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Making the Business Case for HR Investments

Explore how HR systems can provide strategic benefit to both the HR department and the business overall, for use in building a business case for HR investments. In addition, this paper discusses SAP's role in the important market for HR systems.

Tags: Business Case, Human Resources, Investment, SAP AG

White papers 2009-06-18

Best Practices for Building a Business Case for a Contract Management Solution at Your Company

The presenters of this webcast shares proven strategies to gain executive support, across business units and departments to deploy a contract management solution. To increase contract revenue and worker productivity, organizations must be able to find a contract when they need it, enforce standardization of language and terms, speed contract...

Tags: Business Case, Contract Management, Webcast, Best Practice, EMC Corp., Service Management, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-06-11

The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment

When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable web applications, leaked passwords, a poorly-configured firewall, an un-patched operating system or a misplaced zip drive; when the exploit is...

Tags: Business Case, Network, Network Security, Web Application, Pacific Coast Information Systems, Cloud Computing, Backups, Security

White papers 2009-06-10

The Business Case for Leveraging Open Text Web Solutions Within Higher Education

Academic institutions have a long reputation for being slower to adopt new technologies for their audiences. However, many schools are taking serious steps in improving the online experience they are providing. This white paper explores the unique needs of the higher education market, applying new tools & trends and specifically...

Tags: Business Case, Education, Web, Open Text Corp., Oshyn, Productivity

White papers 2009-06-01

Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed-Up Your Project Approval and Start With Confidence

This white paper focuses on business case development. However, it will be worthwhile to understand where business case development falls in the overall TCO/ROI analysis spectrum. Depending on where one is with budget and decision-making process, one will need different levels of analysis and data to move the project forward.

Tags: Business Case, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Best Practice, Analysis

White papers 2009-06-01

Making the Business Case for VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere 4, the next generation of VMware technology, brings several innovative game-changing technologies to IT. But how to translate the benefits of these technologies to hard numbers and convince the teams to move to VMware vSphere? The attendee of this webcast will learn why it makes best business sense...

Tags: Business Case, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-05-05

How to develop a killer business case

As an IT leader, you are often expected to contribute your ideas and recommendations to the decision-making process in your organization. The ideas are not scarce but sometimes it's difficult to present a clear and compelling business case, structured in the way it can be understood by others. However,this is...

Tags: Business Case, TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, However,this

Download resources 2009-04-22

Live Webcast: Building the Business Case for Managing Unified Communications

Savvy IT decision makers already understand the well-established value of IP Telephony. But in this time of decreasing budgets, it can be difficult to justify the capital investment of a Unified Communications solution. Many companies feel they must put off the long term benefits to their business in favor...

Tags: Business Case, Webcast, Unified Communications, Benefit

Webcasts 2009-03-09

Business Case - LeasePlan

LeasePlan is one of the world's leading vehicle management companies operating a fleet of more than 1.1 million vehicles. LeasePlan had an immediate need to create a single source of the truth for enterprise and customer reporting. Customers were demanding more frequent, more accurate, and direct access to their fleet...

Tags: Business Case, Data Source, Blackstone & Cullen, LeasePlan, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-03-06

Analysis of the Potential of Total Quality Sales Management

Total Quality Management TQM, Six Sigma, Lean and ISO, the data-driven methodologies for eliminating defects in organizations based on standards, measurement, and repeatable processes have provided undeniable success for organizations around the world by eliminating waste and improving productivity. Now Chally has applied the TQM concept to Sales. TQSalesM is...

Tags: Business Case, Sales Management, Analysis, Total Quality Management, TQSalesM, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Sales Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Sales

White papers 2009-02-16

Optimizing Your WiMAX Device Investment: How WiMAX Device Selection Contributes to a Winning Business Case

When investing in a commercial WiMAX installation, operators must carefully consider a number of equipment, system and operational components to ensure that they fully profit from their WiMAX service. WiMAX operators need to compare vendor offerings for infrastructure, devices, IP core, service delivery platforms, backhaul solutions and back office systems...

Tags: Business Case, Investment, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-01-23

Business Case Deloitte: Deloitte Experiences Runbook Software

Deloitte is the brand name under which independent member firms throughout the world collaborate in the areas of audit, consultancy, financial advisory, risk management and tax advice. It wanted to record the processes in order to exclude risks. Also, it wanted to straighten out its administrative organization. It deployed Runbook...

Tags: Business Case, Deloitte LLP, Runbook, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Branding, Financial Accounting, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2009-01-01

Developing a Business Case for Data Center Transformation Through ITIL Best Practices and Automation

Consolidation and automation have become major objectives for technology executives who must adjust to today's increasing sophistication and complexity within the data center. The trend to consolidate and automate is the result of the explosion of data and information in the digital age; unprecedented data center expansion; the need to...

Tags: Business Case, Data Center, ITIL, Automation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-12-01

Oracle Consulting's 8 Steps to Building a Business Case for Change

Business cases for IT enabled business transformation change must establish business and IT leadership alignment on the potential business value, cost, risk, timeline and, thus, priority, of the change. Business cases built on jointly accepted business performance improvement metrics and targets provide the basis for business investment decisions and provide...

Tags: Business Case, Business Investment, Oracle Consulting

White papers 2008-12-01

The Business Case for Information Management

Many organizations struggle to build a convincing business case for the investments needed in information management. In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization's business model. Just like every...

Tags: Business Case, Information Management, Oracle Corp., Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

White papers 2008-12-01

The Business of WiMAX: Impact of Technology, Architecture & Spectrum on the WiMAX Business Case

The advent of next generation, wireless broadband platforms pairing performance with favorable economics is ushering in a new age of unprecedented connectivity in communities across a diverse range of global markets. Mobile WiMAX, based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 global standard, leads the evolution roadmap with market ready solutions leveraging the...

Tags: Business Case, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2008-11-11

Building the Business Case

Business cases are arguments for or against making a specific decision based on economic considerations. They are tools for decision-making. A business case describes the economic consequences of a business decision and makes a recommendation. Well-crafted business cases have a number of essential ingredients, and although authors have flexibility, they...

Tags: Business Case

White papers 2008-11-05

Project business case template

Before your stakeholders can prioritize a list of projects, it's critical to pull together the key information they can use for decision-making. This template will give you the framework for making sure you have a project overview that includes goals, requirements, potential benefits, estimated direct costs, success criteria, and project...

Tags: Business Case, Jay Rollins, Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Management, Internet

Download resources 2008-10-15

A Business Case for a Modern Claims System: Leaving a Legacy of Problems Behind

In the continuing quest for enhanced profits and improved profit margins, the attention of the insurance executive will inevitably fall on claims and claims handling. Small wonder. Claim losses and claims handling expense form the largest share of P&C company expenditures. Moreover, claims handling represents the most intensive form of...

Tags: Business Case, BlueWave Technology, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

White papers 2008-10-01

Microsoft IT Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in a Data Center

This paper will demonstrate the business case that Microsoft IT made to implement System Center Configuration Manager in a data center to reduce costs through optimized IT resources, improve efficiency, and enable the data center to meet its data and computing needs. Additionally, this paper will detail how the implementation...

Tags: Business Case, Data Center, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2008-09-01