September 12, 2008 - In the face of aggressive growth, TAC Americas found it increasingly difficult to conduct month-end financial closing and report results. This case study examines how they addressed this problem by implementing a solution that incorporated Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
November 04, 2009 - Check out this product evaluation center and find some of M86 Security’s most popular solutions. There are several options for Web Security, Email Security, and Endpoint Security. Do some quick research with their convenient links to detailed product information and sign up for a free trial download or product evaluation today.
September 09, 2009 - Server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak at many organizations. Consolidation can help ease management requirements and reduce costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how to take control of server sprawl with a server consolidation solution.
July 28, 2009 - In this publication, we explore the technology implications associated with IFRS conversion and discuss: Evaluating the potential technology impact; how companies can prepare technology and systems changes related to IFRS adoption; Major differences between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS and much more.
October 29, 2009 - This white paper will explore 10 of the "worst practices" that are common to customer support operations. We will discuss how these worst practices can creep in to your contact center and ways to deal with them. We will also touch on how to eliminate well‐intentioned management blunders and discuss good and bad uses of support technology.
July 01, 2009 - This paper sets out a framework for evaluating a data center. It considers the special factors that apply to an on-demand infrastructure, many of which go well beyond the standards applicable to the average enterprise data center.
July 01, 2008 - This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.
September 19, 2008 - Given the enormous long-term costs and implications of a systems interruption, companies need to carefully define and implement plans to mitigate losses. This paper arms you with how to build a strong business case for a recovery plan.
October 01, 2009 - Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results.
December 10, 2008 - In this whitepaper you will learn about the evolution of Ethernet, the reasons VLANs were introduced, and the ways that VLANs can be used.
June 18, 2009 - In today's dynamic economy it is important for CIOs to be thinking about how to strengthen their organization and position themselves for success for a future economic upturn and growth. Read this guide to learn how a company can make changes to IT that generate real business value.
August 01, 2009 - As organizations look for ways to improve business outcomes while reducing costs and encouraging environmental sustainability, many are turning to software-based conferencing and collaboration solutions for audio and Web conferencing. This paper explains some benefits realized by companies who have deployed these unified communications solutions.
August 13, 2009 - The "Critical Security Controls" (CSC) guidelines are designed to help organizations move beyond a "checklist" mentality by making security an integral part of, instead of an adjunct to, the operations and management of systems and networks. Learn more about the CSC guidelines and how they can help your organization.
December 30, 2008 - This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk.
August 18, 2009 - Data Loss Prevention is designed to protect information assets with minimal interference in business processes. It provides new insights into how information is used, and enforces protective controls to prevent unwanted incidents. Read on to learn how DLP can reduce risk, improve data management practices, and even lower certain compliance costs.
June 02, 2009 - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
February 20, 2009 - This paper makes the case for using predictive analytics to drive organic growth, and gives two different methods for measuring financial return.
February 27, 2009 - Forrester conducted an evaluation of six functional testing solutions vendors across 96 criteria. Read this report to find out the details of their evaluation.
March 04, 2009 - In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared.
November 02, 2009 - In this white paper, we take a look at how strong authentication can benefit eCommerce and online services. We will evaluate the risks that identity fraud, phishing and cybercrime pose for online service providers and discuss how strong user authentication can alleviate these risks.
August 28, 2009 - Security managers often struggle to articulate to business managers why enterprise data protection is paramount, how breaches happen and why fundamental business processes must be changed to mitigate the threat. View this videocast to learn how to incorporate best practices into your DLP strategy.
August 14, 2009 - Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC, recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries - with or without offices in those countries.
September 16, 2009 - Hear from Brian Barnier, Principal at ValueBridge, as he speaks on how a formal governance process will ensure a positive impact on your bottom line. Also, get answers to some of the toughest governance questions, including “how important is risk evaluation in IT governance?”
October 27, 2009 - The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies.
September 03, 2009 - As acceptance of IFRS in the United States becomes imminent, more banks and capital markets institutions are asking key questions: How does IFRS affect my institution? What events would influence my institution's pace of IFRS adoption? What obstacles might we need to consider? Read this paper to learn the answers to these questions and more.
June 02, 2009 - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...
June 02, 2009 - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.
August 26, 2008 - This whitepaper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection. Three organizations in different industries are discussed as case studies.
October 07, 2009 - This white paper shows how scientific studies of marketing and sales effectiveness are now yielding information that can help an organization better tune its sales and marketing efforts.
May 01, 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
September 10, 2007 - This Forrester Research conducted study illustrates the financial impact to John C. Lincoln Health Network of moving from a difficult-to-enforce, "voluntary" compliance solution to an IT-driven solution that automatically enforces endpoint security policies
August 25, 2008 - The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of DMExpress on their organizations. Forrester’s aim is to clearly show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis.
July 10, 2009 - Read this commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Esker to learn more about how beneficial going paperless can be for your company and how Esker DeliveryWare can help today.
August 11, 2007 - The purpose of this Forrester study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the Dell Solution. Read this study to better understand and evaluate Dell's server consolidation and virtualization solutions.
March 01, 2006 - Looking for solid data behind the cost-savings story of WAN optimization? In this paper, NetForecast analysts interviewed customers who have deployed this solution, and the results show that this technology has significant strategic business value to companies.
June 02, 2009 - Traditional approaches to risk management emphasize mitigation, focusing on
the readily apparent risks facing a company in the areas of security, privacy,
credit, regulatory, technology, fraud and more. These threats are, of course, important and must be addressed.
May 07, 2009 - The macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever for corporate executives and end users to access critical information to make effective business decisions. This paper will examine how a new generation of SaaS-based BI solutions is responding to the escalating challenges facing companies of all sizes.
June 09, 2009 - This research brief provides an overview of the current LTE market and addresses the technical and business challenges that operators will face as they migrate to all-IP networks. It provides insight into operators' common questions and helps address planning and implementation concerns including migrating away from existing legacy systems.
October 30, 2009 - Organizations of all sizes continue to be challenged by increasingly sophisticated security threats. Attackers are constantly finding new ways to access valuable data. They use various tools and methods to evade traditional security products. This brief white paper presents a new security solution that can stop new threats quickly and effectively.
June 01, 2008 - We can define an effective marketing dashboard as one that enables marketers to visually display relevant and current campaign, customer, advertising and/or branding information needed to achieve marketing objectives.
July 01, 2009 - A financial services provider offering personal, commercial, corporate and institutional services across Canada and the US needed to standardize requests and eliminate manual management. With the Opalis solution, the bank automated five processes - a VM request portal, provisioning, decommissioning, backup, and lease expiry of all virtual machines
September 19, 2008 - In August 2008, Microsoft Corporation commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by upgrading from SQL Server 2000 or 2005 to SQL Server 2008. Read the results here.
September 17, 2009 - When the Tucson Police Department decided to equip its crime scene specialists with digital cameras, it chose Linear Systems Enterprise DIMS ImageServer for the ID Section’s server and storage needs. For its RAID protection, Linear Systems chose the LSI 3ware 9650SE controller card. Read on to find out the amazing results.
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