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Spend management is the way in which companies control and optimize the money they spend. It involves cutting operating and other costs associated with doing business. These costs typically show up as "operating costs" or SG&A (Selling, General and Administrative) costs, but can also be found in other areas and in other members of the supply chain.
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Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat." They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.
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In today's global business environment, organizations have no choice but to seek new ways to optimize their budgets, respond nimbly to change and improve productivity. Download the 1080 Group research brief, Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training, to learn how leading trainers are leveraging online tools to extend their reach, deliver more training and lower their costs.
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Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development.
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During this podcast, you’ll hear from Thomas Koulopoulos, founder of Delphi Group, managing director of Perot Systems Innovation Labs, and author of Smartsourcing. A widely recognized authority on IT, innovation and the globalization of business, Tom was named one of the industry’s six most influential consultants by InformationWeek magazine.
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| By : Concur |
Published Date: Jul 13, 2007 |
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A result of surveys with procurement, finance and travel executives from over 290 companies from an independent survey by Aberdeen Group, Inc. reveal that 26% of respondents plan on adopting an end-to-end travel booking and expense reporting solution within the next two years. Download a copy of the entire report from the Aberdeen Group now.
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BearingPoint wanted a “one-stop-shop” for its growing marketing organization that was easy to setup and didn’t require a lot of resources. A tool was needed to help with the wide-range of marketing activities that satisfied the needs of the entire marketing team. This system needed to easily handle financial and legal requests, capture campaign and event data, support creative development and reduce manual processes that contributed to the lagging of concrete knowledge of their marketing budgets and spending at any given point in time.
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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.
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AIC, Canada’s largest privately held mutual fund company, aimed to shrink their data center footprint and manage IT infrastructure more effectively. With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infrastructure. Find out how much they saved, and how VMware impacted their organization's workload and productivity.
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Evaluating and managing the media buying processes for advertisements Warner Bros. purchases from its six sister companies can be time consuming and complicated. Generating reports for media purchased by each of Time Warner’s 2,500 media suppliers and comparing Warner Bros.’ spend decisions with competitors creates the need for internal resources dedicated specifically to focus on it – taking time away from other activities.
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Businesses that adjust to the volatile economic reality of today with a well-considered modernization strategy that not only delivers reduced costs, but also streamlined business processes and improved productivity while driving IT innovation are far more likely to exit the downturn with better market position and accelerated growth compared to competitors.
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Web conferencing tools ensure that face-to-face meetings can still take place while removing the costs associated with business travel. Now available as a service with no infrastructure costs, these solutions are being used by savvy companies to go more places than boarding a plane or getting in a car allows.
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Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.
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Chase & Sons has been delivering innovative engineered products and processes to the wire and cable industry for over 50 years. They supply General Cable with specialty tapes. In the past, Chase & Sons would allocate resources for 'emergency handling' of orders which took time away from planning and other more strategic functions.
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If you're looking to decrease power consumption in your existing data center (and who isn't?), the first step should be a detailed diagnosis. If, on the other hand, you’re constructing a new data center, or expanding or upgrading your current center, it’s critical that energy efficiency is built in from the start. This short IBM video addresses both.
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Cost transparency in relation to IT consumption isn't just about showing which applications, physical resources or even individual users increase company's costs (although that can be valuable information). The real goal is to drive efficiencies throughout the whole business. This white paper offers some practical guidance on where to start.
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| By : SAP 2 |
Published Date: Aug 21, 2009 |
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Going global? Whether your strategic objective is profitable growth or reducing costs — or both — pursuing a globalization strategy means overcoming business and IT challenges on a global scale. From the results of two major globalization studies discussed in this white paper, learn how other manufacturers are taking these challenges head on — and winning, often in major ways.
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Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst with Interarbor Solutions, discusses the limited insight into developer productivity with Greg Burnell, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of 6th Sense Analytics.
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Like most law firms, Salter Feiber deals with vast amounts of documents, a significant portion of which needs to be kept for long periods of time. "We tried to keep the files closed during the last 12 months onsite," says Kim Chewning, Firm Administrator. "Everything else was sent to a third party for storage in a secure facility." However, as the archive grew, so did the storage cost.
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| By : SAP |
Published Date: Aug 21, 2009 |
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This SAP Insight proposes answers to three key questions regarding how procurement can enable profitable enterprise growth.
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| By : CA |
Published Date: Jul 25, 2007 |
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Organizations are implementing Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions to improve business productivity, reduce cost and secure access to critical applications. This white paper discusses commonly overlooked considerations when evaluating SSO solutions, to help ensure success with your deployed solution.
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| By : eGain |
Published Date: Oct 12, 2007 |
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The Internet, years after its emergence, continues to be a challenge for most organizations. This paper examines the notion of eService and the need for it in large, global organizations in particular. It also provides guidelines for developing an effective eService plan, and concludes with a discussion of the most significant benefits of implementing such a plan.
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This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.
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| By : TRIRIGA |
Published Date: Jul 27, 2007 |
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Leaders in every industry perform sale-leaseback transactions to unlock the value of real estate, improve the balance sheet and realize tax benefits. The paper discusses how sale-leasebacks enhance financial ratios, elevate operations and re-focus real estate strategies on profitability rather than logistics.
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| By : BMC ESM |
Published Date: Aug 20, 2009 |
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Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
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