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Total Cost of Ownership

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs related to the purchase of any capital investment, such as (but not limited to) computer software or hardware. A TCO assessment ideally offers a final statement reflecting not only the cost of purchase but all aspects in the further use and maintenance of the equipment, device, or system considered.

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The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning
By : SkillSoft Published Date: Dec 31, 2007
Is your company “going green?” Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly.
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SkillSoft
Finding The Retailer's Need: Advanced Store Systems & True Ownership Costs
By : IBM Published Date: Jan 31, 2008
Retailers regularly adapt to customer trends by investing in new systems technology. But they may not be aware that a system's initial purchase price is only 20 to 45% of the total cost of ownership of their system, and there's more to understand about the true cost of your purchase. Find out more on investing in the information system for your unique business.
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IBM
Knowledge Centered Support: A Best Practice-Base to Knowledge Management
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 05, 2007
Take a best practice approach to knowledge management with Knowledge Centered Support: understand the major benefits and principles of effective Knowledge Centered Support. Read this step-by-step guide for implementing a solution to increase efficiency and end-user satisfaction and reduce total cost of ownership.
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HP BladeSystem
Lower Costs with On-Demand CRM & Accounting/ERP Solutions
By : Netsuite Published Date: Feb 03, 2006
This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications.
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Netsuite
Presenting a Real-Time Enterprise for Your Company
By : Netsuite Published Date: Jul 18, 2003
This exclusive Yankee Group White Paper reveals and examines how mid-size businesses can now build a real-time enterprises and leverage real-time information. Learn how to reduce scattered information and silo databases that prevent your enterprise from achieving operational excellence.
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Netsuite
Predict Server TCO - Learn How with this Free White Paper
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 08, 2006
From a capital expenditure perspective, hundreds of independent rack servers require thousands of repetitive parts. Blade server systems do not. Learn more with this complimentary white paper.
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HP BladeSystem
Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today's data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.
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HP BladeSystem
Enabling Technology by Blade I/O Virtualization
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Dec 20, 2006
Next generation, complimentary IDC white paper from HP cites relatively new, "simpler" solutions for IT managers. Discover how to quickly identify more cost effective and scaleable ways to manage bandwidth problems caused by the increased complexity of servers and their associated LAN and SAN environments.
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HP BladeSystem
Getting the Most from Your Call Center Investment
By : Vendor Guru Published Date: Jan 24, 2007
Today, companies can prosper from a wide range of computer telephony integration (CTI) solutions. CTI is the full integration of voice and data systems. The convergence of computer systems with call center operations adds increased scalability and muscle to existing business operations.
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Vendor Guru
Human Resource Technology Provider Upgrades Online Meeting Performance and Capacity for Instant ROI
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Nov 21, 2005
CheckPoint HR is in the middle of tremendous growth. In just two years, the human resource technology company has expanded from servicing about 400 worksite employees (WSE's) to over 20,000. David Flook, a partner at CheckPoint HR, chalks up this impressive growth to his company's unique approach to providing Web-based services for mid-market companies.
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Citrix Online
HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Exchange
By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008
Traditionally, Microsoft has ruled the roost when it comes to providing business software solutions. This document discusses how HyperOffice, our new age solution, matches up to Microsoft Exchange on a feature to feature comparison, including business features, costs and implementation efforts.
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HyperOffice
HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Sharepoint
By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008
This document presents a convincing argument why HyperOffice is better suited to the needs of a growing business as opposed to SharePoint. A point-to-point comparison is presented, proving how HyperOffice outdoes SharePoint in terms of feature-set, while costing substantially less and requiring less implementation efforts.
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HyperOffice
HyperOffice vs. Microsoft Exchange TCO
By : HyperOffice Published Date: Jan 11, 2008
Good sense dictates that when a technology is adopted, not only should the initial payoff be considered, but the total cost of ownership (costs incurred over the life of the technology) as well. This white paper discusses how HyperOffice is more efficient when compared to Microsoft Exchange in terms of total cost of ownership.
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HyperOffice
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 22, 2006
It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency.

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APC-MGE
IBM X-Architecture Technology: A Story of Innovation for x86-Based Servers
By : IBM Published Date: Mar 19, 2007
This paper describes the evolution of IBM X-Architecture technology and demonstrates how the melding of industry-standard components with IBM innovation produces servers that offer you a unique set of capabilities with which to effectively manage your business. You’ll see why IBM systems equipped with X-Architecture technologies run faster—yet cooler—use less power, and are more reliable, easier to manage and better for virtualization than competitive servers, and offer a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
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IBM
IT Decision-Maker Perspective on Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environment
By : NetApp Virtualization Published Date: Oct 01, 2007
This report reviews what an organization should consider when calculating the total cost of ownership for managing storage in VMware server virtualization environments.  It presents findings from independent research conducted by Oliver Wyman, formerly Mercer Management Consulting, in determining the total cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing storage environments from EMC, HP and NetApp to support VMware server virtualization solutions.

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NetApp Virtualization
11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.
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Epicor
Leveraging Managed Service to Automate Security Assessment
By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005
With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  The solution is automated security assessment products that leverage stateful processing to comprehensively examine web applications and reveal vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks.  Find out how Cenzic's ClickToSecure solution can help you secure your applications.
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Cenzic
Migration Made Easy: Switching VAN Providers Without the Fire Drills
By : Inovis Published Date: Jul 18, 2007
The challenges presented by multiple Value-Added Networks (VANs) and managing diverse trading partners create barriers to the efficiencies promised by EDI. Multiple providers mean multiple points of failure with no one entity to hold accountable. Also, as trading communities grow, end-to-end supply chain visibility becomes an essential operational requirement.
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Inovis
Making the Choice Between On-Premise and On-Demand Solutions
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
The purpose of this guide is to help business and IT decision-makers make educated choices between traditional, on-premise products and the new generation of on-demand solutions.
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Citrix Online
maXecurity: The Next Generation of Web Access Management
By : P2 Security Published Date: May 09, 2008
A large financial institution used a competitive product for Web Access Management. By working with P2 Security, the company was able to determine its true Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). An analysis following the installation of maXecurity revealed annual cost savings of millions of dollars per year. In addition, by switching to maXecurity, the Return on Investment (ROI) was measured in months.
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P2 Security
Page Cost Calculator for HP MultiFunction Products
By : HP Multifunctional Products (MFPs) Published Date: Feb 15, 2008
You know you need a multifunction product, but which to choose? Printer-based or copier-based? There are two sides to every story – we’ll help you find your way through the woods to your happy ending with this new informative video whitepaper sponsored by HP.
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HP Multifunctional Products (MFPs)
Reducing the High Cost of High Availability
By : DataSynapse Published Date: Jan 05, 2007
High availability (HA) configurations seek to bring downtime to zero - but can increase complexity across the IT organization, often in the form of excess technology, financial, and human capital investments.  Learn how application virtualization can reduce planned and unplanned downtime, and deliver greater flexibility.
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DataSynapse
Reducing the Hidden Costs Associated with Upgrades of Data Center Power Capacity
By : APC-MGE Published Date: Feb 27, 2006
This paper describes the drawbacks of scaling legacy UPS systems and how scalable rack-based systems address these drawbacks. The cost factors of both methods are described, quantified and compared.
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APC-MGE
Security and Identity Access and Management Outlook
By : CA Published Date: Apr 25, 2007
To explore IT security and Identity Access and Management trends and developments, The Strategic Counsel conducted a survey of 642 large North American organizations covering: IAM Expectations, Critical Factors in IAM Solution Choice, Security Challenges and Costs, Security Investment, Impact of Lagging Security Investment, Most Important Areas for Additional Security Spending, Key Inhibitors to Additional Security Spending, Graphics.

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