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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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Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure |
| By :APC-MGE |
Published Date: Dec 08, 2005 |
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An improved method for measuring Total Cost of Ownership of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall Information Technology infrastructure is described, with examples. The cost drivers of TCO are quantified. The largest cost driver is shown to be unnecessary unabsorbed costs resulting from the oversizing of the infrastructure.
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How General Cable Reduces Over 50% of Time and Costs Associated with Purchasing |
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General Cable operates 28 manufacturing locations in 8 countries and is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. Their products are widely used in communications, energy, industrial and speciality markets. General Cable has nearly 300 suppliers of raw material for their US operations.
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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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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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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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VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Reduces IT Costs for IRMC Call Centers |
| By :VMware |
Published Date: Apr 02, 2007 |
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In this case study, you'll discover the tangible benefits to IRMC when they used VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to virtualize their call center operations and support multiple call centers from a central data center. Their IT staff achieved increased flexibility, faster provisioning, redeployed IT staff, reduced IT costs, and improved competitiveness. Finally, review a detailed financial analysis to back up IRMC's 73% annual ROI, and see how they saved.
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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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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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Migrate To Vista Without Sacrificing Productivity |
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Leverage best practices to manage & control the time, cost & risk of migrating your enterprise PCs to Windows Vista operating systems. Learn how HP covers every phase of the migration process & can cut deployment time by 50%, costs by 68% & improve software management efficiency by 78%.
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Blade Server and Storage |
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With the introduction of blade products - like the HP BladeSystem c3000 and the new All-in-One SB600c storage blade - customers are more likely to turn to blades for their day-to-day server infrastructure needs. Learn more today.
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Document Management Case Study: Salter, Feiber, Murphy, Hutson & Menet, P.A. |
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Like most law firms, Salter Feiber deals with vast amounts of documents, a significant portion of which needs to be kept for long periods of time. "We tried to keep the files closed during the last 12 months onsite," says Kim Chewning, Firm Administrator. "Everything else was sent to a third party for storage in a secure facility." However, as the archive grew, so did the storage cost.
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End-to-End Strategies for Reducing Imaging and Printing Costs |
| By :HP |
Published Date: Jul 09, 2007 |
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When it comes to reducing imaging and printing costs, hardware isn’t the half of it. In fact, it’s only about 5%, according to this white paper from HP. Read it to learn more about the operating costs and support costs that account for the other 95% – and how you can devise more-effective imaging and printing management strategies to help bring down all of your imaging and printing costs across the board.
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Enterprise Single Sign-On Best Practice Considerations |
| By :CA |
Published Date: Aug 17, 2007 |
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Organizations are implementing Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions to improve business productivity, reduce cost and secure access to critical applications. This white paper discusses commonly overlooked considerations when evaluating SSO solutions, to help ensure success with your deployed solution.
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Economist: A New Mandate for IT |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Apr 25, 2006 |
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Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. Armed with increasingly sophisticated applications, IT-led teams have consistently found new ways to streamline enterprise business processes, vastly improving operating efficiency and reducing costs. Corporate leaders, however, are raising the bar: they expect IT’s core mission to expand from cost-cutting to enabling revenue generation within a short period of time.
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eService: Winning in the Global Marketplace |
| By :eGain |
Published Date: Feb 12, 2007 |
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The Internet, years after its emergence, continues to be a challenge for most organizations. This paper examines the notion of eService and the need for it in large, global organizations in particular. It also provides guidelines for developing an effective eService plan, and concludes with a discussion of the most significant benefits of implementing such a plan.
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Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services |
| By :Riverbed |
Published Date: May 14, 2008 |
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Did you know it's possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this white paper from Riverbed on cost-savings through wide-area data services, you'll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.
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Using Virtualization to Maximize Your IT Environment
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The business of managing IT infrastructures has reached a crossroads. The number of global players is shrinking through mergers and acquisitions while the playing field, also known as the customer’s IT environment, has become exceedingly complex and difficult to manage. This working paper presents CA’s corporate and technology strategy behind appropriate virtualization management positioning and commitments as an important element in preparation for the move toward that model in your IT environment. |
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