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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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Today’s web and application infrastructure continues to expand applications for e-commerce, and communications with customers, partners and internal employees. For those responsible for deploying, maintaining and supporting these networked applications, there is an increasing need to get the highest performance out of datacenter equipment, while simplifying the complexity that causes excess overhead and unnecessary costs.
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| By : CA WA 2 |
Published Date: Jul 21, 2008 |
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Featuring an expert from Enterprise Management Associates, this webcast discusses some tactical steps towards automation of various IT processes, showing how even in processes with interdependent tasks, IT Process Automation can start IT groups down the path of reducing complexity and error rates, two of the leading drivers of cost and chaos.
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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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Email is absolutely critical in making users productive: for example, a February 2008 survey conducted by Osterman Research found that 93% of email users consider email to be important or critical in helping them to get their work done. However, most decision makers are not aware of the true cost of providing email functionality to their users.
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| 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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| By : SAP |
Published Date: May 11, 2008 |
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With numerous marketing programs created and rolled out to the channel, it is important for channel marketers to clearly understand the financial implications of program execution to ensure that adequate processes and controls are in place to allocate, verify and track the payment of all marketing funds. This is critical to ensure compliance with financial regulators and keep the CFO’s office happy.
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An incredible array of organizations from both the public and private sector are buying pre-owned. These organizations include global public commercial enterprises, small businesses, ISP's, telecoms, non-profits, local and US government, military and educational institutions of all kinds. An overwhelming majority of the customers we've surveyed mention the same fact - they just didn't know pre-owned was a real, safe and viable option. In this guide, we'll present you with critical information you need to make the switch.
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| By : SAP |
Published Date: May 01, 2008 |
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Going global? Whether your strategic objective is profitable growth or reducing costs — or both — pursuing a globalization strategy means overcoming business and IT challenges on a global scale. From the results of two major globalization studies discussed in this white paper, learn how other manufacturers are taking these challenges head on — and winning, often in major ways.
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| By : CA WA 2 |
Published Date: Apr 23, 2008 |
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Data Center Automation enables you to manage change processes, ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers and applications based on business need. By controlling complexity and automating processes in the data center, your data center becomes more adaptive and agile. Effective Data Center Automation lets you leverage virtualization, manage capacity, and reduce costs and also helps reduce energy usage and waste.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Apr 22, 2008 |
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If you're looking to decrease power consumption in your existing data center (and who isn't?), the first step should be a detailed diagnosis. If, on the other hand, you’re constructing a new data center, or expanding or upgrading your current center, it’s critical that energy efficiency is built in from the start. This short IBM video addresses both.
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| By : Riverbed |
Published Date: Apr 17, 2008 |
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Want to understand how other companies are turning their Riverbed investments into cost-saving machines? Download this case study bundle and uncover the money-saving secrets of wide-area data services (WDS) from Riverbed. These four enlightening case studies about very different organizations show how enterprises can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes.
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| By : Quocirca |
Published Date: Apr 08, 2008 |
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Voice and data communications are taking up an increasing amount of organizations’ budgets as more information is shared between and across more businesses. Person to person contact now includes richer media, more participants and is becoming increasingly mobile. Historically, telecoms expense management has focused on the mechanistic processing of bills, payment and costs of individual items.
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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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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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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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| 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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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Feb 27, 2008 |
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When you need to add IT capacity yesterday, but there's no more space and no more budget, what can you do? This IBM white paper has the answer: a new concept known as scalable, modular data centers. You'll learn how and where they work, the substantial cost benefits they deliver, and how eight different firms are using them to meet various business challenges.
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| By : CA NVM |
Published Date: Feb 19, 2008 |
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In today’s converging, multi-services market, leading providers must standardize processes and IT infrastructure across their multi-play offerings in order to improve profitability while reducing costs.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Jan 31, 2008 |
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This IDC white paper discusses how the current need for server virtualization, infrastructure consolidation and energy efficient technology requires significant changes to IT systems. It describes the steps to take to achieve high availability and reduce operational costs, while still adhering to the requirements of “green IT.”
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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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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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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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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 : IBM |
Published Date: Dec 12, 2007 |
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Going green is becoming more than an altruistic aspiration to save the planet. A proactive corporate environmental policy is now an essential part of any company’s overall business strategy. Download this paper to find out how IBM can help you to support environmental initiatives while achieving your company's long-term business goals.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Dec 11, 2007 |
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This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible. It covers the basics of virtualization – how it works, how the technologies relate to each other and how they are commonly implemented, including real-world examples.
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