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Managing Your Total Cost of Ownership 2007-06-21 08:35:08

Understanding the value of an IT investment can be a real challenge. That's why SAP, in collaboration with the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG), developed a benchmarking initiative on Total Cost of Ownership that's designed to tease out best practices for managing TCO. This informative SAP Insight report presents the findings of the SAP-ASUG TCO benchmarking survey (which it plans to conduct annually), and explains why it's vitally important that you manage--rather than merely calculate--your TCO.

Making the Case for Integrated Processes 2006-08-24 14:27:37 SAP AG

Corporate leaders have begun to realize that they can achieve significant benefits, both quantitative and qualitative, by leveraging integrated business processes. But what are integrated processes? How can you move from the conceptual to the concrete in understanding the tangible impact that integrated processes can make on achieving strategic goals? Those questions and others are the focus of this SAP Insight report, which highlights the value of integrating processes across your entire business.

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning: Lessons Learned from the Front 2006-01-01 SAP

This SAP white paper addresses several key questions surrounding Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations and the kinds of issues that can derail them. The paper offers five best practices for working with stakeholders and gaining organizational buy-in and support. It also discusses a variety of practices that can adversely impact your ERP project and explains how you can avoid those pitfalls. The paper is a must-read resource for IT and business leaders who are actively evaluating ERP systems and want to give their implementation teams their best chance at carrying out a successful ERP deployment.

Research Survey on Decision Making in Communications Applications Planning: Insights Into Enterprise Prioritization 2006-08-30 01:00:13 Avaya

While all businesses have a fundamental requirement for communication applications, not all are the same when it comes to decision making within their communications applications planning processes and objectives. Business size, vertical industry focus, geographic regional location and introduce considerable variation in the decision making process. Yet, despite these variations, it can be very helpful for business communications planners to learn how peers in other businesses are thinking about their priorities in the process of optimizing their communications applications. This White Paper focuses on survey findings and insights into how enterprises view and prioritize their communications applications.

Software Project Outsourcing 2005-12-03 01:00:13

Outsourced software development can offer important business benefits over in house development in many situations. Equally, outsourced development can introduce issues for the project and the long term success of the resulting solution. In this article we discuss the potential issues and benefits, and suggest ways to maximise the benefits and avoid potential problems.

December 2005 IT Priorities Report 2006-01-13 01:01:37

This real-time report shows the trend analysis for top IT priorities including hardware upgrades, software infrastructure, wired vs. wireless, IT management, web technology, OS migration, security, data management and application development and integration. The results show what's hot now, what's moved up or down and what's important over the next year.

CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys IT decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their IT priorities. The program launched in October 2002 and has been collecting data continuously since that time. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: Now and 12 months from now.

We take a look at what IT decision makers tell us they are interested in and compare it to the kind of content they are consuming online. We select a representative sample of 300-500 IT managers who work in US organizations of more than 500 employees and ask them two open-ended questions:

"Currently, what information technology project or implementation has the most resources dedicated to it?"

"What is the most important technology initiative your IT organization plans to implement over the next 12 months?"

For expert analysis on this month's findings visit Chris Jablonski's report on TechRepublic.com on the latest shift in IT Priorities.

ThinkPad Z60 Notebooks: Widescreen, Wireless WAN, and Wide Open Mobility 2006-02-07 09:08:48

If you�re looking to upgrade your company�s laptop computers, you should check out this on-demand Webinar from Insight. It introduces Lenovo�s newest widescreen notebook, the ThinkPad Z60, and outlines the key benefits of its advanced comfort, security, and wireless networking features. Get a look inside the ThinkPad Z60 to learn how its inner armor, a magnesium roll cage featuring twice the spill drain protection of previous ThinkPad models, is making the ThinkPad Z60 one of the most resilient notebooks on the market today. Check out this informative Insight Webinar, now available on demand, to learn more.

Touchpaper Flexible Working (Mobile and Home Workers) Survey 2006-05-26 01:00:26 Touchpaper Software

Working away from the office or at home is not unusual these days but the survey presented in this paper highlights a number of specific issues that make IT a greater challenge for home and mobile workers. When organizations purchase and implement new technologies, they still need to do more to help people use those technologies productively. Far too many employees across all industry sectors and at all levels of an organization are struggling at home or on the road with technologies that they don't really understand. This in turn, puts even further pressure on technical support departments, to the detriment of core business operations and personal productivity and causes user dissatisfaction and frustration.

Make IT Matter For Business Innovation 2006-12-20 14:28:54 Forrester Research

Business execs don't believe that the IT organization contributes business innovations to their firm. Not surprising given that IT allocates less than 25% of its budget toward "new" work � activities not classified as maintenance and ongoing operations. But IT's key and unique assets � broad knowledge of the business, awareness of technology, and the ability to detect solution potential � are invaluable innovation-enabling capabilities. This document outlines steps IT must follow to recover its innovation potential with changes that span people and organization, process, and technology. Where to start depends on the type and status of the IT organization today.

November 2005 IT Priorities Report 2005-12-05 07:37:22

This real-time report shows the trend analysis for top IT priorities including hardware upgrades, software infrastructure, wired vs. wireless, IT management, web technology, OS migration, security, data management and application development and integration. The results show what's hot now, what's moved up or down and what's important over the next year.

CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys IT decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their IT priorities. The program launched in October 2002 and has been collecting data continuously since that time. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: Now and 12 months from now.

We take a look at what IT decision makers tell us they are interested in and compare it to the kind of content they are consuming online. We select a representative sample of 300-500 IT managers who work in US organizations of more than 500 employees and ask them two open-ended questions:

"Currently, what information technology project or implementation has the most resources dedicated to it?"

"What is the most important technology initiative your IT organization plans to implement over the next 12 months?"

For expert analysis on this month's findings visit Chris Jablonski's report on TechRepublic.com on the latest shift in IT Priorities.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Managing Your Total Cost of Ownership	2007-06-21 08:35:08
Understanding the value of an IT investment can be a real challenge. That's why SAP, in collaboration with the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG), developed a benchmarking initiative on Total Cost of Ownership that's designed to tease out best practices for managing TCO. This informative SAP Insight report presents the findings of the SAP-ASUG TCO benchmarking survey (which it plans to conduct annually), and explains why it's vitally important that you manage--rather than merely calculate--your TCO.
Making the Case for Integrated Processes	2006-08-24 14:27:37	SAP AG
Corporate leaders have begun to realize that they can achieve significant benefits, both quantitative and qualitative, by leveraging integrated business processes. But what are integrated processes? How can you move from the conceptual to the concrete in understanding the tangible impact that integrated processes can make on achieving strategic goals? Those questions and others are the focus of this SAP Insight report, which highlights the value of integrating processes across your entire business.
Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning: Lessons Learned from the Front	2006-01-01	SAP
This SAP white paper addresses several key questions surrounding Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations and the kinds of issues that can derail them. The paper offers five best practices for working with stakeholders and gaining organizational buy-in and support. It also discusses a variety of practices that can adversely impact your ERP project and explains how you can avoid those pitfalls. The paper is a must-read resource for IT and business leaders who are actively evaluating ERP systems and want to give their implementation teams their best chance at carrying out a successful ERP deployment.
Research Survey on Decision Making in Communications Applications Planning: Insights Into Enterprise Prioritization	2006-08-30 01:00:13	Avaya
While all businesses have a fundamental requirement for communication applications, not all are the same when it comes to decision making within their communications applications planning processes and objectives. Business size, vertical industry focus, geographic regional location and introduce considerable variation in the decision making process. Yet, despite these variations, it can be very helpful for business communications planners to learn how peers in other businesses are thinking about their priorities in the process of optimizing their communications applications. This White Paper focuses on survey findings and insights into how enterprises view and prioritize their communications applications.
Software Project Outsourcing	2005-12-03 01:00:13
Outsourced software development can offer important business benefits over in house development in many situations. Equally, outsourced development can introduce issues for the project and the long term success of the resulting solution. In this article we discuss the potential issues and benefits, and suggest ways to maximise the benefits and avoid potential problems.
December 2005 IT Priorities Report	2006-01-13 01:01:37
This real-time report shows the trend analysis for top IT priorities including hardware upgrades, software infrastructure, wired vs. wireless, IT management, web technology, OS migration, security, data management and application development and integration. The results show what's hot now, what's moved up or down and what's important over the next year. CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys IT decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their IT priorities. The program launched in October 2002 and has been collecting data continuously since that time. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: Now and 12 months from now. We take a look at what IT decision makers tell us they are interested in and compare it to the kind of content they are consuming online. We select a representative sample of 300-500 IT managers who work in US organizations of more than 500 employees and ask them two open-ended questions: "Currently, what information technology project or implementation has the most resources dedicated to it?" "What is the most important technology initiative your IT organization plans to implement over the next 12 months?" For expert analysis on this month's findings visit Chris Jablonski's report on TechRepublic.com on the latest shift in IT Priorities.
ThinkPad Z60 Notebooks: Widescreen, Wireless WAN, and Wide Open Mobility	2006-02-07 09:08:48
If you�re looking to upgrade your company�s laptop computers, you should check out this on-demand Webinar from Insight. It introduces Lenovo�s newest widescreen notebook, the ThinkPad Z60, and outlines the key benefits of its advanced comfort, security, and wireless networking features. Get a look inside the ThinkPad Z60 to learn how its inner armor, a magnesium roll cage featuring twice the spill drain protection of previous ThinkPad models, is making the ThinkPad Z60 one of the most resilient notebooks on the market today. Check out this informative Insight Webinar, now available on demand, to learn more.
Touchpaper Flexible Working (Mobile and Home Workers) Survey	2006-05-26 01:00:26	Touchpaper Software
Working away from the office or at home is not unusual these days but the survey presented in this paper highlights a number of specific issues that make IT a greater challenge for home and mobile workers. When organizations purchase and implement new technologies, they still need to do more to help people use those technologies productively. Far too many employees across all industry sectors and at all levels of an organization are struggling at home or on the road with technologies that they don't really understand. This in turn, puts even further pressure on technical support departments, to the detriment of core business operations and personal productivity and causes user dissatisfaction and frustration.
Make IT Matter For Business Innovation	2006-12-20 14:28:54	Forrester Research
Business execs don't believe that the IT organization contributes business innovations to their firm. Not surprising given that IT allocates less than 25% of its budget toward "new" work � activities not classified as maintenance and ongoing operations. But IT's key and unique assets � broad knowledge of the business, awareness of technology, and the ability to detect solution potential � are invaluable innovation-enabling capabilities. This document outlines steps IT must follow to recover its innovation potential with changes that span people and organization, process, and technology. Where to start depends on the type and status of the IT organization today.
November 2005 IT Priorities Report	2005-12-05 07:37:22
This real-time report shows the trend analysis for top IT priorities including hardware upgrades, software infrastructure, wired vs. wireless, IT management, web technology, OS migration, security, data management and application development and integration. The results show what's hot now, what's moved up or down and what's important over the next year. CNET Network's IT Priorities Research Program surveys IT decision makers in medium and large organizations each month and asks them about their IT priorities. The program launched in October 2002 and has been collecting data continuously since that time. The study is designed to provide a near-real-time snapshot of business technology project priorities over two timeframes: Now and 12 months from now. We take a look at what IT decision makers tell us they are interested in and compare it to the kind of content they are consuming online. We select a representative sample of 300-500 IT managers who work in US organizations of more than 500 employees and ask them two open-ended questions: "Currently, what information technology project or implementation has the most resources dedicated to it?" "What is the most important technology initiative your IT organization plans to implement over the next 12 months?" For expert analysis on this month's findings visit Chris Jablonski's report on TechRepublic.com on the latest shift in IT Priorities.