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Return On Investment (ROI) analysis is not just a single component. Instead, it is a collection of methods, skills, tools, activities, and ideas. They can be combined and used in many different ways to assess the relative value of an investment over time. Applying this collection in a particular situation requires making many choices among the ideas and methods available and conducting an analysis appropriate to the decision at hand.

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11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.
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Epicor
5 Steps for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to Successfully Leverage Managed IT Services
By : mindSHIFT Published Date: Nov 10, 2006
To successfully adopt managed IT services to meet your business objectives, small- and medium-sized organizations (SMBs) should follow five straightforward steps.
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mindSHIFT
A Guide to SOA Implementation
By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Jan 01, 2006

The information overload on SOA is largely on describing its merits, its principles and the vast variety of products intended to address its needs. This document is written to identify the factors to be considered, and articulate the principles and questions to be asked that will drive the decisions within each enterprise towards creating a road map for implementation.


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Torry Harris Business Solutions
Achieve Predictable Return on Investment with an End-to-End Tank Monitoring Solution
By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Jan 05, 2007
Corporate managers responsible for multiple fuel tank locations need remote technology applications to maximize their information use and increase the reach of their resources. Success when planning new remote technology projects can be measured in terms of increased profitability or ROI if the planners adequately address the build vs. buy decisions required when choosing the necessary hardware, software, deployment and integration strategy.
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WorldTelemetry, Inc.
Achieving the Perfect Order: Improving Supply Chain Communication
By : Inovis Published Date: Feb 22, 2007

No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end.


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Inovis
Adding Fax, Adding Value: Lotus Notes Mail and Fax Integration
By : Castelle Published Date: Jan 01, 2006
Castelle’s integration provides seamless fax integration with native Notes services like logging and reporting, and lets faxes be managed just like other Notes email, with all of Domino’s native security, administration, and customization capabilities.
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Castelle
Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government IT: A Public Value Framework
By : SAP Published Date: Sep 27, 2006
Discover a framework for conducting public ROI assessment for government IT projects in this white paper, developed by the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) through SAP's sponsorship.
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SAP
AIC Reduces Costs and Boosts Productivity with VMware Infrastructure 3
By : VMware Dell Published Date: Aug 16, 2007
AIC, Canada’s largest privately held mutual fund company, aimed to shrink their data center footprint and manage IT infrastructure more effectively. With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infrastructure. Find out how much they saved, and how VMware impacted their organization's workload and productivity.
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VMware Dell
Assuring Service Level Achievement Through Dynamic Workload Automation
By : CA WA Published Date: Dec 03, 2007
Emerging information technologies like composite and multi-tier applications, service oriented architectures (SOA), virtualization, grid and cluster computing, and Web Service-based application delivery create an extraordinary opportunity for IT managers. With these dynamic technologies, they can provide business owners with IT services that are extremely flexible and agile, driving a more dynamic and competitive business.
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CA WA
Best Practices in Siebel CRM Performance Management
By : Knoa Published Date: Jun 25, 2007
What is often overlooked is that application performance is just one of three key drivers of return on investment (ROI) from your Siebel application. An efficient infrastructure is critical. It's important to optimize the Siebel application for your own unique business environment, user needs and usage patterns. But, it's all for naught if you do not build and sustain adoption and efficient and effective use of the Siebel application by your end users.
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Knoa
BPM and Process Automation Helps Maximize IT ROI. Hear How it Can Work for You
By : IBM Published Date: Nov 07, 2008
Ball State University was having unusually high IT failure rates during online student registration. Using BPM powered by the Smart SOA™ approach, they streamlined and automated the process and maximized their ROI. Their solution can be applied to your organization. Attend this on-demand web seminar to find out how, and receive a complimentary IBM® white paper on end-to-end BPM.
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IBM
Brave New World of IT Workload Automation
By : CA WA Published Date: Sep 30, 2006
Enterprise Job Scheduling, once the back office function of Operations in the mainframe world, has evolved to become a critical factor in the real time enterprise (RTE). Think you know all there is to know about job scheduling? Take another look and learn how the next generation of job scheduling is evolving into IT Workload Automation, and how CA can help your company realize the real time enterprise.
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CA WA
Bring Your IT Investments to Life with SAP Services
By : SAP Published Date: May 01, 2008
Today's CIO must build, run and maintain an agile IT landscape in a way that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing support for turnkey business innovation.  This represents both the mission and need for SAP Services.  This special feature will introduce you to some of the services, programs and tools that SAP provides in order to help you maximize the utilization and return on your IT investments.
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SAP
Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 07, 2006
This white paper outlines ways that technology can help manufacturers meet these challenges, increase operational efficiency, and step ahead of competitors with more proactive planning, greater shared visibility, and more agile and more profitable responses to change.
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Microsoft
Building a Business Case for Customer-Centric Master Data Management: Don’t Forget the ROI
By : Siperian Published Date: Jan 24, 2007
Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI.
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Siperian
Building a Business Case for Remote Support
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Aug 27, 2007
No company today will approve expenditures for new service and support technology without an understanding of the return on investment (ROI) for the project. Luckily, companies with strong metrics programs in place will find building the business case for productivity-enhancing software a straightforward process.
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Citrix Online
Bye-Bye to the Old BI: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Companies
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Mar 13, 2008
The business intelligence (BI) “boom” of the 1990s was something BIG: big projects designed to give big companies with big budgets a competitive advantage. And while BI delivered big returns for some companies, for others it was nothing but a big headache. An estimated 50% of all data warehousing projects failed to meet their goals. Why? Because many companies underestimated just how big an undertaking BI really was.
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Oco, Inc.
Calculating the Return on Investment for Automated Remote Data Acquisition and Aggregations Systems
By : WorldTelemetry, Inc. Published Date: Mar 26, 2007
ROI is based on the analysis of differential cash flows. In the case of remote data acquisition and aggregation systems for fuel tank operators, it is based on calculating the cost of acquiring and aggregating the data manually and compared to the total cost of owning, maintaining and operating an automated data acquisition and aggregation system.
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WorldTelemetry, Inc.
CIO2CIO: Optimizing Virtualization Investments
By : CA NVM Published Date: Dec 27, 2007
CIOs know that, in addition to investing in disruptive technologies and reducing costs, the availability and performance of IT systems that control business processes are paramount to success. Virtualization fulfills these requirements. In its relatively short existence, virtualization technology has enabled many organizations to realize tangible benefits, including cost savings and increased productivity. As virtualization moves into the mainstream, find out how to eliminate complexity and demonstrate ROI.
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CA NVM
Co-Marketing with Channel Partners
By : SAP Published Date: Jan 08, 2008
Take a look at how brand owners and their channel partners are improving their collaboration on co-marketing with a streamlined closed-loop process supported by the SAP Customer Relationship Management application. Brand owners improve monitoring and can better measure their ROI, while partners can speed up the entire exercise.
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SAP
Complementary BI: The New Approach to Business Intelligence
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Nov 10, 2008
Many companies have business intelligence (BI) tools and infrastructure that serve their business’ needs; however, certain functional departments, business units, or key business initiatives often don’t yet have the BI tools that they need in place.  There is a new approach to BI to address those pressing business needs that leverages the existing BI infrastructure and can deliver value to the business in weeks rather than months and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional BI solution. Learn how Complementary BI leverages Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) BI solutions to address targeted business needs in a way that complements in-house BI systems, leading to a win-win situation for business users and IT analytical tools to business users.
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Oco, Inc.
Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today's data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.
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HP BladeSystem
Developing a Business Case for Data Center Transformation Through ITIL Best Practices & Automation
By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: Dec 02, 2008
The paper comprehensive white paper applies automation and ITIL best practices to the data center and reviews current industry trends, server automation energy usage issues and a variety of optimization strategies for data center improvement.  The effects of virtualization are explored in-depth.  Includes detailed sections on increasing operational efficiency using workflow analysis, automating and optimizing server change management, reducing infrastructure complexity and developing security, disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.  Step by step instructions for developing metrics and a business case to justify data center and server automation are included.
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Evergreen Systems, Inc.
Distraction and Diversion: Avoiding User Aggravations Is Key to Mobile Productivity
By : Quocirca Published Date: Jan 01, 2007
This paper looks at how to get the best out of mobile productivity and how to avoid the six most common mobility pitfalls during the planning and execution of mobile implementations.
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Quocirca
elearning security - the protection of elearning courses from intellectual property theft
By : LockLizard Published Date: Oct 21, 2008
NetMasterClass, as with all advanced elearning providers, have to be able to offer their training courses at any time with total availability – across the Internet.  NetMasterClass have made a significant investment in the development of proprietary training methods and techniques and have already experienced having their IPR stolen and made publicly available.
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LockLizard
 
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