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- Total Cost of Ownership and Cost Reduction Analyses: An Evaluation of End User Computing Costs
- This White Paper examines a number of components of the Total Cost of Ownership TCO equation. The paper shows how TCO can be applied effectively, and successfully, to reduce operating expenditures. It explores the four major cost components of client-server computing, examines the cost differences between desktop computing and network...
- Tags: Cost Reduction, TCO, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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- International Network Services Case Study: Spheris
- Spheris, the second largest company in the medical transcription industry, was formed in 2003 with the acquisition of EDiX Corporation by Total eMed. As a result of the acquisition, Spheris needed to integrate the two merging companies and supporting infrastructures. Spheris sought a trusted partner to support its telecommunications cost...
- Tags: Acquisition, Cost Reduction, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, Corporate Law, Business Services, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Networking, Business Operations
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- International Network Services Case Study: Food Processing Company
- A global 50 food processing company consistently needs to contain costs in order to maintain profitability. The North American division of the client organization recognized that its complex service provider relationships, account structure, and services probably were costing more than required. The client needed to reduce the cost of providing...
- Tags: Food, Cost Reduction, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
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- Insurance Giant Aviva Sees Business Travel Cost Reductions, Paralleled With Increased Productivity, Thanks to the Global Roll Out of WebEx
- Aviva is the world's sixth largest insurance group and the leading provider of life and pensions products in the UK. The company needed to ensure that the business units were trained up on how to use the product and they needed to make sure there was adequate support in place...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Cost Reduction, Aviva Plc., Insurance, Web Conferencing, Internet
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- Pilkington Drives Global IT Service Improvements and Multi-Million Pound Cost Reductions With Touchpaper Solutions
- Pilkington is a leading global glass manufacturer with 2004 sales of £2.7 billion and around 24,000 employees. Productivity improvements, cost reduction and quality and technological advances are the key to remaining competitive in glass manufacturing. Touchpaper solutions have played a part in assisting Pilkington to reduce its IS services costs,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Reduction, Pilkington
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- Florida Hospital Selects HP Multifunction Devices for Simplification, Space-Savings and Cost Reduction
- Trojan adware malware Florida Hospital is one of the largest not-for-pro hospitals in the country. With plans underway for the construction of a new hospital, it was time for a complete technology review, including all output devices. In keeping with its commitment to continually leverage innovative solutions, Florida Hospital wanted...
- Tags: Hospital, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cost Reduction, Healthcare, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security
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- Today's CRM Solutions Will Never Transform Sales Productivity
- In the '90s CRM suites became the norm as separate applications for call centre, field sales, customer support and marketing were brought together. Current CRM and Business Process Management applications need to be static for a stable environment; they support users that are procedurally driven; are most effective where the...
- Tags: CRM Solution, Cost Reduction, CRM, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Marketing
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- Convenience Retailer Reduces Labor Management Costs and Improves Customer Experience
- QuikTrip Corporation, with more than 450 owner/operated convenience stores and travel centers, is decorated with several quality-focused awards, including being on the list of Fortune magazine's 100 best employers. Each store operates as its own profit center, and QuikTrip rewards success with bonuses and internal advancement based on individual and...
- Tags: Performance, Cost Reduction, Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- SCT Thailand Selects AVAYA IP Telephony Solution, Achieving Cost Reduction With Reliable Connection to More Than 20 Overseas Offices
- SCT Co., Ltd. is one of Thailand's established and reputable international trading companies. SCT Thailand was looking to enhance its workflow and processes and reduce its operational expenditure by upgrading its legacy PBX system and integrating telephony applications with its ERP network infrastructure system. As a solution the company decided...
- Tags: Telephony, Microsoft Office, Cost Reduction, IP Telephony, Avaya Inc., SCT Thailand, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Network Administration, Networking
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- Unified Data Drives Operational Efficiencies and Cost Reductions
- Headquartered in San Jose, California, Lumileds is the world's leading manufacturer of high-power LEDs (light-emitting diodes). When Lumileds was founded they needed to rapidly move their financial data into an independent business module. They also wanted to look closely at manufacturing as a way to consolidate the data - to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Cost Reduction, Light-emitting Diode, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Engineering, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Hudson's Bay Company Saves More Than US$130K Annually in Administrative Cost Reduction and Expects to Achieve 100% ROI Within 2 Years With Oracle E-Business Suite
- Throughout its long history, Hudson's Bay Company HBC has consistently embraced change and innovation to remain successful within the highly competitive Canadian retail market. The company recognized the need to adopt a long-range strategy to improve organizational efficiency and productivity while aggressively pursuing consumer value. In its first phase of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Cost Reduction, ROI, Hudson, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Management, Software
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- HP and BT Build an Adaptive Infrastructure
- As one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services, BT has witnessed a major transformation in its business in recent years. To ensure continued competitive success, BT needs to deliver added-value services that combine leading-edge communications technology with superior IT solutions. As a platform for these services, a flexible, adaptive...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Cost Reduction, British Telecommunications, Telephony, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Management
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- Records Compliance and Cost Reduction - A Case Study
- Multiple acquisitions had resulted in over 1.8 million cartons of offsite records with inconsistent, outdated or non-existent classifications. These poorly classified records did not adhere to the company's retention schedule and therefore could not be destroyed. As a result, the bank was incurring excessive storage costs, unnecessary discovery costs and...
- Tags: Bank, Iron Mountain Inc., Compliance, Cost Reduction, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Records Management, Financial Services, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Investment, Finance
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- Visibility Drives Cost Reduction at Buckeye
- Buckeye Partners, L.P. is engaged in the transportation of refined petroleum products and primarily serves the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. Buckeye required strong, open, and flexible application architecture, supported by a proven industry leader that could handle assimilation of acquired assets in an efficient and dependable fashion. Buckeye implemented...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cost Reduction, Petroleum, Visibility, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities
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- Cisco VPN Client Brings Flexibility and Cost Reduction to Cisco Remote Access Solution
- The Cisco IT remote access group had been testing VPN-based remote access services for several months, and was prepared to migrate its user base from the service provider managed service model to a user managed model. This model requires the user to take ownership of and responsibility for managing their...
- Tags: Cost Reduction, Cisco Systems Inc., VPN Client, Cisco IT, Remote Access, Telecommunications
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- By Migrating Customers From the Mainframe to Sun, ACS Achieves Significant Cost Reduction and Revenue Enhancement
- Affiliated Computer Services ACS, a premier provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, is continually expanding its midrange solution offerings. Sun provided ACS with a total products-and-services solution that addressed all the challenges in creating a shared server model for services based on Sun Fire servers. To verify...
- Tags: Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Cost Reduction, Mainframe, Data Centers, Outsourcing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
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- Enterprise Vault: Technical Overview
- Enterprise Vault is designed to be a long term, highly scalable store for items of unstructured information. Now in its fifth version, Enterprise Vault delivers not only a scalable and robust storage system but also provides a wide choice of implementation scenarios addressing storage cost reduction and compliance driven information...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Cost Reduction, Enterprise Vault, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-29
- Security, Service and Cost Reduction: A Paradigm Shift in Airport IT Applications Towards Low Cost and Maximum Security
- Unlike other commercial enterprises, airports are vulnerable sites in terms of security. And the vital need for precise and safe operations is often at odds with profitability or attempts to optimize the cost of operations. These contradictory demands have created a critical need for greater efficiency at airports. Where in...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Reduction, Airport, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2007-03-16
- Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) in Converged Application Platforms: Enabling Improved Utilization, Change Management, and Cost Reduction Through Hardware Assisted Virtualization
- The advent of Voice over IP VoIP has bridged the thin gap separating data networks and voice networks. Over the years, the high speed last mile services have broadened their reach in tandem with wireless technology such as 3G and Wi-Fi, and end users are beginning to experience richer multimedia...
- Tags: Virtualization, Network, Cost Reduction, Hardware, Intel Corp., Corporate Communications, Change Management, Telecommunications, Telephony, 3G, VOIP, Networking, Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-01-01
- 20 things managers can do to prevent layoffs
- According to cost reduction expert Steven Martin, "Mass layoffs are management's way of telling you they were asleep." In this excerpt from his article "Layoff: A Four-Letter Word in Any Economy," he pinpoints preventive business strategies that allow management to steer the organization away from the need to undergo mass...
- Tags: Layoff, Cost Reduction, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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