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Fuelling the Engine: The Importance of Business Intelligence and Performance Management to the Mid-Market

Across the mid-market, inefficiencies are compounded by the lack of visibility into pertinent data, of processes being adequately and flexibly automated, and for the performance of the business to be monitored on a constant basis. Without such capabilities, businesses will find it difficult to survive the current financial conditions -...

Tags: Quocirca, Performance, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management

White papers 2009-07-03

Removing the Complexity From Information Protection: How Encryption Can Add Value to Your Business

With data breaches widespread, no organisation can afford to be complacent, but most data losses are avoidable. Many of the breaches making headline news are caused by the loss or theft of laptops and other portable devices. To protect themselves from financial and reputational damage, encryption technologies can reduce risks...

Tags: Quocirca, Encryption, Security

White papers 2009-07-01

Body Shop to Mind Shop: Businesses Look for More From Third Party Consultants

As budgets tighten, it is even more important for a company's IT function to demonstrate its fit with the business and obtain the best value from all resources and services at its disposal. Simply scaling up by regular recruitment or ad hoc use of contract staff is not always a...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Technology, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-05-01

Enterprise Performance Management: A Comparative Index Across 8 Geographies

Monitoring, measuring and reporting on the financial health of an organisation is a basic need that requires effective tools and processes to optimise the end result. Underpinning this is the requirement for planning capabilities, utilising scenario and what if analysis with simulations and other forward looking capabilities. The new primary...

Tags: Quocirca, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-04-03

Light Touch, Firm Impression: Switch From Paper Systems to IT But Keep to the Business Process Script

Many businesses throw IT at problems without fully considering the real needs of the business process or the working conditions of the user. As mobile technology is increasingly used to digitise traditional paper-based processes that were effective but limited, care must be taken to keep unnecessary costs down. Making the...

Tags: Quocirca, Business Process, Mobile, Information Technology, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing

White papers 2009-04-01

Beating IT Recession Blues: A Guide for Organisations Wanting to Outpace Their Peers

IT spending is often an issue for any organisation, but especially in harsh economic times it is even more important to see what benefit IT brings to the business. This paper looks at the degree to which UK organisations understand what IT is doing for their business, and in particular...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Technology, Strategy, Benefits, Management, Human Resources

White papers 2009-04-01

The Big Picture - Approaching BPM From a Different Direction

Many approaches to Business Process Management BPM have centred around the use of standard workflow technology. However, many business processes straddle two or more business applications, and as such, the workflow needs to straddle the applications, and the data, as well. Therefore, BPM has historically faced the need to use...

Tags: Quocirca, Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Management

White papers 2009-02-12

IT Analysis - HP Reinforces Focus on Responsible Printing While Controlling Costs

HP recently invited European analysts for its first Halo telepresence briefing, a departure from its usual format and demonstrating the use of its own technology which is now installed at 30 offices across HP, aimed at reducing travel and the associated financial and environmental costs. Along with Halo, which is...

Tags: Quocirca, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Printing, Document Management, Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-02-10

VNUNet - The Value of Automated Web Reading

As client-server technology developed through the early 1990s, it became clear that there was a problem. While workstations and PCs could make users more productive and their use of computers more enjoyable, many of the most important applications, and the data associated with them, resided on proprietary mainframe computers. To...

Tags: Quocirca, Web, Client-server, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-09

ComputerWeekly - Simplified Systems Management for SMEs

How do people take the complexity out of systems management, to make it easy enough for Ssmall and Medium size Enterprises SMEs to use? There are lower-end products around such as Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold, those that scale through the mid-market such as NTRGlobal and NetIQ, and there are even freeware...

Tags: Quocirca, Freeware, Small And Medium Enterprise, Systems Management, Smb/Sme, It Services, Network Administration, Networking

White papers 2009-02-09

The Big Picture - My Voyage Around Windows 7

Windows 7 Beta 1 has been out there a while now, to general good reviews from people who have played with it. This blog entry describes the various different attempts I had to install and use it and what Quocirca believes the likely benefits of upgrading are going to be....

Tags: Quocirca, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Beta 1, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

White papers 2009-02-06

Information Management - Matching Ideas With Issues

The IT department faces more intense competition for budget dollars and will be fighting other groups within the business far more than it has been used to - yet IT should be seen as the very platform for survival for many organizations going forward. One area where the author sees...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Management, Organization, Strategy, Content Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-02-06

Straight Talking - As Crunch Bites, Don't Forget the Logs

Managing log files may seem like a mundane issue but doing it well tightens data security and boosts compliance efforts. Managing risk, compliance and security are objectives that still need to be achieved even while organisations rush to cut costs. The insider threat in particular has always been a key...

Tags: Quocirca, Compliance, Security

White papers 2009-02-06

No Remote Concern

The average European business, if there is such a thing, has more employees who use IT than do not; around 65 per cent. This reliance on IT is a challenge for those managing end-user devices because these are now distributed widely. The average European business has 20 separate locations and...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Technology, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

White papers 2009-02-04

The Perfect Storm: Time to Review Client Computing Strategies

The way businesses look at costs has changed dramatically during 2008, and will undergo further changes during 2009 and 2010. Cost considerations are far more to the fore than they were in previous years, yet all the old problems of information security, user experience and manageability are still as important...

Tags: Quocirca, Computing, It Services, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-02-01

Standardised Battlespace SOA

Network Centric Operations NCO recognises the demand for pervasive decision-making in the modern battlespace. NCO provides the ability to leverage information networks to generate a more dynamic and agile decision-making space. An important dimension of this approach is the technological flexibility to quickly move the decision-making authority hierarchically or geographically...

Tags: Quocirca, Network, Decision-making, Network Centric Operations, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-02-01

Predictive Service Excellence for Printers: An Overview of Remote Service Platforms for Printer and Copier Devices

Many organisations are shifting towards a more responsive IT environment that is at the same time more self-reliant. Manufacturers are striving to enhance customer satisfaction through improved service availability whilst enterprises want to shift the service responsibility away from their IT departments to their suppliers and service providers. Consequently today's...

Tags: Quocirca, Asset, Printer, Printer/copier, Asset Management, Copiers, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2009-02-01

IT Analysis - Ignorance Is Not Bliss

As one enters 2009, most of them are tightening their belts as budgets are slashed and projects put on hold. But security threats continue to rise. In 2008, the Internet Theft Resource Center estimates that 35 million data records were breached in the US alone, the majority of which were...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Technology, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms

White papers 2009-01-19

Google Goes Down a New Channel

The fact that the majority of businesses use Microsoft Office as their main user productivity tool is in part testament to the strength of the relationship Microsoft has with the IT sales channel. For years Microsoft products have been sold exclusively via the channel, and in return for the reassurance...

Tags: Quocirca, User Productivity, Google Inc., Channel, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, E-mail Providers, Sales, Internet

White papers 2009-01-17

The Benefits of Remote IT Management

There have been a number of reports recently about the death of the desktop PC, which sits in a fixed office and is deserted every day by the average user at around 5:30pm. Some reports say that laptop PC sales now exceed those of desktops, and a result of this...

Tags: Quocirca, IT Administration, Information Technology, Mobile Computing, Benefit, Laptop Computer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Notebooks, Wireless And Mobility, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

White papers 2009-01-17