Cost Transparency

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.

Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Reaching tight alignment with these objectives is not an easy task. Yet, we believe when a communication services provider integrates these customer-centric objectives into the design of its converged solution, its business customers will no longer ask if the solution will meet their objectives. Rather, the question becomes one of execution: how and when to move to a converged communication solution. converged solution. From these attributes, a framework to measure and compare providers' converged solutions emerges. We will conclude with a review of Sprint's approach to offering true convergence to business and government customers.

Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.

This white paper outlines the strategic and operational advantages of IT cost transparency, a "game-changing" approach that is enabling companies like 1-800-FLOWERS.COM to reduce costs and become more effective in their decision making.

The right software for managing critical applications can actually optimize your business results. Consider this... your critical applications are those that are vital to increasing revenue or productivity. In other words, they execute your key business transactions and are key business assets that support revenue generation, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

The right software for managing critical applications can actually optimize your business results. Consider this... your critical applications are those that are vital to increasing revenue or productivity. In other words, they execute your key business transactions and are key business assets that support revenue generation, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

For most organizations, driving profitable growth in today's business climate isn't easy. To meet these challenges, you must be able to respond and transform your business?quickly, cost-effectively, and without sacrificing profitability, transparency, or internal control. Learn how SAP ERP systems can help meet these challenges with this free white paper.

Savvis delivers a complex, fully managed infrastructure for Discovery to support its real-time advertising deliverables, ad sales, scheduling, and programming for all its international operations.

Read this white paper by Don Tapscott and explore the criteria best-in-class retailers use for selecting business intelligence solutions. Companies that effectively harness the vast quantities of information that IT systems generate - both within the corporation and outside its walls - are poised to gain competitive advantage.

EIU white paper based on global survey of 320 executives on their views of managing risks associated with changing, and global, regulations.

This Analyst Insight highlights the changing business landscape due to the growing importance of carbon management. It provides specific focus on the role technology plays in the automation of key business process, resulting in improved internal and external transparency, efficient and accurate compliance, effective risk management, and improved ability to reduce carbon liability.

Legacy Antivirus Software slowing you down? If you are ready to change, this white paper shows how to choose what's best!

New patented competitive procurement method provides powerful tool for print buyers.