Consumer-Driven Healthcare Survey
[ Source: A.D.A.M. Inc ]
June 2006-
The Consumer-Driven Healthcare (CDH) survey of U.S. businesses has yielded a number of important findings: CDH is a significant development in employee benefits; the more popular CDH plan incorporates a Health Savings Account; managers are on a steep CDH learning curve; they’re getting their information from a variety of diverse sources; the highest expectations for CDH are financial; and communication is critical to the success of CDH.
The ROI of Managed Video Services: Reduced Costs and Improved Security
[ Source: ADT ]
April 2011-
Savvy users of video surveillance technology are allowing security teams to do more with less, resulting in a rapid and demonstrable Return-On-Investment (ROI). Now with technology advances including better cameras, analytics, and IP protocols, the proactive capabilities of video surveillance are opening up, providing the opportunity to decrease costs through remote monitoring and managed services. For example:
• The increasingly popular approach of software as a service (SaaS), or cloud computing now includes Video-Surveillance-as-a-Service, ...
Reducing Distribution Costs: The Value of RedPrairie's Productivity Management Solution - Customer Survey
[ Source: ARC Advisory Group ]
January 2008-
For many companies, distribution costs as a percentage of sales continue to rise. Labor costs generally represent the greatest single component of distribution costs, ranging from 40 percent to as much as 70 percent of the total. RedPrairie’s Productivity Management solution demonstrated solid Return on Investment (ROI) among its customers. On average, the solution had a payback period of less than one year. ARC has investigated a wide range of Supply Chain solutions and the average ...
Linking Supply Chain Security With Sarbanes-Oxley And The Bottom Line
[ Source: ARC Advisory Group ]
January 2008-
This paper published by ARC Advisory Group describes the financial scandals triggered by Enron and WorldCom have also sparked new regulations, most notably the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOA). Although different factors influenced the creation and enactment of SOA and trade security laws, compliance with both is dependent on the same critical factors: access to timely, accurate, and complete information; establishing and maintaining process controls. Briefly stated, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley cannot be fully ...
Workforce Optimization In Retail: From Point Of Hire To Point Of Sale
[ Source: Aberdeen Group ]
January 2008-
Labor is both an asset to deploy strategically and an expense to manage carefully. Although technology has enhanced hiring practices for in-store staff paid by the hour, along with performance management and employee scheduling for some retailers, today’s retail workforce management policies, procedures and technologies are - in general - haphazard. As companies strive to balance the best hires with the best schedules, and control labor costs while meeting customer satisfaction goals, this white ...
Cost Basis Reporting: Preparing for the New Reporting Requirement
[ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010-
Cost basis reporting will have firm-wide impact, from operations to client relations. It will require clear coordination and alignment among advisors, brokers and custodians, not to mention with investors and their tax advisors. And, as with any new regulation, it will carry costs in both systems and staffing. Understanding the impact and preparing for it will help make those challenges and costs manageable.
Belden Total Enterprise Network White Paper
[ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009-
The future of enterprise networks is IP convergence where signal transmission for networking, A/V, and building management and security systems are merged over one common infrastructure using common protocols rather than deploying separate closed, proprietary solutions.
Improving Availability and Lowering TCO With HP Integrity Servers and OpenVMS: Comparing Mid-Range UNIX Cluster TCO, Availability, and Business Value
[ Source: Alinean ]
January 2008-
To help organizations understand which operating system and server infrastructure offers the best business significance, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis was utilized. When making a purchasing decision, initial procurement price is certainly important - selecting the lowest cost asset in order to save the company money, but studies have shown that if one consider the cost of the asset from initial purchase through deployment, maintenance, support, management, and ultimately to retirement, less than 20% of ...
Achieving Measurable ROI for IT: There Must Be a Better Way
[ Source: Amdocs ]
January 2008-
Return on investment is simply a measure for determining what benefits an investment delivers in excess of the costs of making that investment. Calculating ROI is not a matter of plugging numbers into an equation, but ensuring that the benefits and costs included in it are those arising from undertaking one or more initiatives that address the pain points to achieve the goals outlined in the business case. Amdocs ROI Tools and Services offer a ...
Overview Of Commercial Card Products That Can Increase Expense Management And Control: Key Components To A Company's Compliance With Sarbanes-Oxley
[ Source: American Express ]
January 2008-
American Express dedicated to supporting their clients as one implement expense management solutions that help one achieve control, compliance, operational efficiencies, and cost reduction goals. Their core business is helping companies manage their corporate expenses. Specifically, through Commercial Cards (Corporate Cards and/or Corporate Purchasing Cards), they seek to find innovative ways to make their clients incredibly successful at achieving their expense management objectives. This paper from American Express focuses on several areas of importance: ...