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Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking Mobile IT Assets

whitepaper Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to standardize its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of leased computers to tightly control network end-points, achieve regulatory compliance and drive down total cost of ownership.

Tags: asset management, asset, thornton, minimize

[16 May 2008]

Financial Institution Gains a More Detailed Overview of IT Assets and Operational Costs

whitepaper Upper management wanted a way to access information about the company's assets in order to make more informed decisions about resource allocation. Upper management is using the consolidated reports from MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 to launch discussions...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment It's a shift from simple labour arbitrage to a head-on attack on the total cost of ownership, including the productivity of labour, hardware and software assets through standardisation. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost...

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

The greening of IT: Do it yourself

Comment It is a delicate balancing act between sweating assets or adopting newer, low-energy devices that consume less and so cost less. Deciding when to retire assets, particularly computing ones, may get easier with the gradual adoption of virtualised...

Tags: green, printers, virtualisation, energy

[02 Nov 2007]

IBM sheds more than 1,500 outsourcing jobs

News Customers, as a result, may find it easier to turn to competitors for further outsourcing needs, whereas longer contracts that call for assuming customers' assets and employees may make it more difficult to jump ship.

Tags: outsourcing, ibm

[31 May 2007]

The Business Value of HP-UX 11i: HP-UX 11i vs. Linux

whitepaper By analyzing the total cost of ownership, the lifecycle costs to plan, procure, deploy, manage, support, and revolve / retire data center assets, organizations can be assured that they are making the best choice to minimize costs.

Tags: roi - tco, data center, plan, ownership

[31 Jan 2007]

A Business Case for Document and Image Processing

whitepaper Moving from a reactive to a proactive data archiving strategy makes it possible to manage key assets throughout their life cycle. At the same time, many organizations - private or public - have fewer resources at their disposal and must solve their...

Tags: finance, emc, archiving, disposal

[04 Aug 2006]

SAP MaxAttention Ensures Maximum Availability for Operations, System Security, Fast Response Times, and a Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership

whitepaper Postbank is the largest retail bank in Germany, with 11.5 million customers and total assets of ? Postbank promises its customers multichannel banking, and to keep this promise, it undertakes countless time-critical posting procedures daily.

Tags: bank management, bank, banking, cards

[02 Jun 2006]

Vodafone lifts lid on new products, SFR, Verizon

News The huge losses follow the write-down of Vodafone's assets by £23.5bn after it acknowledged it had overpaid to acquire the German company Mannesman back in 2000. The mobile giant also announced it will be looking to cater to its customers' 'total...

Tags: arun sarin, sfr, dsl, vodafone

[30 May 2006]

Resilient, Available and Higher-Value Database Servers as the Foundation for Information On Demand

whitepaper This white paper focuses on IBM DB2 Universal database for zOS, IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, Unix and Windows, IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM Cloudscape--for database software products that provide resiliency to your information...

Tags: universal, universal database, total cost, paper focuses

[28 Mar 2006]

Bocada Case Study: Commerzbank

whitepaper With consolidated total assets exceeding 391 billion euros, Commerzbank, based in Frankfurt am Main Germany, is one of the leading private sector banks in Europe. Using BackupReport to gather, organize and display statistics about their total...

Tags: backup, activity, track, sector

[21 Dec 2005]

IT Asset Management: Enhanced Discipline for More Demanding Enterprise Environments

whitepaper In today’s enterprise, the IT manager’s role is expanding with the organization’s need for controlling the availability and security of its information assets. The IT manager is now directly accountable for security, compliance and operational...

Tags: asset, enterprises, asset management, assets

[03 Nov 2005]

SpareBank 1 Increases Customer Satisfaction by 12 Percent in Two Years Using BEA and HP eBanking Solution

whitepaper SpareBank 1 Group is one of the largest providers of financial products and services in Norway and has total assets of $5.5 billion (2003). SpareBank 1 recognized that to stay ahead of its competitors, it needs to develop, test, and launch new...

Tags: availability, recognized, cost effective, develop

[02 Nov 2005]

Hitachi HiCommand Device Manager Software: Overview and Use Cases

whitepaper As it provides an immediate, consolidated view of the entire storage infrastructure, Device Manager software allows administrators to easily identify lost or underutilized storage assets and track group/department usage to implement chargeback.

Tags: manager, hitachi, hitachi data systems, device manager

[29 Sep 2005]

Kent council plans £10m rolling desktop upgrade

News We were finding that our approach, while cost-effective because we could sweat the assets, was an obstacle to our business development," he said. It is also upgrading software, moving to Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows XP.

Tags: kent council

[31 Aug 2005]

TCO: Linux v Windows

Comment With several high-profile organisations jumping the Microsoft ship of late, and Redmond opening its corporate wallet to persuade no more to follow, any CIO worth his or her salt is now at least throwing a cursory glance towards Linux when faced...

Tags: tco, windows, linux

[15 Jul 2005]

Optimising the IT environment with grid computing

whitepaper Grid computing pools the computing power of servers, including spare capacity and idle CPUs, to improve application performance and ensure a better return on your IT assets. It’s also created more potential points of weakness which now need to be...

Tags: groupware - workflow, capacity, processing, application performance

[12 Nov 2004]

Accounting System Connects Complex Fixed-Asset Management and Cost Calculation by Linking "PeopleSoft" and JP1

whitepaper In the software industry, managing fixed assets is extremely complicated. It is necessary to keep track of even individual components inside computers and reflect them in cost control. NTT COMWARE CORPORATION, (NTT COMWARE), which was founded in...

Tags: asset management, job, creating, erp

[26 Jun 2004]

From Technology Transformation to the Challenge of Leadership

whitepaper Caixa Catalunya is currently the third savings bank and the seventh financial institution in Spain, with total assets valued at 29,222 million Euros, a staff of 5,045 employees and 936 branches (as of May 2002).

Tags: bank management, catalunya, savings, assets

[01 Mar 2004]

The Cost of a Question - Examining Total Cost of Ownership for Business Intelligence Solutions

whitepaper This makes it easier to purchase and maintain software assets because IT managers can minimize the number of vendors they work with. But it also necessitates careful planning and cost projections to ensure IT resources aren’t overwhelmed by...

Tags: strategic planning, vendors, reporting, connections

[01 Mar 2004]

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