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Microsoft’s Magnifying Glass for Exchange
Microsoft’s Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool can ease the load of Exchange administrators and help identify key savings areas in an existing Exchange environment.
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PeopleSoft and IBM get closer
IBM and PeopleSoft announced a major initiative to combine IBM’s middleware with PeopleSoft’s applications. The deal provides PeopleSoft with an answer to SAP’s NetWeaver integration…
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Instant Messaging: Breaking the Bad ROI Rap
Fewer than 20 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using instant messaging today; those that do find it has a positive impact on productivity by…
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ROI Case Study: Ultimate Software
With Ultimate Software’s UltiPro solution, Ruth’s Chris Steak House has been able to reduce payroll-processing costs while increasing the depth of the data it collects…
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ROI Score: IBM WebSphere 5
IBM is expanding the capability of its WebSphere platform, while also increasing its packaging options. Tailoring technology offering to more closely match industry-specific business needs…
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ROI Score: Sonic Business Integration Suite
Delivering lower initial and ongoing costs compared to most competing EAI products, along with returns from improving business operations, enables Sonic to provide customers with…
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ROI score – SAP BI
SAP Business Information Warehouse, positioned as a business intelligence platform with data warehousing capabilities, is widely deployed at organizations standardized on the mySAP platform. The…
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Market ROI Scorecard – Business Intelligence
Vendors delivering the highest ROI in this space have grown to support large-scale deployments while bolstering integration between reporting, analytics, and scorecarding components.
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ROI Score: webMethods Enterprise Services Platform
The webMethods Enterprise Services Platform lowers the development time and cost of integration projects over point-to-point integration, but webMethods will need to continue to evolve…
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Market ROI Scorecard – Hosted CRM
Hosted CRM gains high marks for rapid deployment, support, and ease of use to deliver a positive ROI to customers. Leading vendors delivering ROI in…
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Oracle E-Business Suite Extends Vertical Depth
The new release of Oracle E-Business Suite will include more industry-specific functionality. The ROI potential of these enhancements depends on how easily the technology incorporates…
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Market Scorecard – Integration
The increased options for choosing integration products and evaluating integration approaches provides organizations with greater options for choosing an integration strategy that will deliver initial…
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Vendor ROI Score: Microsoft BizTalker Server
Companies can achieve a positive ROI with Microsoft BizTalk Server by reducing the time and cost associated with building and managing integration projects.
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ROI Score – TIBCO
TIBCO’s ability to provide a central integration backbone and handle a high volume of data transactions with reliability enables companies deploying BusinessWorks to achieve a…
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ROI score – Business Objects
Business Object’s enquiry and analysis tools form a core component of the vendor’s corporate performance management suite, and have established a record of delivering ROI…
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ROI score – Siebel onDemand
Although its cash position and existing on-premise CRM customer base give it a strong position in the CRM marketplace, Siebel needs to prove its ability…
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ROI score – Microsoft Business Intelligence
By enabling companies to leverage existing Microsoft tools to rapidly develop and integrate customized analytical applications, Microsoft’s business intelligence platform promises more efficient querying and…
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ROI score – Business Objects Crystal
With the Crystal Decisions acquisition, Business Objects has inherited a ubiquitous enterprise-reporting platform with proven scalability and power. The platform’s ability to deliver ROI could…
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ROI score – Hyperion Intelligence
Hyperion Intelligence, a core component of the Hyperion Performance Suite, enables analysts and decision makers to quickly access data need for decision making
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ROI score – Cognos Enterprise Planning
Cognos Enterprise Planning, based on technology from two proven players — Cognos and Adaytum — can enable improved reporting, shortened financial closing cycles, and heightened…
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Vendor ROI Score: QlikTech
QlikView’s easy deployability and low price point make it an attractive contender for reporting and analytics deals. The solution’s departure from traditional cube technology creates…
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ROI score – Cognos PowerPlay
Cognos PowerPlay has earned a record of delivering ROI to customers through strong functionality for multidimensional analysis.
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ROI score – Entellium
Relatively new to the North American market, Entellium provides a hosted CRM suite with modular features and strong workflow to improve coordination of sales and…
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ROI score – ACCPAC CRM
The Web-based complement of Best Software’s other CRM solutions including SalesLogix and ACT!, ACCPAC CRM provides basic sales force automating, marketing, and customer support functionality…
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ROI Score – Cognos ReportNet
Cognos ReportNet forms the enterprise-reporting pillar of Cognos’s 3-layered corporate performance management suite. The tool’s advanced report publishing and management capabilities, coupled with its Web…
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ROI score – RightNow
Focus on rapid deployment, an easy-to-use interface, and support for multiple communications channels through a knowledge base enables RightNow to deliver positive ROI to customers…
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ROI score – NetSuite
NetSuite NetCRM’s key value proposition is its ability to deliver order management, customer support, and support through an integrated platform. Although many customers have achieved…
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ROI score – Microstrategy
MicroStrategy has established itself as a profiler of robust and scalable analytics and reporting tools to a diverse user audience, helping customers pay their investment…
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ROI score – Hyperion SQR
Hyperion’s Performance Suite is based on the SQR and Intelligence solutions that Hyperion inherited with its Brio purchase. SQR is a strong report-writing platform that…
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BEA Opens Up
BEA’s open source initiatives are a calculated risk to broaden developer appeal while also hoping to stimulate new business. Current BEA customers benefit as they…
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ROI score – Salesforce.com
Low initial and ongoing costs, ease of customization, and ability to integrate with existing processes and applications enable Salesforce.com to deliver a positive ROI to…
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Using the Nucleus Research vendor ROI score
The Nucleus Vendor ROI Score rates vendors on their real-world ability to deliver positive ROI to customers. The vendor is evaluated on five key factors:…
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Microsoft’s SharePoint giveaways
Microsoft’s new Web Parts and Services Toolkit for SharePoint 2003 may have the potential for an unexpected ROI boost for current customers through a greater…
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IBM acquires Venetica
IBM’s acquisition of Venetica is part of its ongoing drive to provide one-stop shopping for all integrations needs. The impact on existing Venetica customers will…
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ROI score – Hyperion Essbase
Hyperion Essbase is a critical component of Hyperion’s business performance management (BPM) strategy. Hyperion’s success in integrating essbase with Brio’s reporting and dashboard solutions will…
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ROI score – Savo Group
Using a flexible, Web-based architecture and simple modules to solve a common problem — communication between sales and marketing — enables the Savo Group’s Sales…
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ROI Score – BEA WebLogic
BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 provides a unified architecture for building and managing integrated enterprise applications. It delivers strong productivity gains that reduce development time and…
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Microsoft Business Solutions Project Management and Accounting Solomon ROI modeling tool
This financial modeling tool has been developed to evaluate the value of Microsoft Business Solutions Project Management and Accounting Solomon. It is designed to help…
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Cape Clear 5 – ESB Delivers Integration Benefits
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) products are proving to deliver a low cost alternative for integrating data from different systems. Cape Clear Software’s Cape Clear 5…
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ROI Case Study: iWay Software
The ability to tie together data from multiple sources using iWay Software and bring it forward in new e-commerce initiatives has enabled Alcan to realize…
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ROI Case Study: NetBotz
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center devised an innovative solution to ensure that its pharmacy would not incur expensive losses of cancer medication. By leveraging its…
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ROI Case Study: Teradata
The Iowa Department of Revenue deployed a data warehouse based on Teradata technology so that it could more efficiently track and understand taxpaying behaviors and…
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ROI Case Study: Traq Wireless
By deploying the Traq Wireless solution, BNSF has been able to better understand and manage wireless usage and spending across the company. As a result,…
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ROI Case Study: Cognos EBI Series
By adopting a purely information-based performance management strategy and standardizing on Cognos, Zarlink was able to improve the availability of performance data and drive efficiencies…
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ROI Case Study: Enterprise Data Warehouse
Intermountain Healthcare deployed a data warehouse to simplify user access to integrated data regarding all aspects of care. As a result, the organization has been…
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ROI Case Study: Plumtree
Halliburton Energy Services Group used Plumtree as the portal platform for Employee Central, a worldwide knowledge management and collaboration system for employees. Some of the…
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ROI Case Study: Microsoft Project
AMS implemented Microsoft Project to enable managers to automate the process of measuring performance across multiple projects. The system allowed AMS to create complex reports…