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Home > Enterprise Applications > Total Cost of Ownership Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs related to the purchase of any capital investment, such as (but not limited to) computer software or hardware. A TCO assessment ideally offers a final statement reflecting not only the cost of purchase but all aspects in the further use and maintenance of the equipment, device, or system considered. Results 1 - 25 of 41 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 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. Download Now Access Control, Energy and the Environment By : Borer Data Systems Ltd. Published Date: Oct 26, 2007 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. Download Now An Evaluation of Buy Versus Build for Portal Solutions by IDC By : IBM Published Date: Dec 20, 2007 Portals are becoming integral enablers of business and IT innovation for many organizations. From first-generation content aggregation portals to more sophisticated enterprise process portals, organizations have used portal solutions to improve productivity, streamline business processes, enable new Web-based product and service delivery models, and provide IT with a powerful platform for new and composite application development. Download Now Analyst Profile: mindSHIFT Offers Broad Portfolio of Managed IT Services By : mindSHIFT Published Date: Nov 10, 2007 mindSHIFT has extended its service capabilities to include software-as-a-service as well as managed IT services, and is a "compelling solution" for small and medium-sized organizations seeking a strategic source to meet their IT and business needs. Download Now Avoiding Costs From Oversizing Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure By : APC-MGE Published Date: Feb 04, 2005 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. Download Now Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems By : ShoreTel Published Date: Aug 10, 2006 One of the most important pieces of keeping a business afloat is reflected in its voice system. This white paper takes a comprehensive, yet understandable, look into the world of IP telephony systems by defining reliability and availability, and discussing the important pieces to review when selecting a voice system. Download Now CA SiteMinder: Security for Enterprise Web Applications By : CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006 This technical white paper explains how CA SiteMinder provides all the essential security services required to meet the challenge of building and managing secure websites, while also including management features and technical capabilities that can reduce the total cost of ownership. Download Now 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. Download Now Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure By : APC-MGE Published Date: Dec 08, 2005 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. Download Now Enabling Technology by Blade I/O Virtualization By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Dec 20, 2006 Next generation, complimentary IDC white paper from HP cites relatively new, "simpler" solutions for IT managers. Discover how to quickly identify more cost effective and scaleable ways to manage bandwidth problems caused by the increased complexity of servers and their associated LAN and SAN environments. Download Now Finding The Retailer's Need: Advanced Store Systems & True Ownership Costs By : IBM Published Date: Jan 31, 2008 Retailers regularly adapt to customer trends by investing in new systems technology. But they may not be aware that a system's initial purchase price is only 20 to 45% of the total cost of ownership of their system, and there's more to understand about the true cost of your purchase. Find out more on investing in the information system for your unique business. Download Now Getting the Most from Your Call Center Investment By : Vendor Guru Published Date: Jan 24, 2007 Today, companies can prosper from a wide range of computer telephony integration (CTI) solutions. CTI is the full integration of voice and data systems. The convergence of computer systems with call center operations adds increased scalability and muscle to existing business operations. Download Now Human Resource Technology Provider Upgrades Online Meeting Performance and Capacity for Instant ROI By : Citrix Online Published Date: Nov 21, 2005 CheckPoint HR is in the middle of tremendous growth. In just two years, the human resource technology company has expanded from servicing about 400 worksite employees (WSE's) to over 20,000. David Flook, a partner at CheckPoint HR, chalks up this impressive growth to his company's unique approach to providing Web-based services for mid-market companies. Download Now HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Exchange By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008 Traditionally, Microsoft has ruled the roost when it comes to providing business software solutions. This document discusses how HyperOffice, our new age solution, matches up to Microsoft Exchange on a feature to feature comparison, including business features, costs and implementation efforts. Download Now HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Exchange TCO By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008 Good sense dictates that when a technology is adopted, not only should the initial payoff be considered, but the total cost of ownership (costs incurred over the life of the technology) as well. This white paper discusses how HyperOffice is more efficient when compared to Microsoft Exchange in terms of total cost of ownership. Download Now HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Sharepoint By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008 This document presents a convincing argument why HyperOffice is better suited to the needs of a growing business as opposed to SharePoint. A point-to-point comparison is presented, proving how HyperOffice outdoes SharePoint in terms of feature-set, while costing substantially less and requiring less implementation efforts. Download Now IBM X-Architecture Technology: A Story of Innovation for x86-Based Servers By : IBM Published Date: Mar 19, 2007 This paper describes the evolution of IBM X-Architecture technology and demonstrates how the melding of industry-standard components with IBM innovation produces servers that offer you a unique set of capabilities with which to effectively manage your business. You’ll see why IBM systems equipped with X-Architecture technologies run faster—yet cooler—use less power, and are more reliable, easier to manage and better for virtualization than competitive servers, and offer a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Download Now Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 22, 2006 It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency. Download Now IT Decision-Maker Perspective on Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environment By : NetApp Virtualization Published Date: Oct 01, 2007 This report reviews what an organization should consider when calculating the total cost of ownership for managing storage in VMware server virtualization environments.  It presents findings from independent research conducted by Oliver Wyman, formerly Mercer Management Consulting, in determining the total cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing storage environments from EMC, HP and NetApp to support VMware server virtualization solutions. Download Now Knowledge Centered Support: A Best Practice-Base to Knowledge Management By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 05, 2007 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. Download Now Leveraging Managed Service to Automate Security Assessment By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  The solution is automated security assessment products that leverage stateful processing to comprehensively examine web applications and reveal vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks.  Find out how Cenzic's ClickToSecure solution can help you secure your applications. Download Now Lower Costs with On-Demand CRM & Accounting/ERP Solutions By : Netsuite Published Date: Feb 03, 2006 This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications. Download Now Making the Choice Between On-Premise and On-Demand Solutions By : Citrix Online Published Date: Feb 01, 2008 The purpose of this guide is to help business and IT decision-makers make educated choices between traditional, on-premise products and the new generation of on-demand solutions. Download Now maXecurity: The Next Generation of Web Access Management By : P2 Security Published Date: May 09, 2008 A large financial institution used a competitive product for Web Access Management. By working with P2 Security, the company was able to determine its true Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). An analysis following the installation of maXecurity revealed annual cost savings of millions of dollars per year. In addition, by switching to maXecurity, the Return on Investment (ROI) was measured in months. Download Now Migration Made Easy: Switching VAN Providers Without the Fire Drills By : Inovis Published Date: Jul 18, 2007 The challenges presented by multiple Value-Added Networks (VANs) and managing diverse trading partners create barriers to the efficiencies promised by EDI. Multiple providers mean multiple points of failure with no one entity to hold accountable. Also, as trading communities grow, end-to-end supply chain visibility becomes an essential operational requirement. 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