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- Advisory Firm Grows Business With Flexible Licensing Agreement, Integrated Technology
- When McGrathNicol began in Australia in 2004, one of many challenges the company's management faced was to choose technology that would provide immediate returns and long-term value. The company evaluated various licensing strategies that would deliver initial cost savings and long-term benefits and found both in an integrated Microsoft solution...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Cost Savings, Microsoft Corp., Service Management, Benefits, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Genworth Financial Realizes Substantial Cost Savings, Operational Efficiencies, and Customer Service Enhancements Through Home Agent Solutions Enabled by Avaya Intelligent Communications
- Genworth Financial, Inc., is a global company with over 15 million customers. In order to provide prompt, high-quality customer service they require a large staff of financial specialists. They needed a communications solution that would enable them to eliminate geographical barriers so they could hire and deploy agents from a...
- Tags: Customer Service, Agent, Cost Savings, Avaya Inc., Genworth Financial, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Real Estate, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Product Marketing, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Intel® vPro™ technology and cost savings
- Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer at Intel, shows how vPro saves time and money by diagnosing PC problems remotely. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by Intel.
- Tags: Intel vPro, Cost Savings, Intel Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Strategy, Management, Intel
- Sponsored whiteboards 2008-05-16
- BorderWare Creates iRule That Provides Enhanced Threat Protection and Dramatically Reduces Incoming Traffic Volume for a Significant Cost Savings
- BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall is an email security appliance that detects and blocks a variety of threats and malicious content on an IP basis using several techniques through the MXtreme Intercept Engine. As email volumes increased, customers found it more and more difficult to handle the sheer volume of incoming...
- Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Borderware Technologies Inc., Cost Savings, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security
- Case studies 2008-04-03
- Advanced Transportation Management Systems
- Many Department of Transportation agencies are looking for cost-saving ways to improve the efficiencies of roadways without making actual surface improvements or roadway expansions. Wireless-IP-enabled traffic signal control can be used to improve traffic flow and enable new applications for higher efficiency and cost savings. Advanced Transportation Management Systems ATMSs...
- Tags: Network, Cost Savings, Transportation
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Fastviewer Desktop Sharing (zip)
- Desktop Sharing? as easy as you were on the ground. Efficient and cost-saving communication via the Internet, world wide? That is FastViewer. Discover new ways of real-time presentations, effective user training, and focused customer support. FastViewer opens new possibilities concerning remote diagnosis of computer problems and controlling computers. You can...
- Tags: Cost Savings, Computer, Fastviewer Desktop, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- Smooth Transition From SAP 4.7 to ECC 5.0 in Eleven Countries With Automated Regression Testing Resulting in Significant Time and Cost Savings for Getronics
- Getronics is one of the world's leading providers of vendor-independent Information and Communication Technology ICT solutions and services. The company's challenges included: preparing a development framework that suits 11 countries with diverse cultures and business needs; developing reusable testing scenarios and replicable solution with a focus on on-time delivery; and...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Getronics, SAP AG, Cost Savings, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?
- Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?Well, well, well...Maybe our execs will quit selling us out for the sake of "cost cutting". Of course, I'm sure they will find some other reason, and another way to short the American IT worker.RE: Is Bangalore no longer a cost-saving location?C'mon, folks......
- Tags: Benefits, cost-saving location, cost savings
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Successful Virtualization Garners Cost Savings, But Also Harbors IT Risk
- Global Enterprise Manufacturing GEM, a fast-growing international conglomerate, recently deployed a vast virtual infrastructure to support more than 12,000 users across 22 business divisions. The company's new virtual networks span diverse departments, from finance to marketing to product development, and have resulted in substantial cost savings. By employing virtualization, GEM...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Savings, Virtualization, Product Development, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Evidence Based Medicine - Life Saving; Cost Saving
- A leading health informatics and medical management services provider gathers clinical data. The system as originally developed was not designed to scale to the volume and variety of data nor complexity of fact models and rule sets that became necessary as the company evolved, and was putting severe strains on...
- Tags: Health Care, Cost Savings, Pathfinder Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Haemonetics Corporation Achieves $1.9 Million Cost Savings With Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
- Haemonetics Corporation is the world's leading supplier of blood processing systems. Haemonetics Corporation wanted to replace inefficient, manual paper-based processes and decentralized systems to improve collaboration and enable best-practice integration to improve product development processes and accelerate time to market. The challenge was to reduce operating expenses with fact-based decision...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Cost Savings, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Product Development, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Realestate.com.au CIO: Chris Vulovic
- Realestate.com.au is owned by News Limited and has grown into one of Australia's most popular property related Web sites. In February 2007, the same company launched property.com.au, which contains identical data to realestate.com.au, but has completely different user experience. Property.com.au uses Web 2.0 technologies to offer visitors...
- Tags: Agent, RSS, Property, Cost Savings, Realestate.com.au, E-mail Alert, Real Estate, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Analysts: Virtualization to save businesses millions
- Analysts: Virtualization to save businesses millionsNew Life to old programsThe forced upgrade to newer flavors of Windows and and end to DLL hell should also be factored into the cost analysis. Likely businesses will save billions and not just millions with virtualization. For example, a working application that stops working...
- Tags: Operating systems, application software, Microsoft Windows, cost savings, virtualization, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Presidio Delivers Cost-Saving Server Virtualization & Storage Area Network
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary MEEI is an international leader in ophthalmology and otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. Boston-based MEEI currently has more than 1,200 employees. The need for computing resources and data storage is growing rapidly in the MEEI IT environment. With the help...
- Tags: Storage, Cost Savings, VMware Inc., Presidio, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-07-25
- Power and Cost Savings Using NetXen's 10GbE Intelligent NIC
- NetXen technology applies the graphic processor concept to Ethernet. The fundamental idea is to function as a network co-processor where all the Ethernet traffic is completely managed by NetXen's Intelligent NIC so that CPU cycles are given back to the applications. NetXen's Intelligent NIC provides this functionality in multiple ways....
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Cost Savings, CPU, NetXen, NetXen Technology, Ethernet, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Amtek Engineering Optimizes Network Availability by Reinvesting Cost Savings From 3Com Network Deployment
- Since 1970, Amtek Engineering Ltd. has provided its customers with high-quality products such as precision metal stamping and tooling, sheet metal prototypes, mechanical assemblies, rubber components and thermoplastic injection molds. A reputation for superior products has helped the company expand beyond Singapore to worldwide locations, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China...
- Tags: Network, 3Com Corp., Cost Savings, Network Availability, Networking
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Achieving Business Value and Gaining ROI With CA's EITM Software for Optimizing IT Infrastructures
- This paper presents the results of an IDC study, sponsored by CA, to quantify the benefits, cost savings, and Return On Investment ROI that customers can achieve using CA's Enterprise IT Management EITM software products to help manage their IT infrastructure and operations. The study is based on standard IDC...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, ROI, Cost Savings, Computer Associates International Inc., International Data Group, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA: How to Forecast and Measure Continued ROI, Cost Savings and Process Improvement in Content Creation, Localization, and Publishing
- In the technology age, bottom-line impact is the holy grail: savings in costs, time and resources. Any new investment or process improvement starts with infectious optimism, but ROI-focused executive teams need more proof than potential to give the green light - once the deal is signed and the work begins,...
- Tags: Financial, Localization, ROI, Cost Savings, Justsystems, Roi/Tco, Process Improvement, XML, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Quality, Business Operations, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-03-01
- BSM Approach Delivers Cost Savings and Higher Efficiency at Coldwater Creek
- Coldwater Creek operates nearly 250 retail stores, as well as online and catalog retail operations. The company wanted to architect the delivery of IT service to the point where it is highly automated and unobtrusive, and facilitates work processes so that employees can provide the best possible service to Coldwater...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Cost Savings, Coldwater Creek, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2007-02-01
- Achieving Business Value and Gaining ROI With CA's EITM Software
- This paper presents the results of an IDC study, sponsored by CA, to quantify the benefits, cost savings, and Return On Investment ROI that customers can achieve using CA's Enterprise IT Management EITM software products to help manage their IT infrastructure and operations. The paper is based on standard IDC...
- Tags: Information Technology, ROI, Cost Savings, Computer Associates International Inc., International Data Group, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-01-01
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The Intel Core i7 microprocessor is built using a new microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, that allows chips to handle more data, quicker and more energy efficiently. Go inside Intel labs and meet some of the thousands of Intel engineers who helped design and test the new processor.
