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Combating the Increasing Cost of Email

whitepaper Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the...

Tags: email

[17 May 2008]

SumTotal Systems Case Study: Ariba, Inc.

whitepaper Founded in 1996, Sunnyvale, California's Ariba, Inc.makes software that, among other things, helps companies assess, capture and reconcile spending. As Ariba grew, its management team wanted to identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses...

[17 May 2008]

Getting Connected

whitepaper While their focus is directed towards meeting the needs of their customers, they must accomplish this by spending their money wisely and increasing profits in their own operations. Package printers have their hands full.

Tags: business management

[17 May 2008]

Avoiding the Compliance Trap for Travel and Expenses

whitepaper Organizations weighing Travel and Expenses (T&E) automation should look beyond the value of streamlining the process to solutions that include analytic and reporting features that enforce compliance controls and provide audit evidence while...

Tags: business management

[17 May 2008]

Target Your Marketing Budget to Company Objectives

whitepaper Marketing budgets, especially in small and mid-sized businesses, are often arbitrarily set as either n% of planned revenue or n% over the prior year's marketing budget - without considering the objectives to be achieved by that marketing spending.

Tags: word processing

[15 May 2008]

Getting to the Next Generation Data Center - A 4-Stage Approach

whitepaper But spending reductions associated with these solutions have often been accompanied by increased operating and management costs, as well as pressure for even higher levels of service. Most companies have implemented the necessary first steps to...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

University Simplifies IT Management, Speeds Up File Search Time With Desktop Tool

whitepaper However, they had been spending many hours each week searching through the hundreds of e-mail messages and other files on their computers. Syddansk Universitet (the University of Southern Denmark) is a leading research school with four campuses...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[15 May 2008]

Manage Marketing Plans to Achieve Corporate Goals

whitepaper And marketers unwittingly fuel this perception by generating marketing plans based only on spending - as opposed to planning for delivering results that are in direct alignment with corporate goals. At many companies, marketing is perceived by...

Tags: sales - marketing

[15 May 2008]

Municipality Reduces Backup Time by 96 Percent, Gives Users File Restore Capabilities

whitepaper Data backup and recovery tasks were becoming increasingly challenging, with backup jobs running too long and administrators spending up to 50 percent of their time recovering lost files. The Bureau of Motor Equipment (BME) for New York City's...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Unified Communications and Collaboration in Insurance: Pervasive Capabilities for Where and How People Work

whitepaper IT departments are constantly being asked to deliver more services to increase business efficiency - while at the same time, spending less money and using fewer resources to do it. In Insurance environment, business needs drive IT requirements.

Tags: voice - data integration

[14 May 2008]

Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes

whitepaper To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) offers students a high-quality education while striving to...

Tags: collaborative web

[13 May 2008]

Shipping Firm Centralizes IT With Data Center Network and WAN

whitepaper The Panalpina Group wanted to shift IT spending from systems maintenance to delivery of innovation and avoid US$500,000 in capital cost for Toronto data center upgrade. Every day, over 14,000 employees at The Panalpina Group, in 500 offices around...

Tags: switching

[13 May 2008]

RFID Basics for Retailers

whitepaper With global RFID standards coming into place, the key technology providers are now spending the millions and millions of dollars necessary to gain the system performance increases, reliability and cost reductions that the market needs.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, standards, rfid, date

[01 May 2008]

An Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Server Manager

whitepaper Spending time studying and learning the Server Manager console may be the quickest way to become familiar with Windows Server 2008. Exploring the roles and features sections of this tool, especially, will acquaint you with Server 2008's capabilities.

Tags: systems integration, manager, console, server manager

[30 Apr 2008]

Protecting Your SQL Database

whitepaper Do you want to protect your SQL database rapidly without spending thousands of dollars on enterprise versions? Then view NEC's on-demand webcast, "Protect Your SQL Database. You will learn how easy it is to install and configure ExpressCluster to...

Tags: network disaster recovery, recovery, protect, virtualization

[24 Apr 2008]

Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

whitepaper According to the results of a recent APQC study, finance organizations, no matter what their size, are still spending almost two-thirds of their time on transaction processing, to the detriment of more strategic functions such as decision support...

Tags: back-office, transaction, apqc, functions

[11 Apr 2008]

Storage Area Networks and Return on Investment

whitepaper With scrutiny of spending at an all time high, how do you effectively put together a case for a SAN implementation? This 53 page paper details the real cost-saving opportunities of a SAN. Focused on helping you develop the appropriate level of...

Tags: storage management, san, details, develop

[10 Apr 2008]

Brainboxes' Use of Wireless Technology Increases Productivity and Lets Staff Work on the Move

whitepaper Previously spending a large amount of working time outside the office meant many wasted hours travelling but now, with the help of Bluetooth technology, the passenger in the car can work on their laptop on a presentation or processing e-mails...

Tags: bluetooth, bluetooth, car, specialist

[10 Apr 2008]

Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints

whitepaper Indeed, they can facilitate it by promoting local revenue collection, improving information, accounting, and auditing, implementing and enforcing limits on borrowing to cover current spending, and clarifying bankruptcy procedures.

Tags: performance budgeting and management, term, voters, creditors

[10 Apr 2008]

Calculating Network Security ROI

whitepaper Break-even spending for IT security This paper enables executives to assess the value of network security using a structured, generic ROI analysis prepared by Computer Economics, an independent research firm.

Tags: resources mgmt., roi, computer economics, executives

[10 Apr 2008]

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