between its two data centers, while dramatically lowering bandwidth requirements. With WANJet increasing the bandwidth capacity by 1000%, the retailer was able to use a 7 Mbps link instead of upgrading to 90 Mbps, achieving a hard dollar ROI in less than three months.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues, ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Early Adoption of Windows Vista Yields Strong Returns for Midsized Companies2008-04-01 Microsoft
  IT departments in midsize organizations are expected to improve the quality of services to PC end-users, cut IT support costs, and increase business flexibility. Compared to large enterprises, midsize companies have tighter IT budgets and fewer IT resources. With the release of the Windows Vista operating system at the end of 2006, IT managers faced the decision of when and how to deploy it across their organizations. To help answer these questions, Wipro Technologies interviewed 73 midsize companies that have begun deploying Windows Vista??. Major findings include:
  • Depending upon the deployment method chosen, Windows Vista ROI can be very strong--ranging from 81% to 104% for midsize organizations.
  • With widespread application availability, the release of Service Pack 1, and more than half of all US companies either running or evaluating it, Windows Vista has entered the mainstream adoption phase. Midsize companies should plan to begin deploying Windows Vista during their next PC refresh cycle.
  • Delaying the Windows Vista upgrade process can result in deployment costs that are twice as high asthose organizations using a timely refresh-based upgrade, while foregoing the productivity benefits of Windows Vista. Running an outdated operating system may result in additional risks and costs as software suppliers drop application support, drivers for new hardware become unavailable, and PC vendors no longer ship the prior operating system pre-loaded.
Security benefits are significant. Windows Vista-based PCs are almost three times less likely to be infected with potentially unwanted software than Windows XP-based PCs. PCs running Windows Vista have 60% fewer malware infections than Windows XP SP2 PCs. Download this paper to learn more!

Tags: ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper IBM Rational Quality Management ROI calculator: Try it today!2008-03-24 IBM
  If your QA team is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of development, you've probably started thinking about ways to automate your testing. IBM Rational's quality management solutions offer tools that can help you develop a continuous process, powered by automation to govern software delivery. Use the new IBM Rational ROI (return on investment) calculator to find out how you can benefit from implementing a Rational functional test automation solution. The ROI calculator helps you identify objective labor savings from automating your functional testing.

Tags: Software Engineering, ROI - TCO, Methodology, Services, Application Development