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- Business Case
- The financial impact of spending money. Rate of return, cash flow, length of payback period and other financial criteria are all part of the business case decision making process.
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Making the Business Case for IT Asset Management
- IT Asset Management ITAM is an important business discipline that provides insight into a company's information infrastructure and enhances the ability to control the performance of IT assets. With ITAM, organizations leverage a combination of processes and technologies to gain a greater understanding of what assets exist, where these assets...
- Tags: Asset, Business Case, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, SAManage, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-08-30
- Business Case Driven CRM Implementations: A Recipe for Success
- CRM implementation failures are often attributed to faults in the business case and more specifically in the business case not being realized. Experiences across CRM implementations, suggests that the fault lies in the extent to which the business case is used to drive the downstream implementation. A subtle change in...
- Tags: Business Case, CRM, CRM Implementation Failure, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Developing the Business Case for ITIL: Learning to Speak the Language of Business and Help Our Executives Promote Our ITIL Initiatives
- Convincing the CFO of the value one's ITIL initiative brings to the business may be the biggest challenge one faces. It may also be the most important role one plays as a leader in IT. Most organizations are not currently developing business cases or performing financial analysis to support their...
- Tags: Business Case, Initiative, Propoint Solutions, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-07-02
- The Business Case for Building an Extranet Portal: Explores the Virtues of an Extranet Portal and Highlights SSL VPN Technology as the Ideal Approach for Creating It
- This paper will examine the benefits for using access privilege management functionality to deploy an extranet portal, as well as the specific attributes that should be taken into account as such a deployment is considered. They will then look at the use of SSL-based technology to provide a cost-effective, easy-to-manage...
- Tags: Business Case, SSL VPN, Extranet, SSL, Extranet Portal, Networking
- White papers 2008-07-01
- WiMAX: The Technology & the Business Case
- WiMAX has been hyped out of proportion. Vested interest on the part of Intel has led to a degree of mis-interpretation of what the primary players in the UK would cite as the principle benefits of the technology in application. Intel has invested in the technology in order to protect...
- Tags: Business Case, MML, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-07-01

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