Business Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices of Material Master Data Management
[ Source: Zynapse ]
January 2010-
Wondering why most organizations are challenged in driving continuing positive ROI from their system consolidation exercise? This paper focuses on what Meta group analysts Barry Wilderman and Bruce Hudson have to say about the impact of Material Master Consolidation in a system consolidation exercise.
Need More Storage? Reclaim It!
[ Source: Microland Limited ]
June 2010-
Did you know that 60%-80% of storage capacity in most organizations is never utilized? And that the demand for data storage is expected to grow at 35%-65%CAGR in the next five years?
So does more storage mean more costs? Not Necessarily.
Microland’s whitepaper “Need More Storage Capacity? Reclaim It!!” details a step by step covering the entire storage capacity audit and reclamation service lifecycle for your organization including
1. ...
Seven Tips for Optimizing IT Costs
[ Source: Digital Fuel Technologies ]
May 2010-
Optimizing IT costs requires the ability to analyze IT service cost, utilization, alternatives, and business priorities together with flexible analysis and the ability to quickly explore what-if scenarios. This gives you the power to make intelligent decisions about investing in IT services that provide the greatest business value. Learn how to apply IT cost optimization to your hardware and software initiatives and service levels, through IT cost management.
Cummins saved $30 Million with IT Cost Management ~ case study video
[ Source: Digital Fuel Technologies ]
May 2010-
View the Cummins case study video to learn how they saved $30 million by implementing IT Financial Management best practices. Learn how they were able to:
• Control IT Spend and Usage
• Reduce inefficiencies
• Reduce waste
• Drive accurate IT cost allocations
Backup and Recovery Challenges with Sharepoint
[ Source: Autonomy ]
May 2010-
Almost 70% of organizations these days are either planning or already have SharePoint deployed as a platform for collaboration within their IT infrastructure. But with this success we are seeing SharePoint go through the same growing pains many other Microsoft products went through in their initial success stages. With the high-speed adoption of Exchange in the mid-1990s, we saw the volume of information grow to where the backup systems started to buckle under the ever-increasing ...
Six Calls To Success: Call Attempt Case Study
[ Source: Leads360 - Sales Software ]
October 2009-
Leads 360 recently performed a study that shows six calls equals success when trying to contact a lead. According to Leads 360, on the first call attempt there is only a 39% chance of contacting that lead, making just one more attempted call increases the chance of contact to 72%. That’s an increase of 87% simply by making one more call attempt. However six is the magic number of call attempts.
Harnessing Your Tribal Knowledge
[ Source: Altus ]
November 2009-
Corporations are modern tribes, with their own members, culture, and knowledge. Capturing, saving, and sharing the collective knowledge of the tribe can lead to a more informed and productive organization over the long haul.
Most senior corporate leaders would readily agree that the wealth of their organization lies with the knowledge that is locked in the minds and desktops of their employees. The ability to capture and share that knowledge to maintain success and growth ...
The New Paradigm Of Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity For The Small And Mid-Size Business
[ Source: Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP ]
November 2009-
This paper translates those disaster recovery methodologies employed by the big companies into more cost-efficient measures that many small to mid-size businesses can implement easily. The paper is primarily aimed at IT managers of small or mid-size companies who have to contend with budget limitations when designing and implementing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
Aligning BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma for Real Business Results
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2009-
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results in difficult economic times by uncovering process waste, reducing non-value adding activity, and increasing productivity. The benefits are even felt in IT. According to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, “companies can reduce application development and maintenance costs by up to 40%.” That application development productivity can be improved “by up to 50%” by applying LSS techniques, freeing budget for needed investments.
Business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architectures (...
MavenWire Case Study
[ Source: Atlantic Global PLC ]
July 2009-
Read how MavenWire, a provider of independent Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) services, implemented Atlantic Global OnDemand to automate the capture of time and expenditure for its international consultancy operation, which is in a number of countries across the EMEA and North America regions.