Cost Benefit Analysis White Papers
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The Value of BI: Driving a More Agile Enterprise
Sponsored by: Alteryx, Inc.This e-book explores the value of BI, including its return on investment, the pros and cons of purchasing versus custom-building a BI application and how recent trends are changing the BI landscape.
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Deduplication: Effectively Reducing the Cost of Backup and Storage
Sponsored by: AppAssure Software, Inc.Organizations have to backup and store data. Compliance requirements demand that data be stored for periods of time. Reducing the cost of backup and storage starts with reducing the amount of data that is backed up and stored. Learn how deduplication, along with server-based backup processes can reduce your storage management costs.
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Presentation Transcript: Midmarket Virtualization Case Studies
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentThis presentation transcript features Andrew Baker, Vice President of IT operations at ARGI and Steven Sommer, Principal and Founder of SLS Consulting who discuss how their respective organizations have cut costs with virtualized datacenters.
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Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers
Sponsored by: SAP AGThis is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
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The Total Economic Impact™ of Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Management Pack, and Provisioning and Patch Automation Pack
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationLearn how Oracle's comprehensive industry leading configuration management and provisioning automation solutions help you reduce application management costs while delivering greater control and compliance.
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eBook: The Green Data Center 2.0: Energy Efficient Computing in the 21st century
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard Company and IntelChapter 4 of the eBook, Green Data Center, picks up where the other previous chapters left off in the plan for going green in the data center. This chapter takes a step back and looks at the project from a holistic point of view for creating a green and energy efficient data center.
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Presentation Transcript: Leveraging virtualization and green IT technologies to improve data center efficiency
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentThis transcript examines the respective challenges that accompany virtualization and green IT initiatives. Learn specific best practices that will enable your business to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and accelerate ROI.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 9
Sponsored by: Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 9In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to reduce the number of physical servers even more by focusing on the process of virtual machine placement on host servers.
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Simplifying Business Integration: Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: EXTOL International, Inc.Complexity in business integration can be a serious impairment to any SMB, or even large company, in today's economy. Read this Presentation Transcript of the “Simplifying Business Integration” webcast to learn how to properly manage business integration with the right strategies.
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Enterprise Portal Rationalization: Using a Service-Oriented Architecture to Stop Web Asset Sprawl
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis paper provides an overview of the problem of Web sprawl, and an account of the rationalization strategies organizations are adopting to gain the upper hand on sprawl. Adopting a service-oriented architecture based on integrated application platform infrastructure emerges as the key to rationalizing sprawl.
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Garnering Executive Support: Building Your Business Plan for Strategic Meetings Management
Sponsored by: StarCiteIn this white paper, brought to you by StarCite, corporate travel and meetings professionals will learn why executive support is vital to a strategic meetings management effort and how to garner that support - even if it requires investment and resources from upper management.
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Integrating Corporate Travel, Procurement and Meetings Management: A Best Practices Roadmap to Strategic Meetings Management Success
Sponsored by: StarCiteIn this white paper, StarCite presents its latest industry research about where corporations stand when it comes to travel and meetings integration - and a roadmap for companies ready to reap the rewards of an integrated approach.
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Lab Test: AppZero Turbo-Charges Server Consolidation
Sponsored by: AppZeroThis paper examines the impact of application virtualization technology on overall system performance. It documents a simple performance evaluation of application virtualization using AppZero virtual application appliance (VAA) compared to a VMware ESXbased system using virtual machines (VM).
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Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon? AppZero's Virtual Application Appliance Approach
Sponsored by: AppZeroThis paper explains the attributes of AppZero's VAA approach to server-side application virtualization and conveys various advantages in the cloud environment.
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Presentation Transcript: Improve PeopleSoft Quality by Leveraging a Quality Assurance Center of Excellence Model
Sponsored by: HP and FocusFrameRead this webcast transcript and learn how to leverage industry-leading quality management software and best practices to reduce test cycle time, decrease project risk, and increase the quality of your PeopleSoft applications.
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Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs
Sponsored by: IBMReview this document based on an IBM/TechTarget Webcast entitled "Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs" to learn what experienced analyst Joe Clabby has to say about data centers and facilities.
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Optimizing Customer Retention Programs
Sponsored by: Portrait SoftwareRead this case study and find out about how Uplift Modeling can help your marketing programs and increase campaign ROI.
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Squeezing More Value out of Data Warehouses through the Power of Database Compression
Sponsored by: Vertica SystemsData compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
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Business Customers Find Mainframe Costs out of Step with Data Center Budgets
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThis press release explains how more than 250 companies worldwide have migrated to HP Integrity systems from mainframes over the past two years, saving up to 70 percent in operational costs.
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IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper explores optimization strategies and demonstrated benefits being achieved today with IBM Software solutions. Utilization of these capabilities can help you meet the increasing challenges of energy efficiency, cost containment and compliance.
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SharePoint E-Zine Vol.2: Practical IT Strategies for Enterprise Collaboration
Sponsored by: TechTarget Search Windows ServerThis eZine explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.
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Graphic Packaging International Achieving Operational Excellence
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.In this case study, Graphic Packaging International Inc (GPI) needed a single end-to-end solution across the enterprise after their acquisition of Riverwood Holding Inc. Learn how SAP ERP application was their solution.
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Converting Service Calls into Sales with Real-Time Offer Management
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Banks, utilities, retailers, and the like are taking advantage of incoming calls and Web visits to make offers to existing customers. In this paper learn how with real-time offer management applications, can help leverage customer information.
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IBM System x Servers - The Right Choice. Open. Easy. Green
Sponsored by: IBMIBMSystemx is a portfolio of robust servers built on IBMX-Architecture's our blueprint for bringing innovation tox86systems. Innovation that helps set you apart from the competition. Learn more in this paper.
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Peace of Mind for the Life of Your Business
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.In today's rapidly changing marketplace, small businesses are facing new challenges and competitive pressures. Read this whitepaper to learn how to choose the right vendor to build the solutions that your business needs.