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Spend management is the way in which companies control and optimize the money they spend. It involves cutting operating and other costs associated with doing business. These costs typically show up as "operating costs" or SG&A (Selling, General and Administrative) costs, but can also be found in other areas and in other members of the supply chain.
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Managing Success in Outsourced or Offshored Software Development |
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This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected—on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.
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One Touch Business Travel and the End of the Expense Report |
| By : Concur |
Published Date: Jul 09, 2007 |
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Despite the fact that billions of dollars per year are spent on business travel and entertainment (T&E) by employees on behalf of their organizations, many companies are still not maximizing the value of that spend because they’re relying on multiple processes and solutions to manage their T&E – an area of spend that for many is the second largest controllable cost after payroll.
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Optimize Retail Operations and Lower Costs by Enhancing Your Use of IT |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jan 13, 2005 |
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Point of service is the key to every retail operation. But with e-mail marketing, in-store/self-service kiosks and more, the definition of point of service is changing. These changes create a unique opportunity to utilize advanced technologies to improve the customer experience. The IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX (IRES) is designed to help retailers do just this -- while generating higher profits.
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6th Sense Analytics Interviews Thomas Koulopoulos, Author of Smartsourcing |
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During this podcast, you’ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry’s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine.
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Perimeter Church Simplifies IT Administration with VMware |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Nov 02, 2007 |
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As Perimeter Church's congregation expanded, their IT staff needed to find a way to meet the growing IT needs of the church with limited staff. Download this case study to learn how the Perimeter IT team has been able to perform its administrative functions much more effectively with VMware technology.
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Releasing Resources to Support Growth: The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation |
| By : Concur |
Published Date: Jan 26, 2008 |
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CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly. This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they’ve realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. Our survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction-processing automation.
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Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business Gain |
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The crisis of mass power consumption in the corporate data center has come to a head. Power required to run data centers in the U.S. is estimated to be as much as that produced by five power plants in a year. Energy expenditures and requirements have doubled in the last five years, and computer disposal is the fastest growing type of waste in the world, according to top Stanford researchers and Greenpeace.
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The CIO Wish List: 7 Steps to Mission Critical IT Services |
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CIOs today are being called upon to interpret business strategy and priorities, then add value through information technology initiatives. At a time when “critical to the business” translates to “mission-critical IT”, how do you ensure end-to-end availability and reliability of the IT resources that enable your company’s essential business processes.
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The Superstar CFO: Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Sep 01, 2007 |
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CFO Research, in collaboration with SAP, conducted a research study that asked 300+ senior finance executives about the ideal CFO's responsibilities. This thought leadership piece explores how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
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Too Many Servers, Too Much Cost? The Answer is Virtualization |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jun 19, 2007 |
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In this podcast, you’ll hear Tom Ready, Vice President of World Wide Server Services talk about the problems caused by server sprawl, such as increased hardware costs, decreased IT staff efficiency and excessive power consumption. You’ll learn how server virtualization produces marked gains in productivity and efficiency, and impressive reductions in cost.
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Virtualization: Not Just for Big Business |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Aug 19, 2007 |
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A virtualized data center is a more nimble, responsive, and efficient data center. This report discusses the trend towards x86 virtualization and customer benefits, and examines how (in defiance of conventional wisdom) SMB customers have been embracing – and benefiting from – x86 virtualization at about the same rate as larger enterprises.
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Virtual Storage At Its Best: HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Mar 05, 2008 |
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The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays.
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Virtual Storage: HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Mar 05, 2008 |
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The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays.
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Avoiding Costs From Oversizing Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure |
| By : APC-MGE |
Published Date: Feb 04, 2005 |
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The physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. Statistics related to oversizing are presented. The costs associated with oversizing are quantified. The fundamental reasons why oversizing occurs are discussed. An architecture and method for avoiding oversizing is described.
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AIC Reduces Costs and Boosts Productivity with VMware Infrastructure 3 |
| By : VMware |
Published Date: Aug 16, 2007 |
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AIC, Canada’s largest privately held mutual fund company, aimed to shrink their data center footprint and manage IT infrastructure more effectively. With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infrastructure. Find out how much they saved, and how VMware impacted their organization's workload and productivity.
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Building Software in a Flat World |
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Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.
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Buying Less Storage with NetApp |
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This paper takes a look at using data virtualization to provide end-to-end data reduction efficiencies. It features three user case studies on how through data virtualization, users were able to have a significant impact on bottom-line expenses as they relate to the storage acquisition and ongoing data storage management costs.
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Chase & Sons Gain an Asset |
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Chase & Sons has been delivering innovative engineered products and processes to the wire and cable industry for over 50 years. They supply General Cable with specialty tapes. In the past, Chase & Sons would allocate resources for 'emergency handling' of orders which took time away from planning and other more strategic functions.
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Cost Transparency for Business |
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Cost transparency in relation to IT consumption isn't just about showing which applications, physical resources or even individual users increase company's costs (although that can be valuable information). The real goal is to drive efficiencies throughout the whole business. This white paper offers some practical guidance on where to start.
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Controlling, Even Reducing, Energy Costs in Data Centers |
| By : IBM |
Published Date: Apr 22, 2008 |
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If you're looking to decrease power consumption in your existing data center (and who isn't?), the first step should be a detailed diagnosis. If, on the other hand, you’re constructing a new data center, or expanding or upgrading your current center, it’s critical that energy efficiency is built in from the start. This short IBM video addresses both.
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