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whitepaper True Convergence Demands a Communication Service Provider that Embraces a Customer-Centric Approach2009-11-19 Sprint
  Ensure your service provider's convergence strategy meshes with your enterprise network needs. Respected consulting firm Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, outlines the six customer-centric attributes that should be at the heart of you're your service provider's approach to convergence. Those attributes are:
  • Multiple network access alternatives
  • Application performance management
  • Application transparency and session persistence
  • Cost predictability and simplicity
  • Application visibility and contrast
  • Private communications
Each is described in detail. Download this whitepaper now to see how your service provider matches up and if it's time to make a switch.

Tags: IT Budgeting, LAN - WAN, LAN - WAN, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Why Print Management Matters2009-10-29 Xerox
  Print Management provides a breakthrough answer to today's top business challenge: reducing overhead without harming productivity. Jim Salzer of DocuAudit Intl. shows how Print Management allows you to control documentation expenses by outsourcing the management of your current print environment.

Tags: IT Budgeting, E-commerce - E-Business, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Managed Print Services and Beyond: How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity2009-10-08 Ricoh
  Did you know that print costs typically consume 3% of total revenue for businesses today? For many organizations, this is nearly equivalent to the amount spent on research and development each year. According to the Photizo Group, a recognized thought leader in print services management, hardcopy costs are the last bastion of uncontrolled spending within organizations today—regardless of industry. But times are changing. Companies are discovering that better management of printing activities can significantly lower costs and have a positive environmental impact. Managed Print Services (MPS), when extended to include electronic document management and workflow solutions, offer an opportunity for companies to eliminate up to 30% of their total print costs, increase employee productivity by enabling faster, paperless processes, and significantly reduce the environmental impact of their business.

This paper provides an overview of the real costs of hardcopy printing today, exposing both hidden costs and lost opportunities to improve productivity and minimize environmental impacts. It then explores the many advantages of MPS and explains what a typical engagement involves. And finally, it provides helpful information on how to get started with MPS and what to look for in an MPS partner.

Tags: Peripherals, Components, Data Infrastructure, User Satisfaction		   
whitepaper Succession Planning: Five Costly Errors to Avoid2009-10-01 SumTotal Systems
  This white paper shows you how to avoid five of the most common --- and costly -- errors when embarking on a succession planning initiative. You'll learn:
  • How a lack of alignment between the succession plan and company goals can derail the initiative
  • How to budget your time to account for upfront planning activities
  • How having a strong follow-up after the kickoff is critical to your success


Tags: Business Functions, IT Budgeting, Government, Government		   
whitepaper Who Benefits From Outsourcing?: The Political, Economic and Cultural Ramifications of Outsourcing2009-08-18 Intetics
  While simple on the surface, the decision to outsource is a major strategic undertaking for most companies. Since it involves evaluating the probable reduction in costs against the consequences of a loss in control over production or performance of a certain business function, the opportunity to outsource and offshore should never be taken lightly. There are also other considerations - economic effects, political consequences, and even cultural limitations. So who really benefits from outsourcing and offshoring when there are so many issues and constituencies involved? This White Paper explores the economic and political implications of outsourcing and offshoring, while identifying cultural differences that can make or break a sourcing relationship and examining techniques for managing successful deals.   
whitepaper Outsourcing for Success - The Retained Organization: Transforming Your Team for Operational Excellence2009-07-30 novusorigo.com
  The requirements for the advanced planning and design of a skilled retained organization are paramount to the success of any outsourcing relationship, and should be facilitated early on in the outsourcing process. Additionally, key success factors in the design and implementation of a retained organization include; the ability of the team to operate against new processes and methodologies, having a clear understanding of what transactions are being outsourced, properly selecting retained resources based on skills and requirements, the understanding of all knowledge transfer requirements, and the ability to provide strong leadership to implement communications and change management.

Tags: Project Management, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper The Agile Business Architecture: Creating Service Provider Value Through Smart Sourcing2009-07-01 Cisco Systems
  The service provider industry has experienced rapid and significant transformation over the past five years as broadband has proliferated, networks have enabled ubiquitous mobility, and IP has become the de facto technology standard. Over-The-Top (OTT) providers such as Google, Apple, and Amazon, the rising stars of this transformation, are now challenging service provider value creation by developing competing applications. As a result, service providers are bearing the cost of ever-growing traffic while seeing limited potential for monetizing traffic growth with customers. Motivated by these challenges, service providers must rethink their business strategies and enhance their service production capabilities to remain industry leaders.

Tags: E-commerce - E-Business		   
whitepaper Offshore Outsourcing2009-06-08
  As all companies face increased competition due to globalization and unforgiving market forces, the use of offshore development partners is becoming a compelling way to maintain market share and boost profits. Moving development offshore - once a risky proposition - is now a well understood, highly defined process. Using Bamboo's offshore roadmap, Partners can have substantial offshore teams working in a matter of months, and can realize commensurate savings in that time. Saving money is a major benefit of this strategy, but not the only one: their clients also benefit from being able to focus more on their core competencies, access to higher level technical skills, higher quality production, and increased flexibility.   
whitepaper Leverage your information to thrive - Your complete guide to best practice in information management2009-06-01 EMC
  Conventional IT infrastructures are straining under today's avalanche of information - which is growing at an average annual rate of nearly 60%. Coupled with the pressures of an unstable global economy - organisations are facing major challenges. Download this free ebook and resource centre and learn how to optimise your IT infrastructure, so you can be responsive to even your most pressing business needs in challenging times.

Tags: IT Budgeting, Security Administration, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper IT Outsourcing the New "It" for Startups2009-05-20 OSF Global Services
  One of the greatest changes that the past decade has brought is the ease with which a start-up can outsource its every need. These days almost every service company needs is available in outsourced form. This means can cut costs, keep flexibility and improve business efficiency by acquiring every service on a monthly basis. Affordable IT solutions that are easy to install and configure, service/support requirements and, most of all, integrated ready-to-use methodologies and tools are the most critical demands of a start-up looking to outsource its IT needs.