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Download this complimentary report and learn about the overwhelming number of business managers using an application or service that is not sanctioned by IT.

How can ERP with Green SCM tools help manufacturers satisfy green supply chain requirements in order to satisfy customers and regulators? Find out now

How do Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms compare on reliability, scalability and cost? Download this whitepaper for details.

Wireless bar code and radio frequency identification (RFID) label printing is widely recognized by major retailers globally as an essential technology for enhancing store operations. The pages that follow detail the far-ranging benefits of wireless bar code and RFID printing, and present innovative wireless printing solutions from Zebra.

This white paper outlines the requirements for kiosks - optimizing design, placement and component selection - in order to help you and your business meet specific use cases, various environments and goals.

Retailers face enormous pressure to gain ROI from their business processes. Achieve the most value with RFID technology by ensuring accuracy, while shrinking the reoccurring costs of label media. This document from Zebra Technologies discusses the benefits of item-level tagging, and how on-pitch printing and encoding solutions can boost RFID's value beyond the supply chain.

Re-pricing products in the store has become a strategic tool that retailers apply to increase traffic and sales. This white paper explains how retailers are profiting from mobile markdown printing and how stores can leverage different printing applications to create more value.

In this whitepaper, find out how mobility maximizes return on inventory investment - and how understanding this truth is one catalyst that has the power to make average retailers great.

Using Zebra's Technologies, supermarket chain Wegmans was able to increase their production rate and improve their read rate. Read this case study to find out more about Wegmans and what Zebra can do for you!

Using Zebra printers, The Bargain! Shop (TB!S), was able to reduce their price marketing costs between 25% and 40% as well as increase work efficiency. Read this case study to find out more about TB!S and what Zebra can do for you and your business today!

In this case study learn how Zebra's technologies helped Sterling Services increase productivity and reduce costs. Find out what Zebra can do for you!

Aside from being a leader in high-end office automation services, Ricoh Australia is a leader in corporate social responsibility and environmental management. With Polycom solutions they are able to continue to meet their green initiatives as well as increase sales and decrease operating costs.

"Adopting the Best Practices for Ongoing Data Management"

This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices supported by IBM solutions. Learn more today!

ERP failure is a very real concern for companies of all sizes. Our buying checklist helps you avoid common ERP mistakes. You learn how to buy the right system for your needs, how to negotiate a great deal, experience a smooth implementation and gain user acceptance. Learn more today!

If your company is looking to purchase an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solution, the 2009 Top 10 ERP Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company.  Must read!

If your company is looking to purchase a Manufacturing/ERP software solution, the 2009 Top 10 Manufacturing Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company. Must Read!

Data centers are large, important investments that when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise, yet the central focus of organizations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems, with little thought given to the structure and space in which it is to be housed, serviced and maintained. This invariably leads to facility infrastructure problems, such as thermal hot spots, lack of UPS, rack power, lack of redundancy, system overloading and other issues that threaten or prevent the realization of the return on the investment in the IT systems.

Data centers are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built, and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise. Yet the central focus of organizations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems with little thought given to the structure and space in which it is to be housed, serviced, and maintained.

In this White Paper IDC sees the use of static x86 server configurations is quickly becoming an outdated concept with the introduction of modern solutions based on blade architectures, which can offer both intelligent configuration and management and the ability to perform physical-to-virtual migration to promote uptime and efficient resource usage. When combined with the quickly maturing x86 hypervisor technologies available from a variety of solution providers, the synergy of blade architectures and virtualization offers customers the ability to dramatically increase utilization of their server investments, boost uptime, provide a more resilient and available infrastructure, and roll out new infrastructure and services more quickly.

To accommodate increasingly dense technology environments, increasingly critical business applications, and increasingly stringent service level demands, data centers are typically engineered to deliver the highest-affordable availability levels facility-wide. Within this monolithic design approach, the same levels of mechanical, electrical, and IT infrastructure are installed to support systems and applications regardless of their criticality or business risk if unplanned downtime occurs. Typically, high redundancy designs are deployed in order to provide for all eventualities. The result, in many instances, is to unnecessarily drive up both upfront construction or retro-fitting costs and ongoing operating expenses.

The need for reliable data centers is growing, especially in the small to medium sized business market.  So too is the price of data centers -- both in terms of initial cost and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) -- as equipment, service and utility costs continue to escalate.  How is a data center manager going to support an IT-based business strategy that hinges on high availability, at a reasonable business cost?  Insource? Outsource? Build? Lease? This presentation looks at the factors driving data centers costs, their impact, how they can be controlled, and how to justify the data center you need.

When considering server virtualization, planning and design are critical.  How do you optimize your environment through virtualization?  How do you keep your server sprawl from becoming virtual server sprawl?  How will a virtualized environment help your business?  Will your existing data center meet current, and future, business requirements? Answer your Questions today!

When Alcatel bought out Lucent at the end of 2006, the two companies had already begun planning data center consolidations of their own, but the merger changed all that. As it turns out, the merged company created a plan to consolidate 25 data centers and 125 server rooms down to six data centers and just a few server rooms. This change has presented challenges, especially in terms of arranging downtime and dealing with employees' attachment to their servers and applications, but the company is on pace to meet it’s goal of reducing IT operational cost by 25% over three years.

Data centers are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built, and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise. Yet the central focus of organizations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems with little thought given to the structure and space in which it is to be housed, serviced, and maintained. This invariably leads to facility infrastructure problems such as thermal “hot spots”, lack of UPS (uninterruptible power supply) rack power, lack of redundancy, system overloading and other issues that threaten or prevent the realization of the return on the investment in the IT systems.