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ROI Evaluation Report: Cognos Technology for ISVS
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that embed or integrate Cognos technology are enabled to win more new business, win back maintenance customers, and gain an edge…
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Oracle Fusion Applications Update
Oracle’s latest announcement regarding its suite of products built on its Fusion architecture provides PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle users with a clear view of…
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ROI Score – Microsoft Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics GP delivers a positive ROI to customers by delivering a cost effective solution for automating their business operations.
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ROI Score – Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics AX is delivering value through improved business operations, and low ongoing support costs. Customers from both ends of the spectrum, those moving from…
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ROI Case Study: Marrakech
Using Marrakech to support a standardized procurement process enabled RHM to drive better corporate spending governance while reducing procurement costs.
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Research Note: SAP Customers Are 20 Percent less Profitable Than Their Peers
An analysis of nearly 100 public companies listed on SAP’s Web site finds these SAP users are 20 percent less profitable than their peers. Despite…
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Accelerating your SOA roadmap
When adopting a service-oriented architecture, some IT projects generate ROI faster than others. Performing some research and selecting the right projects to pursue early in…
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Salis ROI Evaluation Report
Outsourcing sales and use tax compliance management to Salis enables companies to reduce tax-related personnel, improve tax accuracy, and reduce tax-related costs. These benefits can…
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SAP announces it is not in the CRM on-demand game
SAP announced availability of the first version of its on-demand CRM solution – which, in fact, isn’t on-demand at all. Announcing a limited feature set…
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DataDirect Technologies ROI report
DataDirect Technologies’ data connectivity products can help software architects reduce the cost and complexity of application development and deployment while improving end-user application performance. Architects…
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IBM acquires Bowstreet
By acquiring former partner Bowstreet, IBM fills the dashboard and portlet gaps in its integration offering. It also improves its already strong offerings in the…
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ROI Case Study: Noetix
Telex provided end users direct access to Noetix to analyze and report on data in its Oracle transactions system, increasing the access to and consistency…
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CRM – It’s all about the data
Taking a closer look at how your organization enters, manages, and leverages data in your CRM system can help reduce costs and identify new ROI…
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ROI Evaluation Report: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Upgrade
Interoperability, tool set breadth, and the advantages related to migrating toward Microsoft and .NET for integration solutions allows users of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 to…
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Upgrade ROI modeling tool
This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. It is designed to help you build a business…
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The Real ROI from Microsoft Dynamics GP in the enterprise market
Nucleus found 71 percent of Microsoft Dynamics GP enterprise customers had already achieved a positive ROI from their deployment. Those customers had an average payback…
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Microsoft Dynamics GP ROI modeling tool
This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Microsoft Dynamics GP. It is designed to help you build a business case…
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Microsoft Dynamics ROI report
Microsoft Dynamics applications deliver solid ROI returns to organizations by streamlining business processes and reducing costs. Typically, the Microsoft applications offer a lower initial cost…
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ROI Case Study: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004
Milton Keynes General Hospital used Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 to reduce programming costs while undertaking a mission critical integration project.
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Managing Vendor Mergers and Acquisitions
As your vendor portfolio shrinks, you can take advantage of merger and acquisition activity to ensure you limit the drama in your IT relationships and…
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The Real ROI from Microsoft Dynamics GP in the midmarket
Nucleus found 87 percent of Microsoft Dymamics GP small and medium-sized business customers had already achieved a positive ROI from their deployment. On average, those…
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ROI Scorecard – SAS Enterprise BI Server
SAS Enterprise BI Server combines the company’s depth in analytical capabilities with revamped business intelligence tools that enable a wider wet of business hours.
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Research Note: A closer look at SPSS
As predictive analytics becomes more mainstream, SPSS is focused on continued development of its analytical tools – but also on key efforts to make SPSS…
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A Tale of Two CRMs
CRM can be a disappointment and drama, or it can meet your greatest expectations. A few basic strategies will help keep you on track.
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ROI Scorecard – Business Intelligence Suite Market
As business intelligence continues to be a key technology area for companies, suites that provide integrated capabilities are driving benefits through widening access to business…
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ROI Scorecard – MicroStrategy 8
With the release of SQL Server 2005 and Business Scorecard Manager, Microsoft has brought together a strong set of business intelligence tools at a price…
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ROI Scorecard – Hyperion System 9
Hyperion System 9 combines the company’s business intelligence and performance management products in a single integrated platform. While the market for these consolidated systems in…
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ROI Scorecard – Microsoft BI
With the release of SQL Server 2005 and Business Scorecard Manager, Microsoft has brought together a strong set of business intelligence tools at a price…
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ROI Scorecard – BusinessObjects XI
Improved product integration and new user interface elements, along with enhanced performance, has increased BusinessObject’s ability to deliver a solid ROI.
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webMethods ROI Evaluation Report
Adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables companies to shorten IT project cycles, improve IT agility, and better align their IT practices with overall company strategy…
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ROI Scorecard – Cognos 8
Stronger integration between product components, a simplified process, and a unified user interface drive strong business benefits that raise the ROI potential of Cognos.
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SOA: Two Biggest Mistakes
In utilizing service-oriented architectures (SAO) for integration projects, IT departments should seek to avoid two commonly made mistakes: giving insufficient attention to how data will…
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SOA 101
Skepticism regarding service-oriented architecture (SOA) is giving way to adoption. Savvy implementers of SOA are using it to save money, accelerate projects, reduce programming costs,…
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Build versus Buy
Deciding whether to build applications in-house or buy a commercial application requires a careful evaluation of the costs, benefits, and risks of both approaches.
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Information availability strategies
Instead of the broad-scale approach of outsourcing or the “one-size-fits-all” hosted approach, information availability leverages the providers’ network operations environment while allowing the customer to…
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Nucleus Top Ten Predictions for 2006
Next year’s IT priorities will be about rationalization and delivery — but also about more power for users that choose to assert it. Key growth…
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ROI modeling tool
This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It is designed to help you build a business…
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ROI Report: Highroads
Managing benefits throughout the lifecycle (benefits lifecycle management) goes beyond basic benefits administration to support automated information gathering, analysis, bidding, contract negotiation, and vendor management….
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HighRoads ROI modeling tool
This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of HighRoads. It is designed to help you build a business case and support…
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The Maintenance revolution
Maintenance fees provide a steady revenue stream to technology vendors with very high margins. While this annual premium was grudgingly accepted by customers as par…
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Scheduling: What to Expect When Deploying
Scheduling solutions have come of age as a way for companies to minimize payrolls, increase retention, and improve customer service. Deployments can be relatively complex,…
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Integration and self- service turbo charge scheduling
Scheduling solutions have recently come of age as a way to make front line managers more efficient. ROI from these solutions can be increased meaningfully…
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ROI Case Study: Iradeon
Migrating from Salesforce.com to iRadeon’s on-demand services for Sugar open source CRM enabled Efficient Frontier to provide users with access to an on-demand CRM solution…
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ROI Evaluation Report: Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a significant product release that delivers new categories of benefits over previous versions of the product. With a centralized management…
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The Last Christmas
Although revenues from e-commerce are increasing, competition is driving lower profits. Retailers that don’t focus heir attention on the bottom line will suffer from shrinking…
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5 Steps to a more mobile workforce
The realities of natural disasters and the rising cost of commuting to work provides compelling reasons for companies to examine their current practices for enabling…