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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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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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Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.
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Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed 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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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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Companies exploring offshore software development often find an overwhelming array of options. For example, is India the best choice? What about China, Russia or Brazil? Time, distance and language barriers also make it difficult to assess the quality of offshore developers. How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring?
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Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat." They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.
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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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| 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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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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Purchase price alone is not an accurate measure as to the true costs of a system. When evaluating the products offered by different vendors, the purchaser should take into consideration: purchase cost of equipment and software; cost of installing the infrastructure including data cable and mains power outlet and power cables; cost of installation; cost of maintenance; and more.
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| By : CA |
Published Date: Jan 06, 2006 |
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Read this paper to discover how you can streamline the management of IT security in order to improve the overall operational efficiency of your enterprise. Discover the operational efficiencies that you can gain through the use of an integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution.
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| 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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| 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 : 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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In today's global business environment, organizations have no choice but to seek new ways to optimize their budgets, respond nimbly to change and improve productivity. Download the 1080 Group research brief, Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training, to learn how leading trainers are leveraging online tools to extend their reach, deliver more training and lower their costs.
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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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| By : Concur |
Published Date: Aug 31, 2006 |
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A result of surveys with procurement, finance and travel executives from over 290 companies from an independent survey by Aberdeen Group, Inc. reveal that 26% of respondents plan on adopting an end-to-end travel booking and expense reporting solution within the next two years. Download a copy of the entire report from the Aberdeen Group now.
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| 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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| 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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| By : Echopass |
Published Date: May 22, 2007 |
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Not all companies that have adopted multi-sourcing have realized the expected levels of savings. A single over-arching problem is often the cause when multi-sourcing delivers disappointing results in service and/or savings.
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| 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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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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| By : HP |
Published Date: Jul 09, 2007 |
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Read this white paper to learn how you can automate document-based business processes to reduce the costs associated with them, from hard costs for printers and supplies to less-tangible costs for producing, filing, storing, indexing, and finding printed documents.
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