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		<title><![CDATA[Yantai Wanhua Cuts Budgeting Time From Three Months to Two, Strengthens Cost Control]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=955075]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The downturn in the global economy has required many organizations to strengthen financial management and replace systems that no longer deliver the information needed to weather the financial crisis. For Yantai Wanhua, that meant replacing the hundreds of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets it used for budget management with a more effective...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[JobCost Controller for Excel 5.0 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=937145]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Track your project expenses effectively and increase profits! Designed for contractors, builders, remodelers, project managers, cost engineers, architects. Tracks construction costs tied to user-defined cost categories. Reports budgets, actuals and committed costs. Using intelligent algorithms accurately forecasts costs at job completion, reports variances, alerts for over and under budget activities....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Webcast: Take Control: Optimize Spending and Cost Control]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=381216]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From everyday business expenses related to sales and service to training and collaboration, business depends on spending and investment to improve the bottom line. Unfortunately, many companies are currently struggling to control their expenses as well as effectively tracking costs and managing policies and compliance. The good news is, despite...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[West Corporation Improves Cost Control and Competitive Advantage With Optimized IT]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=361157]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[West Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced communication solutions to many of the world's largest companies, organizations and government agencies. To ensure the agility and responsiveness of these systems, which includes 6,000 servers, they needed to find an Enterprise IT Management EITM solution that could help it deliver a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Salesforce becomes enterprisey, readies for war]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=135]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As Salesforce.com sheds more of its 'cool' on-demand status and transitions to looking more enterprisey, I notice it has hired Graham Smith as CFO. Fellow Irregular Mark Crofton muses:...about the irony that a company whose motto is "No Software" keeps hiring big enterprise software company execs...Obviously, as an employee of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:01:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Realizing Increased Cost Control and Disaster Prevention With Virtualization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=382329]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As data-center space and energy costs rise, more and more companies are looking at blade servers, server consolidation and virtualization to help control and manage costs. Additionally, disaster preparedness and disaster-recovery planning are key issues in many companies, and the associated technologies can help to address the information systems portion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accountancy Firm Boosts Confidence and Cost Control With Software Asset Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=343030]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[H W Fisher & Company - a top 25 firm of chartered accountants - uses a range of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Microsoft encouraged H W Fisher to implement Software Asset Management SAM as an exercise in corporate governance that would benefit...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cost Control Voice 1.0 (Mobile)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=484523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Get your phone bill under control.  Cost Control Voice keeps you up-to-date about all the calls you made with your Treo Handheld. And with the tip of your pen it will estimate these costs for you! Cost Control Voice for Palm OS works in the background of your Treo...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cost Control Data 1.2.2 (Mobile)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=475337]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[See what you have spent online before the monthly bill arrives  Being online is fun. Surfing the web, checking your e-mail, play online games - all with your Palm OS device on the go. But do you really know how much these little online sessions will cost you? Or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control  - ISO]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=177610]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control  . This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. Whether you are experienced at running the budget gauntlet or brand new to the process, you will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Hosted Customer Service Desk - It's About Cost, Control, and Reliability]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=166930]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Support organizations today face many similar business challenges as they strive to effectively service their internal and external customers, regardless of their size or industry. In the face of these challenges, customer service managers may find themselves searching for new technology to address their customer service initiatives. One of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cost Control: Inside the Oracle Optimizer]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle's Cost-Based SQL Optimizer CBO is an extremely sophisticated component of Oracle that governs the execution for every Oracle query. The CBO has evolved into one of the world's most sophisticated software components, and it has the challenging job of evaluating any SQL statement and generating the "Best" execution plan...]]></description>
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