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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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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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| 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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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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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Aug 06, 2007 |
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To succeed in the professional services industry, your firm must continually improve its service delivery methods. Read how you can increase client value and lower costs through implementing more efficient resourcing and partnering processes and co-creating value with your clients.
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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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| 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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Is your company “going green?” Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly.
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| 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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| 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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| 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 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 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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| 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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Take a best practice approach to knowledge management with Knowledge Centered Support: understand the major benefits and principles of effective Knowledge Centered Support. Read this step-by-step guide for implementing a solution to increase efficiency and end-user satisfaction and reduce total cost of ownership.
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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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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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This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.
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ERP Outsourcing for the Mid-Market discusses the nuances of outsourcing and critical success factors for mid-market companies. Specifically, how companies can effectively select a compatible outsourcing partner who understands both parts of the equation - business and technology - and how to create a governance environment that fosters a successful outsourcing relationship.
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| By : CA |
Published Date: Jul 25, 2007 |
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Consolidating servers through virtualization is a hot market trend due to the IT cost savings and quality of service improvements it provides. However, virtualization intensifies a number of security vulnerabilities with regards to protecting the deployed operating systems.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Jul 09, 2007 |
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Once upon a time, printers and computers were entirely different things, handled by entirely different departments within the enterprise. This HP white paper explains how technologies have converged to blur the lines between office equipment and computer systems – as well as the lines between IT, facilities and purchasing.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Aug 06, 2007 |
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It takes three to develop a solid strategy for running an efficient printing environment: IT, facilities and procurement. This HP white paper explains how a cooperative strategy involving all three of these departments can help increase staff productivity in the IT department, lower total operational costs for the enterprise, and improve operational effectiveness and business process efficiency.
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| By : CA |
Published Date: Nov 08, 2007 |
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CA Identity and Access Management automates the management of user identities and ensures that only properly authorized users can access critical IT resources from the Web to the mainframe. It empowers your organization to reduce IT costs, mitigate overall security risk, enable new business opportunities and deliver continuous regulatory compliance.
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| By : CA |
Published Date: Dec 05, 2007 |
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Managing IT security has become an even greater critical business issue due to the increased number of online threats and the need to protect access to all IT resources. Download this paper to learn how the CA solution can help you meet your security management needs while providing a unique set of advantages to benefit both your security strategy and your bottom line.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Feb 27, 2008 |
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Energy costs are rising. Floor space is shrinking. And demand for IT capacity continues to grow. In this white paper, IBM reveals the next generation data center: scalable, modular data centers (SMDC). Brief case studies illustrate how specific SMDC solutions helped solve critical business issues, such as outdated infrastructure and scalability.
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