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RSS economicEconomic Challenge and Capacity Management: Increasing Value and ROI From Capacity Management - A Maturity Model
White Paper During times of economic stress, pressures on IT can become seemingly insurmountable. Requirements to "Ensure business services" and "Optimize availability" - challenging enough when budgets were more open, become... [31 Jul 2009]
Who Benefits From Outsourcing?: The Political, Economic and Cultural Ramifications of Outsourcing
White Paper There are also other considerations - economic effects, political consequences, and even cultural limitations. This White Paper explores the economic and political implications of outsourcing and... [05 Sep 2009]
HP and Dell embroiled in economic gloom
News The markets are expected to take a keen interest in the performance of the two bellwether high-tech firms, with optimists hoping for some glimmer of light at the end of the US economic tunnel. Dell and HP look set to... [16 Aug 2001]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for... [02 Jul 2008]
Dell PowerEdge R900 Servers Give the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) a 400-Percent Boost in Processing Capacity
White Paper With data sets becoming larger and more scientists working concurrently, CISER's high-performance computing cluster was no longer able to keep up with the demands of advanced social and economic research. [01 Jan 2009]
How ROI Analysis of Your IVR Project Can See You Through the Economic Downturn
White Paper Sustaining profitability during an economic downturn is always challenging, but not necessarily impossible. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are an effective means of maintaining profitability during an... [22 Apr 2009]
Indian tech riding out economic storm
News The Indian software and services industry will continue to grow despite the economic downturn, according to the country's outsourcing trade body, Nasscom. The organisation is predicting a 16 to 17 per cent growth in the... [09 Feb 2009]
PC sales on the upturn amid economic green shoots?
News People are still delaying purchases while the overall economic outlook remains uncertain. After more than a year of doom-and-gloom PC market forecasts, things are looking up. Market research analyst firm Gartner predicts... [26 Jun 2009]
The Economic Impact of IT, Software, and the Microsoft Ecosystem on the Global Economy
White Paper This study shows that the IT industry plays a critical role in economic growth throughout the world and that the economic impact of the software sector is much greater than its proportion of IT spending... [03 Apr 2008]
Budget Adjustments for CIOs in Lean Economic Times
White Paper CIOs have faced lean economic times with regularity over the past four decades, and they will inevitably face lean times again - it isn't a question of whether they will happen but when. Forrester advises CIOs to base... [07 Mar 2009]
Best practices for ensuring the highest ROI from voice self-service and IVR systems in tough economic times
White Paper In a challenging economic climate, customer loyalty separates the winners from the losers. As a result, businesses should demand more from the system that greets every customer call: the interactive voice response (IVR)... [18 May 2009]
IT confidence knocked by economic slowdown
News An economic slowdown has led to a slump in IT industry confidence during the first part of 2005 but fears of a full-scale recession have been dismissed, according to the latest UK business optimism barometer. [08 Aug 2005]
Using Microsoft Excel and Business Intelligence to Thrive in Economic Uncertainty
White Paper Microsoft's vision for Business Intelligence is to improve organizational effectiveness so that organizations of all sizes can overcome the challenges that arise from economic uncertainty. More employees can analyze,... [01 Sep 2009]
Implementing Wireless & RFID Technology in the Oil Field: A Cost Saving Decision in Times of Economic Downturn
White Paper It provides both a qualitative and quantitative analysis of these value points through customer case-studies, financial audits, laboratory experiments, and outlines how implementing these technologies helps a sustain growth and reduce... [14 Apr 2009]
Management Magnified: Strategies for Revenue Growth in an Economic Downturn
White Paper At first glance, the global economic crisis, which began in the US financial sector, does not seem propitious for growth. Indeed, a survey on decision-making conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit in May 2009... [16 Sep 2009]
