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CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment The lower total cost of ownership (TCO) has been one of the key drivers for the growth of hosted solutions. The mid-market is a hot spot for CRM vendors as many smaller companies are deploying software that used to be the preserve of larger... [02 May 2006]
Opinion: What's the point of security?
Comment Worse still is the estimate of the total cost of security breaches to UK plc, which is up by 50 per cent from two years ago to approximately £10bn per annum - figures that support last month's smaller e-Crime Congress survey. [26 Apr 2006]
Leader: VoIP and SMEs - a good match?
Leader You have to look at the total cost, which for VoIP includes your broadband bill, as 'softphones' can use up considerable amounts of data especially when multiple users are making calls simultaneously. [17 Mar 2006]
Leader: Government sums don't add up
Leader This is the same department which has also been under the cosh for the last year or so defending its estimates for a £5.8bn price tag for introducing a national biometric ID card scheme, which critics claim will cost three times more. [02 Feb 2006]
Opinion: 2006 - the year for open source
Comment A great deal of time and money has been spent on whether to focus on TCO, the total cost of ownership of running specific workloads, or trying to gauge the ROI (return on investment) - invariably a rather abstract metric. [09 Jan 2006]
Opinion: Microsoft vs Linux - the Empire strikes back?
Comment Since then we've had a new Star Wars movie and a total cost of ownership argument from Gartner has proved compelling enough for Lord Vader to decide that when it comes to provisioning something as large as a Death Star, Windows offers a pretty... [23 Nov 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How many keystrokes does it take to buy coffee?
Comment A total of 148 keystrokes were required before I got a plastic key and a room allocated. All I wanted was a cup of coffee but it cost 48 keystrokes - for a cash purchase! Written at a firm in the Cambridge UK Science Park, and dispatched from a... [09 Nov 2005]
Leader: ID card vote shames IT industry
Leader Technology and cost issues have been at the heart of silicon.com's ID cards campaign but the UK IT industry, almost to a man, has remained silent except to tell the government how wonderful its proposals are in anticipation of getting a slice of... [19 Oct 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Public sector goes mobile
Comment Financial concepts such as return on investment or total cost of ownership are commonly used to justify IT investments but are less useful in the public sector which also relies on qualitative assessments of improvements to service delivery, as... [09 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment The cost of a laptop may seem high, and the repair estimate out of all proportion but what really hurts is the down time, followed by the total rebuild of the disk. Batteries and hard drives can be replaced at minimal cost but a failed port usually... [01 Sep 2005]
Leader: Microsoft and OSDL - a missed opportunity?
Leader Microsoft has received a cool response from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) over its offer to jointly sponsor research into total cost of ownership of Windows versus Linux. In any case, it's probably impossible to come down with a final... [30 Aug 2005]
TCO: Linux v Windows
Comment Can switching from Windows to Linux really mean a drop in total cost of ownership for IT? Jo Best looks at which issues CIOs should investigate to determine whether switching to Linux from Windows will bring about cost savings for the business. [15 Jul 2005]
IP poised to storm the call centre
Comment This can substantially reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for call centres. While ease of deployment and network cost savings make for a compelling argument on their own, it is IP's promised benefits of easier multimedia routing and queuing... [16 Feb 2005]
Radioactive: Mobile operators' family secret - churn
Comment During 2003, churn cost European mobile operators €4.5bn in unnecessary expenses and €5.6bn in lost revenues, according to the latest figures from researchers Analysys. This equates to roughly eight per cent of total mobile revenues. [09 Feb 2005]
Outsourced ecommerce: Call it a trend
Comment This business is all about cost and holding stock is not cost-efficient," he continued. Outsourcing was a total nightmare and it nearly destroyed our business," says Keith Milsom, managing director of Anything Left-Handed. [08 Feb 2005]
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