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- Return On Investment The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI...
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- Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications
- The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement...
- White papers 2008-05-27
- It’s the economy stupid – collaboration ROI
- It’s the economy stupid – collaboration ROIThere's no oil shortageThey're having fun raising oil prices.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- It's the economy stupid – collaboration ROI
- With today's news that oil has reached $135 a barrel – a 100% increase in a 12 month period – it's clear that there are some serious economic challenges ahead. A liter of unleaded in the UK today at 114 pence ($2.25) is equal to $8.50 a gallon in...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- IBM Rational Quality Management ROI calculator: Try it today!
- If your QA team is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of development, you've probably started thinking about ways to automate your testing. IBM Rational's quality management solutions offer tools that can help you develop a continuous process, powered by automation to govern software delivery. Use...
- Resource centers 2008-03-24
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people
- 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales peopleThe Truth Is Out ThereGreat post and great e-Book! Its about time someone told the truth about enterprise sales!ObservationsHere on ZDNet I've posted:"The normal condition of software is broken."The author states:"The bottom line with custom software in the enterprise is that...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Restoration Specialists Improve Network Availability by 25%, Reduce ROI by 50%
- The Paul Davis Restoration domain controller was running on older hardware, running out of storage capacity, and faced with the challenge of no further support for the operating system. The increasing reliance on the exchange of digital information between Paul Davis Restoration, its clients, and insurance companies, necessitated several hardware...
- Case studies 2008-03-12
- ROI study: Product portfolio management yields results
- ROI study: Product portfolio management yields resultsPayback is not ROI!Grab your wallet any time a vendor shows you an ROI analysis that talks about "payback." They are NOT the same thing. If you spend $1 million to generate $1 million in revenues or any equivalent calculation, your ROI is only...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- ROI study: Product portfolio management yields results
- Project portfolio management PPM software is receiving growing attention from CIOs. Riding this wave, HP sponsored The Gantry Group to analyze key ROI measures for PPM software. Although the results are somewhat coupled specifically to HP PPM Center software, the research is useful to anyone studying the PPM category....
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- iPhone in your business: Pondering the ROI case
- Apple has dressed the iPhone up in a business suit, but the real work is just beginning. Apple needs to convince chief information officers that there's a return on investment in a switch to the iPhone. The day after an Apple event is always the analysis day....
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?
- Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?IBM's P-series virtualization in AIX 6You should have a good look at IBM AIX 6. Storage and network virtualization already exists with Virtual IO servers in the P5 series servers.Application level virtualization occurs in Workload Partitions WPARs. This...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- 38% of marketers think search ads have the best ROI
- 30% of managers plan to use e-mail marketing and 32% - search marketing, according to Sapient. 38% said that search is the channel providing the greatest ROI to managers’ organizations. 28% of marketers thing that search will increase spending the most in the next 6 to 12 months by NB
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Article: Take the "scale-right" approach to optimize the ROI from IT
- When it comes to choosing the right servers, storage systems and management software, one size does not necessarily fit all. Should your company scale up? Scale out? With IBM, you can scale right with a specially tailored strategy that provides the greatest IT ROI for your company. Download this article...
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Oracle on the psychology of patching
- Oracle has a belated reply to a survey a few weeks back on how database administrators have never installed one of the company's critical patch updates. In a blog post Oracle's Eric Maurice faults the survey for relying on a small sample size--not that it stopped us...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Maximized ROI for a Large Insurance Company by Remotely Managing Business Critical Applications & Databases
- MindTree Consulting undertook the end to end remote management of the business critical applications & databases of a large insurance company Based out of North America. MindTree started with providing after hours support for these databases and presently manages higher value functions like backup, recovery, change control, capacity planning, etc....
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Rapid Functionality Updates With Higher ROI Through Dedicated ODC for the World's Largest e-Marketplace
- The client is the world's largest online retailer with over USD 6 billion of revenue in 2006, 240+ million registered users, and 649,000 online stores worldwide selling over 50,000 categories of merchandise. The major challenges included: parallel development on the same source code; seamlessly integrating the code developed by different...
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Budget cut? Bring on Guerrilla SOA!
- Alistair Bathgate responded to Dave Linthicum's post on SOA being on the budget chopping block at some companies with the observation that the managements of many companies -- which famously think short-term anyway -- may become really obsessive about immediate returns on projects emphasis mine: "There is no point...
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Intel uses SOA to chip away at integration, project management issues
- Intel Corporation reports that it has seen a return on investment "in excess of tens of millions of dollars" as a result of its three-year-old SOA effort. Intel gradually moves from custom development to reuse of common services This savings is measured from the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Can You Believe in ROI?
- Demonstrating ROI is particularly important because most IT organizations are focusing their attention on becoming a source of business value, equal to other revenue-generating departments in the company. This approach requires a heightened focus on the value of every dollar IT spends, and the ability to describe value in terms...
- White papers 2007-12-03
- Intersys Enables Next-Day Order Fulfillment and Achieves Return on Investment in One Year
- Founded in 1962, Intersys SA is one of the largest companies in Greece in the information technology sector. Intersys SA wanted to deliver better and faster financial reports to senior management and reduce warehousing and inventory management costs. The challenge was to automate sales and order fulfillment processes, reduce administration...
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI with RFID Asset Management
- Companies today are making millions of dollars' worth of decisions based on data that is only about 70% accurate. They may have an existing procedure for how assets move through their internal or external supply chains. But when they get an opportunity to look at actual data about that process,...
- White papers 2007-12-01
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